Data & Analytics

Halsey Minor, CEO of hosted integration provider Grand Central Communications Inc., has a powerful message for IT:

Changes to the City of Hamilton workforce demographics called for adjustments in the way the human resources (HR) department operated. As part of a business process transformation initiative, the city recently added Web-based recruiting software to streamline its HR processes.

Trend Micro Inc. will become the latest major antivirus software company to provide protection against mobile phone viruses, with new antivirus and antispam software for mobile phones running the Microsoft Corp. Windows Mobile and Symbian Ltd.'s operating systems.

In an eyebrow-raising forecast that was met with a mix of skepticism and nonchalance by some IT managers, Gartner Inc. analysts last week predicted that as many as 50 per cent of the IT operations jobs in the U.S. could disappear over the next two decades because of improvements in data centre management technologies.

In his recent book, The Future of Work, MIT's Thomas Malone argues that IT is pushing out authority to the fringes of the organization and empowering workers to have more autonomy and decision-making power. However, IT can be used not only to liberate human beings but to control them.

Executives from Business Objects SA this month talked up dashboard technology at the company

Kevin Northrup compares his work at Dell Financial Services Canada Ltd. (DFS) to changing a car

Changes to the province of British Columbia