Neil Plotnick

Macromedia Inc. almost had a clean sweep in the Application Development category in Datamation’s Product of the Year for 2000. The San Francisco-based application development tools vendor took first and second place, with its Flash 5 and Dreamweaver 4.0 products, respectively. And, if the voting had lasted just a week or two longer, it would […]

High reliability, capacity, easy installation, and lower cost of ownership (TCO) steered voters to select the ProLiant Model DL 380 in Datamation’s Product of the Year 2000 Server category. The ProLiant DL 380, from Compaq Computer Corp. of Houston, captured nearly 30 percent of the votes cast, or 71 votes. Placing a close second, with […]

Believe it or not, there are mobile sales professionals who still rely on the same tools that Willie Loman used decades ago–rolodexes and shoeboxes stuffed full of business cards. But paper-based systems are an inefficient way to track customer contacts, and they do nothing to enable communication with the sales representatives’ home-office colleagues. Fortunately, mobile […]

John Simon, VP, business development, Braxton Butterfield While the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks were thrilling fans last season with battles on their home court at The United Center sports arena, the arena’s management and the memorabilia vendors they contract with faced struggles of their own off the court. Inventory management was […]