Monday, March 22, 2010
Widespread discontent persists with ERP projects A new study shows that ERP projects remain wracked by dissatisfaction and cost overruns. More than half of companies that implement ERP systems end up garnering no more than 30 per cent of the business benefits they expected.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
HP hypes new BI services The global economic recession hasn’t stopped the tech giant from rolling out a new set of business intelligence services that it says will improve corporate governance and cut costs. Plus, find out why Forrester analyst Boris Evelson thinks BI is a key driver for economic recovery
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Five tips for managing Microsoft SharePoint Server Users are going hog-wild with the popular Microsoft portal, and it's causing problems for IT managers. How you can bring your Microsoft SharePoint Server deployment under control
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Dell offers migration services to Canadian clients A combination of software and expertise will be a boon to companies going through the process of an upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista, an exec said. Info-Tech sees an evolution from the "Dell PC" model
Monday, March 10, 2008
Industry Built Customers at a panel discussion during Microsoft Convergence in Orlando discuss the need for vertical products, and complexity challenges. Plus: Where we differ from the U.S
Thursday, May 25, 2006
TD switches centres to IP Toronto-Dominion Bank Financial Group (TD) revealed late last month it has partnered with Bell Canada, Cisco Systems and IBM to convert its contact centres across the country to IP. 
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
IBM rolls out raft of Power servers IBM Corp. Tuesday rolled out a raft of new servers based on its Power5+ processors, including a new server with a Power5+ chip running at 2.2GHz and several new machines based on its quad-core module (QCM) technology that allows four Power5+ 1.5GHz cores to plug into a single socket. 
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Christmas arrives early for SOA Two announcements over this past month pave the way for increased services-oriented architecture (SOA) rollouts. Standards body OASIS got an intellectual property donation from Capgemini designed to create practical SOA business profiles, while IBM is sharing intellectual property on SOA, but with an important caveat.
Monday, March 14, 2005
Open architectures solve big challenges There are few absolutes in today’s fluid enterprise IT environment. Companies – large and small – are demanding low-cost, low overhead, high-performance architectures that don’t tether them to a single vendor’s products. Neil McAllister explores the role of open standards in this environment, where interoperability between multi-vendor products is key and appeasing agility-conscious customers is the name of the game. 
Monday, August 16, 2004
The unwelcome gift of Java Major vendors are getting better at donating source code to the public. But by and large, companies engage in code charity in safe and limited ways. They incorporate existing free code into their commercial products, giving their nonproprietary enhancements — sometimes along with equipment, software, and support — back to the projects that created the free components. Commercialization creates jobs for hungry developers as consultants, authors, trainers and, in rare occasions, employees of the companies that take the code commercial. 
Thursday, March 18, 2004
IBM, Sun to meet over open source Java Representatives from IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. will meet in a week to 10 days time to discuss IBM's proposal for creating an open source version of Sun's Java technology, an IBM executive said Thursday.
Monday, January 05, 2004
Software vendors create Java Tools Community Ten software vendors, including Sun Microsystems Inc., BEA Systems Inc. and Oracle Corp. on Tuesday announced the Java Tools Community (JTP), an organization devoted to improving interoperability in the design of development tools, making it easier for developers to use Java technology.
Thursday, August 14, 2003
Cisco hardware vulnerable to Blaster worm Users of some Cisco Systems Inc.’s products better beware — the Blaster worm that has been burrowing its way into Microsoft Corp.’s Windows-enabled systems around the world is also affecting some Cisco gear.
Thursday, January 23, 2003
Trust me, it’s time to spend Get ready for another tough year. That seems to be the message when you ask
people to make predictions about the next 12 months.
Tuesday, December 31, 2002
Lack of planning sinks CRM 
Monday, December 30, 2002
META: CRM confidence to grow in 2003 Growing confidence in customer relationship management (CRM) services will lead to a slight rise in CRM projects within the new year, according to findings from META Group Canada released Monday.
Thursday, December 12, 2002
Planning key to good CRM strategy: report Lack of planning and old-school business culture are among the root causes of failed customer relationship management (CRM) implementations, according to the Customer Relationship Management Association of Canada (CRMA Canada).
Sunday, November 24, 2002
HyperSCSI touted for low-cost SANs A new Ethernet-based network storage protocol, designed for the transfer of SCSI (small computer system interface) data and commands over networks, is being positioned as a lower-cost alternative for localized storage area network (SAN) implementations.
Thursday, November 14, 2002
Symantec suite adds more control A set of management applications designed to help IT executives control their security infrastructure and correlated information is at the centre of Symantec Corp.’s new security strategy.
Thursday, October 17, 2002
Symantec opens up with its security management suite Symantec Corp. unveiled its new security strategy to attendees of its Vision 360 conference, which was held in New York last month.
Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Symantec opens up with management suite Symantec Corp. unveiled its new security strategy Tuesday to attendees here at Symantec's Vision 360 conference.
Monday, September 30, 2002
Symantec opens up with management suite NEW YORK — Symantec Corp. unveiled its new security strategy Tuesday to attendees here at Symantec's Vision 360 conference.
Thursday, September 19, 2002
Taking stock of security one year after the twin towers fell Like Dec. 7, Sept. 11 will forever remain a day of reckoning in the American psyche. But as with all calamities, there is a need and desire to learn from the event to ensure something positive comes from all the suffering.
Thursday, September 05, 2002
Taking stock a year later Like Dec. 7, Sept. 11 will forever remain a day of reckoning in the American psyche. But as with all calamities there is a need and desire to learn from the event to ensure something positive comes from all the suffering.
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
CRMA Canada teams with MS on study Microsoft Canada Co. will team with the Customer Relationship Management Association of Canada (CRMA Canada) to undertake a study on Canadian enterprises and their implementations of customer relationship management (CRM).