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Season’s Gratings: Holiday Shopping Glitches

Steve Golub, a New York software developer, got caught this holiday season between the physical and virtual stores of consumer electronics retailer Best Buy. His misadventure: Trying to use a

Merger Minuet

As reports of earnings (or lack thereof) pour out of technology suppliers (see “Software Suppliers At a Loss“), merger talk inevitably splashes around. Only a handful of the biggest fish—IBM,

Software Suppliers At a Loss

Consecutive quarterly losses for several major software companies now stretch back two, three, and—in some rare cases—six or seven years. The result: Large, medium and small corporations have to seriously

The Skinny on the Total Cost of Monitors

Most operations and technology executives are aware of the advantages LCD (liquid crystal display) flat panels have over standard CRT (cathode-ray tube) monitors. They’re cheaper to ship, consume far less

All Over the DAM Place

One of the biggest digital-asset management programs is under way at the world’s largest automaker. General Motors’ Media Archives Group is digitizing a century’s worth of marketing and advertising material

What Is a Digital Asset?

A digital asset is a computer file containing “unstructured” data—such as an image, a video or audio clip—or “structured” data—such as a document or spreadsheet—that has been tagged with descriptive

Calculating a Return on Digital Assets

In early 2000, AOL Time Warner Book Group Chief Executive Larry Kirshbaum had a gut feeling the company would need a digital asset management system if it was going to

Kennametal Cuts Supply Budget With Teeth

Mark Steele’s wallet was on the line. Just days after he was hired in May 2000, Steele sat across a table listening to his new boss, Stan Duzy, chief administrative

Artesia Technologies: Covering Your Assets

Artesia Technologies knows about leveraging assets—analog as well as digital. Clients are a vendor’s treasured assets—and Artesia seems to manage them as expertly as its software manages the clients’ intellectual

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