Information Age (London, UK) articles from April 2002

Information Age (London, UK) archives from April 2002

Revolution in process.(Information Age Collaborative Commerce 2002)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... If the delegates who attended the Information Age Collaborative Commerce 2002 conference in London at the end of January had any preconceived ideas about what they were about to hear, their expectations were probably none too radical. The...

Legal fall-out.(legal ramifications of business collaborations)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... Enterprises increasingly recognise the efficiencies that collaborative commerce can bring to their businesses; but the legal implications of these emerging relationships are still being debated. And some of the opinions being expressed are...

Collaborative imperative.(enterprise resource planning)
April 10, 2002... Information Age (IA): Many pioneers of collaborative commerce argue that a sound technology infrastructure that defines and streamlines internal business processes is a 'must-have' for any organisation embarking on a collaborative commerce...

E-marketplace evolution.
April 10, 2002... The automotive industry has been a pioneer of modern manufacturing ever since Henry Ford's factory assembly line revolutionised mass production at the beginning of the 20th century. It is not surprising then, that in the 21st century,...

Process express.(creating efficiencies in the automobile industry)
April 10, 2002... The automotive industry is a model of inefficiency, according to Joe Bellini, CEO of business process modelling and integration software company Excelon. And business process management, based on an underlying service-based architecture, is the...

E-partnerships exposed.
April 10, 2002... Notwithstanding the the current cutbacks in IT spending and the scepticism generated by the collapse of many dot-com initiatives, organisations of all sizes are rushing to build electronic links with their partners, suppliers, customers and the...

Collaborative buying.
April 10, 2002... In action: Xerox Corporation Jim Lawler, chief procurement officer in Europe for document management company Xerox, believes there are three very different corporate approaches to handling collaborative commerce. First, there are...

Future uncertain.(information technology)(Interview)
April 10, 2002... Information Age (IA): Industry gurus have described business process integration as the next revolution in information technology (IT). As companies move towards process integration, what impact will that have on the IT department? Peter...

Collaboration in practice: Hewlett-Packard.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... Getting products to the right place at the right time across multiple channels is a significant challenge for any company - even for systems giant Hewlett-Packard. Until relatively recently, says Corey Billington, VP of supply chain...

The collaborative infrastructure.(tips for building infrastructure for collaborative commerce)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... Like many of the companies involved in building the infrastructure for collaborative commerce, ebusiness integration software company Tibco has its own definition of the concept. According to Fred Meyer, head of strategy for the company,...

Collaboration economics.(Paul A. Straussmann discusses)
April 10, 2002... Few technology vendors or analysts are inclined to discuss the macroeconomic implications of collaborative commerce. In fact, most current discussion centres on individual organisations' likely return on investment (ROI) from adopting...

The first steps...(analysis of collaborative commerce, International Business Machines Corp.'s collaboration process)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... According to Prem Puri, worldwide solutions executive at systems and services giant IBM, successful collaboration has nothing to do with technology. "One of the most successful partnerships I know is a distribution alliance between Procter &...

Truth or dare?(business successes, failures)
April 10, 2002... Product recalls and production stoppages: for many organisations, these are "moments of truth", according to Bruce Richardson, senior vice president of research strategies at market analyst company AMR Research. But moments of truth, he adds,...

Collaborative services.(CIMTech)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... In action: CIMTechWhen CIMTech, the technology group of UK professional body the Chartered Institute of Marketing, was founded in 1995, it comprised just four people communicating with each other via email and phone. Formed to help...

Collaborative e-government.(Ministry of Defence's Defence Logistics Organisation)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 10, 2002... In action: MOD One UK government agency actively embracing collaborative commerce is the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO), the Ministry of Defence (MOD) body responsible for providing joint logistic support to the Royal Navy, Army and Royal...

Collaborative design.(BAE SYSTEMS PLC)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... In action: BAE Systems In the aerospace industry, project complexity means that manufacturers often collaborate not only with their industry partners, suppliers and customers, but also with competitors. "There are many joint ventures...

Apama offers scalable analytics in real-time.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... Apama has inverted the conventional approach to real-time data analysis. Typically, data is entered into a database and indexed before it is analysed. This approach, says John Bates, president and chief technology officer of real-time analytics...

MessageLabs' email scanning service.(Star Technology Group)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... The simplest ideas are sometimes the most effective. MessageLabs, a division of Star Technology Group, may be a case in point. Recognising that maintaining anti-virus software on every PC that connects to an organisation's network is an...

Covasoft centralises applications management.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... The field of systems management has long been dominated by the 'big four' - Computer Associates, IBM Tivoli, BMC and Hewlett-Packard. Yet the evolution of their sprawling product lines has left some openings for more nimble, innovative...

From ecommerce to c-commerce.(analysis of collaborative commerce)
April 10, 2002... In his latest book, The Agenda, millionaire business guru and author Michael Hammer proclaims collaborative commerce to be 'The Next Big Thing'. Analyst group Gartner, meanwhile, boldly lays claim to having coined the term, declaring: "E was...

Building blocks.(collaborative enterprise)
April 10, 2002... Given the handsome return on investment figures supplied by analysts and IT vendors, the case for organisations building tighter electronic links with their partners and suppliers seems compelling. According to IT economist Paul Strassmann, for...

Partnership psychology.
April 10, 2002... E-marketplaces: A question of trust For many organisations, joining an e-marketplace in a particular vertical sector has been an early route into collaborative commerce. The enthusiasm for e-marketplaces, particularly in 1999 and 2000, led...

Services become Fujitsu's number one business.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... Against a backdrop of shrinking computer sales and a catastrophic decline in semiconductor demand, computer services and software has overtaken hardware as Fujitsu's largest business. Results for the Japanese IT conglomerate's third quarter...

HP signals worst may be over.(Hewlett-Packard )(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... First quarter figures for systems and IT services vendor Hewlett-Packard showed a slight sequential growth over the company's fourth quarter, but sales still declined 8% to $11.4 billion year-on-year. Revenues for the period ending 31 January...

Pindar attacks catalogue commerce niche.(Pindar Systems helps with catalog management)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... For companies that sell a wide range of goods or services online, organising and maintaining a web-based catalogue containing accurate and informative product data is a real challenge. For those having to also produce a traditional, paper-based...

Growth at IBM Global Services grinds to a halt.(CEO Lou Gerstner leaves IBM)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 10, 2002... When Lou Gerstner finally stepped down as CEO of systems giant IBM at the end of February 2002, many analysts sarcastically suggested that his timing could not have been better. While Gerstner has been widely credited for turning the...

Plumtree fights credibility gap with IPO.(future success for Plumbtree)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... "We're the only independent portal company that has turned profitable. More than 14% of the Fortune 500 companies use Plumtree. No-one is closing more business than us," boasts Plumtree co-founder Glenn Kelman. In support of Kelman's...

Integration is the new business model.(e-marketplaces try to reinvent themselves)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... Struggling e-marketplaces that have stretched themselves too thin across different industries - or just not managed to sign up enough members - are desperately trying to re-invent themselves as business-to-business (B2B) software vendors. ...

E-marketplace watch.(e-marketplaces including First4Farming)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... New entrants New e-marketplaces continue to spring up, despite the fact that many of the pioneers of the industry have distanced themselves from the term 'e-marketplace' and the associated business model. First4Farming (F4F), an exchange...

When in doubt... haggle, says report on spend management.(survey on corporate spending)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
April 10, 2002... For all the talk in the technology industry about analysing supplier performance based on attributes such as price, quality and delivery times, when it comes to achieving procurement efficiencies, the heads of purchasing at Europe's largest...

Pistols at dawn.(anti-terrorism measures at Dell)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... As world leaders join together in the ongoing war against terrorism, PC and server manufacturer Dell may be taking its patriotic responsibilities a little too far. Since the terrorist attacks on New York in September, the computer giant has put...

The non-stop IT department...(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... For IT directors, non-stop computing means non-stop pressure: pressure to keep systems up and running, pressure to ensure that they are seamlessly integrated with each other, pressure to be able to allocate a limited pool of computing resources...

Readers' letters.(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... Grizzly picture Kenny MacIver's article House of Cards paints a somewhat grizzly picture of how inaccurate many large, mass market loyalty campaigns actually are. These schemes have always been an excellent tool for creating a clear...

Mind the skills gap.(proficiency of information technology professionals in United Kingdom)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 10, 2002... UK IT professionals are at a distinct disadvantage to their US counterparts because they are less proficient at maths and logic, according to a survey by Scale 21, the working group set up by the UK technology industry and the Department of...

Forrester analysts: Working too hard.(Forrester Research Inc. report on collaborative commerce)(Brief Article)
April 10, 2002... Talk about taking your work seriously: while working on a recent research report on collaborative commerce, analysts at Forrester Research heard a radio broadcast of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, performed by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra....