Stories about: Systems Solutions

On November 6, Sam Palmisano, chairman, president & CEO of IBM, made an important speech entitled "The Smart Planet: The Next Leadership Agenda" at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City. That speech is only now getting public press attention.

The ICT industry consists of a lot of different components and skills, but acquisitions over the past year or so have shifted more power to the big fellas. This consolidation -- especially in the business intelligence and performance technology sectors -- will impact client and vendor relationships, technology directions, customer support, and who's who.

As part of its global expansion, Web specialist Email Systems today opened its regional operations in Sydney which will provide support to businesses in the Asia Pacific region.

Reader's Digest (Australia) has developed a solution internally to aid customer relations management, with plans to roll out to Reader's Digest globally as part of a strategy to converge its systems solutions.

IBM plans to unveil a server, storage, networking and software bundle based on its BladeCenter servers targeting the retail market. Known as the Systems Solutions for Retail Stores, the bundle follows similar packages IBM has already announced for the banking industry and small to midsize businesses.

Having survived a two-hour verbal beating from angry industry representatives during crisis talks last night, the Australian Customs Service will keep its besieged Integrated Cargo System (ICS) running rather than revert to its old system.

IBM last week announced a slew of upgrades to its Tivoli management software portfolio that the company says will help customers automate administrative tasks and view mainframe-specific statistics from one console.

In an effort to reduce the cycle time between application design and testing and when the application is put into production, Mercury Interactive introduced this week Mercury Business Process Testing. The application will be part of the Mercury Quality Center suite of applications.

Businesses globally invest more than $US19 billion annually on technology to improve their supply chain yet half of these companies are disappointed with the results, according to a Booz Allen Hamilton study.

IBM Corp. and Sony Electronics Inc. said Monday that they have completed the initial phase of a five-to-seven-year, US$20 million project that will put AOL Time Warner Inc. news division CNN's video archive online. First announced in April 1999, the project is the first implementation of a media-asset management system Sony and IBM jointly designed and are marketing to the media industry.

In a move designed to bring its management structure in line with its business unit structure, Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) announced Wednesday that it will consolidate control of four business organizations under two board members. The company also announced further reorganizations and the departure of two members of its board of managers.