The earnings season is nearly over, and despite concerns about year 2000 disruptions in business, most federal integrators met or exceeded expectations. Of course, potential Y2K-related lockdowns and deferrals could have more of an impact on fourth-quarter results, as could the current budget delays in Congress. Let's briefly review the September quarter earnings of major public companies dealing in federal information technology.
The earnings season is nearly over, and despite concerns about year 2000 disruptions in business, most federal integrators met or exceeded expectations. Of course, potential Y2K-related lockdowns and deferrals could have more of an impact on fourth-quarter results, as could the current budget delays in Congress. Let's briefly review the September quarter earnings of major public companies dealing in federal information technology.
Given free rein over content and format, I often thought it would be great fun to teach a course about online searching using any one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Included in my reading list would be such classics as "The Speckled Band," "The Red-Headed League," "The Dancing Men" and "The Final Problem."
Given free rein over content and format, I often thought it would be great fun to teach a course about online searching using any one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Included in my reading list would be such classics as "The Speckled Band," "The Red-Headed League," "The Dancing Men" and "The Final Problem."
After spending a week at the Gartner Group IT conference in Florida with more than 8,000 attendees, I remain optimistic about the future of both the federal and commercial IT services market.
After spending a week at the Gartner Group IT conference in Florida with more than 8,000 attendees, I remain optimistic about the future of both the federal and commercial IT services market.
Ingram Micro Inc.'s Government and Education Division is seeking to boost its share of the IT dollars spent by government procurement cardholders with a new e-commerce site that unites government purchasers with resellers.
UK financial software developer QSP Inc. is targeting large federal and state government agencies with the launch of Financial Collaborator, its first product created specifically for sale through resellers.
If we could start the World Wide Web all over again, I think most of us would dismiss the majority of sites now populating the Internet. The more interesting question is which ones we would keep.
While federal IT companies have not been hurt significantly by year 2000-related project deferrals, many commercial IT companies have not been so lucky.
While federal IT companies have not been hurt significantly by year 2000-related project deferrals, many commercial IT companies have not been so lucky.
When it comes to ordering goods and services, Compu-search Software Systems Inc. is doing its best to alleviate bureaucratic headaches and red tape for government employees with the mere click of a button.
BMC Software Inc. executives say their experience with federal government customers was a major driver behind the company's decision to focus on selling services and total solutions instead of just products for specific applications.
Brushing aside criticism about executive turnover, CACI International Inc.'s chairman and chief executive pointed to the company's record revenue and new president as evidence it is on the right track to becoming a top-tier government contractor.
With the last of the second-quarter earnings now reported, the results appear to be solid throughout most of the information technology services industry. CACI International Inc. of Arlington, Va., and GRC International Inc. of Vienna, Va., both reported results above analysts' expectations.
The newsprint barely had dried on my column about high-technology work force needs when I found in my mailbox a recent addition to the literature. Titled "The Supply of Information Technology Workers in the United States" (www.cra.org/reports/wits/cra.wits.html), the study was produced by the Computing Research Association.
The newsprint barely had dried on my column about high-technology work force needs when I found in my mailbox a recent addition to the literature. Titled "The Supply of Information Technology Workers in the United States" (www.cra.org/reports/wits/cra.wits.html), the study was produced by the Computing Research Association.
Since executives at Gates/Arrow Distributing Inc. lured Tim Collins away from a Washington-based reseller last fall, the company's new vice president of sales has added mass and focus to his division's government presence.
We hear it less today than several years ago, but many federal IT companies still feel they must increase their commercial work to add value for shareholders.
A little company in Pittsburgh plans to step up marketing of a powerful tool that can help government and commercial organizations make better decisions. What sort of decisions? Everything from picking the winning vendor on a billion-dollar contract to buying desktop computers.
