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According to the author, with a good network and systems analyzer, it is possible for you to know what traffic passes over your network, as well as, how your systems and applications are being used.
With the proper monitoring tools, you can also solve network problems in real time as well.
Today, the most current network tools can give you the ability to solve many networking problems.
However, they generally take training to understand how to use them appropriately.
According to the article, the network utilities that are so useful for solving problems generally fall into two categories. These categories include real time monitoring as well as systems analysis tools.
Nevertheless, real time monitoring tools can be used to detect network problems in real time while using alarms to instantly alert a user as a problem is occurring.
Whereas, analysis tools generally work by filtering through log histories of systems data to try to trace when the problem occurred.
Overall, these network and systems analysis tools are designed to make life as a systems administrator easier when diagnosing specific networking problems.
According to the article, Amazon has now opted to venture into online retailing of clothes.
This seems like a strategic move just in time for the holidays.
Upon opening their online e-tailer clothing store, Amazon beta tested the site for more than a week in order to predict consumer response. Consequently, they had a favorable response with sales totaling approximatley 35,000 pieces of clothing.
In addition, Amazon is also offering incentives to encourage consumers to buy clothing through their site from one of their many apparel partners such as Foot Locker and Gap. As a result, the e-tailer is offering a $30 U.S. voucher to anyone who spends $50 or more on clothing.
In addition, the clothing store is expected to offer many of the same signature customer service features such as customer reviews.
Overall, economic experts predict Amazon's new clothing venture to be successful due to the fact that consumers are already comfortable doing their shopping on Amazon's Web site.
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Among those companies discussed in the article were IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, and HP (Hewlett Packard).
According to the article, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM are getting stronger in their prospective Web services market. While rivals HP and Sun are not doing as well as they previously have.
Nevertheless, according to a United Kingdom (UK) consulting group, IBM is continuing to be successful by concentrating on the integration of certain Web service technologies. Whereas, Oracle is improving upon their past successes by providing outsourced applications.
While Microsoft has had continued successes in the Web services market, they need to be more open in their market according to the UK consulting group.
Unfortunately for Sun, they seem to have poorly positioned themselves in this emerging market as of late.
Hewlett Packard, however, seems to be even worse off than Sun according to the article. This seems to have come as a result of terminating their application server software which now puts them below Sun, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft as vendors.
Nevertheless, according to the article, the Web Coordinator of Centennial College in Ontario, Canada took this philosophy and applied it during the process of revamping their Web site.
In trying to design a more accessible site, MacPhail, the Web Coordinator, tried to follow the guidelines set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium's Accessibility Initiative.
Consequently, the Web Coordinator realized that by designing a Web site with the needs of disabled people in mind, he would come up with a Web site that worked better for everyone. For example, by providing alternative text tags on a Web site to describe graphics, individuals that are visually impaired are able to get more use from each Web page that they browse over the Internet. In addition, by providing these text tags, other individuals that are not visually impaired can use this screen reading software to improve upon their Web searches as well.
Nonetheless, when individuals design Web sites in an attempt to reduce barriers and restrictions to individuals with disabilities, everyone is sure to benefit from these initiatives.
Overall, the article mentions several benefits of making your Web site more accessible. Some of these benefits include being in compliance with government regulations, avoiding bad public relations (PR), increasing your audience, and improving upon the bottom line.
According to the article, the majority of businesses still use paper for their billing and payment systems.
However, many companies have begun to increase their use of digital transactions for the use of invoicing to save money and improve upon their efficiency.
According to the author of the article, Electronic Invoice Presentation and Payment (EIPP) technology, which is a technology that is used to send and receive digital invoices, is expected to be big in the future of E-business transactions and something that CIOs (Chief Information Officers) can ill afford to over look. Consequently, corporations that have adopted financial Web-based applications such as AT&T have reaped the benefit of savings throughout their operations.
Not only does this article demonstrate the obvious benefit of lowering invoice costs, but it also points out that companies can reduce billing errors, provide better customer service, and improve cash flow as well.
As a result, I was surprised to find out that nearly 60 million business and consumer bills were paid online last year. However, even more surprising is the fact that the article predicts some 5 billion business and consumer bills will be paid electronically by the year 2005.
Overall, the article suggests that corporations can reap the most benefit from EIPP technology by integrating it with back-office applications such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning).
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