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OpenMFG: ERP Basics and More

OpenMFGs namesake enterprise resource planning application is a good midlevel solution for companies looking to move up from a basic accounting and fulfillment application.Click...

Intel Plugs Into System Power

Intel has made low-power processors its first priority, but its next step is to focus on system-level power management—the cooling fans, circuits and voltage...

IBM System Pays Bank Big Dividends

Early in 2004, IT managers at the bank of Utah bumped up against a hard reality: Their 5-year-old mainframe had simply run out of...

ILM Initiatives Shouldnt Repeat Sins of the Past

I have never been a big fan of ILM (information lifecycle management)—the term, not the concept. This is mostly because the concept is so...

Microsoft, Sun Do Web Services Interoperability Tango

Sun Microsystems took its Web services interoperability effort, code-named Tango, to Microsofts campus last week for another in a series of meetings where the...

GXS, China Entercom Partner for B2B Hub

Business-to-business integration provider GXS announced a partnership March 13 with China Enterprise Communications Limited, a Beijing-based telecommunications provider, to bring process sharing capabilities to...

Report: IT Spending Shows Slight Improvement

Information technology spending is showing "subtle signs of improvement" with 19 percent of companies expecting 2006 spending to increase 10 percent or more, according...

FBIs Sentinel Contract Falls Short on Oversight

Even after being forced to scrap its $170 million case management initiative one year ago, and replacing it with the proposed "Sentinel" system, the...

TIAA-CREF: Mo Money, Mo Problems

On the surface, all is well at the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association—College Retirement Equities Fund, better known as TIAA-CREF. Despite recent issues that...

SOA Software Rolls Out Registry-Independent SOA Suite

SOA Software has announced that its service-oriented architecture and Web services management, security and run-time governance suite is registry-independent and supports registry offering from...