Project Management

CHICAGO - Count Brian Zwilling among the growing number of IT execs who have concluded that collecting data on a spreadsheet is not enough. Zwilling, director of reporting services at New York-based Columbia House, was present at Hyperion Solutions 2004 speaking about why his company now relies on dashboards to increase productivity and anticipate potential problems.

A report released this month by Forrester Research Inc. indicates that Canadian firms will increase their IT spending this year, targeting their dollars at networking equipment and Internet and e-commerce initiatives.

Microsoft Corp. with Visual Studio 2005 is pledging to provide mobile application developers with facilities equal to what desktop developers have had, said company officials at the VSLive conference here on Thursday.

The use of customer data integration tools just may be the cure for return on investment-challenged enterprise software deployments, according to one industry observer.

PRAGUE - For many university students, the secret to programming code is to relax and have fun, and that just might be the unofficial slogan for this year's 28th annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest.

America Online Inc. (AOL) is holding a contest in which the winner will be handed the keys to a 2002 Porsche Boxster convertible, formerly owned by a now-convicted spammer.

Contrary to popular belief, innovation doesn't have to result in business transformation or a huge expense. As members of the CIO Executive Council demonstrate, innovation can be subtle, manageable and a core part of the IT organization.

Regina-based communications company and provincial crown corporation Saskatchewan Telecommunications (Sasktel) never had much of a reason to move off of its mostly Windows 95-based desktops - until a new CRM package forced the move to the XP operating system in June of last year.