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MAYNARD WEBB
President, eBay Technologies
ebay
“Our business is our website.
We’ve got 42 million registered users who
are listing millions of items and transacting
over $30 million in gross merchandise sales
on the eBay site each day. You don’t run
that kind of Web enterprise on anything
but industrial-strength platforms.”
“Flexible and efficient management of
CNN’s huge, daily volume of content is
one of the keys to our success. Extending
content
—
such as our 150,000 hours of
archive content in a digital world
—
will
be done with enterprise-level media
management systems via IBM middleware.”
GORDON CASTLE
Senior Vice President, CNN Technology
cnn
“In today’s economy the investments
we make in technology have to
pay back. Our Tradetopia extranet
assists sales managers and food
brokers in planning and tracking
trade promotions and in handling
deductions. It produced 100 percent
ROI in under a year.”
DANIEL P. DILLON
President and Chief Executive Officer
welch foods, inc.
PHILIP F. MOONEY
Director, Corporate Archives
the coca-cola company
“In order to understand our brands and
their positioning, our employees have to
be steeped in the traditions, history and
imagery of our company. We’ve been
able to bring to life thousands of video
clips, photos and documents and make
them instantly available to our associates
all over the world.”
“We’re transforming our business
with a new e-business infrastructure—
powered by IBM database, communica-
tions, application and system
management software. For customers,
this means new and better services.
For employees, it means our intranet,
e-Spacio, can simplify and speed up
how we work.”
JOSE MANUEL AGUIRRE LARIZGOITIA
Senior Vice President and CIO
bbva group
JIM HANEY
Vice President
Architecture and Planning
whirlpool corporation
“In our business, the supply chain
is as important to our competitive
advantage as the quality of our
products. Our WebSphere-based
partner trade portal dramatically
improved ordering time and cut our
costs by more than 80 percent.”