Patricia Pickett

Montreal-based outsourcing services provider CGI Group Inc. has inked two 10-year deals with insurance companies in the U.K. and the U.S.

When four provincial telephone companies amalgamated on Jan. 1, 2001, the newly formed Aliant Telecom Inc. was in need of some server streamlining.

When transitioning from being an IT employee to starting one

A study released Thursday by research firm Ipsos-Reid Corp. predicts that the number of companies that outsourced key services in 2003 will decrease in 2005, but the percentage of spending allocated to outsourcing will increase over this period.

A recent survey of 10 universities by the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) suggests the average number of women graduating from computer studies programs remains flat.

SAP AG used an annual gathering of customers to announce new alliances: a joint, detailed road map with Microsoft Corp. for better integration between Microsoft .Net and SAP NetWeaver, and the combination of SAP

Information and storage management vendor EMC Corp. has expanded its Proven Professional training and certification program to include an emphasis on its information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions.

Customers at this year's Sapphire user conference said their use of the software vendor's integration and application platform NetWeaver is helping them transition to a services-oriented architecture.