The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's catalyst grant program, modeled on UWM's Research Growth Initiative, will fund three research projects in 2008. A total of $170,000 in catalyst program funds are part of the five-year, $1 million gift to UWM from Rockwell Automation....
Demographics and other forces that point to an IT labor shortage are pretty well locked in, according to workforce experts. Beginning in 2009, the workforce will stop growing, a trend that will take hold for the next 20 years and challenge the creativity of information...
Just about everything you always wanted to know about a business intelligence project, but were somewhat afraid to ask, can be summed up by Reed Eichner, vice president and CIO for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. Eichner is ready to launch a...
Fiserv has announced the hiring of Richard Jones as executive vice president and chief information officer. Jones, who will report to the CEO, will have oversight responsibility for global infrastructure, technology governance, and technology resources. ...
Metavante Technologies has agreed to acquire the London-based Nomad Payments for $58 million. Nomad provides prepay and debit card processing services and software, and will give Metavante a strong presence in the European market. ...
Madison Development Corp. has announced a second round of funding for its Venture Debt Program, bringing the fund's total capital to $4.274 million. The fund was established to help technology businesses, and among its first-round borrowers were NeoClone, GenTel Biosciences, and Networked Insights....
Citing feedback about the need for additional clarity, the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services has canceled a Request for Proposal on two information technology projects. The state has been frustrated by troubled and failed IT implementations, and its procurement process - including RFPs...
Like many other aspects of personal finance, the decision to sell your business will depend largely on tax implications. As columnist and attorney Joe Boucher explains in this edition of Early Stage, business owners face a choice between selling their ownership interests or selling their...
Technically skilled people can be lone wolves and tend to have no appetite for managing people, let alone setting business strategy as part of upper management. How, then, do the chief information officers that manage them keep them motivated when they advance to that point...
This time last year, David Witter succeeded James Bar as chief executive of TDS Telecommunications Corp. as the company was beginning to make a transition from a traditional phone company to a broadband provider. The future of telecommunications involves providing voice, broadband, and video products...