Lost Among the ASPs
Application service providers (ASPs) make it easier to acquire systems that directly produce business intelligence (such as e-commerce portals) as well as those that contain latent BI (such as ERP systems). But comparison-shopping for hosted apps is difficult because the value propositions of various ASP models are far from standard. John Harney
Intelligent Merge Ahead
Combining information from multiple databases is not a new idea, but technology advances provide interesting opportunities for applying “intelligent” techniques. With a focused methodology based on these techniques, organizations can improve the effectiveness of their customer-relationship systems by enhancing and enriching corporate data. David Loshin
Building the Unbreakable Supply Chain
Thanks to “Internet time,” many seemingly important applications go into production without adequate load and stress testing. But it’s particularly important that business-to-business e-commerce and supply-chain integration systems go through analytically rigorous modeling and testing because the consequences of failure can spread across multiple organizations. Ram Reddy
