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April 29, 2004 29 Apr'04
Better SLAs needed for UK firms, says study

A YouGov report has claimed that UK business are failing to measure the performance of their IT systems accurately.
April 27, 2004 27 Apr'04
Microsoft acquires business intelligence firm

Microsoft has acquired privately held ActiveViews to improve its business intelligence offerings.
April 26, 2004 26 Apr'04
IT aligns closer with the business

IT departments are more closely aligned with the rest of the business than ever before, according to a survey of UK chief...
April 22, 2004 22 Apr'04
IT no longer viewed in isolation, say UK CIOs

IT departments are now more closely aligned to the rest of the business than ever before, a survey of more than 100 heads of IT...

April 19, 2004 19 Apr'04
SAS 9 offers more end-user appeal

The SAS Institute is repositioning its SAS 9 business intelligence tool as a completely rearchitected system which offers data...
April 01, 2004 01 Apr'04
SAS unveils new BI platform, apps

SAS Institute unveiled its SAS 9 business intelligence platform on Tuesday. It includes data integration, enhanced analytics, and...
March 31, 2004 31 Mar'04
Disruptions continue after BT fire

BT engineers are still working around the clock to repair 130,000 business and consumer phone lines and disrupted data services,...
March 31, 2004 31 Mar'04
SAS launches BI platform and apps

SAS Institute unveiled its SAS 9 business intelligence platform yesterday.
March 25, 2004 25 Mar'04
Mitel and Marconi partner for IP comms drive

Mitel Networks, a global provider of business communications solutions, and Marconi, a global telecommunications equipment,...
March 25, 2004 25 Mar'04
3Com targets SMEs with latest switch

3Com's latest switch family, the SuperStack 3 Switch 3200, targets small- and medium-sized organisations looking to improve their...

March 22, 2004 22 Mar'04
HP expands SME services push

Hewlett-Packard is expected to unveil an expanded programme of products and services for small and medium-size business customers...
March 19, 2004 19 Mar'04
Study says security appliances are the way forward

Small businesses are rolling out security appliances in place of security software, to reduce the cost of increasingly complex...
March 08, 2004 08 Mar'04
Alcatel moves into voice over Wi-Fi

Alcatel has announced moves into the voice over Wi-Fi market.
February 25, 2004 25 Feb'04
Hyperion enhances business intelligence platform

Business intelligence software maker Hyperion Solutions has revamped its software lineup to boost corporate performance...
February 24, 2004 24 Feb'04
Alcatel launches OmniTouch suite

Alcatel has launched OmniTouch Unified Communication, an open standards-based software suite to optimise business communication....
February 24, 2004 24 Feb'04
Avaya products bolster real-time collaboration

Avaya has introduced products designed to help businesses improve productivity by boosting the effectiveness of real-time...
February 16, 2004 16 Feb'04
Sirocom offers flexible IP-over-ethernet service

Virtual network operator Sirocom is moving into the virtual private network market by offering a flexible IP-over-ethernet...
January 30, 2004 30 Jan'04
How do I get the board to define a strategy?

I know we need to align our IT strategy with the firm's business strategy, but my department has great difficulty obtaining a...
January 29, 2004 29 Jan'04
UK to get business-orientated 3G network

Vodafone will begin trials of a data-only service in some areas, with a commercial launch in the spring.
January 29, 2004 29 Jan'04
Oracle targets Windows database market

Oracle hopes to take on Microsoft to claim a larger share of the market for databases sold on the Windows operating system.
January 14, 2004 14 Jan'04
3Com releases super-switch with built-in security

3Com claims its super-switch, which is targeting medium to large businesses, also offers firewall, anti-virus, content-filtering...
January 05, 2004 05 Jan'04
AOL offers Netscape low-cost internet service

America Online has entered the low-priced internet service provider market with Netscape-branded service costing users around $10...
December 02, 2003 02 Dec'03
Universal Business Language 1.0 now in beta

Universal Business Language 1.0, which is intended as a common XML message format for e-commerce, is now available for public...
November 28, 2003 28 Nov'03
Royal Mail's new CIO says people come first

Winning the hearts and minds of the workforce is the most important challenge in effecting business transformation, said David...
November 10, 2003 10 Nov'03
IT is for business, not cutting costs

IT investment must be focused on improving business processes rather than simply saving money, analyst group Gartner told...
November 05, 2003 05 Nov'03
Avaya and Extreme to deliver converged IP products

Avaya and Extreme Networks have announced a multiyear, multimillion-dollar agreement to develop, market and sell communications...
November 04, 2003 04 Nov'03
EMC and Nortel join forces on data recovery

EMC and Nortel Networks are to deliver a joint business continuity service to enable better remote mirroring of enterprise data.
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
SMEs disagree on spam approach

Small-business owners have disagreed on what action the US Congress should take on spam.
October 23, 2003 23 Oct'03
Firms sharpen business tools offerings

The SAS Institute has unveiled what it calls the Information Evolution Model (IEM), a framework designed to help companies...
October 21, 2003 21 Oct'03
Oasis forms ebXML business process committee

Oasis has formed an ebXML Business Process Technical Committee to further define the ebXML BPSS (e-business XML Business Process...
October 16, 2003 16 Oct'03
BMC signs three partners for software strategy

BMC Software is teaming up with Symantec, EMC and Accenture to develop products and services for its Business Service Management...
October 14, 2003 14 Oct'03
Alcatel and HP offer bundled comms to SMEs

Hewlett-Packard and Alcatel are targeting mid-sized companies with a bundled IT and communication service programme.
October 10, 2003 10 Oct'03
CIOs fail to put a price on data loss

Sixty seven per cent of IT chiefs find it difficult to calculate the cost of losing data, according to a survey by market...
October 07, 2003 07 Oct'03
Motorola to spin off semiconductor business

Motorola's embedded and networking semiconductor business will be spun off as a separate entity.
October 02, 2003 02 Oct'03
Hyperion fills in blanks with Brio acquisition

With its purchase of Brio Software expected to close later this month, business intelligence software maker Hyperion Solutions is...
September 29, 2003 29 Sep'03
Motorola builds security into network chips

Motorola is building security engines into processors made for network gear in homes and small and medium-sized businesses.
September 29, 2003 29 Sep'03
3Com returns to router business

3Com is returning to the router business after a three-year absence in response to customer demand.
September 23, 2003 23 Sep'03
Mercury Interactive unveils optimisation suite

Mercury Interactive has released a set of components for its business technology optimisation suite, aimed at improving...
September 18, 2003 18 Sep'03
Sun rolls out reference architectures

Sun Microsystems has introduced eight Sun Reference Architectures featuring repeatable methodologies to boost business processes...
September 10, 2003 10 Sep'03
Cognos ReportNet eyes market leader slot

Cognos received favourable reviews from customers and analysts as it launched its ReportNet system yesterday. The analytics and...
September 09, 2003 09 Sep'03
Business Objects, Cognos boost reporting apps

Cognos is launching ReportNet today, a query and reporting engine written to support web services, Java, and XML. At the same...
September 09, 2003 09 Sep'03
Grid computing predicted to eat up 'fibre glut'

The "fibre glut" widely blamed for a weak long-haul telecoms equipment and services market still exists in most areas, but there...
September 05, 2003 05 Sep'03
Kazaa creators move into P-to-P IM and telephony

The creators of Kazaa are entering the internet protocol telephony and instant messaging market with Skype, a peer-to-peer...
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Business Objects-MicroStrategy suit dismissed

A Californian court has dismissed a lawsuit by Business Objects which alleged that MicroStrategy infringed its patent on a...
August 28, 2003 28 Aug'03
Analytical software market is poised for growth

A study by IDC is predicting huge worldwide growth in the analytic application software market, with CRM analytics leading the...
August 19, 2003 19 Aug'03
Microsoft boosts HR capacities in business portal

Microsoft has released the latest version of its business portal software which delivers new self-service features for employees...
August 11, 2003 11 Aug'03
Zone Labs moves to secure instant messaging

Zone Labs is to target consumers and small businesses by securing instant messaging on the desktop instead of the server, with...
July 24, 2003 24 Jul'03
HP buys Swedish VoiceXML company

Hewlett-Packard plans to expand its OpenCall business unit with the purchase of Swedish VoiceXML company PipeBeach.
July 24, 2003 24 Jul'03
Merger will simplify plans, says Business Objects

Business-intelligence software customers may find that their buying decisions are easier after Business Objects' planned...
July 21, 2003 21 Jul'03
Yahoo pitches SiteBuilder for small businesses

Yahoo will offer a free website building tool to its web hosting customers.
July 21, 2003 21 Jul'03
Business Objects to acquire Crystal Decisions

Business Objects has agreed to acquire Crystal Decisions in a $820m cash and stock deal, which will create a one-stop shop for...
July 15, 2003 15 Jul'03
European Wlan market will boom, then bust

Giga Research has predicted that the European market for public Wlan services, after a significant boom phase, will encounter a...
July 11, 2003 11 Jul'03
European IT spend will feel the squeeze for another five years

The European IT market will fail to mirror the "return to growth" in the US and remain in the doldrums through 2004 as IT...
July 09, 2003 09 Jul'03
BT expands IT services with web services deal

BT is developing its IT services business by licensing software from AmberPoint to offer a service aimed at helping corporations...
June 27, 2003 27 Jun'03
Microsoft updates SQL Server Accelerator

Microsoft has released the latest version of the SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (BI).
June 26, 2003 26 Jun'03
Business Objects to launch Performance Manager

Business Objects is to release a performance-tracking analytics application next month.
June 17, 2003 17 Jun'03
Free advice at Networks for Business

Free sessions covering topics from security to becoming a chief information officer will be run by the BCS at the Networks for...
June 13, 2003 13 Jun'03
Surveys say IT budgets will remain small

Stock markets are strengthening, and consumer confidence has increased in recent months. But so far are not having much of a...
June 10, 2003 10 Jun'03
Microsoft announces cable TV software

Microsoft has unveiled its TV Foundation Edition, its latest effort to gain a software foothold in the cable television market.
June 04, 2003 04 Jun'03
Motorola lands Baghdad police radio deal

The US Defense Department has awarded a $15.8m contract to the federal markets division of Motorola for a radio system for the...
June 02, 2003 02 Jun'03
Nasdaq prepares to streamline systems

Nasdaq, the world's largest stock market, is to consolidate its systems and networks.
June 02, 2003 02 Jun'03
3Com readies low-cost gigabit switches

3Com is expanding its line of switches for small and medium-sized businesses with five Gigabit Ethernet devices.
May 27, 2003 27 May'03
Sars hits Asia's IT market

Te outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) will knock $1bn (£609m) off the overall IT market in Asia-Pacific...
May 20, 2003 20 May'03
XBRL is too complex for adoption

Extensible Business Reporting Language, which is used for displaying financial data on listed companies, will not take off in its...
May 06, 2003 06 May'03
Dotcom frenzy was a good thing

The turbulent years of the dotcom boom and bust were actually good for the internet industry because of the business lessons...
April 29, 2003 29 Apr'03
Growth predicted for Asia-Pacific market

The Asia-Pacific IT market (excluding Japan) was worth $71.7bn in 2002, just 2.6% higher than in 2001. But IDC figures have...
March 27, 2003 27 Mar'03
Micropayments are key to content charging success

The European micropayments market needs to consolidate if companies are to have any chance of making a profit from charging for...
March 19, 2003 19 Mar'03
Poor IT investment choices are driven by personal gain

IT investment processes are inefficient, largely governed by personal gain and do not meet business requirements, according to...
February 25, 2003 25 Feb'03
Chip market to grow 8.9% in 2003

The global semiconductor market will grow by 8.9% to $167bn (£105bn) this year, driven by an expected increase in corporate IT...
February 12, 2003 12 Feb'03
E-business groups welcome damning report on government targets

Business organisations have welcomed a highly critical report on the Government's e-commerce agenda, published yesterday by the...
February 10, 2003 10 Feb'03
Get ready for .net business

Visual Studio.net, Microsoft's development suite for building Web services based on its .net technology, is finally with us.
February 04, 2003 04 Feb'03
Data chief aims to avoid the courts

The new information commissioner Richard Thomas said this week that he hopes to persuade businesses to comply with data...
January 20, 2003 20 Jan'03
Oasis previews business document XML system

The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) is to preview this week a pre-released version...
November 15, 2002 15 Nov'02
IDC: software and consulting will lead IT recovery

Analysts from market intelligence company IDC have forecast that the worst is over for most sectors of the IT industry. After two...
November 13, 2002 13 Nov'02
World telecoms market set for 6% growth a year

Global telecommunications revenues are growing at a healthy 6% a year and will rise from around $1 trillion this year to $1.3...
October 08, 2002 08 Oct'02
Logica and CMG set to merge

Logica and CMG are in advanced merger talks to create one of Europe's largest quoted IT services businesses and a leading company...
September 26, 2002 26 Sep'02
Bloomberg sets up real-time online bond-trading platform

Financial information giant Bloomberg is due to launch a European electronic trading service for the UK government bond market.
August 14, 2002 14 Aug'02
BA slashes paper trail in pursuit of £650m savings

£30m IT investment in business-to-employee programme aims to put beleaguered UK airline back on track
May 20, 2002 20 May'02
IT Directors' Forum: Business is holding back IT

Lack of clear business objectives and the impact of business change are the two top worries for IT directors today.
May 03, 2002 03 May'02
Unisphere returns voice networkbusiness to Siemens

Unisphere Networks, which was spun off from Siemens three years ago, plans to return its voice products to Siemens because it has...
April 29, 2002 29 Apr'02
PSINet to sell European business for $9.5m

Internet services firm PSINet has announced it plans to sell its European operations to a consortium of investors for $9.5m...
April 02, 2002 02 Apr'02
Channel in disarray after Westcondrops Landis deal

After Westcon's shock decision to walk away from its plan to acquire Landis' European distribution business, the channel is...
March 13, 2002 13 Mar'02
Psyche test finds top Java coders

Supermarket chain Safeway is using a new psychological test to identify people with the skills to be first-class object-oriented...
December 20, 2001 20 Dec'01
Flood of SMEs set to sink

Floods, power cuts or sudden evacuation could prove disastrous for a startling number of UK companies. But this represents huge...
December 10, 2001 10 Dec'01
Business struggling with uncompetitive DSL prices

ADSL services in the UK are more expensive than in most competitor countries, according to the telecoms regulator Oftel.
November 26, 2001 26 Nov'01
Amlin challenges dominant credit insurers

Credit insurance group Amlin is set to make a push into the channel and increase market share after claiming its competitors'...
November 08, 2001 08 Nov'01
Pinder calls for aid with e-services

The e-envoy has called on UK business to enter partnerships with the Government in a bid to improve the marketing of government...
October 25, 2001 25 Oct'01
SunGard to fight for Comdisco deal

SunGard Data Systems is defending its proposed purchase of troubled rival Comdisco's Availability Services business in the face...
September 12, 2001 12 Sep'01
Will your business survive a disaster?

The attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September will force many IT directors and business managers to...
September 06, 2001 06 Sep'01
France Telecom shines in depressed market

France Telecom has bucked the recent gloom in the telecommunications industry to return impressive first-half figures, in spite...
May 17, 2001 17 May'01
Memory is the heart and soul of Kingston

Standing firm behind its generic memory business Valueram, parent Kingston Technology has confirmed that the arm will definitely...
May 14, 2001 14 May'01
Ingram to attack networking market

Ingram Micro is to launch a renewed push into the networking space and believes it can turn itself into the largest and most...
July 05, 2000 05 Jul'00
Minds meet at agencies

In a move aimed at strengthening both companies' market position, the Aximis Group and Xpert IT Recruitment have joined forces.
March 01, 2000 01 Mar'00
New ITdirector at BACS

Tim Gregory, former head of IT at Lloyd's of London insurance market, has joined BACS, the UK clearing-house for financial...
January 12, 2000 12 Jan'00
'Two tier' Internet threat from AOL deal

Cliff Saran, Mike Simons and Caroline Davis
UK and European businesses may soon be able to offer their products and services on massive...