Jeff Jedras

As an assistant editor at IT World Canada, Jeff Jedras contributes primarily to CDN and ITBusiness.ca, covering the reseller channel and the small and medium-sized business space.

Articles by Jeff Jedras

IBM aims to reduce complexity, increase collaboration

Big Blue welcomed attendees to its annual Partnerworld event on Monday with a bevy of announcements aimed at making it easier to work with IBM, easier to deliver IBM products and services to clients, and easier to partner with fellow systems integrators and solution providers, particularly in the SMB space.

BI gets smarter with enterprise search

If finding the information you need across BI systems and departmental silos to make business decisions is like looking for a needle in a haystack, then enterprise search is the new metal detector

Product Hits – Laptops take a stand

COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLELaptops take a stand LapWorks has introduced the Aluminum Desktop Stand, a device designed to elevate Mac or PC laptops...

The SaaS wave hits enterprise desktops

The software as a service (SaaS) trend is moving to the desktop, with companies like Microsoft and Google debuting hosted office productivity suites, but an analyst warns that, for the enterprise, they may not yet be ready for primetime

Canadian firms ‘under-investing’ in IT says SAP Canada chief

In an address to Canadian customers and partners at SAP's annual Sapphire user conference in Atlanta Tuesday, SAP Canada president and managing director Robert Courteau warned the historical advantage Canadian companies have had in trading with the U.S. has disappeared.

SAP’s “co-innovation” trumps Oracle’s “consolidation” strategy, says Kagermann

Compared with competitors such as Oracle, which has pursued an aggressive growth through acquisition strategy in recent years, German enterprise software developer SAP has preferred to grow and develop new technologies organically.

Sobeys stocks smartly with SAP

Canadian grocery giant Sobeys shared lessons learned from its SAP implementation at the annual Sapphire user conference in Atlanta yesterday, but noticeably absent was any mention of the company's at times rocky history with the German software company.

BlackBerry outage suggests IT infrastructure weakness

BlackBerry users are once again getting their CrackBerry fix after a network outage caused widespread service disruptions across North America.

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