Information Age (London, UK) articles from October 2002

Information Age (London, UK) archives from October 2002

Rational Software pursues model of success.
October 10, 2002... Developers, despite all the common stereotypes, are a conservative bunch. They may like to try new 'cool' technologies, but many prefer tried and tested techniques and methods of working. Typically, this means envisioning a problem, developing...

Web abuse top reason for discipinary action.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... Email and Internet abuse is now the number one reason for disciplinary action in UK companies, according to a survey carried out by London law firm KLegal and Personnel Today magazine. The survey of 212 employers revealed 358 examples of...

Supply chain management to receive boost.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... The supply chain management (SCM) software market has experienced muted growth over the past year - but there is little doubt that organisations want or need applications in this category, says a recent report from IT market research company...

Document software bucks downward pressures.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... With organisations struggling to cope with the ever-growing mountain of digital content, suppliers of products for document, knowledge, search, text and content management have been bucking the downward trends afflicting the rest of the IT...

Design for life.(making an intranet a core part of corporate life)
October 10, 2002... Hype comes and goes. In the late 1990s, intranets topped the wish lists of IT and marketing departments who hoped they would revolutionise the way employees accessed applications and corporate information. Since then, many intranets have failed...

Infoconomy index: small steps in the right direction.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... The direction may be right, but the progress is painfully slow. The Infoconomy Index, the gauge of the industry's health based on the financial results of the world's top 200 IT companies, remained well below the zero line in September, but the...

Storage management software market heats up.
October 10, 2002... Heavyweight storage vendors are arming themselves for a sustained assault on the storage management software market. IBM, EMC and Sun Microsystems each pounced on start-ups in August and September, acknowledging that the centre of gravity...

Revenues tumble at IT services companies.(Performance of Logica and Computacenter are discussed)
October 10, 2002... European IT services companies are unpredictable entities in the current weak economic climate. Almost universally, revenues are falling, but the pain is more acute at some companies than at others. No more so than at Logica and...

Manugistics' software sales stall.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... Supply chain management software vendor Manugistics struggled to rekindle software sales in its second quarter. Over the three months ending 31 August 2002, software sales fell 26% to $18.1 million, accounting for just a quarter of the...

Red Hat, red ink.(Linux vendor in the red)
October 10, 2002... Linux software vendor Red Hat reported a set of second-quarter financial numbers in September that were full of red ink and falling revenues, but which also indicated that the company's open source operating system was making inroads into the...

The PC makeover.(Personal computer will undergo transformation)
October 10, 2002... The personal computer is about to undergo a transformation the like of which has never been seen before. During the next 18 months, vendors, led by semiconductor giant Intel, will introduce a series of architectural innovations to help...

WhereNet sharpens supply chain visibility.
October 10, 2002... It is a longstanding problem for manufacturers. They need to be able to efficiently track and locate production materials inside a warehouse, or yard, but typically have to rely on painstaking searches and paper-based inventories. That is,...

Geac looks to Aurora to invigorate growth.
October 10, 2002... In many multinational organisations, financial systems are a sprawling array of software in different versions, often from different vendors, across different geographies. As a result, accurately monitoring the influx of financial and trading...

InterSAN tackles storage provisioning headache.
October 10, 2002... Storage area networks (SANs) are complex beasts. Their purpose is to enable organisations to 'pool' their storage resources so they can allocate capacity to applications across any of their networked storage devices. But making that a reality...

Oracle falls back on services.
October 10, 2002... There is an obvious lifeboat for a mature software vendor when sales growth makes a sharp turn south - services activities. And database and business applications software vendor Oracle has planted both feet firmly in that lifeboat. In the...

Cognos opens up with web services.
October 10, 2002... Business intelligence (BI) is one area of technology investment that has weathered the downturn in the economy better than most. With the emphasis placed heavily on managing and controlling corporate performance by exploiting data, the BI value...

Microsoft showcases .Net with business apps.
October 10, 2002... As if Microsoft's sheer dominance of the desktop software industry was not enough already, the software giant is now preparing for an assault into new sectors that will leave few areas of the software market untouched by its crushing hand. ...

Tibco targets BAM.(business activity monitoring )(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... Staking out a place in the emerging software category of business activity monitoring (BAM), applications integration software vendor Tibco has swooped on Praja, a San Diego-based BAM start-up. According to Gartner Research, the acquisition is...

VMware positions for server consolidation lift-off.(virtual machine software)
October 10, 2002... A start-up that employs more than 20 staff with computer science doctorates should produce something pretty special. And although the PhD aggregation at VMware is not the first to deliver 'virtual machine' software, it is arguably the first to...

Genalytics 'breeds' insight into future trends.
October 10, 2002... For decades, predictive analysis has been a key statistical technique in scientific research. Processing thousands of equations across hundreds of variables, researchers say they can reliably forecast the future performance of anything from car...

Buyer's economy.(Technology sales executives are more accommodating with IT managers due to economic downturn)
October 10, 2002... IT managers' jobs are a little easier, thanks to the economic downturn, because technology sales executives are much more accommodating. Buyers report that the haggling process is now less like a war of attrition, and more like a mutual quest...

Sinking feeling.
October 10, 2002... When UK optician chain Vision Express signed a four-year outsourcing deal with service provider ITNet recently, the company's IT manager David Hart was determined that past mistakes would not be repeated. A previous outsourcing...

Hacked, Attacked &Abused.(Book Review)
October 10, 2002... Anti-virus software stops viruses - but only if virus definitions are up-to-date, and users do not disable or circumvent the software. Virtual private networks with 128-bit encryption are secure - until a hacker guesses or obtains a password....

Net-influenced sales worth EU172bn by 2007.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... Retailers often overlook customers that use the Internet to research products and services but who ultimately make their purchases offline. According to analysts at Forrester Research, these transactions - dubbed "net-influenced sales" - will...

$5.6bn a year to maintain and support Bluetooth.(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... By 2005, organisations will pay $5.6 billion a year to maintain and support Bluetooth-enabled devices, according to recent estimates from IT market research company Gartner Group. Bluetooth is a radio frequency technology that enables...

Services companies struggling with SMBs.(small and medium-sized business )(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... European IT services and support vendors are missing out on "significant revenue opportunities" in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, according to research from analyst group Gartner. While suppliers of hardware and software...

European BPO market lucrative but risky.(business process outsourcing )(Brief Article)
October 10, 2002... European organisations - particularly in the UK - have been quick to embrace the advantages of business process outsourcing (BPO). In the current economic climate, they find outsourcing specific areas of their businesses, such as logistics...