Stories about: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

From 1995 through 2002, Christopher Meyer was director of the Centre for Business Innovation, a think tank within Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. While there, he founded Bios Group Inc, a venture that invests in business applications of complexity theory. In 2002, he founded Nerve, where he's now applying adaptive systems theory to understand how businesses can evolve autonomously in response to economic volatility. He's also researching the coming "molecular economy", to be driven by the rapidly developing fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology and materials science. With Stan Davis, Meyer has co-authored three books, most recently It's Alive (Crown Business, 2003). Computerworld's Gary Anthes recently asked Meyer about some of the concepts in the book, which looks 10 years into the future.

There's plenty of news making a noise this month, and here are a few short takes that you are sure to hear more about in the months ahead.

Java's creator and four mobile phone makers announced last week they have developed a process for testing and certifying Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) applications for wireless handheld devices.

K&S Group's IT Manager Brian Wharton shares his IT experiences with Computerworld's Sandra Rossi.

This year looks to be brighter for information technology. Budgets are thawing. And numerous new products — many of them relatively inexpensive — beckon with promises to improve the performance, reliability, security, manageability, or profitability of your infrastructure. Which ones will really deliver? Here’s the roundup of 2003’s key IT trends and the picks, from the test centre of Computerworld’s sister publication InfoWorld, of the most innovative and effective products for 2004.

Trumpeting their support for XML and Web services standards, leading enterprise application vendors spoke at great lengths in 2003 about playing well with others. In the end, however, they proffered their own way of doing things. IT watched as IBM Corp.'s WebSphere Integration WorkBench, Microsoft Corp.'s BizTalk, SAP AG's NetWeaver, and Siebel Systems Inc.'s UAN (Universal Application Network) went head-to-head-to-head-to-head, as each vendor offers its own custom integration solution.

HP and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young have signed a memorandum of understanding on storage consultancy. HP is now a preferred storage supplier for CGEY, and CGEY is HP's preferred external system integrator for storage.

Looking to bring graphical Web development to enterprise developers, Macromedia on Monday will introduce Macromedia Flex, a presentation sever and application framework for building rich Internet applications using existing tools, design patterns and infrastructure.

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has completed Australia’s first trial of iBurst wireless networking technology, which promises to fill the gap between existing methods such as WLAN and GPRS.

Wal-Mart Stores this week drew over 120 suppliers to a meeting it hosted to detail its guidelines for using RFID tags on shipping pallets and cases of merchandise.