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RSS chainWill's Web Watch: Thresher thinking
Comment Millions of people have although it was originally only intended for a select group of distributors and partners of the off licence chain. Have you received a voucher for a great offer at off licence Threshers? [05 Dec 2006]
Integrated Applications: Business Need and the Challenge
White Paper IT-enabled customer relationship management, supply chain management, electronic commerce and enterprise integration lead to improvements in customer retention, better procurement and logistics, online presentation of offerings and transaction... [03 Jul 2008]
Ariba for sale? Welcome to rumour central...
News The supply chain management company, which grew 100 per cent in 2000, believes that direct procurement - something Ariba doesn't offer - is the only way forward. The deal will see IBM deliver its procurement services on Ariba's B2B commerce platform. [02 May 2001]
Spam stats: The plague continues...
News Pyramid schemes and chain letters are still going strong. March was another bumper month for spam, with the latest figures revealing a continued increase in the amount of unsolicited email traffic. Anti-spam firm Brightmail recorded a four per cent... [08 Apr 2003]
CA sheds ebusiness division
News The acquisition will give SSA Global Technologies much needed ERP applications to add to its portfolio of supply chain, financial and human resource management applications. Computer Associates (CA) has off-loaded its ebusiness applications... [08 Apr 2002]
SAP reinvents itself with ecommerce offering
News Everyone wants to be in enterprise resource management - the software that allows companies to link applications to ebusiness products so they can automate their supply chain. SAP today announced its latest contract to overhaul Exxon Mobil's... [25 Sep 2000]
Banking Industry fears Y2K and EMU crash
News If just one link fails, it could bring down the whole chain with the bank at its centre. The banking industry fears it is facing a potential disaster because of Year 2000 and EMU threats. In a report called Banking Banana Skins, the Centre for the... [10 Jul 1998]
3Com leadership grapples with going from good to great
Comment At a time when its major competitors were preparing to move up the corporate computing food-chain, 3Com moved down. So while Larry Ellison, Scott McNealy and - to lesser extent - Bill Gates vied with each other to deliver the most outlandish... [29 Sep 2000]
Apple execs in 'sell, sell, sell' orgy
News New designs, an upgrade to its operating system and a new chain of shops have pushed Apple shares to their highest price since September 2000. Several senior Apple executives have filed to sell large stakes in the company this month to make the... [21 May 2002]
Oracle Factfile
Comment A set of business applications covering key areas including: marketing, sales, contracts, financials, human resources, supply chain, procurement and manufacturing. Key Financials Revenues $8.8bn, $8.8bn, $11bn, $9.7bn [09 Aug 2002]
Planet99: Online business must have XML standard
News We've had TCP/IP, HTML and now it's XML as a standard in which business information - for things like supply chain management - can use tools to integrate the way applications and company Web sites communicate. [13 Oct 1999]
Those were the days: The Acorn Electron
Comment It seems the florist chain wanted a way of simply networking its retail outlets. Yet again a journey down memory lane has produced a torrent of reader feedback, this week on the subject of the Acorn Electron (Technologies That Time Forgot: The... [25 Jan 2002]
CIO Jury: IT bosses can reach the boardroom
News David Yu has moved from CTO to COO at Betfair.com while Ric Francis, former CIO at supermarket chain Safeway, has recently become operations director at the Post Office. IT bosses have dismissed suggestions there is a glass ceiling preventing CIOs... [23 Jun 2005]
Linux almost triples retail market share
News In addition, few companies that embraced Linux decided to do so across their entire chain of stores, the study said. The number of computerised cash registers using the Linux operating system grew by 185 per cent in 2002, according to a study... [28 Mar 2003]
RFID tags: 200 billion a year until 2015
News As well as causing a major upheaval in the supply chain of most retailers, it seems the RFID boom could give CIOs a compliance headache. Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T's CIO, CTO and president of global networking technology services, told delegates at... [04 May 2005]
