Stories about: Safeway

Australian toy distributor Moose Enterprise has replaced its accounting system, numerous spreadsheets and ad hoc databases with a single ERP solution in a phased rollout across Melbourne, Hong Kong and China.

Rapidly growing telco Gotalk has signed an exclusive agreement with US-based company Safeway to bring the Blackhawk gift card network to Australia.

Fibre Channel was definitely not top of mind when Chris Brown hit the wall on disk space and, in mid-2005, decided to go shopping for a SAN. Brown is IT manager for DeltaValve, a division of Curtiss-Wright Flow Control. "I have an IT staff of two," he explains, "and we do not have the resources to support Fibre Channel."

Horizon Lines has turned to radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track containers seamlessly from a Seattle distribution centre over the sea and land to their final destination in Alaska.

The rub on GuideStone Financial Resources' help desk could be summed up by what company employees called it: "the helpless desk." Not only was the moniker unflattering, it reflected lingering system problems that hurt employee productivity. With that in mind, the Guidestone IT department turned to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standard. A driving goal of ITIL is to reshape IT operations into a service model, with service levels and detailed processes spelled out for delivering and managing IT. Proponents say the standard can help cut IT costs and improve business alignment -- which may explain the interest in it among IT managers at the AFCOM data center conference in Chicago this week.

Woolworths has inked a five-year IT contract with IBM Global Services to supply Total Service Management (TSM).

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took on Linux in a big way this week during the company's annual meeting with the financial analyst community, saying that "too much abuse has gone on for too long."

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sold its international business process outsourcing (BPO) operations to Exult Inc., a company that provides human resources (HR) services, for US$17 million in cash, Exult announced Monday.

Software project management suffers from confusion over project goals, developers working without supervision, and even from developers being miscast as engineers, said panelists during a keynote session at the VSLive show on Wednesday.

IBM's Global Services unit has added asset monitoring and security-identity services to its services portfolio. IBM is using chip cards and "smart chips" that send out a radio signal for these services, the Armonk, New York, company announced Tuesday.

Storage management software is hot. Over the last year the industry has witnessed significant advances in storage management software technology, and an A-list of hardware companies from EMC Corp. to Sun Microsystems Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp. continue to scramble to add new storage software tools to their separate arsenals as hardware margins plummet.