Jeff Jedras

While many may think of 3D technology as limited to B-movies and amusement park attractions, at Carleton University in Ottawa the latest 3D imaging technology is being used to change the world of architecture, helping architects envision new building designs they just couldn

With 14,000 miles of infrastructure across Canada and the United States, CP Rail relies heavily on IT to keep its trains running on time. The rail operator recently completed a four-year, $50-million project that saw the company tear out its old management application and replace it with a completely new one.

When launching the latest edition of its on-demand business software suite this month in Oakland, Calif., NetSuite employed a Star Wars theme. While the company cast itself as the Rebel Alliance, fighting to free the mid-market from the tyranny of competitors

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Watch out SAP users; Cognos has you squarely in its sights. Tighter integration with SAP

A young man sits in the arena stands with his parents, wearing a new suit, and hears a general manager call his name. Beaming, he hurries down from the stands to join the manager on the stage, and don the jersey of his new team.

While it may be delaying the release of the consumer version of Windows Vista OS until January 2007, Microsoft is reassuring enterprise users that the corporate version will still be available by late November. What remains unclear, however, is if existing corporate PCs will have the horsepower for the early adopters to make full use of it.

The enterprise space owes a great deal to the gaming industry. The massive investments in research and development that game console manufacturers are making to gain an edge in the highly competitive industry are crossing over to the enterprise space, bringing improvements and potential productivity gains that otherwise might not have been realized for years.