Managed Services & Outsourcing

At the BorCon conference this week, Borland Software Corp. will reveal its Software Delivery Optimization strategy, which leverages the company's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and developer products to ease software development and maintenance.

IBM is focusing on services as a way to reach Canada

The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) has commissioned a significant upgrade of its Naval Operator information solution used for operational and combat preparation. The Can $17.3 million contract has been awarded to Richmond, B.C.-based MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., a provider of geographical information systems.

Within two months, Oracle Corp. will ship its delayed E-Business Suite 11i.10, packing the new release with 2,100 new features targeting specific industries and general e-business applications.

Should your developers use an IDE to develop software? If you think that discussion ended years ago, think again. The voluminous response to my Aug. 30 column proves that the debate rages on.

Although IT security standards at some offshore development centres may seem shoddy, one Canadian outsourcing service provider says that shouldn

The EMC Forum, an EMC event for partners and customers, rolled into Toronto on Wednesday with a now-familiar message: enterprises can save money by prioritizing their storage needs.

Sometimes the things you don't know can hurt you. "If you'd asked me a few years ago, I probably would have said we're doing all right," says John Smith, IT director for the southern region of Entergy Nuclear, a subsidiary of Entergy Corp. He discovered instead that some of his fellow senior executives did not agree. "The COO and I had some tense discussions about this," he says.