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Often, attaining success involves an apprenticeship, followed by a clean break with the master. The apprentice -- whether it be King Arthur or Ernest Hemingway -- then ventures forth and […]

In three months, companies doing business in Europe will have a new form of legal tender; a change that will make adjusting to the larger picture of Andrew Jackson on […]

Dell and Compaq are taking steps to address potential year-2000 glitches linked to real-time clocks (RTCs) in PC circuitry, acknowledging that the RTC may pose more risk than previously expected. […]

Highlighting a growing alarm over the lack of year-2000 readiness among many companies, the U.S. Senate last week passed by unanimous consent the Year 2000 Information Disclosure Act (S. 2392). […]

No. 1 - Beloit Corp. Across the enterprise, business leaders are seeking to reduce reliance on paper-and-pencil methods in order to boost efficiency and reduce costs by conserving resources. Paper […]

Fine-toothed analysis of product lines helps the snack food giant improve efficiency and cut costs The way Nabisco is belatedly seeing cash returns from data marts may offer inspiration to […]

The scope of the Y2K problem is making IT managers strategic in setting corporate policy As the potential consequences of the year-2000 problem become known, companies are finding that systems […]

Wisconsin Tissue wraps up front-office implementation, gaining soft benefits such as happier customers Seeking out long-term benefits, such as a more effective sales force and better integration between front-office and […]

IT managers testing their Windows NT 4.0 systems for year-2000 compliance have yet another potential stumbling block to overcome: the PC's real-time clock (RTC). Some Windows NT 4.0 applications, particularly […]

Application will improve customer service and produce a 25 percent return on investment Amidst the ashes of a failed back-office enterprise resource planning (ERP) project, packaging company Automated Packaging Systems […]

Most insurance policies have holes Corporations assessing their year-2000 risk may discover they are flying without a net. In an effort to protect insurance companies, regulatory moves by 47 states […]

Acquisition-hungry PG&E Energy Trading turns to virtual LANs and switched Ethernet With energy deregulation in full swing in California, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, and with other states poised to open […]

Recent measures by the federal government to encourage full disclosure of year-2000 compliance may deny end-user companies legal recourse against their computer vendors. Sent to U.S. Congress for introduction last […]

With the growing hype over knowledge management, consultant organizations -- which can boast of first-hand experience with knowledge management -- would seem a natural choice for both defining the subject […]

Programming and query execution times are slashed by company's flight-scheduling data warehouse The risk that came with being an early adopter of Informix's object-relational database is paying off for Sabre […]

Companies trying to sort out ever-changing and often contradictory vendor statements regarding year-2000 compliance have another tool to aid them. PinPoint Software is now shipping ClickNet Y2k 4.0, a desktop […]

Supply-chain overhaul cuts warehouse inventory time, provides better logistics information At Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, work flow begins with a cow and finishes with a carton on a grocery shelf. […]

With concerns of lost productivity and reduced bandwidth, management needs to establish an Internet usage policy As most managers know, providing Internet access to employees is like opening Pandora's box: […]

As the euro's Jan. 1, 1999 debut approaches, Comstock, a New York-based international photo agency, is looking forward to significant business benefits offered by the single currency. 'It will help […]

Companies need to better serve their clients, but at what cost? With the future of Apple uncertain, even once-faithful companies find themselves migrating to Windows NT -- and the task […]

The jury is still out on whether Microsoft's NT will support high-volume, mission-critical applications -- particularly in today's overheated financial markets. But ask the Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) and you'll […]

The modern bicycle is a study in contrasts: It is the melding of mechanical simplicity and high-tech components to create a top-performing machine. Likewise, by combining manufacturing floor machinery with […]

As another NFL football season gets under way, fans everywhere don apparel adorned with team logos. The responsibility for tracking sales of this vast array of licensed merchandise -- about […]

Financial investors know that great risks often lead to great returns, and as one of the first commercial Lotus Notes sites, the Adams, Harkness & Hill (AH&H) investment bank is […]

For companies facing a year-2000 project, the prospect of spending enormous amounts of money only to remediate, and not necessarily improve, a computing system, is more fearsome than a galleon […]

Securities industry could act as a role model for year-2000 testing Ask IT managers how their year-2000 systems testing is going and most will say, "Fine, thank you very much," […]

Question of when vendor should warn users of Y2K problems at stake By asking a Massachusetts State Superior Court for a declaratory judgment against retailer J. Baker Inc., Andersen Consulting […]

The formation of a consortium of four professional service providers last week -- dubbed the LES 2000 Millennium Alliance -- may boost the electric utility industry's lagging readiness efforts, but […]

In the race for year-2000 compliance, some government organizations and private companies are demanding that chip makers provide a fully-compliant real-time clock (RTC) for use in PCs, not accepting assurances […]

Regardless of your own Y2K preparedness, the slow-moving electrical industry could leave you in the dark Companies scrambling to bring their computer systems into year-2000 compliance may discover that their […]

When the conveyor belts start humming the first workday of the year 2000, many IT managers may find their minds wandering beyond the confines of their business. Although they may […]

A little-known Internal Revenue Service procedure may send a sigh of relief through those members of the IT community looking for ways to maximize expenditures on year-2000 projects. Effective for […]

Improved operating efficiency, personalized ordering information fuel Internet-commerce application Most Internet-commerce business models focus solely on selling products to generate revenues for the seller. But at BOC Gases, a supplier […]

Having first introduced tools to address desktop hardware and software year-2000 issues, vendors are now releasing tools to tackle the third leg of the desktop triangle -- noncompliant data. Analysts […]

Disclosure puts IT on defense The Securities and Exchange Commission's recently released guidelines on year-2000 disclosure are causing concern with some IT managers who are not sure how much information […]

The validity of exclusions for year-2000 losses from most business insurance is being hotly contested as companies prepare to negotiate renewals with their carriers. Insurance companies will face stiff opposition […]

Despite the hype surrounding the potential of voice-over-IP (VOIP) technologies and applications, users are finding technological roadblocks that are limiting its adoption. However, for those companies that are prepared to […]

After spending enormous amounts of time and money, no company wants to be told that its new enterprise resource planning (ERP) application is not production-ready. Yet that's where Panasonic found […]

Sabre Group Holdings, an electronic distributor of travel and travel-related services, will recommend Sun Microsystems' JavaStation network computer as a preferred platform for its Qik-Access real-time reservation system used by […]

Affordability and TCP/IP features make Red Hat Linux the OS that fits One need only look at the smashing success of the movie Titanic to know open source code is […]

Open source software can make business sense It's not an intuitive concept, but free software is becoming a hot new realm for making money. Now dubbed Open Source Software (OSS) […]

The Future-Tech Foundation (FTF), a nonprofit all-volunteer organization of IT professionals, has launched itself to impact the vendor community by harnessing the collective wisdom of IT professionals into a unified […]

Technology, and lots of training, help Fannie Mae reach for $1 trillion mark Mortgage lending is big business, with big money and big numbers bandied about daily. Still, the entire […]