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The Enterprise Gets Googled 08/06/2007 11:00:00
Can you imagine an IT environment without applications to roll out? You're going to have to if Google's plan to conquer the enterprise worksCan you imagine an IT environment without applications to roll out? You're going to have to if Google's plan to conquer the enterprise works - +
Suit Up Your Storage Network With Business Sense 19/06/2007 13:57:13
Although difficult to put a dollar value on, isolating critical tier-1 data from the crowd of less sensitive data is the first step in establishing a more business-conscious storage environment — likely the most desirable aspect of employing a tiered storage strategy in the enterpriseNo longer capable of remaining on the sidelines as a separate administrative domain, today's networked storage must be managed with a deeper awareness of business objectives. - +
Building a Better Workforce 05/04/2006 15:38:29
Leading executives know managing talent well is fast becoming an imperative, and that doing it poorly is proving a major and obstinate barrier to optimal business success.Knowledge-intensive companies are focusing on a mix of measures to enable more effective human capital accounting. - +
SOA: Here Be Dragons 06/11/2006 11:04:24
With the SOA potentially creating reusable software code that must be accessed dynamically by composite applications, both inside and outside the firewall, the traditional roles and responsibilities of IT have been forever changed.It's the hot technology for most large companies, but business, technical and cultural issues must be addressed for a successful SOA implementation. - +
Treasure Hunt 03/04/2007 13:36:26
A slew of new enterprise search options can be found at every price, including free. What do you really need to discover true value?Who wouldn't like to outgoogle Google? Given the sophistication of today's consumer search tools, many CIOs have users (and maybe even the CEO) banging on the door asking why valuable corporate data is still locked away in various places and unsearchable. Trying to capitalize on this need, a bevy of vendors are introducing or revamping enterprise search offerings.
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Cognos Monday joined the fray with those companies that seek to offer the enterprise better behind-the-firewall search capabilities. In recent weeks, Oracle launched a new in-house search engine and Google a new enterprise search appliance.
The Cognos Go capability, which indexes all of the metadata in a report, will allow a non-technical user to dig out information embedded within a report. According to Dan Vesset, research director of analytics and data warehousing at IDC, this is not typical of business intelligence search engines.
"Before this you could search by report titles only. All the BI vendors have pretty much the same thing," said Vesset.
Similar to a Yahoo or Google search, the search results are ranked by relevance.
What all of the new enterprise search capabilities appear to be about is the integration of both structured and unstructured search capability. With Cognos Go, the BI vendor will be deploying the same kind of search technology used by the major search vendors for unstructured data and applying it to the structured world of data warehouse information.
"The algorithm we designed looks at keywords used in reports, descriptions, [and] titles and ranks it by relevance," said Paul Hulford, product marketing manager at Cognos.
Cognos Go uses so-called fuzzy matching and word stemming to fine-tune searches, added Hulford.
Simultaneous with the announcement of the new search capabilities was the launch of a Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. The latest version includes tighter integration with Microsoft Office products as well as with SAP's Business Warehouse solutions.
Cognos users will now be able to embed and refresh reports within Microsoft Excel.
Connectivity to mySAP and Siebel applications have also been enhanced with new Report Packs.
The integration with mySAP is more significant than the search engine news, according to John Hagerty, research vice president at AMR Research, because it does more than simply connect and integrate a report pack with SAP.
"This is Cognos looking at SAP as a dedicated source of data and optimizing SAP across the board," said Hagerty.
That optimization includes the ability of Cognos BI to natively go after data inside SAP's Business Warehouse. Instead of relying on SAP to manipulate the data, the information can now be manipulated within the Cognos solution which gets around any limitations the SAP Business Warehouse may have created, said Hagerty.
Cognos is also standardizing on the SAP portal to make Cognos capabilities accessible within that portal environment.
Cognos Go will ship in May. The Cognos 8 BI MR1 is shipping now.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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