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Madison, Wis. — The president and CEO of Alliant Energy said chief executive officers and chief information officers must be "joined at the hip" if information technology is to support a company's core business....

Madison, Wis. — Information technology leaders need to identify and drive their businesses' core competencies, said Delphi Group founder and CEO Tom Koulopoulos in his Fusion2006 keynote presentation, "No-Fear Management: Innovating in a Culture of Change."...

Madison, Wis. — Berbee Information Networks Corp. caught IBM's attention with a government web portal for the city of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, that allowed residents to conduct business with the city online and used IBM's iSeries technology....

Madison, Wis. — Information technology suffers from one bugbear above all: complexity. That was the view presented by a technology analyst and explored by panelists and attendees of the Fusion2006 CEO-CIO Symposium....

Green Bay, Wis. — MailFoundry, a line of anti-spam equipment and services provided by Green Bay-based Solinus Inc., now includes a plan for small businesses. MailFoundry Hosted starts at $9.95 per month for 10 e-mail accounts....

Wisconsin is scrapping an Oracle-based e-mail installation and trying to recover $2.1 million in licenses and consulting fees, based on a pilot program that lasted for at least six months and seemed to be going well until insurmountable technical difficulties cropped up....

Milwaukee, Wis. — RedPrairie Corporation has completed its previously announced acquisition of MARC Global Holdings, Inc. and said on Thursday it expects to grow to 738 employees at 21 sites with $172 million in revenue....