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Contract Watch: HP Preps Customer Loyalty Program
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina will kick off a major partner event in Los Angeles on March 21. Sources say Fiorina and HP’s PartnerOne team will evangelize the company’s Total Customer Experience (TCE) strategy during the event, which is expected to attract more than 1,000 partners and solutions providers. Under TCE, a third-party…
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NetApp Chases Grid and ILM Prize
Network Appliance Inc. is planting its storage foothold in the grid computing landscape, unveiling a number of partnerships and technology deployments this week toward cementing that goal. At Oracle AppsWorld on Tuesday, NetApp announced that Oracle Corp. has implemented more than 1,000 terabytes of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based storage vendor’s offerings to underpin part of its…
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Microsoft Delivers Another Piece of Its Business Intelligence Puzzle
Microsoft is becoming an increasingly vocal proponent of integration across its various product lines. As of Tuesday, it added SQL Server Reporting Services, yet another layered software component, to its repertoire. Microsoft launched its Reporting Services product on January 27 via a Webcast for customers, analysts and the press. Microsoft offered Webcast launch participants several…
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IBM, Philips To Jointly Develop RFID
Royal Philips Electronics and IBM said Monday that the two companies will work together to develop radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) for use within Philips and later in the mass market. Philips Semiconductors will produce the chips themselves, which will initially be used to tag semiconductor wafer cases and carton packages within Philips Semiconductors’ Kao Hsiung…
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PeopleSoft Teams With Ascential
PeopleSoft entered into a new relationship with Ascential Software last week to embed the latter’s integration technology in its enterprise performance management software. Ascential replaces Informatica as PeopleSoft’s OEM provider of application integration adapters. PeopleSoft will use the new software to provide connectors to SAP and Siebel systems, which will enable users to run their…
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Securing Web Services: An Interview with IBM’s Arvind Krishna
One year after IBM and Microsoft Corp. released a number of standards for securing Web services, Arvind Krishna (seen above), vice president of security products for Tivoli software from IBM, said 2004 is the year enterprises will really begin to use federated identity to protect computing environments. Krishna, who is instrumental in managing the path…
