John Moore

Dont tell e-business product vendors that the Big Five consulting firms are hopelessly out-of-date. A number of vendors are increasingly boosting their business with old-line consultancies, which became less than fashionable during the rise of the Web integrators. Vignette Corp., a maker of e-business apps, is among them. “Our strategy moving forward in 2001 is […]

Steven Chester, CEO of Digital Planet, says e-learning and corporate communication will be among the leading opportunities for companies in the streaming-media space. He believes corporate communication—basically meetings of various kinds—will emerge as a particularly large segment, as customers see the value in not having to fly people around to attend corporate get-togethers. “Corporations can […]

The federal governments E-rate school technology discount program has never been easy and, true to form, lawmakers added still another wrinkle in the waning hours of the 106th Congress. Last month, Congress approved language that makes Internet filtering a federal mandate for school computers with Internet access. The provision, which was slipped into an omnibus […]

Web integrators and application service providers have another vendor constituency beating a path to their doors: streaming-media companies. Indeed, Akamai Technologies, Digital Island, iBeam Broadcasting and Intel Corp. are among the players in streaming media that have established partner programs. These companies provide the back-end infrastructure for delivering streaming audio and video content, which includes […]

Solutions providers moving upstream into e-business integration face a serious and tough challenge even in the best of IT markets, let alone one marked by turbulence. Avnet Computer Marketing and IBM, however, aim to make the transition easier. The companies offer a host integration program intended to help solutions providers launch or expand an e-business […]

A highly specialized subset of the Internet industry wants to put those infamous dimpled chads far behind you and out of the election process. Makers of Internet-based voting systems say they offer a faster, more accurate method of counting votes. Such firms as Election.com, Safevote Inc. and VoteHere.net demonstrated their offerings in unofficial votes shadowing […]

Heres a New Years resolution some resellers and integrators would like to see vendors adopt: incentive programs that offer more than money. Indeed, partners are calling for product manufacturers to rethink their channel programs and traditional mechanisms, such as rebates, spiffs and referral fees. Moreover, they view the vendors growing mix of incentive programs as […]