Real time’s trickle-down effect
Real-time enterprise objectives are driving far more than the direction of the message-oriented middleware market. Indeed, the race for real time is stimulating diverse tech sectors such as CRM, ERP, business intelligence and analytics, and supply-chain solutions. For instance, officials…
Moving into real time
Enterprises can now do business with up-to-the-minute data feeds, but getting all the pieces in place may be challenging THE NOTION OF a real-time enterprise is no longer hype for Jon Ricker, president and CIO of The Limited’s technology services…
Dawn of the real-time enterprise
New technologies leverage straight-through processing and the Internet to deliver competitive advantage IN THE BEGINNING, there was batch processing: ERP and supply chain systems and data warehouses. Geared for monthly planning and analysis, these systems talked to one another, if…
PwC, Siebel partner on employee relationship management
SIEBEL SYSTEMS AND PwC Consulting this week announced that Siebel’s ERM 7 (employee relationship management) offering is being included as part of PwC’s B2E (Business to Extended Enterprise) initiative. B2E features applications and services to enable enterprises to improve collaboration,…
Readers for ‘Web development’ speak out
Split vote means more information on both development and management I reported last week on my survey of whether you want this newsletter to concentrate more on “Web management” or more on “Web development.” As you now know, there was…
The great debate: J2EE versus .Net
Platforms explored at Next-Generation Web services conference See correction below SAN FRANCISCO — Executives from Microsoft and Sun Microsystems started out on a conciliatory note in a debate over the direction of Web services Wednesday at the InfoWorld Next-Generation Web…
Tale of two CRM strategies: Microsoft and AT&T
Software leader implements Web services while telecom giant takes one-vendor approach SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Although in agreement that implementation of an internal CRM strategy is no picnic, Microsoft and AT&T are diverging on which road to take. The telecom vendor…
Microsoft, Avinon forge Web services partnership
Combined products designed to build customer-facing solutions SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft and Avinon on Wednesday will announce a partnership to offer a solution for creating Web services here at InfoWorld ‘s Next Generation Web services Conference. The joint marketing, development,…
Vitria’s CTO explains the impact of Web services on application integration
ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION is dead, long live business process integration. So says Vitria CTO Dale Skeen. In an interview with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Michael Vizard and Test Center Director Steve Gillmor, Skeen explains why he thinks Web services will…
National ID cards still a bad idea
Technology won’t make the ethical problems go away When I first raised the issue of national ID cards in the wake of Sept. 11 (see ” Should we worry about national ID cards? I do “), I laid out some…
