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Charles Schwab & Co., the San Francisco discount brokerage, is at the forefront of a movement to integrate legacy applications and the World Wide Web. Most companies realize the need […]

Fans of television's Star Trek: Deep Space 9 know that orbs are small, handheld spheres that the mystical Bajoras use to unlock the secrets of their revered prophets. Leading-edge application […]

Sun Microsystems' Java programming language is emerging as the standard for Internet and World Wide Web application development, but the technology still leaves much to be desired. According to many […]

Don't feel bad if the relational database that supports your company's World Wide Web site doesn't have real-time, full-motion videos, glitzy full-color images, and demographic maps to download. Few do. […]

It's hard to argue that a technology barely out of its infancy is maturing, but that's exactly what's happening to the World Wide Web. Many of the characteristics of the […]

The latest UPS systems provide tech managers with powerful, affordable client-server backup systems Five years ago, Barnett Banks Inc. was something of a technology pioneer. The Jacksonville, Fla., bank, which […]

Seinfield" it wasn't. But that didn't stop a number of technology and business managers from turning on ENEN recently to catch "Maximizing The Supply Chain," a seminar that promised to […]

Are today's object technologies ready to handle huge, crucial, transaction-intensive applications? Capital One Financial Corp. will have its answer next month. That's when the credit-card company plans to go live […]

Few industries are under-going as profound a change as food and beverage processing. This sector's decades-old business model is changing dramatically. The agent of this change--Efficient Customer Response (ECR)--is having […]

Food processing companies turn to client-server to trim their inventory costs Food processing companies are on a diet. The goal: Cut the fat from their distribution chain, trim bloated inventories, […]

Many companies and organizations need to be fast in the age of the Internet economy-or they stand to lose business opportunities or credibility. Rapid application development tools help make fast […]

A growing contingent of users has discovered that less customization is better when deploying enterprise resource planning systems, especially at the beginning of a project. By not customizing during implementation, […]

If Centura Software Corp. were a cat, people would say it was on its third or fourth life by now. Founded in 1984 as Gupta Technologies, Centura has been highly […]

Vendors say network computers will cut computing costs largely because they're easier to manage than PCs. But if you thought NCs would eliminate the need to manage desktops altogether, think […]

Qualcomm Inc. rejected Lotus Notes groupware software as a platform for corporate information access 18 months ago and instead built its own intranet. Today, that intranet comprises 25 World Wide […]

When it comes to business modeling, a picture may be worth far more than a thousand words. According to some early adopters, business modeling represents big savings in time and […]

Williams Field Services, one of the nation's largest managers of natural-gas and oil pipelines, has achieved both business and technology benefits from its use of business modeling. Modeling was the […]

Improved quality and better on-time performance may sound like airline slogans, but for UMB Bank, they're the goals of a businesswide quality- improvement campaign that has had a profound effect […]

John O'Neil has an identity crisis on his hands. He knows who he is- he's chairman and CEO of Business Engine Software Corp., a San Francisco software developer formerly known […]

In these days of tight IT budgets, you might think that development shops would use every tool at their disposal to manage their available resources. But as it turns out, […]

Discusses the advantage of using business modeling tools in helping companies align its business and technology goals. Purpose of Belk Services for using business modeling tools; Why information technology (IT) departments add object or component modeling in tools.

Reports on Shell Services Co.'s offer of service-level guarantees on the availability and performance of their client-server applications to user departments and other potential customers. Remote application management and service-level agreements as the tools to be used in winning and retaining contracts; Description of the company's setup.

Reports on US West Inc. and Sedgwick James Inc.'s plans for Lotus Development Corp.'s Unix version of Notes software. Scheduled release of the software; Results of Sedgwick's benchamrking of Notes 3.5 software; US West's plan to consolidate Unix servers.