Brian P. Watson

Over the next few years, CIOs say they will focus more than ever on helping set corporate strategy and developing innovative information technologies that will enable their companies to achieve strategic business goals. To answer those questions, the editors of Ziff Davis Medias Enterprise Group—Baseline, CIO Insight and eWeek—talked with the CIOs who should have […]

What exactly is business intelligence? The lofty term, in corporate vernacular, refers to tools an organization uses to gain greater visibility into its operations, markets and competition. But its become more than just a fancy reporting tool. Worldwide sales for business intelligence software will reach $6.36 billion this year, rising to $7.04 billion next year […]

Richard Taylor Project Manager, Office of Shared Technology Services State of Tennessee nashville, Tenn. www.state.tn.us Managers Profile: Oversees technology projects and implementations for finance and administration for the state. Scattered Data: Until May 2002, state workers tracked and forecast expenditures against budgets by taking extracts of text files from their Cobol-based financial system and re-keying […]

After what a company spokesman describes as a “long, tedious process,” Verizon Communications has restored service to more than 90% of the access lines cut off in the wake of the Sept. 11 destruction of the World Trade Center and surrounding buildings. Verizon says it hopes to have the remaining lines restored this month. But […]

As university networks gear up to combat a new semester of peer-to-peer applications, some network watchers now see todays P2P as only a preview of the bandwidth problems that will accompany more advanced technologies that will begin to filter into the mainstream Internet. Market watcher Webnoize reports that last month alone, more than 3 billion […]