Stefan Dubowski

When CIBC went looking for an extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) server to support its mortgages and lending business earlier this year, the firm had two criteria: speed and easy integration with existing and new computer equipment. Now the financial institution says it

If your company is considering radio-frequency identification (RFID) solely because a trading partner mandates the technology, perhaps your firm should expand its mindset on the matter, according to industry watchers.

In a Decima Research Inc. survey, 42 per cent of respondents said their companies never outlined corporate policies regarding software downloads, installations and using unlicensed apps on workplace PCs.

Smaller companies seem to be the culprit for this country

When Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co. Inc. planned to enter the Canadian market a few years ago, rumour had it the firm would school B.C.-based Future Shop Ltd. in the ways of electronic retailing. But it seems Future Shop is the teacher these days, giving Best Buy a lesson in cost-effective computing.

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A Citrix Systems Inc. marketing manager predicts a bright future for the sort of server-based computer systems that his company sells, but judging by comments from Canadian Citrix users and partners, the firm has some explaining to do before such a vision can come true.

Toronto-based CCL Custom Manufacturing, the world