Mari-Len De Guzman

For Edmonton-based property management firm The Canapen Group, managing a building has become remotely convenient. By deploying Symantec Corp.'s pcAnywhere remote access system, The Canapen Group can take control of all its properties from anywhere the remote access terminal is set up, according to Randy Redekopp, The Canapen Group's manager of information systems.

When the Ontario Ministry of Health began preaching the good news of a technology infrastructure capable of connecting the province's health care system end to end, there were many doubting Thomases. Two years and several deployments later, the Thomases of the health care sector have seen for themselves and believed. Today, the Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) is struggling to keep up with the demand for electronic connectivity.

What do animation flick Madagascar and a 2005 Formula One (F1) racecar have in common? The answer is Hewlett-Packard's (HP) utility computing technology that the company says provides enterprise customers additional computing resources on demand. By linking up to the HP Utility Rendering Service, a scaleable offsite server farm, artists at DreamWorks Animation optimized graphic technology with flexible computing capacity, according to Lynn Anderson, vice-president for marketing at Mississauga-based HP Canada Co.

Rogers Communications Inc. will reap several benefits, including a head start in the integrated telecom-data space through its $330 million planned acquisition of Call-Net Enterprise Inc., an industry analyst said today. The buy gives Rogers a far more extensive portfolio of telecom and data services, according to Lawrence Surtees, director of telecom and Internet research at IDC Canada Ltd.

With their deployment of advance communication systems, small businesses are scoring big with their customers.

Fueled by research findings indicating SMBs' growing concerns about security and compliance, vendors are now looking at SMBs as a lucrative market for packaged, low-cost offerings.

After more than 10 years of enduring disparate databases and manual reporting systems, McMaster University has got smarter with data warehousing and business intelligence tools. And the Hamilton-based university is getting a lot of help from the SAS Intelligence Value Chain, SAS Institute's latest end-to-end BI offering with advanced analytic capabilities.

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