Expert Answer Center Update: Ed Tittel quickly cures career conundrums

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SEARCHDATABASE.COM | Expert Answer Center Update Sept. 29, 2004 In This Issue Featured Topic: Careers in software development Next Topic: Business intelligence and data warehousing IT Visions Webcast TOMORROW: Security of information when economics matters Upcoming Topics   Visit the Expert Answer Center The Expert Answer Center combines advice and solutions from over 100 technology, management and career experts within TechTarget's family of IT-oriented Web sites. In addition to this massive searchable database, the Expert Answer Center continually highlights one featured expert every two weeks, who answers new questions from our members on a specific topic. This site is also the home of the IT Visions Webcast Series, a monthly webcast for IT executives that spotlights strategic issues. Visit the Expert Answer Center today. Featured Offer: IBM Software Development Platform Webcasts Visit the Expert Answer Center today and find multiple resources, including a series of webcasts about the IBM Software Development Platform. Learn about the tools and best practices that can help your development team to build, extend, integrate, modernize and deploy on-demand applications. Visit the Resource Center now to view these webcasts and to learn more about IBM Software Development Platform. Featured Topic: Careers in software development | Ed Tittel Ed Tittel knows IT careers. Developers, get fast answers for your questions on skills development, certification and how to find the best market for your skills. Ed has a lot of experience offering career advice on other TechTarget sites, including SearchWin2000.com, SearchNetworking.com, Search390.com and SearchSecurity.com. Want to boost your career? Need to know which certs are best for you? Ask Ed. He'll be the featured expert only until Oct. 8, so ask your questions quickly. Ed is also writing a daily blog, so be sure to check back for new entries. One site member asked Andrew this question: How will outsourcing affect the future of software development? Read Ed's response Next Topic: Business intelligence and data warehousing | Ian Abramson Ian Abramson will answer your questions on the design construction and implementation of data warehouses as well as assist you on deployment of business intelligence. He will focus on optimization of the design and terminology and all other aspects of warehousing. Ian is a guru on Oracle and Cognos, but he's going to take a crack at questions about other products, too. Ask Ian a question now and be among the first to get an answer IT Visions Webcast TOMORROW: Security of information when economics matters | Dan Geer Speaker: Dan Geer, chief scientist for Verdasys Date/Time: TOMORROW, Thurs., Sept. 30, 1:00 p.m. EDT Establishing, growing and protecting competitive advantage is the responsibility of a management team at the highest levels. When that advantage is directly related to the information you have -- about your customers, your market, your future plans -- executives must explore sound economic models for putting the security of information in place. Dan Geer will discuss the security of information as an economic matter using cost-effectiveness as a decision support tool. He will distinguish between those information security costs that are made in anticipation of preventing problems and those that are made in response to information security failures that have already occurred. Dan will argue that the trends are discouraging and the money being spent needs to be strategically redirected. He will suggest where that redirection should be. Attend this live expert webcast TOMORROW Upcoming Topics Ask your question in advance to our upcoming featured experts. Service-oriented architecture with Ron Schmelzer and Jason Bloomberg Voice over IP with Carrie Higbie Visit our topics page for all of the Expert Answer Center's topics   About This Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. TechTarget offers magazines, Web sites, e-newsletters, Webcasts and conferences for enterprise IT professionals. ©2004 TechTarget. All rights reserved.   To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please reply to this e-mail with REMOVE in the Subject line. Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed. ©2004 TechTarget