Karen D. Schwartz

While yesterday’s companies clamored for massive application suites to integrate the enterprise, today’s companies clearly want all that and more, judging by voters’ responses to products nominated in the enterprise application category. Voters overwhelmingly gave the nod to the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i. This integrated e-business application suite from Oracle Corp., of Redwood Shores, Calif., […]

Savvy executives today know the key to success is providing better data faster to internal departments, business partners and customers. By working with more up-to-date information, companies can make better decisions, leading to higher profits and stability. This year’s crop of business intelligence and data warehousing tools has taken those requirements to heart, bolstering reporting […]

SmarterKids.com CIO Rich Secor When Rich Secor picked up a business magazine last July and read about how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had fined seven e-tailers for failing to adequately address customers’ fulfillment expectations, it simply confirmed what he already knew. Secor, CIO of SmarterKids.com, already had begun to make the company’s customer service […]

Chances are if you went to college in the late twentieth century, you borrowed money from a federally funded nonprofit organization known as Sallie Mae. If you’re lucky, you’ve finished paying off those loans by now. Web commerce director Jeff Rudluff says Verizon Communications believes most customers will eventually pay bills through consolidators. If you’re […]

Wireless words: a glossary WAE (wireless application environment): includes all elements of the WAP architecture related to application specification and execution WAP (wireless application protocol): the application protocol that allows a WAP-enabled mobile phone to connect to the Internet WML (wireless markup language): Similar to HTML, it’s a language used to create pages that can […]

In this article: Lessons learned about using ADRs When General Electric Co. hires a contractor to install a computer system, run a data center, remediate legacy systems for Y2K compliance, or perform any number of other information technology tasks, it routinely inserts a small clause that can yield big returns. The provision, known in the […]

From the very beginning of its enterprise resource planning system implementation, Chevron Canada was clearly going to need a way to store older data so that it could be accessed, if only occasionally, in an organized manner. But company executives had no idea how to go about finding the right solutions or determining how much […]

Texas Instruments Inc. has had quite a time of it the past few years. Company executives have worked hard to transform their firm from an organization that manufactures products to one that provides solutions. As part of its massive reengineering efforts, Texas Instruments also has made great strides toward becoming a truly global company. IBM […]

“Simply the thinnest and best-designed notebook ever” is how J. Gerry Purdy, president of Mobile Insights Inc., a mobile-computing consultancy in Mountain View, Calif., refers to Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM Corp.’s ThinkPad 600 notebook. Voters in the Client Systems category of the 1998 Datamation Product of the Year balloting wholeheartedly agree: The ThinkPad 600 surged ahead […]

Tried-and-true ERP systems won top honors in the enterprise applications category of Datamation’s 1998 Product of the Year poll, beating the up-and-coming applications that some analysts have been touting. PeopleSoft 7.5 from ERP veteran PeopleSoft Inc., of Pleasanton, Calif., came in first with 276 votes (39%) out of the 706 votes cast in the Enterprise […]