Shane Schick

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BI plus BPM plus business rules equals a new kind of IT system

One of my overworked colleagues was recently asked about a project that hadn’t yet gotten off the ground. He replied, “That’s a strategic issue,...

Manulife Financial joins server virtualization crowd

The Toronto-based company expands an outsourcing agreement with IBM that

Four steps to buying better blades

The pizza-box servers can bring good things to the data centre, but they

Ponying up for better security

Canadian firms are willing to pay for good security personnel, but there's still a lot of uncertainty around security breaches.

Even home users of Microsoft Office need to be well ‘Equipt’

If I’d just waited a few more weeks I might not have had to spend so much buying Office. Thanks a lot, Microsoft, for...

You’re either satisfied with your IT job or you’re not

Whenever we publish the results of IT World Canada’s annual salary survey (buy the full report here), everyone automatically looks at the big numbers...

Unleash your inner artist: Creativity and comp-sci

Business skills will always be important, but so is the ability to think visually and conceptually. With the right training, IT professionals could tap into talents they never knew they had

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