Siobhan Chapman

Data, touted as a company's lifeblood, is being spilt, corrupted or lost in the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The result is bad data leading to misinformed business decisions, experts say.

Online advertising in Australia is destined to boom as traditional companies increase advertising spend online, according to a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. report. Online advertising revenue here will increase by a factor of 15 between now and 2003, according to the report.