Thursday, March 24, 2011
RIM PlayBook to support Android – and IT departments The BlackBerry maker will open up to Google's development environment on its tablet, while a group of Canadian CIOs have been promised a way to allow employees more flexibility for personal use
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Five ways to avoid SOA failure Customers at IBM’s Impact 2009 conference in Las Vegas share their SOA secrets. Find out how to gain corporate buy-in and get your IT on board as well
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Lenovo launches notebook protection and data recovery services Lenovo helps users cut computing downtime by providing laptop damage protection and data retrieval services 
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Oracle to buy big project portfolio management player Oracle Corp. continues its streak of acquisitions with plans to buy portfolio management technology vendor Primavera Software in an effort to strengthen its PPM business
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Indian outsourcers will be hit by U.S. financial crisis For outsourcers the outlook is quite grim as some of its customers, like Lehman Brothers, are no longer around, said a partner at one firm. But one analyst sees outsourcing increasing in the medium to long term as American companies try to cut costs
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Did IT learn nothing from the blackout of 2003? On the fifth anniversary of a major outage, an Info-Tech analyst warns many executives are too cheap to buy adequate power backup systems. Plus: How Toronto Fire Service handled the Propane explosion 
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Manulife offers SaaS-based app to financial execs The Toronto financial services company has signed on with Ticoon Technology Inc. to migrate away from its current desktop application while bringing CRM-like functionality to client management
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Through the maze of the Web The idea of a semantic Web with its own taxonomy was siderailed by Web 2.0. But some people continue to quietly work on it.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Canadian student uses BI to study cancer survival Brock University's Darren Brenner is not a typical SAS customer. His research will use the same business intelligence deployed by enterprise organizations to examine why diseases kill some and not others
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Bogged down in email attachments The story of one CIOs escape E-mail was supposed to lessen workloads, but if anything it would seem to be adding to them. Anyone who's been away from their office for only a few days knows only too well what will greet them upon their return - a virtual mountain of e-mail. And e-mail attachments have become a staccato series of shooting pains for many a CIO. Today's attachments keep getting bigger, with no end in sight.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
One entity, one identity. Response by Stephen Downes I realize that the tendency is to think that identity management can be assigned to a government office, but it's not that simple.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Firms face Cobol crunch Cobol, the mainstay of business programming throughout the '60s, '70s and '80s, may not be going away anytime soon. A survey of 352 firms shows 62 per cent use Cobol. But companies aren’t enthusiastically expanding their use of Cobol because their legacy code will require significant resources for years to come and younger software developers often don’t want to work with the programming language. In most cases, Cobol is no longer being taught in schools and programmers are hard to find.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
IBM's triple SOA thrust IBM Corp. has made its third purchase in the SOA (service-oriented architecture) technology space, buying Webify Solutions Inc., the company announced. The acquisition should be of particular use to IBM as it targets SOA development and deployment in the health-care and insurance industries, the prime focus of Webify's technologies.
Monday, May 29, 2006
principal analyst, CMS Watch It's hasn't produced any overnight operational utopia , but the folk at Allstate Insurace Co. of Canada are nonetheless very enthused about their new content management system (CMS). 
Sunday, November 27, 2005
IT must make business sense, not dollars and cents Contrary to the marketing hype, investment in information technology is less about dollars and more about what makes good business sense. There exists a fallacy in the technology industry suggesting major spending in IT is subject to an exacting and measured analysis of expected return on investment (ROI). Vendors of IT products, in particular, like to position ROI as a customer motivator. The concept can serve as a powerful selling tool in presenting a strong business case and as a means to entice buyers. 
Monday, January 17, 2005
Insurance policies – with no wires attached Buying auto insurance is faster for B.C. motorists now that Barton Insurance Brokers Ltd.’s 40 mobile agents can wirelessly access the company's corporate LAN over Telus Corp.’s CDMA 1X network.
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Zurich Financial outsources application development to CSC Zurich Financial Services, one of the world’s largest insurers, has signed a US$1.3 billion, seven-year outsourcing agreement with Computer Sciences Corp. to hand off new application development and the management of more than 4,000 existing applications.
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Insurers expand IT outsourcing deals Montreal-based outsourcing services provider CGI Group Inc. has inked two 10-year deals with insurance companies in the U.K. and the U.S. 
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Kanawha, CGI expand IT outsourcing agreement Lancaster, S.C.-based health and life insurer Kanawha Insurance Co. has expanded its IT outsourcing partnership with Montreal-based CGI to include onsite document management services. The US$12 million, 10-year business process services outsourcing contract was announced earlier this week.
Sunday, May 16, 2004
Siebel to host industry-specific CRM Plunging deeper into the hosted applications market, Siebel Systems Inc. is launching a set of vertically focused customer relationship management offerings to be delivered via subscription — a move designed to help companies avoid the aggravation of installation and management.
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
StarOffice available for Solaris on x86 systems Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday introduced a version of StarOffice 7 for the x86 variant of its Solaris operating system (OS), a preface to offering a complete desktop software system built around the Unix-based OS.