Debra Donston

Following are some of the products, services and standards that can be used to help ensure that private information stays private. P3P is a W3C standard that determines how a site handles personal data. P3P-enabled Web sites make this information available in a standard format readable by P3P-enabled browsers. This allows users to easily compare […]

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program is designed to point readers to the most compelling enterprise products announced in a given calendar year. All the products and services entered into this years program must have been announced in 2002 and shipped by the end of the first quarter of 2003. The entries in each category were […]

With its first-ever product, Qurb takes a white-list approach to curbing spam. The software, also called Qurb, creates and maintains a list of approved senders by scanning users Microsoft Outlook folders. Senders who dont make the cut are relegated to the Qurb folder, which is created when the application is installed. It took Qurb about […]

Product Lifecycle Management applications, like other enterprise applications, are generally big, sweeping suites that can take many months or more to implement. A hosted service offering from Arena Solutions Inc., however, can get a company up and running in a matter of days, according to Arena CEO Michael Topolovac, in Mountain View, Calif. “Theres zero […]

Building a better mousetrap isnt the goal for manufacturing companies; its building a better mousetrap faster, for less cost, and including the knowledge and experience built into design, engineering, manufacturing, customer service, accounting and supplier databases. Product lifecycle management—or PLM, in the inevitable acronym form—is helping manufacturers achieve this complex goal and get the right […]

“Mom, did you like computer class when you were in first grade?” asked my 6-year-old daughter. “Well, er, I, ah, we didnt have computer class when I was in first grade,” I said. “When I was in first grade [insert flashback sound effect here], I dont think I had even heard the word computer, let […]

Staying abreast of IT opportunity while deftly allocating limited resources is the No. 1 challenge for IT professionals and the pragmatic focus of this special report on the coming years outlook for core technologies. Market analysts say were in a period of correction, with the no-no early 00s balancing out the go-go late 90s—averaging out, […]

A.T. Kearney Inc.s business is management, but it needed help when it came to managing the day-to-day business of time and expense accounting. The Chicago-based management consulting company has 71 offices in 37 countries, with close to 5,000 employees, according to Jim Haddow, A.T. Kearneys director of global procurement, in Alexandria, Va. A.T. Kearney works […]

Maximizing performance and ensuring accountability are two key goals in an era of economic downturn and executive downfalls. But when budgets are tight and scrutiny is sharp, the ability to optimize the work force becomes increasingly important—and increasingly difficult. This, no doubt, will also make things more challenging for IT departments called upon to implement […]

An increase in growth is a problem wed all like to have these days, but its one that presented a significant challenge for Timberline Software Corp.s support staff and one that was, ironically, costing the company money. “We had some challenges in previous years when our company was experiencing dramatic growth,” said Mark Brannan, operations […]