Ryan B. Patrick

Articles by Ryan B. Patrick

New BI tool a boon for Ontario hospitals

Ontario hospitals have access to a new software tool that could help them slash the time it takes to trend performance indicators from eight months to minutes. The software was developed by Toronto-based Hospital Report Research Collaborative (HRRC) at the University of Toronto

Canadian IT pioneers honoured at CASCON

IBM's Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) on Wednesday honoured longstanding members of Canada

Workflow tools a boon for Accenture

Tasked with processing more than 32 million payments and 20 million transactions annually, Vancouver-based business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Accenture Business Services for Utilities recently developed a management software application to help in streamlining workflow.

Post-IBM, Lenovo sets sights on expansion

After completing a US$1.75-billion purchase of IBM Corp.

HP pushes IT virtualization software offerings

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) recently launched new server management and virtualization products across its ProLiant and mid-range Integrity product lines.

Integrated analytics the hallmark of Cognos 8

Cognos Inc. will launch this week the latest update to its business intelligence (BI) software. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence fuses all of its analytics and reporting tools into one application, according to the Ottawa-based BI software vendor.

Portal overhaul helps Future Electronics turbocharge online selling

A major revamp of its e-commerce portal enables Future Electronics to improve search capabilities and increase ten-fold the number of product items it can feature online, the Montreal-based firm reported this week.

ZENworks for heterogeneous networks

Novell Inc. launched on Friday an upgrade of its ZENworks software suite which features life-cycle management capabilities for enterprises operating within a Linux environment, and also supports managing Windows desktops from servers running an open source operating system.

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