Building a Customer Information Architecture by Jane Griffin
As companies face the challenge of rethinking the way they build and maintain customer relationships, they must focus on integrating their customer information to improve their competitiveness, productivity, and profitability. This article examines how a well-designed customer information architecture (CIA) and its supporting data warehouse make this goal possible.
Building a Logical Data Model, Part 3 by George Tillmann
In this third part of our logical data modeling series, George Tillmann lays the foundation for how to build, verify, and maintain a logical data model -- without going crazy.
Enterprise C/S by Judith Hurwitz (Clearing away the hype and hoopla surrounding three-tier computing.)
SQL Explorer by Joe Celko (Joe attends Comdex and tries to break SQL Server 6.0; plus, a new SQL puzzle to try out.)
C/S Developer by David Linthicum (The role of transaction processing monitors in the world of client/server middleware.)
Desktop DBMS by Tom Spitzer (ROCK-E-T and Quadbase-SQL: Two VB-capable database engines.)
Hands-On Reviews Edited by Marjorie Thorne and Clara H. Parkes
FileMaker Pro Server 2.1, Claris Corp.'s newest upgrade for the Power Macintosh provides better workgroup performance for FileMaker Pro databases.
Clarion for Windows 1.001, TopSpeed Corp.'s rapid application development environment lets developers work at a high level, yet compile applications to native code.
Soft Notes, new client/server database products and upgrades.
Non-Stop Logistics' George W. Earle and John C. White III are using OOP and RDBMS to change the way an industry works.
A long, hard look at OLAP; and enterprise-wide computing with the second generation of client/server tools.