Stories about: Hartford Financial Services Group

The Hartford Financial Services Group has notified about 237,000 policy holders of a potential compromise of their personal data.

Enterprises are turning to project management tools to monitor risks and justify investments for application development efforts.

A standards body developing security and policy improvements for the next version of a Web services-based registry specification stamped its work as an official standard on Thursday.

Norma Veta, 74, an IT retiree from The Aerospace Corp, spends two days a week helping her son's family and managing several rental properties. The other three days, she returns to Aerospace to work on special IT projects. After 40 years with the R&D and engineering services company, she knows the payroll and benefits systems almost as well as the faces of her three grandchildren.

Insurance industry CTOs are taking advantage of the opportunities offered by Web services to streamline services for customers and increase workflow efficiency. These executives see the benefits in the automation and integration of data sources around XML-related standards bodies, such as the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD ), a nonprofit standards developer, and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), enacted in 1996.

BEA Systems is taking steps to unify the various products that comprise its WebLogic platform, though customers will have to wait until at least the end of the year before it "tastes and smells like one product," the company's chief technology officer (CTO) told developers here this week.

Several corporate users this week said a new sales strategy being implemented by Microsoft Corp. is the right approach if the software vendor wants a better chance of winning customers at the enterprise level.

Business-to-business e-commerce marketplaces desperately need to add mission-critical functionality, according to attendees at last week's Commerce One user conference here.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA (07/10/2000) - As proof that hard times aren't scaring entrepreneurial spirits from betting on Latin America's Internet market, a startup will officially launch on Tuesday an online insurance store for Latin Americans and U.S. Hispanics.

At a glance - Company: Black & Veatch Solutions Group (BVSG); Spin-off date: January 1999; Employees: More than 550; Revenues: $50 million; Industries served: Manufacturing, government, finance and insurance, health care, services and distribution.

Janet Pennel's job is to keep Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s 1,700 IT employees well-trained, professionally challenged and, well, working for Sears. Not an easy proposition, Pennel admits, given the "free-agent" attitude among high-tech workers.