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Each month, Peter Quirk, senior consulting program manager within the HR Office of Operations at EMC Corp., a global provider of information infrastructure technology and tools, runs the company's Global [...]

The Object Management Group (OMG) held its quarterly Technical Meeting from September 25-29 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Domain Technical Committee issued a [...]

Hortonworks reported that Pinsight Media, a mobile data company, is leveraging Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) and Hortonworks professional services to enhance how it ingests data from mobile [...]

Moving from one office to the next takes hundreds of boxes and backbreaking labor. By contrast, moving a company's entire digital content collection from a variety of locations or a […]

On-line information services have become widespread in the Web nowadays. However, Web users are non-specialized and have a great variety of interests. Interfaces for Web databases must, therefore, be both simple and uniform. In this paper, we present a solution for querying Web databases using keywords only. A Bayesian network model is used to generate a set of one or more plausible structured queries derived form the initial user input. These queries can then be submitted to Web databases and the retrieved results presented as a set of ranked answers. To structure the user queries, full access to the database is not required. Instead, only a small portion of its content, extracted through a public Web interface, is used by the network model. This approach not only reduces the complexity of existing on-line interfaces, but also offers a solution to the problem of querying several distinct Web databases with a single interface. Keywords: Web databases; Bayesian networks; Query structuring

To date in this series, I've looked at many of the end-user features of BI suites that help users create powerful reports and analyze data to discover business opportunities. Administrative […]

RightNow Web is an integrated software package for web- based customer service that has, at its core, a database of answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs). One major design goal […]

Part I You've probably heard the propaganda by now: XML blesses you with a way to separate content from presentation. Separation in turn yields productive gains over HTML and other […]

Base22 reported the public beta launch of its flagship software product, Carbon LDP. According to a media release, Carbon LDP is one of the first commercial implementations of the Linked [...]

The Northern Light search engine provides the information, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 provides the viewer, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 provides the automation, and Lotus Notes 4.6 provides the database. E-Business […]

U.S. Army saves $28 million in three years using SAS. Your boss called. He's worried about the increases in one particular budget line item and wants you to design a […]

Sybase's Jaguar CTS is among the first of the new breed of component server designed to meat the demands of "Web OLTP." Will it become lord of the jungle or […]

Rick Dobson, Ph.D., is president of CAB Inc., a Web/database/Office development consultancy. Rick is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. His articles appear regularly in Byte and Microsoft Office and Visual Basic […]

Using a combination of tools, this company is converting its applications in stages, stating with the Account Information Management application. The marketing sales group at Pacific Bell wanted to automate […]

A NEW BREED OF TOOLS OFFERS JAVA APPLICATION DEVELOPERS A BETTER WAY TO TAP DATA ON THE WEB. If you believe all the hype, Java programming is the hottest thing […]

As intranets and the market for them mature, so do the tools to develop and enhance all of their capabilities Nothing in the history of computing has had a greater […]

NetImpact Dynamo can speed up the process of creating and managing dynamic web sites. The hardest thing about dealing with the disease Website Non-Writus is admitting that you don't know […]

In this article, I give a sneak preview of some of the Internet-related features in the recently released beta version of PowerBuilder 6.0--beta 2, build 162. I explore the new […]

Assigning an expert database programmer to a Web site creation-and-maintenance project is akin to having a housepainter show up everyday to touch up nicks and scrapes on your walls. Given […]

The Web isn't just a cool front-end tool anymore. Corporate America is pushing hard to "Webify" core back-end financial and accounting applications. It may sound scary, but think of the […]

Now that Internet years are about the same length as lead times for monthly print publications, writing a column on Web application development tools is a little risky Between my […]

New standards signal an anticipated proliferation of 3-D on the Net. Once largely the plaything of computer graphics aficionados, 3-D objects and environments will be getting a monumental boost this […]

Introducing Active Server Pages and the Active Data Object. HIGHLIGHTS Find out how (and why} you should do server-side scripting. Create dynamic web sites that harness the power of ActiveX […]

Taking simple data from a database and placing it on the Web is a rather simple task, because this process is usually implemented as block-mode operations using single SQL statements. […]

Corporations seeking to profit from the Web must find ways to harness their vast data resources, But can any of the enterprise Web development tools out there meet your expectations? […]

Have you ever worked on a project with important dates in a month-such as project milestones, deadlines, or shipping dates-that you wanted to put on a calendar to share with [...]