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Did you know that: Your exchange will only work as well as your ERP system lets it If there’s one lesson he’s learned from deploying an electronic exchange, it’s “Know your ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, because it has idiosyncrasies that need to be respected,” says Mark Mendelson, e-Business leader
Entertainment may have gotten streaming media into the cubicle. But now, the technology is being used by companies to inform and train workers, fostering communication while cutting costs. Take the case of Mercedes-Benz USA, which two years ago began making videos available online to more than 4,500 technicians in Mercedes-Benz
Steve Krapes knows it’s just a matter of time. All it will take is a system outage, a security breach or a little budget tightening, and he’ll have them right where he wants them—as customers. Then, every manager of an AT&T business will come to him. Krapes is the technical
Kregg Jodie knows exactly how well commodity hardware handles added demands. As CIO of Mary Kay Inc., the $1.3 billion direct seller of cosmetics and beauty products, he built the company’s entire electronic commerce effort on servers made by Compaq and Dell and software from Microsoft. Hardware that automatically balanced
The CIO of the one of the nation’s largest discount merchandisers is calling on the major online retail exchanges, which aspire to provide everything from auctions to collaborative sales forecasting, to combine and improve their performance as a result. Signifying growing frustration with the exchanges’ failures to justify the investments
Private-sector chief information officers will turn green with envy, especially as the economic climate forces them to hold the line—if not cut—their own technology spending budgets. The federal government plans to spend $37.1 billion on information services and systems in the current fiscal year, and a new report shows that
With $6 trillion of shareholder wealth wiped out since March 2000, and Xerox, WorldCom and Enron all in the middle of billion-dollar accounting scandals, public reporting on spending of all types is getting deeper scrutiny. This will put more pressure on tracking all transactions within a company, to report to
TRUE FALSE Network staff spend more than 50% of their time managing remote networks. Our network is so complex, it is sometimes hard to diagnose problems. The system must be extremely reliable. We plan significant network expansion. Our backlog of change and addition requests is one or more years
BOSTON—The average U.S. corporation is likely to reduce its spending on information technology by 10% or more in 2002—and then “reset” its budget for 2003 to the lower levels, according to survey results and a panel of chief information officers at the BusinessWeek CIO Summit here Wednesday. Spending for the
U.S. Steel is often painted as part of a group of century-old steelmakers that are too inefficient and backward to compete with the rest of the world. Yet U.S. Steel sells its own technology to many of the world’s largest steelmakers, including some of the very same companies it is