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September 23, 2008 - IT World Canada

50 years later, CIPS is still exploring IT's future
Rafael Ruffolo, ComputerWorld Canada: This week’s Toronto Technology Week also marked the 50th anniversary celebration for The Canadian Information Processing Society. Notable members discuss how IT has begun to evolve into a profession and why enterprises have to take notice.

TORONTO - The Canadian Information Processing Society’s (CIPS) celebrated its 50th anniversary at a conference in Toronto Tuesday that involved a debate on the evolution of the IT industry and the state of the profession as a whole. Richard Wilson, executive vice-president of Toronto-based risk and compliance software firm Resolver Inc., said that while IT is often asked to develop the technical requirements for many different business projects, he argued they need to start... more

September 2, 2008

Google Chrome Web Browser - Success or Failure?
Steve E. Driz: Let's face it. Google Chrome is destined to succeed. Consider this; today is the biggest day in Google’s history, since following the release of its new web browser, it will go head to head with Microsoft by creating first ever cloud-based alternative to Windows OS. I know what you are going to say, you will probably mention the fact that Google Chrome so far runs on Windows, which is somewhat weird. However, even without its new web browser, today Google is capable of offering a sound alternative to... more

June 28, 2007 - ComputerWorld Canada

Format Wars - Redmond vs. Big Blue

Antoine Lablond doesn’t actually do much programming at Microsoft anymore, but he can still remember the thrill of it. “Getting to write a line of code and have half a billion people actually run it — if you think of the impact that software in general has had in the way people work, it’s an amazing thing to... more

Response by Steve E. Driz - Letter to the Editor

Interesting article incorporates different views of slightly biased technology professionals. If I could speak on behalf of the IT community, including both business users and decision makers, I would confirm that customers are indeed not looking for more standards, but do look for a single unified platform and a standard that would allow them to retain and reuse the electronic information in years to come. The desire to standardize has absolutely nothing to do with choice, but with the... more

March 6, 2007 - IT World Canada

March of Dimes Moves Forward with Sharepoint Deployment

Nestor E. Arellano: Processing forms is not the most exciting work, and when you have thousands of them to sift through, the task can seem ever so onerous. Until recently, that was the experience of Ontario March of Dimes (OMOD), a non-profit outfit that assists more than 37,000 physically challenged persons each year.

For ever so long, the organization, which has more than 2,000 employees, used to engage in manual, paper-based forms processing – a laborious, time-consuming task. All that changed – quite dramatically... more

December 11, 2006 - CompuWorld

Early users give Office 2007 the thumbs-up despite the shock of losing the File menu button, early users are positive about Office 2007 and its hidden delights
Much has been said about the potential difficulties that Microsoft’s Office 2007 revamped user interface has in store for computer users. However, some organizations that have had time to tinker with the software which will supplant Office 2003 report positive user experiences and improved productivity.

It seems the initial shock of realizing the File menu has... more