Financially, 2002 was not a gangbuster year for IBM -- revenue from continuing operations declined 3 percent. But the company still earned $5.3 billion in the year, even as most firms struggled to stay out of the red zone. Its WebSphere software dominates the e-business arena, and its consulting div...
Increasingly, Fortune 500 enterprises are turning to e-business software to enable real-time transactions and data exchange. This hot sector is crowded with software firms, each vying to peddle integrated suites for supply chain management, CRM, e-procurement, fulfillment and logistics. How can an e...
IBM has struck a deal to buy Rational Software for $2.1 billion, continuing a lengthy acquisition spree that has focused on the software industry in recent months. Rational makes development tools that are used to customize software running a host of devices, ranging from mobile phones and routers t...
With a flurry of product announcements, IBM and Sun Microsystems have intensified their heated battle to dominate the Web services market. In this round, the two behemoths are targeting the developer community, with Sun taking the wraps off of its Sun Open Net Environment Application Services Refere...
Enterprise cannot swing an optical mouse these days without hitting a Microsoft product. But despite the software giant's aggressive posturing, enterprise is hardly at its mercy when developing a blueprint for e-commerce. In fact, it is easy to avoid Microsoft altogether, Giga Information Group a...
Shopping carts have become standard for online vendors. But software developers -- particularly those that make some of the larger off-the-shelf e-commerce packages -- are upping the ante by integrating additional features into their products. The best carts now provide uninterrupted interaction ...
On Tuesday, HP executives reportedly told analysts that heavy losses in the company's e-business group had convinced it to retire its middleware offerings. Now, though, HP's resolve seems to be wavering, according to news sources. Yankee Group analyst Robert Perry told the E-Commerce Times that H...
IBM has sliced 2,000 jobs from its Global Services unit as it struggles to bring its financials more in line with forecasts. The latest round of cuts is part of a bigger layoff scheme that IBM began implementing this spring. In total, the company is expected to divest itself of 8,000 to 9,000 emp...
IBM has announced a five-year, $194 million agreement to provide electronic payments processor TSYS with hardware, software and other services. This is the largest deal in Columbus, Georgia-based TSYS' history. Under the terms of the deal, new IBM hardware will reduce the number of TSYS servers r...
While Big Blue's name was not always synonymous with e-commerce, the technology giant has become a major player in the sector in recent years. IBM made that transition in part through savvy partnerships with software companies specializing in e-business, and in part by offering its WebSphere soft...
There has been no shortage of software designed to transfer catalogs to the Web. But as e-commerce has matured, the market has started to evolve and leaders have begun to emerge. This process has been accelerated by the collapse of many software firms in the post-boom era. One major benefactor of...
In what would be its largest reduction in nearly a decade, IBM reportedly will soon lay off as many as 8,000 workers. Company officials already have issued an earnings warning for the second quarter. "People internally had been expecting this," Harry Tse, vice president of research at the Yankee ...
As the fourth quarter unfolds each year, e-commerce is measured and evaluated so closely that it seems as if each purchase is reported the instant it is made. Judging how well e-commerce is faring during the rest of the year is more challenging, but the second quarter contains some important holi...
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