Category: ERP

Why Odwalla Pitches Oracle

Ostensibly, companies develop “co-marketing” programs in order to promote themselves to the outside world. But for Gary Hensley, director of information technology at Odwalla, a

How JetBlue Makes Microsoft Fly

Jeff Cohen dogs Microsoft. He calls, he visits, he lobbies his way into every early adopter program he can find that will help JetBlue Airways

How Carreker Manages PeopleSoft

Carreker—a $110.3-million-a-year provider of software and consulting to banks—bought software around which it could organize itself. The company found that the best way to manage

Upgrading from SAP R/3 to mySAP

This timeline and chart show the tasks and labor costs involved in upgrading a core enterprise application systemfrom a client/server architecture to a Web-based one.

Inside WorldCom’s Billing Blunders

Four years after telecommunications giant WorldCom acquired long-distance sibling MCI for $34.7 billion, the company continues to face significant hurdles in providing large customers with

Why Andersen Cracked in IT Suit

Arthur Andersen is not just struggling with fallout of its auditing work at Enron, Global Crossing and Qwest Communications. Its information technology consulting also led

How ADP Gets Tough with IBM

In the basement of Automatic Data Processing’s labs in Roseland, N.J., server farms pound on IBM’s WebSphere application server. Even on weekends, when VP of

E*Trade Bets Big on Linux

NEW YORK—Was it IBM’s much-ballyhooed recent announcement of a mainframe that runs only Linux that swayed E*Trade Group Inc. to dump its Sun Microsystems Solaris