eWEEK EDITORS

Exodus Communications Inc.s slide over the past year has mirrored that of many other companies born out of the rapid rise and fall of the dot-com world. Once the kingpin of the highflying Web hosting industry, Exodus has tumbled, felled by its own business decisions and the contraction of the industry. Saddled with $3 billion […]

Two years ago, you couldnt shut KPMG up. The consulting firms marketing people were ready at the drop of a hat to wax eloquently about their new strategic partnership with Cisco Systems. That formal alliance called for the networking giant to invest $1 billion in KPMG (an amount later pared to $500 million), train up […]

President & CEO Global Knowledge Elevator Pitch Anderson leads the No. 3 corporate IT education and training company in the world. Claim to Fame Quadrupling revenue in four years to $400M. Top Challenge “Managing the rearchitecture of Global Knowledge, requiring us to dramatically evaluate the way we do business.” Worst Career Move “Waiting five years […]

When Blair Kellison became president of AlternativeMedicine.com in January 2000, his first task was to overhaul and expand the companys antiquated Web site, which was deployed in 1996. He put together a detailed RFP (request for proposal) and shopped it around to several well-known solutions providers, including Organic Inc. (now mulling a potential sale to […]

Some private investment firms see dollar signs in troubled technology and telecom companies and are getting ready to buy. A small batch of equity firms were gearing up to purchase valuable yet struggling companies before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and still believe in the bet. Firms such as Accel-KKR Telecom, The Carlyle Group and […]

We See No Limits . . . Some people look forward to the leaves changing colors on the trees as summer slowly, gracefully, inevitably gives way to the golden days of fall. Not me. I cant wait to get my hands on Microsofts annual report, which was released last week. This years installment — titled […]

C-Bridge Internet Solutions, once a fast-growing, $83 million e-consultancy, in mid-2001 had $40 million in cash in one hand and a nearly extinct services business in the other hand. The companys CEO, Joe Bellini, knew he had to act fast to save whatever was left of C-bridge. His decision: Combine the consultancys expertise in analyzing […]

Is it patriotic to give the FBI broader powers to intercept e-mail and wiretap telephone calls in the effort to catch terrorists? Or, are carriers truer to Americans values if they insist that the rights to liberty and privacy be protected? Those are some suddenly hot topics as the regional Bells and other local exchange […]

When it comes to women and the Web, content is still queen. At least, thats the thinking of dozens of female-focused sites vying for viewers. Women now outnumber men on the Web, and that fact could mean big changes in the future as advertisers and marketers spend billions of dollars trying to reach this market. […]

Once the province of a chosen few, the shadowy, sometimes arcane world of business intelligence, or BI, is now appearing front and center and being deployed to the desktops of the masses. And for good reason. Customers are using BI tools and analytical software to shorten development cycles, flatten business hierarchies, improve customer retention, overhaul […]

Are you OK?” That was the subject line of most of the e-mail I sent and received on Sept. 11, in my NYC office, four miles from the World Trade Center. “OK” will only come with time and pain. It makes you envious of technology, which, for many companies affected by the tragedy, had to […]

Performing iterative calculations against transaction data can become time intensive, especially when there are millions of rows in the table. Thats why online analytical processing (OLAP) has become so essential. But OLAP necessarily summarizes the data along the parameters of interest, called dimensions. In doing so, the ability to dig down to a transaction level […]