Abstract: Integrating full-text and fielded data searches can help you find essential information more easily. Whether your existing metadata fields reside within a document or are stored in a separate database, a search index can combine full-text and fielded data dynamically. This allows multiple users to search the same documents with a single index—and a single user to integrate two searches in one query.

Abstract: With business units demanding more access to corporate data, IT is pressured to deliver. Yet current business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse systems only examine specific quantifiable data. Find out how IT professionals can gain a better understanding of how to integrate key information from text-based sources, such as forms, e-mail, blogs, and research into their data warehouse environment to enhance BI.

Abstract: When portable document format (PDF) documents are used for medical records, insurance policies, judicial statements—or anywhere that timely and efficient processing of documents is required— inaccurate or illegible characters are unacceptable. Learn how missing or incorrect metadata affects onscreen text rendering in PDF files, and find out how to minimize or prevent the effects of missing metadata.

Abstract: The quantity of business information is doubling at an alarming rate. How can a proactive manager keep on top of it? A tool that merges and unifies information from a variety of sources and formats can help. That tool should also analyze data and identify inputs as indicators of future actions or outcomes, so problems can be solved before they happen. The bottom line: better data analysis means better decision making.

Abstract: I'm Larry Blitz, editor of TEC's Vendor Showdown series. Today's Showdown pits two major enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting for small to midsized business (SMB) vendors against each other, head-to-head: Exact Software North America (a division of Exact Software) and Infor.

Abstract: I'm Larry Blitz, editor of TEC’s Vendor Showdown series. With enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems being the information backbone of the organization, we decided to take a closer look at three of the more popular discrete ERP solutions for the mid-market. Using TEC's ERP Evaluation Center, we compared Infor ERP LN 6.1, Epicor Vantage, and Lawson M3 Discrete Manufacturing Solutions head-to-head, based on the most recent data supplied to us by the three vendors.

Abstract: NETIAN, South Korea’s largest ISP has selected Critical Path’s Inscribe messaging service to meet the demands of South Korea’s explosive e-mail growth. Critical Path’s Inscribe messaging solution includes e-mail, instant messaging, a homepage builder or HTML editor and bulletin boards.

Abstract: I'm Larry Blitz, editor of Technology Evaluation Centers’ (TEC) Vendor Showdown series. Welcome to our latest: ERP - Distribution Showdown. You’ll notice this one has a broader focus than Showdowns we’ve done in the past. Again we’ll be comparing three vendor solutions head-to-head, but not just on functionality. This time we’ll also look at the industries these solutions support, how well they cover different portions of the mid-market segment, and how their installed bases break out geographically. Of course, functionality is again a key component of this Showdown, broken down into four main distribution areas and 13 subareas. We hope you find today’s Showdown helpful and informative, and invite your comments and questions at showdown@technologyevaluation.com.

Abstract: I’m Larry Blitz, editor of TEC’s Vendor Showdown series. Today’s Showdown compares two popular mid-market CRM solutions, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and NetSuite CRM+, head-to-head. I hope you find this showdown helpful and informative. I invite your comments and questions at showdown@technologyevaluation.com.

Abstract: I'm Larry Blitz, editor of Technology Evaluation Centers’ (TEC) Vendor Showdown series. Today’s Vendor Showdown is an encore presentation of a Showdown that was originally published last September. It compares two popular Oracle enterprise solutions—JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and E-Business Suite—head to head.

Abstract: I’m Larry Blitz, editor of TEC’s Vendor Showdown series. Today’s Showdown pits two major learning management system vendors against each other, head-to-head: Saba Software and SumTotal Systems. I hope you find this LMS Showdown helpful and informative. I welcome all your comments and questions at showdown@technologyevaluation.com.

Abstract: The Dale-Chall list contains 3,000 simple, familiar words, which 80% of 4th graders can understand. The list is used by the Dale-Chall Readability Grade Score (RGS) to assess the readability of written materials by rating text on a U.S. grade-school level. It is also used by other readability statistics, like the Bormuth Grade Level formula

Abstract: Readability Statistics are indicators that measure how easily an adult can read and understand a text. They are therefore a good predictor of the level of difficulty of particularly technical documents

Abstract: Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), a major extract/transform/load tool vendor, today announced the general availability of MX2 1.6, the latest version of its Metadata Exchange (MX2) application programming interface (API). Informatica bills MX2 1.6 as the first object-oriented metadata exchange facility to support XML, a text-based programming language standard for integrating and managing bi-directional metadata exchange.

Abstract: Lucent's Octel unified messenger uses a text-to-speech conversion engine for transmitting e-mails over a standard telephone line.

Abstract: Whether you’re a heavy e-mail marketer, or thinking about using e-mail to market to prospects and customers, there are plenty of challenges to work through, including anti-spam compliance, single- and double-opt-in methods, text vs. HTML formats, white-listing, black-listing … In order to increase your success as an e-mail marketer and not get tagged as a “spammer,” learn about the ten rounds you’ll need to fight through.

Abstract: Research shows that up to 90 percent of e-mail received by companies is spam. In the beginning, spam was mainly text-based, but over the past few years, spammers are increasingly using embedded images and attaching common file types, such as mp3s, to gain access to mailboxes. Learn more about the types of spam out there, focusing on NDR, or non-delivery report spam—and how you can block it.

Abstract: Dynamic and customizable portable document format (PDF) forms have thousands of everyday uses. Monthly statements mailed to customers and insurance applications are just two. Creating these forms is easier than you might think, when the functionalities of two text solutions are combined. Get the details on how to merge document and formatting applications to create dynamic, customer-friendly PDFs.