Sep/Oct 2005

WHAT'S DRIVING DASHBOARD TECHNOLOGY?

Dashboards, Analysis Mind Share, and KPIs We see them everywhere. A powerful metaphor for monitoring  business trends, dashboards are another product of the astonishing capabilities of contemporary hardware and software. BY ROSS MORRISSEY

HISTORY OF MULTIVALUE: SPECTRUM PARTIES - NIGHTS TO REMEMBER To this day, the Spectrum parties of the `80s and `90s are a source of unforgettable memories to those who've been in the industry for a long time. There was the time Tina Turner performed at Spectrum, the elegant Phantom of the Opera soiree, and a fantastic Arabian Nights experience, among other unique parties.

I SPY WITH MY ELECTRONIC EYE ...

Nowadays, there's so much potential for monitoring every movement, every purchase, and every decision ade by a person, consumers and legislators alike are becoming increasingly concerned about the safety of that information. BY MELVIN SORIANO

CONVERTING, MIGRATING, OR FRONT-ENDING APPLICATIONS AND DATA FOR USE WITH OPENINSIGHT

In the second of three parts, we continue to look at how to move traditional MultiValue systems to OpenInsight. BY ROBERT CATALANO

RFID - TAG PLACEMENT

What's the magic bullet to implementing RFID without the problems other people have had? You're off to a good start if you recognize that tag placement is the biggest cost in research and development in an RFID pilot program. BY NATHAN RECTOR

THEN ... AND NOW: DATATEL - FROM ORIGINAL MICRODATA DEALER TO TODAY'S TOP-NOTCH PROVIDER OF SOLUTIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

One of the first Microdata dealers in the early `70s, Datatel Inc. has grown to be a $100 million company, powered by Colleague, a software application for educational institutions that was originally developed in a PICK-based environment.

SB+ 101: SB+ BASICS, PART 10

The SB+ tutorial series concludes with the discussion of field definitions in System Builder.BY DANNY PASSIG

TECHNICAL UPDATES

Raining Data announces Pick Data Provider for .NET 3.0; news from IBM; Reality 12.0 is coming shortly from Northgate Information Solutions; and ONgroup's ONware is certified on Windows Server, XP and SQL Server.