Monthly Archives: January 2001
Microsoft Boosts .Net With Great Plains Deal
Microsoft Corp. made a serious move into the small-to-midsize business applications space and bolstered its .Net strategy at the same time with its purchase...
Lessons for the Year Ahead
If your business made it out of last year alive, and if weve learned anything during the last official days of the 20th century,...
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
As the dawn of the new year approached, El Gato took a moment to contrast the reality of the year 2001 with Stanley Kubricks...
Integrating Web Apps: Pain and Horror
Just when you thought it was safe—when there would be no more ERP implementation debacles in your future because, well, big ERP projects are...
Web Boutiques Collapsing
A triple whammy of bad news for the Web-integration services business will likely spell doom for many boutique Web-integration companies.The latest victims of the...
Pair Unveil Net-Based Banking Service
Financial accounts aggregator Yodlee Inc. and National InterBank, which provides private-label banking software and services for online businesses, are trying to muscle in on...
eFiles: January 1, 2001
Companies Neglect E-ProcurementFor many fortune 500 companies, its all talk and no walk when it comes to e-procurement. In fact, fewer than one-third of...
Convergence on Trial
Alcatel is offering a starter kit of new voice and data convergence services for medium-to-large businesses interested in testing IP telephony without spending a...