Month: November 2002

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,

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

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

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

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

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

Voice of Experience: Brian Whitehead, S&P

Brian WhiteheadStandard & Poor’sVP, Chief Technology ArchitectNew York, N.Y.http://www.standardpoor.com Manager’s Profile: Whitehead started at S&P in 1995 as vice president and became the company’s chief

The Bottom Line Per…Jean Holley

Imagine setting tech strategy at a company in bankruptcy. USG, a 100-year-old building products company—makers of Sheetrock-brand wallboard—filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June