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Gadgets, Gizmos Top Techies' Holiday Lists
News Tech industry consultants said their to-buy lists were similar to network administrators'. About 22 percent of consultants put laptop computers on their lists, and 24 percent list Palms or other handheld computers.
[November 15, 2001, 10:30]
The Myths And Reality Of Women In IT
News More specifically, of those female respondents 17.2 percent currently work as IT managers, 11.9 percent work as IT consultants and 4.5 percent hold the post of IT director or chief information officer -- showing that the once male-dominated world...
[April 2, 2003, 8:47]
Ineffective Email Use 'costing Millions'
News It's a phenomenon that's costing firms millions of pounds a year, according to research by business-writing consultants Emphasis. UK businesses are wasting huge amounts of time and money on pointless email, a new survey of senior staff has revealed.
[July 18, 2003, 11:12]
Symantec Develops Risk-management Dashboard
News Symantec consultants will look at security, availability, performance and compliance within a company, before producing a report. The "Foundation IT Risk Assessment" service will cost £30,000 for two consultants for three weeks.
[June 22, 2007, 10:21]
.NET: A Guide For Managers
News That probably means a few senior consultants, so it won't be cheap and you'll have to budget for such resources. As Carl Massien, a senior developer working on large enterprise app projects, said, ".NET is for new development, and for those apps...
[May 2, 2003, 13:18]
SAP Consultants Stay Top Of The Pay Scales
News A drop in senior level salaries has smoothed out differences between vendors, with mid-range consultants commanding similar salaries to consultants specialising in top-end products. SAP consultants continue to command the highest salaries, despite...
[November 26, 2003, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog IT is just too important to leave to the underpaid harassed masses in the government departments, the vulture-like consultants who prey on them and the flabby overseers who care about nothing except plausible deniability.
[December 7, 2001, 16:37]
IT Managers Increasingly In Demand
News A war between companies for the favours of top IT managers and tech-savvy staff is looming, according to industry consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). We are having greater difficulty — experiencing a longer time to hire for qualified...
[November 6, 2006, 13:15]
Security Audit For The WLAN
News While this was in the best interest of the client, it made the situation potentially difficult for us as consultants. As is often the case when conducting a senior management-initiated security assessment, the review was as much about the key...
[September 15, 2002, 22:10]
IT Contractors Face Tough Times Down Under
News Areas which he has seen rates remain static, due to a high demand for these skill sets, are network integrators, security consultants, and senior technical architects. In contrast, Sparks has seen a greater drop in rates for job titles including...
[February 1, 2002, 16:13]
Security Contractors Urged To Take Out Personal Indemnity Insurance
News As the number of attacks increases, there is an increasing risk that consultants will be blamed for disrupted services and lost data. David Woods, an IT litigation specialist at law firm Masons, agreed that security consultants should take out...
[June 2, 2004, 15:30]
Carnivore Review: A 'stacked Deck?'
News However, digital detective work revealed the names of the reviewers to be former White House insiders, including past members of the National Security Agency and former employees and consultants to the Departments of Defence, Justice, and Treasury.
[October 5, 2000, 8:19]
The Big Blue Balancing Act
News Sounds like you're investing in technologies to make your consultants more efficient and effective in engagements. Palmisano has touted this idea of process improvement, where your business consultants can analyse a business process by breaking it...
[March 6, 2006, 13:30]
SAP Looks To Retail Sector For Growth
News SAP's retail consultants will provide advice on issues such as retail site selection, legal and tax structuring, inventory financing and identifying appropriate local partners. In some cases, the consultants may work for a locally licensed partner...
[April 28, 2008, 12:04]
Big Names In The Frame To Replace Fiorina
News Bringing back an executive who left after promising to stay at the company following the merger, however, could be a nightmare for image consultants. Other strong IBM candidates include Steve Mills, senior vice-president of the software group; Abby...
[February 10, 2005, 16:20]
Manage Assets To Optimize Business Value
White Papers Troy DuMoulin, Senior Consultant at Pink Elephant and one of North America's most experienced consultants in the field of ITIL-defined Configuration Management, discusses the importance of managing your IT infrastructure to support business...
[June 7, 2004, 14:50]
Palm Handhelds Aid Viceroy Property Tax Consultants In Calculating Property Assessments
White Papers Barry Wyner, senior vice-president of Derbyshire Viceroy Consultants Ltd.was using a paper-based day timer to keep track of his client appointments and phone numbers. He found that his paper-based agenda was no longer meeting his needs as he found...
[April 22, 2004, 0:05]
E-Commerce Focus: Europe Learning From US Failures
News In the UK and Europe, they take more outside help from systems integrators and consultants. The survey was based on the responses of more than 1800 senior IT personnel. The UK and Europe may well be behind the U.S.in volume of e-commerce...
[July 7, 1998, 12:28]
IBM: JBoss More Of Threat To BEA
News If IBM wants a deal it can sell software for nothing, as it can sell 50 consultants," said Labourey. Jim Rivera, a senior principal technologist at BEA, denied that JBoss is a threat, and said that BEA offers better enterprise features, rejecting...
[October 5, 2004, 14:35]
Dot-com Execs Have 'unsavoury Backgrounds'
News The irony is that the consultants, advisors and board members brought in to add credibility to the venture because of their age and experience have some of the most distasteful histories we've found," he says.
[October 24, 2000, 15:11]
