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Novopoint Inc., a Chicago-based supply chain management software maker, and NTE Inc., of Downers Grove, Ill., have rolled out a combined product for manufacturers of CPG and their suppliers. Novopoint integrated NTEs carrier community and exchange capabilities into its technology. The result will be improved logistics cost management for customers, said Novopoint officials, who added […]

Enterprises still struggle with integrating their core business systems, which can reside on a variety of application environments, including mainframes, desktops and the Web. Anysoft, of Newton, Mass., this month unveiled its flagship product, the Digital Cortex system, which is designed to easily bring together these disparate environments, said company officials. Digital Cortex Desktop supports […]

Traffic Spikes After Scandal The skating scandal at the Winter Olympic Games may have given the event another black eye, but it was a boon to Web sites covering the Games. According to a preliminary study by WebHancer, traffic at Sports Illustrateds site jumped 106 percent the day after the skating scandal erupted. Traffic rose […]

Intel Corp., still struggling to generate sales of its first-generation Itanium processor, will tout the chips second generation this week at its Developer Forum in San Francisco. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker will also promote a new feature for its 32-bit Xeon processors during the four-day conference. The 64-bit Itanium, code-named McKinley and set […]

There were two interesting developments last month in the realm of information security. One was the release of a new report by the National Academy of Sciences; the other was the apparent Saul-on-the-road-to-Tarsus conversion of Bill Gates to a belief in the paramount importance of security. The NAS report, “Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow: Pay Now […]

The great question,” wrote Sigmund Freud, “which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is What do women want?” If a reincarnated Freud sought a challenge today, he might well apply his question to application developers. The choices they make can bewilder us. Their specialized […]

Storage hardware analysis products will debut from most of the niches significant vendors this spring and summer, exploiting the precision needs of trends in high availability, vendor interoperability and scalability. Black-box products from Finisar Systems, Ancot Corp. and I-Tech Corp. are used in developing, manufacturing and trouble-shooting Fibre Channel and SCSI storage hardware. Experts say […]

Making further inroads in the health care vertical market, Mercator Software Inc. is partnering with ProAct Technologies Corp. The agreement calls for Mercators Integration Broker software to become part of ProAct Connector, making for easier integration of ProAct applications with a customers human resources systems. The ProAct HR and Benefits Management suite automates HR tasks […]

The pitch seems almost too good to be true. Are you frozen with fear by tales of runaway CRM software deployment costs? Not to worry. Your organization can enjoy the same benefits offered by big, complex, expensive customer relationship management packages without the hassle of deploying the software. Just sign on with a CRM ASP. […]

As Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., rolls out Visual Studio .Net, a product its touting as the best available for developing and delivering Web services, Eric Rudder, Microsofts senior vice president for developer and platform evangelism, sat down with eWeek Senior Editor Peter Galli to discuss .Net and the road ahead for the companys Web […]

As I found out when our company moved its headquarters a mere six blocks away between last August and January, theres a lot of planning that goes into moving a data center: relocating telecommunications facilities, room mechanics such as electricity and air conditioning, the physical movement of the equipment, and having contingency plans in case […]

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