Stories about: Aviall

Shifting to a hosted software model can cut corporate IT costs and ease administration and upgrades, but managers must prepare corporate users for its significant effect on work processes and job roles, said CIOs sitting on a panel at the SaaSCon conference in the US this week.

When the lease was up on its old storage equipment and it came time to consider a new platform, Aviall Services knew exactly what it needed.

Aviall Services, a Dallas-based Boeing subsidiary and provider of after-market supply-chain management services for the aerospace, defense and marine industries, successfully implemented a new storage scheme that doubles its storage capacity, increases performance and prepares it for future services.

The promise of virtualization technology has convinced some companies to require that most new applications be run immediately on virtual machines.

Joseph Lacik Jr. doesn't try to measure the return on investment of his company's marketing Web site. The fact that Dallas-based Aviall was saved from financial disaster by a controversial multimillion-dollar IT project that included developing the Web site as one key element is all the return he needs to see.

Experio Solutions, the consulting arm of Hitachi, has purchased Tactica, another consulting firm, a move designed to put Hitachi on par with other full-service technology providers such as IBM.

Like several other companies in the aviation industry, Delta Air Lines Inc. has come to the realization that it needs to install third-party spare parts management software to fill in functional gaps in its enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management system.

SAN MATEO (08/11/2000) - E-business platform provider New Era of Networks Inc. (NEON) announced that Aviall Inc. has selected NEON technology to integrate its automated sales force systems and online supplies Web site. Aviall will use NEON e-Biz Integrator software, NEONadapter for BroadVision, and NEONadapter for Siebel to integrate BroadVision's Web-based One-to-One Commerce solutions with Siebel CRM (customer relationship management) and Lawson ERP (enterprise resource planning) products, NEON said.