Rob Black is a consultant with the firm GSI Group and a member of both the national and Toronto boards of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS). He shared his opinions as a CIPS board member.
Electronic catalogues, or e-catalogues, are an essential tool for driving costs down and improving the efficiency of Canadian retailers and their trading partners, according to a report in May produced by the Retail Council of Canada, IBM Business Consulting Services (Canada) and Industry Canada.
With 18,000 employees and sales of $5.1 billion in 2002, Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a major Canadian food processing company delivering food products to consumers around the world.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced in June that Canadian National (CN) has selected HP OpenView management software to monitor, report and provide a centralized systems management strategy for the North American railroad
Open systems software could become a key topic at December's World Summit on the Information Society. Many governments are inclining towards open source platforms like Linux, and the question of longevity of records has also arisen.