Matthew Hicks

Give Tim Hilgenberg some new toys, and like any good IT leader, hell find a way to build a better e-business. Just recently, Hilgenberg, chief technology officer of applications at Hewitt Associates LLC, has begun toying with the emerging concept of Web services. And already, he said, hes found just enough blocks to begin to […]

The year 2000 started with a New Years resolution at GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corp. that sent the IT department scrambling. The Horsham, Pa., companys chairman and CEO, David Creamer, issued a mandate that the commercial lenders internal processes become paperless by years end. With the company planning to expand its international operations by adding a […]

Youve got to feel for Gene Bolmarcich. As trademark counsel at Caterpillar Inc., in Peoria, Ill., Bolmarcich already spends huge chunks of his time as a watchdog, protecting the companys online brand—and its 600 registered .com, .net and .org URLs—from cybersquatters. Now, with two official new top-level domains—.biz and .info—set to go live this fall […]

Enterprises trying to navigate domain names are discovering that a little help from service providers can send them in the right direction. Assistance is coming from more and more registrars that once simply served as the middlemen in registering a Web address. Now they are designing services to help corporations do everything from consolidate and […]

For nearly three years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has attempted no small feat: to set policies and procedures governing how the Internet will grow. At no time has that role gained so much scrutiny as in the past year. Among its highest-profile decisions was the introduction in November of seven TLDs […]

Honor Guiney understands the art of consulting. Before becoming CIO in 1998 at National Oilwell Inc., she ran the global services organization at Ardent Software Inc., which was later acquired by Informix Corp. A year ago, as her company was launching a major business-to-business e-commerce initiative, Guiney quickly recognized that National Oilwell and its customers […]

Technology manufacturers and service providers are not the only segments of the economy suffering a downturn. According to a compensation study released last week, average salaries for top-performing CIOs and other IT managers are beginning to fall for the first time since the 1980s. The study, by Janco Associates Inc., of Park City, Utah, found […]

Dun & Bradstreet Corp. wasted no time in November when U.S. companies were given an easier way to comply with Europes tough privacy laws. The company signed up right away to comply with the so-called Safe Harbor deal, negotiated by European Union and U.S. officials, which gives companies like D&B the chance to meet all […]

The Coca-Cola Co. knows its fizz. So you might not expect the soft drink giant to jump into the venture capital game just as its going flat. But thats just what Coca-Cola is doing. As overall venture capital investments in IT were tanking, the Atlanta company three months ago launched a division charged with finding, […]

Attention, Enterprise ASP customers: Do you know for sure whos managing your mission-critical data, and whos taking responsibility for making sure the applications you depend on are available when you need them? These days, the answers to those questions are not so obvious. Thats because more and more application service providers, rather than hosting applications […]