integration in comment and analysis
Leader: Cable marriage - look on the bright side
Leader That said, for the $6bn paid we foresee some difficulties in terms of integration. It has been on the cards for years, rather than months or weeks, though perhaps it takes the official merger announcement and de rigeur conference call to focus... [03 Oct 2005]
Phil Young
Q&A The integration of businesses. Employer and official job title: Amtrak; head of IT operations. What do most people call you? Sir (only joking - Phil is fine). Who do you report to? The Group MD. Nature of organisation and total headcount: Logistics... [30 Aug 2005]
Leader: Google - good luck
Leader It's opening up its code so developers can add Skype IM to their websites and other software such as games - a move company co-founder Janus Friis told silicon.com was motivated by numerous requests for integration from Skype users and third-party... [24 Aug 2005]
Leader: Microsoft and Linux must co-exist
Leader The Scottish force reviewed its technology strategy and realised a standardised infrastructure was the key to increased integration with other criminal justice agencies. Co-existence and integration has to be the name of the game in IT. [18 Aug 2005]
Leader: Today's big deals
Leader The integration of two well-known, successful software vendors is a walk in the park in comparison. One multibillion-dollar deal will hog the headlines today and tomorrow. Adobe's proposed purchase of Macromedia is certainly a big deal in the... [18 Apr 2005]
What the business could learn from IT
Comment Project management is a case in point; good IT departments have it honed to a fine art, whereas business departments are generally less structured than IT departments when it comes to project management, argues Neil Allcock, a technology... [02 Mar 2005]
Will IP unify communications?
Comment He adds that in some instances, "Customers need new work flows, better CRM technology, improved integration to back office systems and cultural changes within the organisation. Although products are available that allow companies to do just this... [18 Feb 2005]
IP poised to storm the call centre
Comment While ease of deployment and network cost savings make for a compelling argument on their own, it is IP's promised benefits of easier multimedia routing and queuing, multi-channel integration, remote agent deployment and multi-site virtualisation... [16 Feb 2005]
The McCue Interview: Reuters CIO David Lister
Comment Guinness then moved him to Seville in Spain to spend two-and-a-half years working on another business integration project around 12 regional breweries the company had acquired in the early 1990s, a role for which he had to learn Spanish. [10 Jan 2005]
Leader: Introducing... CIO Agenda
Leader The phrases 'reduce costs' and 'stability' will crop up frequently, although for others on the panel, such as Abbey CIO Bill Gibbons, 2005 will be an exciting time of significant change as the bank undergoes an integration process following the... [14 Dec 2004]
Leader: Is Tesco off its trolley to compete with iTunes?
Leader So far Apple's strength is in the superior form factor of its iPod players and their easy integration with the iTunes store. When it comes to online music, Apple still appears to have the lead but is seeing ever more competition - particularly in... [08 Nov 2004]
IM the way to beat Apple in online music?
Comment A Microsoft representative declined to comment further on music integration in Messenger, but offered a glimpse of how ThreeDegrees is being used. New entrants to online music such as Yahoo! and Microsoft are using instant messaging to boost their... [23 Sep 2004]
SAP: Are its customers happy?
Comment Looking at the challenges faced by SAP users over the years, integration between SAP and other systems has been a continuing theme. The NetWeaver platform, which underpins the latest SAP offerings and allows easier integration with J2EE and .Net... [16 Sep 2004]
Leader: Mobile phones, moving images
Leader is simply great integration of technology. Since its first network launches - and some would say a while before that - operator 3 has in its various territories tried to sell itself as a provider of video over mobile phones. [13 Sep 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Wi-Fi on smart phones a smart idea?
Comment Could the integration of Wi-Fi into smart phones be the dawn of a new age, the beginning of the transition from cellular to 802.11 networks? This is expected to change as the integration of Wi-Fi into smart phones becomes tighter, but not for a... [20 Aug 2004]
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