Author: WTN News

Chief information officers wondering how the slowing economy will impact their purchasing decisions are getting some guarded guidance from Gartner, Inc. Thanks largely to continued activity in mobile PCs, the technology and business research organization sees double-digit growth in personal computer sales, unless economic troubles...

Despite the economic slowdown, high-tech jobs are still in big demand, but the number of women pursuing careers in IT is declining. To increase awareness among girls and women in IT careers, Madison Area Technical College will host a career expo specifically designed for them. ...

The acquisition of the Expert Nurse Estimation Patient Classification System by the Hartford-based api Software will help the Wisconsin company meet state-imposed requirements for patient-to-staff ratios. api Software, a provider of labor resource management software to healthcare organizations, believes ENEPCS also will help hospitals with...

The debate over whether there actually is an IT talent crunch is not a matter of retiring Baby Boomers or whether there is a willingness to pay the going rate, as in the H-1B visa debate. The degree to which a company is impacted by...

Women in Bio have recognized Laura Douglass, president and CEO of Oregon, Wisconsin's Next Generation Clinical Research, as a successful entrepreneur in the life-science industry. She was among 83 women, all founders of biotechnology companies, honored at the organization's recent convention in Washington, D.C. ...

The implementation of globally integrated Human Resources Information Systems can be shaped nation by nation, or be predicated on key global standards, according to Wisconsin attorney Mark Foley. In this edition of Digital Lex, Foley offers a series of principles that amount to business process...

Information technology project failures often are linked to a lack of business and IT alignment, but what about dysfunctional project management teams? In this guest column for WTN, project management expert Lisa DiTullio links performance with a set of expected behaviors....

Passing on the opportunity to develop ethanol, Shell and Madison's Virent Energy Systems have instead agreed to collaborate on ways to convert plant sugars directly to gasoline, thereby addressing challenges posed by the technical properties of today's biofuels. Virent, a biofuels company working to commercialize...

The Madison drug-discovery company Centrose has been granted a United States patent for one of its sugar-based drug improvement chemistries. The company, which was spun out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has focused on how sugars regulate drug activity in the body....