Brunswick Integrates Code Expertise

SEC is an early adopter of sports-gear maker’s open-source integration engine.

Editor’s Note: a topical story but for those with E-business responsibilities, the open-source program referenced might be worth investigating, so I included it.

If It’s Broke, Fix It

Managing warranties for complex products is increasingly complicated as supply chains stretch out

Imaging Gets A Second Look

New applications and business drivers are fueling renewed interest in document-imaging systems.

Implementation Imperative

Avoid costly supply-chain mistakes by understanding objectives and getting buy-in.

Time For A Wide-Angle View

Business-performance management calls for understanding business units’ tactics and goals.

Utility Computing Meets Real Life

Utility computing, a much-hyped vision of the future of enterprise computing, is finally coming into focus. For years, full-service technology vendors such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems have touted a future in which all the components in a data center coexist in a flexible fabric that lets business-technology managers allocate and reallocate server capacity, storage capacity, network bandwidth, and other resources as needed. They’re … [ Read more ]

Squeezed

IT departments must adopt the process-optimization practices and productivity increases they’ve enabled in other parts of the business.

Asset Management Expands

Software monitors usage, is a foundation for utility computing, and helps centralize control of software.

Oscar Alban

Metrics can be a dangerous thing. Everyone is good at attaining a metric goal that’s given to them. If we drove a bad behavior to reach that number, are the metrics that we’re measuring correct?