For years, we computing professionals have bemoaned the fact that we can't manage and create our products with the same degree of reliability that engineering disciplines expect.

For years, we computing professionals have bemoaned the fact that we can't manage and create our products with the same degree of reliability that engineering disciplines expect.

Customer Analytics, Inc. is the latest business-intelligence company to enter the market.

The e-business frenzy has lead to some interesting company market valuations. Consider the following examples. Johnson & Johnson had fiscal 1998 profits of just over US $3 billion, while America Online's (AOL) sales barely registered $3 billion.

Many leading companies in software engineering outperform median companies by at least 50:1 in terms of the efficiency of their software processes as measured by the e

This Executive Report focuses on how you identify the technologies most likely to keep your company growing and profitable. The explosion in technology has changed the ways you buy and apply technology, and it has forever changed expectations about how technology can and should influence your connectivity to customers, suppliers, and employees.

This Executive Report focuses on how you identify the technologies most likely to keep your company growing and profitable. The explosion in technology has changed the ways you buy and apply technology, and it has forever changed expectations about how technology can and should influence your connectivity to customers, suppliers, and employees.

This Executive Report focuses on how you identify the technologies most likely to keep your company growing and profitable. The explosion in technology has changed the ways you buy and apply technology, and it has forever changed expectations about how technology can and should influence your connectivity to customers, suppliers, and employees.

How do you identify the technologies most likely to keep your company growing and profitable? The explosion in technology has changed the way you buy and apply technology, and has forever changed expectations about how technology can influence your connectivity to customers, suppliers, and employees.

How do you identify the technologies most likely to keep your company growing and profitable? The explosion in technology has changed the way you buy and apply technology, and has forever changed expectations about how technology can influence your connectivity to customers, suppliers, and employees.

How do you identify the technologies most likely to keep your company growing and profitable? The explosion in technology has changed the way you buy and apply technology, and has forever changed expectations about how technology can influence your connectivity to customers, suppliers, and employees.

In this Executive Update, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Michael Mah discusses the alignment issues involved with creating and maintaining relationships between corporations and outsourcers. Mah works with clients to help them establish business agreements that lower the risks involved with outsourcing and to help them resolve outsourcing disputes without resorting to litigation.

In this Executive Update, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Michael Mah discusses the alignment issues involved with creating and maintaining relationships between corporations and outsourcers. Mah works with clients to help them establish business agreements that lower the risks involved with outsourcing and to help them resolve outsourcing disputes without resorting to litigation.

Very often, I see an overall corporate misalignment. Often, there are really two companies: a senior management company and the rest of the company. The IT people get stuck in the middle.

Every big company has several large, legacy applications that it intends to continue to use for the foreseeable future.