Computerworld articles from March 2007

Computerworld archives from March 2007

VA slow to strengthen IT security: agency has made some gains but still faces data risks, federal auditors say.(NEWS)(Department of Veterans Affairs)
March 5, 2007... The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs still hasn't adequately addressed many of the internal IT security shortcomings cited following the loss last May of a laptop with personal data on 26.5 million veterans and active-duty personnel,...

Oracle's Hyperion deal puts users on guard: some fear loss of leverage, decline in service and longer upgrade cycles.(NEWS)(Hyperion Solutions Corp.)
March 5, 2007... Oracle Corp.'s purchase of business intelligence vendor Hyperion Solutions Corp. will likely benefit Oracle, but Hyperion customers could experience a decline in service and end up with less negotiating leverage, some users and analysts said....

Oracle targets CFOs, SAP with Hyperion purchase.(NEWS)(Hyperion Solutions Corp.)
March 5, 2007... CHARLES PHILLIPS, president of Oracle, said that the company's $3.3 billion acquisition of Hyperion Solutions will add critical analytical applications to its line of business intelligence products. "We weren't very strong in planning and...

Lenovo recalls Sanyo notebook batteries.(AT DEADLINE)(Lenovo Group Ltd.)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Lenovo Group Ltd. is recalling about 208,000 notebook batteries worldwide after receiving five complaints that they overheated after computers were dropped or hit. The defect in the Sanyo Electric Co. nine-cell, extended-life batteries caused...

Dell woes continue as sales, profit drop.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Dell Inc. reported significant declines in fourth-quarter sales and profits as the PC maker copes with an ongoing investigation of its accounting practices and the resignation of CEO Kevin Rollins. DELL BY THE NUMBERS REVENUE ...

Judge nixes claim against Microsoft.(AT DEADLINE)(patent infringement claims by Alcatel-Lucent)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... A judge in San Diego federal court late last week dismissed one of several patent claims that Alcatel-Lucent SA has made against Microsoft Corp. The judge ruled that Microsoft did not infringe on a patent for speech-recognition technology, as...

Sun unveils new version of Java ES.(AT DEADLINE)(Sun Microsystems Inc., Java Enterprise System)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Sun Microsystems Inc. has released a new version of its Java Enterprise System set of subscription-based enterprise middleware. Java ES 5.0, the first new release of the software since October 2005, is aimed at companies looking to purchase...

IT races clock as early start of DST approaches: companies are still prepping their systems for sunday's spring forward.(NEWS)(information technology, daylight savings time)
March 5, 2007... WITH JUST days to go before this year's earlier-than-usual start of daylight-saving time, a last-minute scramble is on inside many IT departments to finish evaluating and updating systems in order to avoid any problems when the clocks are...

Consulting firms face flurry of DST help requests.(NEWS)(daylight savings time)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... JULIEN COURBE, a managing director in the financial services consulting practice at BearingPoint Inc., said that many clients of the McLean, Va.-based firm struggled on their own to figure out what to do about the DST change before finally...

IT executives rise to the challenge: crises and other difficult moments present leadership opportunities.(100 PREMIER IT LEADERS CONFERENCE)(information technology)
March 5, 2007... DARRYL LEMECHA'S career-defining moment as an IT executive began on the day in February 2005 when his company, ChoicePoint Inc., had to notify 145,000 consumers that some of their personal information might have been obtained by identify...

Bug found in Vista antipiracy system.(BRIEFS)(Microsoft Windows Vista )(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... A bug in the built-in antipiracy technology in Windows Vista is telling some users that they must reactivate the operating system after they install new device drivers or run newly installed applications. Microsoft Corp. has issued a patch...

Corel releases WordPerfect beta.(BRIEFS)(WordPerfect Lightning)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Corel Corp. has released a free public beta of WordPerfect Lightning, an updated version of its word processor that blends a desktop-based application with online collaboration and storage features. According to Corel, the application requires...

Outsourcer raises $24M in capital.(BRIEFS)(Achievo Corp.)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Achievo Corp., a San Ramon, Calif.-based outsourcing services provider, has raised $24 million in capital from private and institutional investors. The company, which runs much of its operations from facilities in China, said that it will use...

HP to buy NAS software maker.(BRIEFS)(Hewlett-Packard Co. to acquire PolyServe Inc.)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to acquire a storage software company that it said will boost its position in the enterprise-class, network-attached storage business. HP said that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PolyServe Inc....

Language limits open source's ...(ON THE MARK)(open source software translation costs)
March 5, 2007... ... appeal compared with proprietary software. When Microsoft Corp. touted Vista in its worldwide release this year, it did so in 20 languages, says Mark Lancaster, CEO of SDL International PLC, the Maidenhead, England, company that helped...

Microsoft to buy health info engine.(BRIEFS)(Medstory Inc.)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire Medstory Inc., which operates a search engine for health information. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft said the acquired firm will anchor a "broader consumer health strategy" for the company....

Ingres unveils Icebreaker database.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Ingres Corp. has released the Icebreaker database, a combination of the Ingres 2006 database and the rPath implementation of Linux. Icebreaker is the first new product from Ingres since it was spun off from CA Inc. in 2005. The software...

Kaiser Foundation names new CIO.(BRIEFS)(Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals appointed Philip Fasano as cheif information officer)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals have appointed Philip Fasano CIO. Fasano replaces interim CIO Bruce Turksta, who took over the post after the resignation of CIO Cliff Dodd in November. Dodd left days after a...

HP unveils midsize storage systems.(BRIEFS)(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Hewlett-Packard Co. has brought out a disk-based backup and recovery system designed for small and midsize businesses. The HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System can automatically save data from as many as four servers and has a total capacity of...

Quiet techies can be groomed to be leaders: experts debate what traits make for a good CIO.(NEWS)(chief information officers)
March 5, 2007... NOT ALL leadership qualities are ingrained at birth. You can learn some of them. But it helps if you want to lead and are willing to listen. What it takes to run an IT group was the topic of a lively discussion here last month at a meeting...

SIM targets shrinking IT workforce in U.S.: program aims to get high school students interested in IT careers.(NEWS)(Society for Informatioin Management)
March 5, 2007... With a national IT labor shortage likely to emerge over the next decade, the Society for Information Management is extending its IT career programs to high school students. Several demographic studies indicate that labor shortages are...

'Back-hacker' says Sandia tried to keep probe of breach quiet.(Shawn Carpenter v. Sandia National Laboratories)(Interview)
March 5, 2007... Last month, a jury in New Mexico awarded Shawn Carpenter $4.3 million as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit against Sandia National Laboratories, where he had worked as a network intrusion-detection analyst. Carpenter was fired in early...

Blind workers file suit against Oracle, Texas: say inaccessibility of apps violates law.(NEWS)(human resources applications)
March 5, 2007... The National Federation of the Blind and three state employees have filed a lawsuit against Oracle Corp. and the state of Texas seeking to ensure that all applications used by the state government are accessible to blind state workers. The...

Feds hope to boost businesses' role in slowing cyberattacks: private sector seeks earlier warnings, more intelligence on potential strikes.(NEWS)
March 5, 2007... AS REPORTS of cybersecurity incidents grow, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials hope a new initiative will improve their ability to work on the problem face to face with private-sector experts. The DHS plans to collocate...

EC threatens Germany with action over law.(GLOBALDISPATCHES)
March 5, 2007... BRUSSELS THE EUROPEAN Commission last week threatened the German government with legal action unless it scraps a new law that protects Deutsche Telekom AG from competition in the broadband Internet access market. The commission sent a...

Effort to sell bankrupt BenQ Mobile fails.(GLOBALDISPATCHES)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... MUNICH ATTEMPTS TO find an investor for bankrupt German mobile phone maker BenQ Mobile GmbH have failed, the company's insolvency administrator announced last week. "I now see no realistic chance to sell the entire company in one...

BT to open [pounds sterling]14M London data center.(GLOBALDISPATCHES)(BT Group PLC)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... LONDON BRITISH TELECOM giant BT Group PLC late last month disclosed plans to spend [pounds sterling]14 million ($27 million U.S.) on a new data center in southern London. The center is aimed at helping the company strengthen its hosting...

EC unit to study data center energy use.(GLOBALDISPATCHES)(European Commission)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... BRUSSELS A EUROPEAN COMMISSION group this week will debate whether to create a voluntary code of conduct on energy efficiency for data center operators. The EC said that the renewable energies unit of its Joint Research Center will discuss...

CSC awarded $190M Australian services job.(GLOBALDISPATCHES)(Computer Sciences Corp. signs it services contract with Water Corp.)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... LEEDERVILLE, AUSTRALIA WATER CORP. in Western Australia late last month signed a $190 million Australian ($150 million U.S.) IT services contract with Computer Sciences Corp. El Segundo, Calif.-based CSC has been working with...

Japan and Russia.(Briefly Noted)(to link telecommunications networks through submarine fiber optic cable)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Japan and Russia plan to link their telecommunications networks via a new undersea fiber-optic cable connecting Ishikari on Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands, to Nevelsk, Russia. The cable, which is expected to be in place by...

LM Ericsson Telephone Co.(Briefly Noted)(to acquire Tandberg Television ASA)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... LM Ericsson Telephone Co. has made an offer to acquire Southampton, England-based Tandberg Television ASA in order to beef up its expertise in Internet-based TV technology. Ericsson offered 9.8 billion Swedish kroner ($1.4 billion U.S.) in cash...

Google Inc.(Briefly Noted)(added new features to Chinese Google)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Google Inc. last week added several new features to its Chinese Google. cn search engine. Google.cn was launched in early 2006 to help Google expand its business in China, where the company's main search engine, Google.com, is sometimes slow or...

Intel Corp.(Briefly Noted)(teraflop research chip being developed at India Research Center)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... About half of the work on Intel Corp.'s recently announced "teraflop research chip" was done in India, according to Vasantha Erraguntla, engineering manager at the company's India Research Center in Bangalore. Erraguntla led the design team in...

National Open Centre.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... The National Open Centre, a think tank in Birmingham, England, opened last week to analyze how open-source software can be used in government and the private sector. The center will study issues around open source, such as the use of standards...

Being American.(OPINION)(Kiva, philanthropic organization)(Editorial)
March 5, 2007... IT'S BEEN FIVE WEEKS since we at Computerworld wrote about Kiva, an organization in San Francisco that has set up a Web site to enable anyone in the world with $25 to make a loan to a fledgling entrepreneur in a developing country. In my...

iPhone rights.(OPINION)(Cartoon)
March 5, 2007... CAN I LOOK AT OUR NEGOTIATING NOTES AGAIN? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] C'WORLD [C] 07 Klossner www.jklossner.com

Time for a digital spring cleaning.(OPINION)(Column)
March 5, 2007... MY COLUMN "Storage Is the Fifth Utility" [July 18, 2005] declared that all IT users expect heat, power, light, network bandwidth and storage to be ubiquitously available utilities. Today, I'm back to share a lesson learned: The demand for any...

Intravenous news.(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... GREAT ARTICLE! I forwarded it ["Why Search Is a Developer's Most Powerful Tool," Computerworld.com, Feb. 1] to my software engineering manager. The trouble is, he doesn't have time to read it. In addition to the digital and print versions of...

No time for surfing.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... THE NEXT thing you know, we'll be talking about what impact a comet hitting the Earth will have on the Internet ["Web Use Spike in Pandemic May Make Telework Tough," News, Feb. 12]. All the doomsday predictions about what will happen in the flu...

Deciding who will get the big bucks.(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... THE ENTIRE discussion in the article "Caught in the IT Pay Squeeze" [Management, Feb. 5] condenses down to one question: "Are we mature, intelligent, sentient beings, or are we just spoiled children?" If one person has more skills than his...

Why wait for patch?(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... EVERY ARTICLE I have seen on the Excel and Word vulnerabilities talks about ridiculous things like waiting for a Microsoft patch or not opening documents from untrusted sources (even though yesterday's trusted source might become today's...

Passe passwords.(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... RIGHT ON, Frank Hayes! Passwords are ineffective ["Passwords--Why?" Frankly Speaking, Feb. 5] because they are required for almost every application or service available on the Internet. Just walk around your workplace and look at the cubicles....

Step 1: acknowledge the spam problem.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... IN THE article "A Clean Slate for the Internet" [Strategies & Tactics, Feb. 12], Robert Kahn, a co-inventor of TCP/IP and CEO of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, says that what is deemed to be spam or even pornography can vary...

Let's stop crabbing about success.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... WHILE THE items cited in the article "Microsoft Settles Embarrassing Antitrust Suit in Iowa" [Computerworld.com, Feb. 14] are signs of an overzealous organization, I'd hardly call them embarrassing except to a business neophyte still cloaked in...

Evolution of tech is accelerating.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 5, 2007... GARTNER IS a reputable company with great dedication to informatics intelligence and metrics. I am not debating its survey ["Gartner: CIO Exclusion, Business Skill Shortages Constrain IT Growth," Computerworld.com, Feb. 15], but I can describe...

The virtual desktop: streaming virtual applications to users can greatly reduce IT support costs, but there are some caveats.(STRATEGIES&TACTICS)
March 5, 2007... PARSONS CORP., a $3 billion construction and engineering company based in Pasadena, Calif., once had hundreds of fat clients on the desktops of its engineers. That spelled nothing but trouble for the IT staff. "We had cadres of IT folks who...

Banking on IT in China: operational imperatives, customer demands and foreign competition are forcing a burst of IT investment that will transform Chinese banks.(STRATEGIES&TACTICS)
March 5, 2007... SHANGHAI IN THE first 10 months of 2006, Chinese regulators uncovered 776 banking crimes, including 205 cases involving more than 1 million yuan ($125,000 U.S.). Fraud and other irregularities at Chinese banks added up to $95.9 billion in...

Career watch.(Q&A)( Hunter Muller of The Advisory Council, Norwalk)(Interview)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Hunter Muller TITLE: President and CEO ORGANIZATION: The Advisory Council, Norwalk, Conn. CHARTER: IT research and advisory services As the IT labor market continues to tighten, one of the top challenges CIOs face is retaining...

Degrees of higher earning.(STRATEGIES&TACTICS)(Master of business administration degree)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Degrees of Higher Earning Total cost (tuition, fees, $127,000 lodging and other expenses) for a two-year executive MBA program at Columbia University. Mean salary of students who $129,740 graduated from an EMBA...

When you're 64: ever wonder what your job is doing to you physically?(STRATEGIES & TACTICS)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... You can see a humorous version of your retirement-age self at CareerBuilder.com's Age-o-Matic Web site, where you can upload a photo of yourself (or your dog, for that matter) and then answer three randomly selected questions about your job,...

To certify or not to certify: getting paid for your skills.(SURVEY RESULTS)(Statistical data)
March 5, 2007... CERTIFICATIONS ARE TAKING A HIT. Foote Partners LLC does a quarterly assessment of skills pay, which is the portion of pay directly attributable to a high-value technical skill. For the most recent report, 60,000 IT professionals in North...

MEMS.(QUICK STUDY)(MicroElectroMechanical Systems)
March 5, 2007... DEFINITION [MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) technology enables the creation of tiny machines that can work with microelectronics. MEMS also refers to the machines themselves, which add very small sensors and actuators that allow...

Looking into what we can look into: when it comes to employee monitoring, a state agency's hands are often tied. Our manager seeks to change that.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)(Column)
March 5, 2007... I HAVE BEEN asked to investigate an employee who may be violating agency policy regarding computing resources. That sounds straightforward, but this situation has put into sharp relief the difficulty we have in a state agency when it comes to...

Federal CIOs make security progress.(SECURITY LOG)(Chief information officers)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... IT security remains a top concern of U.S. government CIOs, but they feel they're making progress, according to a survey by the Information Technology Association of America. CIOs told the ITAA that they made gains in certifying IT systems,...

Symantec calls for U.S. breach law.(SECURITY LOG)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Symantec Corp. called on Congress to pass a data breach notification bill that would require organizations to report data breaches when there's a reasonable risk of identity theft. U.S. lawmakers introduced about a dozen bills requiring...

Nothing but spam.(Marshal Ltd.'s report for e-mail spam increases)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Basingstoke, England-based Marshal Ltd.'s Threat Research and Content Engineering Team reported that about 85% of all e-mail received is spam. It said that if the current trend continues, at least 90% of e-mail will be spam by the end of this...

How to cope with a managerial meltdown.
March 5, 2007... WE'VE ALL SEEN it happen. Self-destruction. Career-limiting behavior. Professional suicide. Some previously normal and capable IT manager suddenly starts acting strangely and destructively. He figuratively sets his hair on fire and runs around...

Quick hits.(IT departments management)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... [GRAPHIC OMITTED] The CEO View How would you rate the overall performance of IT in your firm? Satisfied or very satisfied 59% Neutral 27% Dissatisfied or very 14% dissatisfied Note:...

Time to reinvent IT.(Society for Information Management has launched a program to convince kids to become IT professional)
March 5, 2007... THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN. This time it's the Society for Information Management that has launched a program to convince kids they should become IT professionals. We've seen this before--remember a decade ago, when actor Jimmy Smits was hired by the...

Getting the message.(enterprise networks security policy)
March 5, 2007... Big IT services organization starts a new internal mailing list for its hundreds of IT architects around the world. The results are predictable: Someone sends a reply to the whole list with an "unsubscribe" message, others follow suit and soon...

Corporate IT sticks with office formats: private sector shows little interest in adopting OpenDocument alternative.
March 12, 2007... The governments of Massachusetts, Belgium and Hong Kong are game to try the Open Document Format for Office Applications. But in corporations from Honolulu to Los Angeles to Cincinnati, there's scant usage and little planning for it. The...

Surprise: XML-based document formats can be smaller.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... IT MANAGERS often cite compatibility and portability of documents as the main advantages they expect to see by switching to XML-based file formats for desktop applications. But Danske Bank A/S is hoping for more. The Copenhagen-based bank...

Texas House votes to exempt clerks from privacy laws: bill would allow public records with Social Security numbers to stay on Web.
March 12, 2007... The Texas House of Representatives last week passed an emergency bill that exempts courthouse clerks in Texas from state and federal laws requiring that Social Security numbers be kept confidential. The bill has moved on to the Texas Senate...

Ohio University names new CIO.(J. Brice Bible as chief information officer)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Ohio University has hired a permanent CIO to lead the school's IT office, which last year was hit with a series of data security breaches that resulted in the firing of two IT workers and the resignation of CIO William Sams J. Brice Bible,...

Vonage fined for patent infringement.(Vonage Holdings Corp. to pay fines to Verizon Communications Inc.)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... A federal jury ordered Vonage Holdings Corp. to pay $58 million in damages to Verizon Communications Inc. after finding that it had infringed on three Verizon patents. After the verdict, Verizon asked for a permanent injunction to stop Vonage...

No patches from Microsoft this week.(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Microsoft Corp. said that it will skip this week's Patch Tuesday. In its monthly advance notification bulletin, Microsoft said, "No new Microsoft Security Bulletins will be released on March 13, 2007." This is the first time in 18 months that...

Balsillie resigns as RIM's chairman.(Research In Motion Ltd.)(Jim Balsillie)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Jim Balsillie has resigned as chairman of Research In Motion Ltd., accepting blame for his role in a stock-option scam that will cost the company $250 million in restated earnings. The stock-option woes are forcing RIM to restate its earnings...

HPC is providing boost to old-line companies: manufacturers say high-performance computing reduces design, test times.(high performance computing)
March 12, 2007... A KEY PIECE of a legislative push to boost U.S. competitiveness could lead to a significant increase in spending on high-performance computing research. The America Competes Act, introduced into Congress last week by Sen. John Ensign...

NSF official: U.S. must step up long-term research.(National Science Foundation)
March 12, 2007... JEANNETTE WING is focused on the future. And later this year, she will be responsible for shaping it as the new head of the recently formed computer and information science and engineering directorate at the National Science Foundation. ...

Innovation goes back to top of IT's agenda: execs say companies should look for an edge with technology--not just use it to try to cut costs.(Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference)
March 12, 2007... WHEN CIO H. James Dallas attended his first NASCAR race about 10 years ago, he learned some fast lessons--not about driving stock cars around an oval at high speeds, but about fostering innovation within an IT department. At that race in...

Offbeat IT tactics: IT leaders share some secrets of their management styles.
March 12, 2007... We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges James Onalfo wears a three-star badge as part of his job as deputy commissioner and CIO for the New York City Police Department. "It's like the army," he said. "But when I have meetings with my IT staff, I...

Gutierrez feels 'bittersweet pride' after political battles: former Mass. CIO says he would make same choices again.(chief information officer Louis Gutierrez)(Interview)
March 12, 2007... As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November of last year, Louis Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political wrath over a state policy calling for agencies to adopt the Open Document Format for Office...

Taking the pulse of IT.(IT departments ethics)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Taking the Pulse of IT During the Premier 100 conference, Computerworld used electronic polling devices to query audience members on a variety of IT topics. Here is a sampling of the questions that were asked: ...

DHS warns of Citrix software flaw.(Department of Homeland Security)(Citrix Systems Inc.'s Presentation Server Client 10.0)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned of a bug in Citrix Systems Inc.'s Presentation Server Client that could leave users open to attack from malicious Web sites. Security firm Secunia APS said the bug is "highly critical" because...

EMC exec named CEO of McAfee.(Dave DeWalt)(chief executive officer)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... Former EMC Corp. executive Dave DeWalt was named president and CEO of security software maker McAfee Inc. DeWalt, former executive vice president and president of customer operations at EMC, takes the helm of a company tainted by allegations of...

Mozilla issues fix for Firefox flaw.(Mozilla Foundation)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... The Mozilla Foundation has published a fix for a "critical" JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite. The fix targets Firefox Versions 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 and SeaMonkey Versions 1.1.1 and 1.0.8. The...

High Court rejects Ebbers' appeal.(Bernard Ebbers)(Brief article)
March 12, 2007... The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by Bernard Ebbers, forcing the former WorldCom CEO to serve out his 25-year sentence. The court rejected the appeal without comment. Ebbers contended that he didn't have a fair trial because...

You're not a number ...(SailPoint Technologies Inc.'s Identity Cubes software)(Q1 Labs Inc. enhancing its QRadar 3100 appliance software)(SupportSoft Inc. and its services)
March 12, 2007... ... you're a cube. Back in 1967, the television series The Prisoner revolved around a captured spy whose life--past and present--was reduced to a number. In the title character's case, it was Number Six. SailPoint Technologies Inc. in Austin...

Microsoft to add office link to its Dynamics ERP apps.(dveloping Dynamics Client software)
March 12, 2007... MICROSOFT CORP. today is set to introduce a new tool that it says will let end users more easily access Dynamics ERP applications from its desktop software. Officials said the company plans to unveil the new Dynamics Client tool, which...

Full strength.(information technology professionals)
March 12, 2007... IT budgets might be lighter and staffs leaner, but what never diminishes is the collective brainpower of an IT team put to the task. Couple that strength with the vision of a true IT leader, and the resulting organization can move mountains....

Underwater web: no lines, no waiting with the Georgia Aquarium's Web-based reservation and ticketing system.(BEST IN CLASS 2007)
March 12, 2007... 2007 Award Winner Georgia Aquarium VISITORS from around the world come to the Georgia Aquarium to see Beluga whales, piranhas, California sea lions, rare whale sharks from Asia and even African black-footed penguins. But despite the...

Paper erasers: online procurement eliminates paper waste at a federal government agency.(BEST IN CLASS 2007)
March 12, 2007... 2007 Award Winner U.S. Maritime Administration Twelve years ago, Congress passed a law called the Paperwork Reduction Act, whose purpose was to "minimize the paperwork burden" on the government and those who do business with it. But...

Global assembly: Tata Consultancy connects employees in 35 countries using voice over IP.(BEST IN CLASS 2007)
March 12, 2007... 2007 Award Winner Tata Consultancy Services In late 2003, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.'s CEO, S. Ramadorai, had a simple but ambitious goal for the Mumbai, India-based company: Improve communication and collaboration among all...

Synchronized stock: many acquisitions later, apparel giant VF runs a best-of-breed supply chain.(VF Corp. wins Best in Class 2007 Awards)
March 12, 2007... 2007 Award Winner VF Corp. Catering to more than just cowboys with its signature Lee and Wrangler jeanswear lines, VF Corp. has become a "lifestyle" apparel company by acquiring brands tailored to surfers, skateboarders, outdoor...