Elf Oil UK has upgraded the systems management process in 70 of its 520 service stations using Sterling Commerce's Connect remote management product. Sterling's Connect also enables the company to remotely back-up data and upgrade software on...
Partners in the venture include Sterling Commerce, Cable & Wireless, Bank of Bermuda and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The eSuite delivers secure and confidential offshore processing of electronic transactions.
International Data Corporation has predicted that Internet commerce as a whole will be worth more than one trillion dollars by 2003, as more consumers shop online and the Web becomes a preferred avenue for business-to-business transactions.
HP, in association with Professor Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisation Psychology at the Manchester School of Management, has conducted a study to identify and record the characteristics that inventive organisations display.
The study concludes that the rapid expansion of e-commerce transactions, particularly in France, Italy and the UK, will increasingly make the internet the appropriate medium for advertisers to have online operations.
The report points to efficiency and standby improvements in products such as LCD and plasma flatscreens and more efficient future displays such as OLEDs and FEDs. The UK technology industry has just 12 years to slash its rapidly growing carbon...