David Needle

Keeping track of time can be expensive, just ask Stanley Associates. The IT services contractor for the government and other large concerns has saved between $16,000 and $20,000 a year on interest payments alone just by moving from a paper-based to an online system of accounting for contract labor. And while it used to take […]

Most of us with lives outside work hate having to punch the clock on weekends — much less the middle of the night on weekends. So when the network analyst at Knowles Electronics found himself doing just that to handle a temperamental backup drive he was more than willing to seek out an alternative solution. […]

The Star Trek analogy comes easily. As I sat in the conference room at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Avistar and made a video call to an office of investment bank UBS Warburg in England, the smooth, clear connection made me think of Captain Jean Luc Picard’s lifelike communiques with Star Fleet light years away […]

Keeping track of thousands of computers and multiple IT systems was not a high priority at the Prudential Insurance Company of America in the mid-1990s. But that all changed in 1998, as the Newark, N.J., insurance giant geared up to confront the potential Y2K crisis. The company’s decision to add asset management software to its […]