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Remember the golden era of the SAP consultant? Lets go back in time to, say, 1996. A person who was expert in R/3 implementations could write his or her own ticket—and many did, often jumping from one high-paying gig to an even more lucrative one. If you were one of the lucky ones, those were […]

The turning point of this falls epic Boston Red Sox comeback in the American League Championship Series took place not in the ninth inning of Game 4—when Dave Roberts stole second base, putting the tying run in scoring position—but two innings earlier, when Roberts made his way from the dugout through the teams clubhouse to […]

Billy Broadbent hasnt seen a baseball game in the flesh since 1997. But he hasnt missed a pitch, either. Thats because during every Boston Red Sox game, Broadbent is under the stands, hunched over a video feed of the game, cataloging each pitch and at-bat so that players, coaches and the manager can retrieve clips […]

Are we serious about reversing offshore momentum? With the re-election of President Bush, some offshore outsourcing advocates were set, it seemed, to do a victory dance. They then thought better of it, reflecting on doubts that Kerry, had he won, would have slowed the trend in any significant way, despite a few rhetorical potshots, such […]

Over the years, Intel has made a habit of building plants in relatively remote locations, New Mexico and Arizona among them. So what happens when the tech-savvy employees want high-speed Internet access at home? Its not pretty, judging from the kind of pain that Intel CEO Craig Barrett has been feeling. When eWEEK Editor in […]

You dont hear many people talking about ASPs, or application service providers, except in the past tense. Plenty of those ASPs bloomed and wilted with the dot-com boom and bust, but what those vendors did—provide applications on demand—is alive and well and poised for a rebound. This time, though, you might want to call it […]

Intel Corp. has set the pace in the microprocessor industry, cranking out chips that operate at breakneck computing speeds. So when the company, under the direction of CEO Craig Barrett, began steering away from its speed-fiend image and toward multicore and partitioned designs, people took notice. For some, it was inevitable, as Intel had been […]

You decide to offshore development of a new application, sold on the promise of saving, conservatively, 30 percent compared with doing it yourself. Even if you fall short of that goal, you reason, youre still significantly ahead of the game. Youll achieve your goal only if you can effectively manage the relationship with your offshore […]

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. is seeking to grow beyond its core markets of health care and financial services outsourcing and move toward complex application development and high-end business process outsourcing. Lakshmi Narayanan, who was named president and CEO of the Teaneck, N.J., company early this year, is guiding that initiative. Narayanan discussed Cognizants approach to […]

“We believe managing our own technology infrastructure is best for the long-term growth and success of our company as well as our shareholders.” There. Thats what Austin Adams, JPMorgan Chases CIO, said in a statement earlier this month announcing the end of the giant financial institutions $5 billion, seven-year outsourcing deal with IBM, signed late […]