Tag: IT

  • IT Struggles to Sustain Recovery on Wall Street

    Joseph C. Panettieri

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    When IBM Corp. announced solid—but not stellar—financial results last week, some investors were disappointed. Instead of rising on the earnings news, IBM shares declined roughly 1 percent for the week ended April 19. Still, solutions providers should take heart. While most investors focused on IBM’s hardware and consulting revenue, I prefer to look at the… Read more

  • Systems Integrator Eases Handoff of IT Baton

    Systems Integrator Eases Handoff of IT Baton

    Michael R. Zimmerman

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    When communication is a pillar of your business, migrating to another communication system and then maintaining it once it’s installed can be equally critical. But executing such a move with a small budget and little in-house expertise adds a new set of challenges. Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP learned this firsthand last year when the… Read more

  • Reconstructing IT for 40,000 Mortgage Brokers

    Reconstructing IT for 40,000 Mortgage Brokers

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    As mortgage rates sank to an all-time low last year, 11-year-old Accredited Home Lenders Inc., which services an aggregate customer base of about 40,000 mortgage brokers, found itself a victim of its own success. The unprecedented expansion the company was experiencing revealed a rickety technical foundation—one riddled with unreliable point-to-point interfaces, a heavy reliance on… Read more

  • Retail IT Spending Expected to Increase in 2004

    Channel Insider Staff

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    On the last day of its annual convention in New York, the National Retail Federation released a new study that shows retailers expect to increase IT spending in 2004. Eighty three percent of more than 100 retailers surveyed expect to replace or upgrade point of sale systems this year, according to Retail Horizons: Benchmarks for… Read more

  • IBM Expects SMB to Rev Up IT Spending in 2004

    Joel Shore

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    IBM loves its Business Partners and in 2004 plans to continue providing them with a barrage of new offerings and sales support. “About one-third of IBM’s overall revenue is generated through its worldwide base of 90,000 business partners,” says Pamela Kaplan, Director of Worldwide Partner Marketing Programs, at IBM’s Software Group. “In 2003, IBM invested… Read more

  • An IT Guide to Market Dominance

    Theresa Lina Stevens

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    Without daring to reveal my precise age, suffice it to say that I’ve been around the IT services sector long enough to remember punch cards and the anticipation of how the personal computer would revolutionize our lives. Ross Perot still owned EDS. It was still the era of the “Big 8” and Steven Jobs was… Read more