Eva Marer

This year’s Business Intelligence Software Product of the Year contest was a sack race between apples and oranges, with the top three finishers representing very different products with diverse functionalities. Yet the results provide a snapshot, however fleeting, of what IT managers consider important now: integrating data across the enterprise, managing cost and maximizing value […]

Big Blue added another chapter to an already amazing story last year, gaining several laps of market share and running down rival Sun Microsystems Inc. to win Datamation’s Product of the Year 2001 award for server hardware. IBM Corp. closed the gap in market share by stealing customers from Sun. Last year IBM posted a […]

In a small waiting room in mid-town Manhattan, they perch on metal folding chairs, their legs jingling with anxiety. These people are not waiting for news of missing relatives, but for some shred of hope that their businesses are not dead. They are walk-ins to New York City’s emergency Business Resource Center (BRC), established by […]

Every morning, Gregor Bailar, executive vice president of operations and technology and CIO of NASDAQ, pores over the previous day’s security report. “We have hundreds of different types of hacking and other security attempts in any given week,” he says. At the moment, Bailar’s not so much worried about a breach of NASDAQ’s trading system […]

In the mid-1990’s the aerospace industry was in trouble. The end of the Cold War ushered in a new round of consolidations, restructuring, and layoffs. Finally, the industry turned to outsourcing as a way to drastically reduce costs. “We outsourced almost everything in (information services) except application development and maintenance,” confirms Dr. Wendell Jones, former […]

In the mid-1990’s the aerospace industry was in trouble. The end of the Cold War ushered in a new round of consolidations, restructuring, and layoffs. Finally, the industry turned to outsourcing as a way to drastically reduce costs. “We outsourced almost everything in (information services) except application development and maintenance,” confirms Dr. Wendell Jones, former […]