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IBM’s WebSphere Portal gets pre-built applications, 04/18/07
IBM Wednesday unveiled its first set of pre-built software for its portal technology that provides basic templates to address specific application needs such as content management and collaboration.
Software, services drive IBM to ‘solid’ Q1 results, 04/17/07
Continued strong software sales and some improvements in IBM’s services business buoyed its first quarter earnings, the company reported Tuesday.
IBM, Yahoo upgrade free enterprise search tool, 04/16/07
An upgraded version of the free enterprise search application IBM developed with Yahoo is being released Monday, and includes support for foreign languages, the ability to search metadata, and tools allowing customers to more easily customize the user interface.
Q&A: IBM sticks to autonomic computing agenda, 04/13/07
IBM coined the term autonomic computing in 2001 and since then has been beating the automation drum across its software and hardware product lines.
IBM teams with Indian hospital to offer hosted apps, 04/13/07
IBM has teamed up with the Apollo Hospital Group, a large hospital chain in India, to offer hosted software applications for mid-size hospitals in India.
IBM puts blades on a low-carb(on) diet, 04/12/07
IBM is adding to its server lineup with new models featuring lower-wattage processors and flash memory instead of disks, all in the name of energy conservation.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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