Industry pundits recently opened new skirmish lines in a generational war of words within IT, pitting older IT workers with mainframe skills against younger workers with new technology skills. Blogs everywhere are filling, debating whether the old workers are past their prime and only the young employees have value moving...
With net sales of more than $1bn in 2005, Appleton is an old-line company with at least one big advantage. Formed in 1907 in Appleton, Wis., the company is the world's largest producer of carbonless paper, used in business forms. Although it is nearly a century old, Appleton hasn't been...
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A Web services strategy is opening the door to integration among the various departments and agencies in Miami-Dade County. Using Web services to extract processes from its mainframe systems is helping Miami-Dade County get more bangs from its mainframe bucks. It extends the life of legacy systems. Processes embedded many...
To provide a quick solution for its benefits professionals requesting Internet access to its Total Benefits Administration TBA application, Hewitt Associates is deploying Microsoft Host Integration Server HIS 2000. HR Administrators accessed the system in several ways, many using Microsoft SNA Server at Hewitt Associates' data center and then connecting...
LifeUSA did not use a customer management system before adopting GoldMine. LifeUSA’s call center staff used the Company’s mainframe administration system to look up information when taking calls, but never to record additional information about each contact, above and beyond what the system already required. Database security is also an...
In this challenging economy, senior financial executives are under increased pressure to come up with additional ways to cut costs significantly without impacting business productivity or quality of service. One area that is getting increased scrutiny is the cost for Information Technology - a significant corporate cost, and one that...
North Carolina relies on two primary mainframe systems to support major program areas: the Eligibility Information System EIS and the Food Stamp Information System FSIS. In addition to these systems, there are several smaller systems, which support other programs, including child welfare services, child support, and childcare. North Carolina will...
In an Internet-enabled economy, customers are presented with ever-increasing choices; loyalty is fleeting, and defection to the competition is only a mouse click away. As product life cycles accelerate and competition becomes more intense, the ability to rely on product differentiation and branding fades in favor of service as a...
One investigates the determinants of product obsolescence and the product cycle in the computer mainframe market. One uses hazard models with time-varying covariates to estimate how long a product remains for sale and the rate at which a product's installed base declines to a low level after sales cease. One...
Banco Central do Brasil, one of the country's tallest commercial structures, is among Brasília's finest showcase facilities - its headquarters employs approximately 2,900 persons and manages the country's domestic and foreign financial operation. This highly planned city is known for its beautiful architecture, modern facilities, and well thought-out thoroughfares. The...
The article describes about aircraft manufacturers. Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. is the world's largest independent supplier of aerostructures. Headquartered in Dallas, the company provides wings, fuselage subassemblies, thrust reversers and other components for prime manufacturers of aircraft. Vought's manufacturing control system, referred to as MCSll, is a homegrown, IMS database...
It all started out so simply. It always does, of course. For all intents and purposes, what attracted the masses to putting money into a color television set that had a couple of rotary knobs on the front and a coin box glued to the side was a moving square...
Matt Cooper reports from Denver: At "The Big Tent" in Denver, sponsored by Google among others. Today, Eric Schmidt himself, the C.E.O. of Google is here. He's being interviewed by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC. The topic: Internet and Politics. I'll just let you in on what I heard and...
RHB Banking Group today announcedits new department, Central Technology Unit, will enhance its productdevelopment and delivery to customers with IBM (NYSE: IBM) System z10mainframe as the foundation of its new enterprise data center. Theinvestment will also support the critical processing capacity for thebanking group's clients throughout Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei andThailand....
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-22 August 2008-Treehouse Software and Trinity Millennium Group announce partnering agreementC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Treehouse Software Inc TSI, a performance management, security and software configuration management, mainframe data replication and integration company, has announced that it has entered a partnering agreement with Trinity Millennium Group Inc, a...
PITTSBURGH and SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Treehouse Software, Inc., TSI of Sewickley, PA and Trinity Millennium Group, Inc. Trinity of San Antonio, TX today announced that the companies have entered into a partnering agreement to meet the burgeoning demand for modernization of legacy Adabas/Natural applications with comprehensive,...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced thatUniversity of Melbourne Student Dharvinder Bassi has been named Australia's"Master of the Mainframe" student contest winner after out-performing morethan 450 other students across Australia. In addition to becomingAustralia's Mainframe student contest winner, Bassi now joins the growinglist of approximately 50,000 worldwide students with mainframe...
Stock Market Symbols GIB.A TSX GIB NYSE FAIRFAX, VA, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE:EeAaGIB), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, today announced that the Center for Digital Government presented CGI with a "Best Fit Integrator" award at the...
IMS Support Added to Existing DB2 and Oracle Functionality SUGAR LAND, Texas -- NEON Enterprise Software, Inc., the technology leader in enterprise data management software and services, today announced that TITAN Archive, a database archiving solution that enables long-term retention of structured data, now supports IMS databases. The...
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