Valentino fashion group opts for sap business intelligence software
One of the products of SAP was selected by the Valentino Fashion Group because it offers the company business tools vital in the analysis of product sales and retail outlets by geographical area. According to a news item on the web site of La Tribune of 15 october 2008, the fashion group feels that the functions of SAP buisiness intelligence products conform to the needs of the fashion retailer.
I think this experience is the beginning of a new way of doing history because the policy makers at the Seine-et-Marne records office have put all their collections online. http://archives.seine-et-marne.fr/index.html . Here you have public records going back to the end of 1880 covering local history, civil registers and photos.
Recent events in two former countries under the control of the soviet union demonstrated the importance of the internet war or the need for electronic security. With the waves of security breaches appearing on the web sites of www.sans.org and may others every day, it is imperative to stress that there is now a government body responsible for online law enforcement and the current issue of PC Expert contains an article on how state organs are fighting data destruction, e-mail frauds and denial of services.
Source : PC Expert October 2008
