- Reader's Digest consolidates its 17 data
centers.
The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., one of the world's largest publishing and direct mail marketing companies, is in the midst of a five-year program that calls for consolidating its 17 worldwide data centers. Reader's Digest is not closing down these remote sites, but instead will provide an even greater range ......
- Web-based data warehousing: Current status and perspective
HEADNOTE ABSTRACT HEADNOTE The practice of building a series of independent data marts and networking them into a distributed data warehouse is rapidly gaining acceptance and promises to quickly become the paradigm for data warehouse construction. This paper examines the current status of the Web-based data warehousing and its perspective....
- Information technology and HR.
Computer technology has progressed at an incredibly rapid pace since the widespread reliance on relatively large, slow, difficult-to-use mainframes of a mere 10 to 15 years ago. The current environment of client-server networks, LANs and WANs, and the Internet's World Wide Web are evolving and developing at an ever-increasing pace....
- Kredietbank's global networking strategy assures
redundancy.
6 Faced with a lack of redundancy in its international network, Belgium's Kredietbank went on-line with Infonet's virtual InfoLAN network service in July 1991. InfoLAN provides global connectivity between LANs and WANs using native protocols such as TCP/IP and source route bridging. Kredietbank, world leader in European Currency Unit (ECU) ......
- HongkongBank continues ambitious global network
expansion.
Former Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston's prediction that banking would become as concerned with information about money as it is with money itself is evidenced by the rising demand among banks for globalized data communications. The worldwide data communications network built by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., known popularly as ......
- TIGR ANNUAL REPORT: INTERNET/E-COMMERCE INDUSTRY 2000
- 2001.
Description: Local e-commerce activities and companies including Internet Service Providers (ISP); web site support services; Internet software developers; Internet telecommunications providers; businesses selling products/services via Internet; calling centers. Year in Review: Up *: Honolulu-based Tickets Plus announces plans for call center on Kauai that could generate up to 300 jobs ......
- The year 2000 problem: how a Hong Kong hotel is
dealing with Y2K.
"If everything seems to be going according to plan, you can be certain you've overlooked something."(1) To business people in Hong Kong, nothing significant has changed since the political hand-over on July 1, 1997. However, neither Hong Kong hoteliers nor other innkeepers anywhere in the world can expect that their ......