Month: November 2002

By the Numbers: November 2002

Enterprise Applications: What Returns May ComeAre companies getting what they wanted out of their enterprise projects? Only if they put enough resources into them, says

BMC: From Soup to Nuts

With $1.3 billion in annual revenues, BMC’s core strength is its software to monitor and manage enterprise systems, applications and databases. For over a year

Accelerating the Data Warehouse

How is it done? In a number of ways. One of the more promising strategies, Massively Parallel Processing (MPP), involves breaking up a query so

What’s In Store for 7-Eleven?

You wouldn’t know it to look at 7-Eleven’s famous Slurpee, a cup of frozen mush consumed with a combination spoon-straw, or a Super Big Gulp

Disruptive Technologies Can Be Useful

Attention, all you technology project managers: it’s no longer just cool to be disruptive. Now, it’s a business mandate. Thanks to the popularization of the

Don’t Drive Ahead on Automatic

Pretty soon, you will be driving an information system. You might think you’re already there. Your car today may have 50 microprocessors hidden inside it,

GM Plans Digital Turnaround

Once upon a time,General Motors sold three out of every five cars and trucks in North America. Now, it’s less than half that. For GM,