IT pros advocate swapping roles with vendors
Both roles have challenges and benefits
Stories by Mark Broatch
Outsourcing ‘no quick fix’
Nail down details of objectives, performance expectations and responsibilities
SolNet backs local content management firm
Vignette unaware of changes to relationship
F&P Finance opts for Visual Elk
Product has customisation F&P Finance is after
Trade NZ pushes ahead with $13m project
New site is divided into exporter, importer, investor and student sections
A job well done
If you consider managing vendors hard work, spare a thought for those who have to keep a roomful of vendors, users, sponsors, salespeople and journalists happy. Tough gig. But such is the job — the life — of those who organise Computerworld’s annual Excellence Awards.
HP updates usage-based server pricing
A number of local customers have already taken up plan
Case study: Tower
ERP vendors have a challenge ahead of them trying to cover the waterfront of CRM and supply chain, says the general manager of development for Tower Insurance, David Callender. Your ERP system can’t do everything well and won’t solve all your problems, he says.
How integrated ERP might work
A customer wants to order 10,000 shoes from a shoe manufacturer so logs on to its CRM system over the internet.
Net job figures dip
Internet job ads still 42% above levels of a year ago
GlobalCo merger puts brakes on Brains
CRM “absolutely vital” in the long term for NZ Dairy Group
McNae steps aside, into new ventures
Open Cloud needs more management focus to drive it internationally
Western Australia claims leadership in e-govt
WA has already passed target of having 50,000 online buyers within four years
Compaq launches combined Evo range
No shipping date or price yet, but likely to sell for less than $US4000
Business as usual for SolNet
McNae to focus on expansion into Australia