Stories about: Systems Consultants

A good CRM package does you no good if employees aren't willing to use it. Case in point: IMA Financial Group, a medium-sized financial services company based in the US. IMA had installed a commercial customer relationship management system that "was flexible and configurable and attractive on the front end," says business processes manager Jennifer Hallam.

Nearly half of all IT projects get killed off before they're even completed, according to a survey conducted by the Information Systems Audit Control Association.

Systems Consultants Inc., a public-sector integrated solutions provider, and Blue Angel Technologies Inc., an Internet technology developer, last week announced a strategic partnership to help Web-enable services for governments organizations.

Abdelkader Smires, 31, an employee at Internet Trading Technologies (ITTI) in New York, was being held without bail this week for allegedly launching a denial-of-service attack against the company.

Sometimes, the most remarkable events in life are unintentional. Such is the case with Linux, which started out as a student's hobby but has quietly become in the past eight years one of the world's fastest-growing operating systems. Linux was started in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, then a student at Finland's University of Helsinki. Since then, tens of thousands of volunteer coders have debugged, fixed and enhanced Linux.