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Toyota’s Driving Force

Despite a bump or two, Toyota has used business process management—powered by information technology—to eliminate waste, limit inventory buildup and continually improve production. The bottom

Baseline’s Look Ahead, Week of Sept. 4

CONFERENCES THIS WEEK Sept. 6-13: International Manufacturing Technology Show 2006, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Scheduled to include a pavilion on computer-aided design (CAD) systems.

Veritas: Big Things in Store?

Symantec’s $10.5 billion acquisition last year of storage software company Veritas, one of the largest buys ever in the information-technology market, gave the Cupertino, Calif.,

EMC: Acquired Talent

Since 1999, 20 years after its founding, EMC has bought more than a dozen companies to expand its reach in the data protection arena. Customers

Network Appliance: Snappy Tools

At 14 years old, Network Appliance may be hitting a growth spurt. A July report from Gartner showed that the Sunnyvale, Calif., storage software maker,