Kathleen Lau

Articles by Kathleen Lau

Giant Tiger pounces on data warehouse

A retail chain was dealing with reams of spreadsheets and reports, plus an AS/400 that was ill-suited for analytics. Why the firm decided to move to a more sophisticated business intelligence system

Project Lead Scientist

A medical researcher studying the structure and interaction of proteins found the resulting diagrams resembled a huge black hairball. IBM came to the rescue with a machine that does 12 teraflops

Why you might need to torture data

Business users want predications, but ERP systems often produce reams of data with dubious value. Find out how super crunching can help

Radialpoint shares expertise with security consortium

The provider of managed Internet security joins the Anti-Virus Product Developers Consortium (AVPD) in an effort to contribute to what should be a

IT association offers guide to avoiding lawsuits

CATA releases a conflict resolution kit for firms looking for alternate dispute mechanisms. An executive explains the potential $17 million in fees some firms have had to pay

Protecode IP management tool speeds up open source development

Ottawa-based Protecode Inc. released the latest version of its Eclipse plug-in designed to ease governance and intellectual property management for software developers

Web mapping engine tracks targets in real time

Fredericton, New Brunswick-based Geomatics software vendor Caris released version 4.3 of its Web mapping engine. Real-time target tracking is among the new features

MS plugs downgrade option as XP deadline nears

The company will stop selling the popular operating system as of June 30, but a letter sent to customers insists businesses will not be left out in the cold. A Canadian exec goes over the details

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