Thanks Wiz, for your insight into the future. Looks like I'll be passing
down my current computer system, to my little sister, sooner than I thought ;-) ....
PC WEEK yesterday(6/17/98) also released a study VERY favorable to the future of INTRANET development and spending.
The Link to the main page of the study is....
zdnet.com
The page focusing on INTRANET ROI and INTRANET SPENDING
PLANS is...
zdnet.com
The Press Release announcing the study follows....
"PC WEEK and ZD Market Intelligence Identify Companies on the
Technology 'Fast Track'
08:17 a.m. Jun 17, 1998 Eastern
MEDFORD, Mass., June 17/PRNewswire/-- PC WEEK, The
Nation's IT Newsweekly from Ziff-Davis(NYSE: ZD), today published
the results of the "Fast Track 500" in a special supplement.
Produced in collaboration with ZD Market Intelligence, this annual
report delivers a clear picture from inside one of the most significant
revolutions ever to hit the business world-- the internet. Revolutions
happen fast. Sometimes they happen so fast that it's hard to know
what to adopt and how fast to adapt. PC WEEK ranks the top
500 most technologically innovative corporations on the basis of
how successfully they are using the Internet, Intranets, and
Extranets in their businesses.
"This year we decided to focus 'Fast Track' on the epicenter of
IT innovation today; the Internet," said Eric Lundquist, Editor and
Chief of PC WEEK. "We hit the jackpot. We found the 500
corporations that are doing the most with intranets, extranets, and
e-commerce. What's more, we drilled down to uncover details
about the return on their Internet investments and to learn about
their plans for the future. You can't get this kind of information
anywhere else."
Some of the findings about "Fast Track 500" companies include:
*Over half will increase spending by 50 percent or more on Internet
technology -- particularly on intranets and electronic commerce.
*They are very satisfied with their overall Internet investments, with
return on Intranet investments ranking highest, followed by extranet
and e-commerce investments.
*They are rapidly improving their intranets and extranets, replacing
static information display with strategic functionality. Most plan to
link intranets with their data-warehouse applications, and most plan
to allow partners and customers to execute transactions on their
extranets.
*More than a quarter are already executing transactions over their
extranets.
*More than a third currently send voice, video, or other multimedia
over their intranets.
*Half have Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software running
on their intranets."
"The 'Fast Track 500' pinpoints those leading-edge companies that
are using the Internet both strategically and tactically," said Stan
Schatt, Ph.D., Vice President, Research, ZD Market Intelligence.
"These companies are a technologically elite group that is using
Internet technology to solve real business problems."
To identify the "Fast Track 500" companies, PC WEEK worked
with ZD Market Intelligence, a leading source of fact-based
information on the computer and communication industries, to
develop a methodology that uses specific internet technologies as
indicators to rank the most innovative companies. Indicators
included items such as intranet penetration, intranet access to
data-warehouse or operational systems, deployment of e-commerce
applications, deployment of internally developed Java apps, and
dedicated web-server MIPS.
"The audience that cares deeply about the issues raised by the
'Fast Track' study is also the audience that our advertisers absolutely
need to reach," said John Federman, Publisher of PC WEEK.
"These companies are looking for specific solutions that will work
today, and they're ready to translate the need for a specific
technology into the need for a specific product. PC WEEK has
identified both the products and the strategies that are making
these companies competitive in today's market place."
According to PC WEEK's "Fast Track 500" list, the 20 most
technologically innovative companies in the country are:
1. Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., Nashville, TN
2. Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, MD
3. General Electric Co, Fairfield CT
4. Raytheon Co., Lexington, MA
5. Cox Enterprises Inc., Atlanta, GA
6. Rockwell International Corp., Seal Branch, CA
7. Siemens Corp., New York, NY
8. International Paper, Purchase, NY
9. Dana Corp., Toledo, OH
10. Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI
11. International Business Machines, Armonk, NY
12. Blue Cross Blue Shield Assn., Chicago, Il
13. Allied Signal Inc., Morristown, NJ
14. Chevron Corp., San Francisco, CA
15. MCI Communications Corp., Washington DC
16. The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA
17. Unisys Corp., Blue Bell, PA
18. Georgia-Pacific Corp., Atlanta, GA
19. Ernst & Young LLP, New York, NY
20. Deere & Co., Moline, IL
Headquartered in Medford, MA, PC WEEK, with a rate base of
400,000 effective with the July 6th issue, delivers breaking news,
timely product reviews and editorial coverage of the technologies,
platforms, and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing.
ZD Market Intelligence is a leading provider of sales and marketing
solutions to a wide spectrum of computer and telecommunications
companies.
Ziff-Davis is a leading integrated media and marketing company
focused on computing and Internet-related technology, with
principal platforms in print publishing, trade shows and conferences,
online content, market research, and education. The Company
provides global technology companies with marketing strategies for
reaching key decision-makers.
SOURCE Ziff-Davis
Copyright 1998, PR Newswire
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