But he brings a wealth of experience to the position both from the private sector in the insurance industry, and the public sector. Most recently Cochrane was CEO of the IT branch of
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Kathleen Sibley
@itbusinessca
Hydro Quebec is pulling the plug on the mishmash of configurations, processes and terminologies that have characterized its IT systems with the deployment of a business services management solution.The software, BMC Atrium CMDB
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Kathleen Sibley
@itbusinessca
At the height of the ski season, the Resort Municipality of Whistler, B.C.'s streets and slopes explode with almost 10,000 second-home owners and another 20,000 visitors, in addition to the 9,500 permanent residents.
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Kathleen Sibley
@itbusinessca
B.C.'s local government IT departments are about to take delivery of a new database that will raise the bar in terms of the data security expectations imposed upon them. Bill 25 is a
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Rob Carnegie
@itbusinessca
Perhaps Cranston hasn't heard of Moodle. Moodle - modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment - is an open source software package used by more than four million people in 150 countries. It is designed
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Kathleen Sibley
@itbusinessca
Across Canadian campuses, there is a revolution taking place. And like the song says, this revolution will not be televised.Instead, it will probably be Webcast. High-speed networks and advances in videoconferencing technology will
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Kathleen Sibley
@itbusinessca
There's already an alphabet soup of standards out there. So why are so many governments getting excited about ODF? Open Document Format, which was developed by the OASIS industry consortium and uses the
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Vawn Himmelsbach
@itbusinessca
A National Research Council scientist is developing a tool inspired by social networking software that will rank, filter and distribute e-mail messages to Canadian emergency services departments.The application, called EM-Flow, will use intelligent
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Shane Schick
@ShaneSchick
The Cape Breton Regional Police are preparing to use an open source database tool to analyze information about their investigations - starting with a murder case that's already been solved.Officials from the police
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Shane Schick
@ShaneSchick
Henry, federal chief technology officer and senior director, enterprise technology and application strategies at Treasury Board Secretariat, says most of the approximately $5 billion annual federal IT spend for information technology - which
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Kathleen Sibley
@itbusinessca
Here's a snippet:Man#4: Who'd ‘ave thought, 30 years ago, we'd all be sitting here drinking Chateau de Shlasseler, eh? Man#1: Aye, in them days we was glad to have the price of a
Published on: September 15th, 2006
Kathleen Sibley
@itbusinessca
With the help of $1 million in seed funding from Canadian benefactor Peter A. Silverman, the three-year agreement signed last October is meant to share medical knowledge and research through distance learning that
Published on: June 24th, 2006
Fawzia Sheikh
@itbusinessca
Once upon a time, back when Tunny's Pasture here in Ottawa still had cows, my mother landed a job with the federal taxation department. It was about 1964 and their computing department, which
A national project to understand Canada's development by digitizing census data has turned researchers across the country into a team of teleworkers.Led by the University of Ottawa, the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI)
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