November 2007 - Enterprise Insights

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  • Tech talk envelops verticals

    During an interview with Professor Jim Bookbinder of the University of Waterloo last week, we got to talking about just how effectively technology matters have pushed their way into trade banter within various vertical markets. Take the logistics market...

  • The whole kit and the Kindle

    It’s an old joke, but I still enjoy it every time I look at one of the free bookmarks given to me by Book City, a small Canadian retail chain with handful of stores in Toronto. A short essay on the bookmark announces the arrival of a new invention which...

  • Air Canada grounded: Why downtime doesn't matter

    Air Canada’s IT problems are almost as seasonal as Christmas itself. Typically they’ve happened while I’ve been sleeping, and they’ve been resolved by the time I get into work. This is irritating because such incidents are about the closest we get to...

  • Cloud control

    Try pitching your “cloud” strategy to senior management and watch their eyes glaze over. Then tell them IBM is going to do it for you and watch their ears prick up. The company’s forthcoming line of “Blue Cloud” products is in some ways easier create...

  • Why Cognos capitulated

    “Possibilities are virtually unlimited for bundling BI capabilities with horizontal (e.g. sales automation, human resources) or vertical market applications (e.g. retail, manufacturing). Increasingly modular architectures for Windows products make it...

  • Skills gap features multiple languages

    Vancouver recruiter Minto Roy comments in this blog entry about the different languages both employers and employees use to communicate with one anoter. He points out that if those doing the hiring want to find the talent that's right for them, and if...

  • What's so hot about Oracle AIA?

    By Joaquim P. Menezes - With 45,000 attendees expected at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco (in a few days) and 1,500 conference sessions - speculation is rife about what's going to be the hottest topics. There's little doubt that Oracle's new Application...

  • What Microsoft needs from its next CIO

    Stuart Scott should have been a role model for IT professionals. Instead he may have just taken the industry’s highest-profile fall from grace. Microsoft will probably never divulge the reasons it fired Scott (right), its CIO since late 2005, unless he...