Finally, corporate chieftains are beginning to understand that business runs on information. Information properly exploited can yield competitive advantage. Information properly stored can be retrieved when needed for business, legal, regulatory compliance or disaster recovery purposes. And information properly protected will keep the company's name from joining the news media's growing list of privacy and security breaches.
Even an IT department that's good at managing contractors can be tripped up by unexpected problems such as a dispute over the definition of software defect, according to a panelist at Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference in Arizona.
Our call for predictions regarding the future of software development and Web services yielded a bumper crop of interesting insights.
There are many ways that a supplier named IBM could be entered into a supply chain database: IBM Corp., I.B.M. Corporation, International Business Machines Corp. or a host of other variations.
You've heard the war stories of enterprise resource planning system rollouts -- they're notoriously difficult to pull off. But supply chain management system projects may be even harder, given that they must unite not only the often-warring fiefdoms within a corporation but also the thousands of suppliers outside it.
The trucks rolled up to the brand-new, ultramodern factory in Louisville, Ky., one day in January 1954. Now, 47 years later, no one seems to remember the exact date. There wasn't any hoopla: No reporters or speeches or ribbon-cuttings.
Taiwan and Estonia have emerged as leaders among developing countries in the ability to conduct e-commerce, while Russia and much of the Middle East and Africa are lagging badly, according to a report released today.
Microsoft Corp. today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let the lower U.S. Court of Appeals do the heavy-duty work of clearing the "underbrush" of messy issues in the antitrust case against the software vendor, instead of directly hearing the company's appeal of the breakup order issued last month.
Microsoft Corp. Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let the lower U.S. Court of Appeals do the heavy-duty work of clearing the "underbrush" of messy issues in the antitrust case against the software vendor, instead of directly hearing the company's appeal of the breakup order issued last month.
Orbitz, an online travel agency being developed by the nation's top five airlines, ran into major turbulence at a U.S. Senate hearing this week. Consumer groups, travel agents, competitors - and one federal investigator - said the government should prevent Orbitz from gaining a monopoly on posting ultralow airline fares.
Orbitz, an online travel agency being developed by the nation's five largest airlines, ran into major turbulence at a hearing held today by the Senate Commerce Committee to examine potential antitrust issues involving the Internet venture.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made it clear last week that it's still learning about business-to-business e-commerce exchanges - and that it's in no hurry to regulate the fledgling online markets.
The headlines about the new "digital signatures" law have highlighted its effect on consumer transactions. But according to experts, it will have a bigger impact on business-to-business e-commerce, including online procurement and electronic marketplaces.
The Microsoft Corp. antitrust case this week was kicked upstairs, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Legal skirmishing in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case continued today with new court filings by both sides as they continue to battle over the potentially critical issue of where the company's appeal of last week's breakup order should be heard.