Category Data Management

So many sites have “my” areas, whether they are as robust as a “My Yahoo!” or as simple as a “my account.” Regardless of its features, each of these areas has a similar purpose: to allow users to manage their…

SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government is poised to transform the way it does business through the use of the E-Government and the man entrusted with overseeing its two-year rollout has a message for the IT crowd — the citizen…

In the Web world, seven years is the equivalent of several lifetimes. In that time, companies start and fail, paradigms shift, and markets collapse. Ideas formulated back in 1995 rarely carry weight today, and their authors should not be judged…

Officials at IBM’s global services division say they are flying through the upgrade of United Airline’s conversion to DB2 and outsourcing services, transferring one terrabyte (TB) to Big Blue’s eServer Cluster 1600 servers in the past six months. According to…

After less than a year, ADS Financial Services Solutions , a Quincy, Mass., IT consultant and systems integrator for the financial services companies, has closed its EarningsInsights subsidiary. Based in Nashville, Tenn., EarningsInsights was a startup application service provider offering…

One of the most time-consuming chores that help desks have to deal with is users who forget their passwords. Gartner, Inc. estimates that 30% of help desk calls are related to password management requests from end users, making passwords a…

Exceeding its expectations, and defying trends in the Application Service Provider (ASP) market, Aspective, a U.K.-based provider of eBusiness solutions, yesterday reported an annual turnover in 2001 of more than $24 million (GBP 17 million). The company turned cash positive…

webMethods, Inc. , the Fairfax, Va.-based provider of integration software, today announced that Siebel Systems, Inc., , the provider of eBusiness applications software, supports its Enterprise Web Services offering. webMethods says that the current version of its integration platform allows…

To handle its soaring customer and commercial data volumes in Asia, British Airways (BA) will consolidate these data into a single enterprise-wide data warehouse that runs on Teradata platform. Previously, the company stored its entire customer and commercial data on…