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Open-source firm accredited for schools
News Linux IT, another open-source vendor involved in the shortlisting process, claimed it had pulled out of the process as it felt its products were slanted more towards more business than education. Within this framework, companies bid to provide...
[September 24, 2008, 14:26]
Has HP underestimated job losses?
News Boon, for the most part, agrees but believes there will be a longer delay between the initial round of redundancies and later phases of the downsizing process. According to Enderle the approval process is among the ugliest the company's seen...
[May 14, 2002, 10:51]
More IT firms look overseas to cut costs
News Besides using offshore facilities for application management, companies are adopting an overseas strategy for business process outsourcing -- which involves organisations turning over tasks such as billing and call centre operations -- and IT...
[February 21, 2003, 9:56]
QuickBooks 2002 Pro review
Reviews The process begins with a simple on-screen 'interview' that helps QuickBooks 2002 Pro select and tailor an account structure appropriate for your type of business. The new Sales Order form introduces a preliminary stage into the invoicing process.
[December 5, 2002, 8:43]
Icann told its registry options 'suck'
News At that time, the application process must consider the applicants' ability to handle operations on the prevailing scale (and VeriSign will most likely be the only registry operator on that scale). Although some board members and several people...
[March 13, 2001, 9:44]
What can we learn from the Cisco fiasco?
News If you're constantly reacting to security problems, you need to look deeper than the problem itself and find the underlying flaw in your business process. Network security is a proactive process. It's important to realise that not every business...
[September 9, 2005, 12:30]
IBM to make aspect-oriented development a reality
News Sabbah also is expected to discuss a project called AspectX, which looks at how aspect-oriented techniques can be used in conjunction with Web services-based business process workflows. IBM, for one, will be working on "wisards" that can walk...
[March 24, 2004, 8:10]
Startup Spotlight: Jomono.com
News Jomono.com has turned this process around. We are now in the process of discussing a second round of financing. Why did you decide to set up an e-business for a product that can only be spent off-line?
[January 28, 2000, 7:15]
Dicing with data
News For example, if you're a bank and your business process is funds transfer, in a fraction of a second you could move a billion dollars. And then they should know from their business process how does that relate back to their business process.
[January 14, 2004, 15:35]
Four considerations before deploying Microsoft OCS2007
Blog The business advantage of features such as Instant Messaging and Presence can be hard to justify unless they are integrated into business process. Business process If OCS is successfully integrated into your environment and users have adopted the...
[November 3, 2008, 9:06]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News That's "The Moving Problem Problem" and Changengine (tm) is a business process accelerator. When they started talking about software that involved a "process description language" that accorded with the standards agreed by the "Workflow Management...
[December 6, 1997, 7:00]
The Big Blue balancing act
News Palmisano has touted this idea of process improvement, where your business consultants can analyse a business process by breaking it down into its component parts. How do you manage that process? That piece of the business tends to be more in...
[March 6, 2006, 13:30]
Pipes, clouds and scarcity
Blog These aren't tasks for the IT pro - they're tools that need to monitor the current and predicted state of a business process, and then make appropriate changes to the deployed service components and the messaging architecture so that users always...
[October 2, 2009, 8:35]
BT silent on rumours of Bonfield's early exit
News The FT attributes its story to un-attributed comments made by "a number of people involved" in this process, and tips Pierre Danon -- head of BT retail -- as a likely successor. This move was at the heart of the restructuring strategy that Bonfield...
[October 12, 2001, 14:22]
Litigation Data Analysis/Auditing/ETL for BI: Triples Separated at Birth
White Papers If the process is flawed, or if the data or processes are "Out of sync," one with the other, then any subsequent decision based on that data or process is without merit. This paper shows how the steps in Litigation Data Analysis (Litigation...
[December 27, 2006, 0:00]
Xbox co-creator announces his game plan
News We fund the process of developing those games; we manage the process of producing those games. The approach is similar to a technique used in the movie business, where a production company gets the film made, and the studio is responsible for...
[May 10, 2002, 13:16]
Google results exceed profit, revenue estimates
News The review process is now a part of how we do business. Google is more limited by the number of searches people perform than the number of advertisers vying through the AdWords auction process to have their ads shown, Rosenberg said.
[January 23, 2009, 7:46]
Netscape seeks more than money
News Netscape's seeking business restrictions against Microsoft ahead of trial indicates that the company no longer has faith in the political process or believes that a settlement reached between Microsoft, the Justice Department and nine of 18...
[January 24, 2002, 9:10]
Analysis: How far will unbundling reach?
News What is clear is that the process is unlikely to be the broadband panacea once hoped and for the conceivable future will serve the business market rather than consumers. Unbundling of the local loop is a phrase that does not exactly roll off the...
[May 8, 2001, 16:35]
UK defies US on software patents
News In the US, patents can be granted for more general business processes: online book retailer Amazon.com famously issued a law suit against arch rival Barnes and Noble for infringing on its patent for its 1-Click shopping process, which lets repeat...
[March 12, 2001, 11:47]
