Maria Seminerio

The U.S. Department of State is embarking on an overhaul of its financial management system, aimed at replacing crumbling hardware and proprietary COBOL-based financial management applications, the oldest of which dates back nearly 30 years. The upgrade of the departments Regional Financial Management System, or RFMS, will allow officials at U.S. embassies around the globe […]

Talk about rapid-change agents: Tom Myers is finding that the duties of his new job as Celanese AG vice president for e-business are prone to mutate as fast as methyl acetate dissolves phenolic resins. A mere nine months after the chemicals manufacturing giant plucked him from a position as CIO and plugged him into this […]

How are the more sophisticated e-recruiting tools and services helping employers select standout job candidates from a sea of electronic résumés? Its not rocket science, but it does involve some number crunching and even some psychology. Many hosting services for corporations job sites go beyond simply collecting résumés and sending them to human resources managers. […]

Two years ago, at the height of the IT skills shortage, Keith Vencel thought he had come up with a great way for his company, Sutter Health, in Sacramento, Calif., to find more candidates and fill positions quickly: Hed have the company post openings online and accept candidate résumés via e-mail. Vencel, a project manager […]

CommerceTone Inc.s woes are a familiar tale. Time and cash were running out. A major investor had yanked away $5 million in funding. Customers were nonexistent. Back in November, the application service provider looked to be a prime candidate to join the unhappy parade of e-businesses laying off employees. “We realized that we only had […]

When the founders of peer-to-peer software startup DataSynapse Inc. were finalizing their business plan early last year, they knew the New York companys success would hinge on its ability to recruit top technical talent, a major challenge in a highly competitive market. So they started looking for an edge: a recruiter who combined deep human […]

Higher education is gearing up to supply what e-businesses desperately need: IT professionals and executives who understand how Internet technology can support business goals. “There will be very few non-e-businesses five years from now, so the content is changing across our entire curriculum,” said Richard Baskerville, chairman of the Computer Information Systems department at Robinson […]

Amazing. Its only 9:30 on a bone-chilling Saturday morning, and already Bill Schianos class is deep into a discussion of the evolution of the Web as a place to do business. This masters-level class isnt noteworthy just because these Bentley College students have braved the New England cold so early on a weekend morning. No, […]

Talk about backbreaking work. Three years ago, the job of moving technical data and manuals for bulldozers onto an extranet seemed as mammoth as the earth-moving equipment itself. Yet today, Keith Sanderson figures that, compared with the bigger task now facing him—remodeling Komatsu America International Co. into an e-business—that extranet project, even at 13.4GB of […]

If youre planning your companys technology spending budget for this year, you might be reaching for the antacids right about now. With bad economic karma everywhere you look—PC sales down, dot-coms still going up in smoke, and everyone from Amazon.com Inc. to Lucent Technologies Inc. to Daimler-Chrysler AG slashing jobs—you might be seeking expendable items […]