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The Computer News Fulltext database contains cover-to-cover, full-text articles from Computerworld and Network World, publications of IDG Communications, Inc. IDG Communications is a leading publisher of nearly 120 computer-related magazines. Coverage of Network World extends from October 1989 through October 2005. Computerworld is covered from August 1989 through August 2006.
USE FILE 674to search the fulltext of IDG publications, Computerworld and Network World. USE JN=to search for a specific title, e.g., SELECT JN=COMPUTERWORLD SELECT JN=NETWORK WORLDSEARCH /TIto restrict searches to key title words, e.g., SELECT ACCOUNTING(W)SYSTEM?/TI |
Computer News Fulltext covers a variety of subject areas on computer-related technologies and companies within the computer and network industries from 1989 to 2006.
Computerworld, a leading trade publication on computer information, provides coverage of the following topics:
Network World, a leading weekly news magazine on network information, provides coverage of the following topics:
| Dates Covered: | Computerworld 8/1989 to 8/2006, except November and December 2005; Network World 10/1989 to 10/2005 |
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| File Size: | 122,374 records as of August 2006 |
| Update Frequency: | Closed |
| ACRONYM | CATEGORY NAME |
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| BRANDNMS | Brand Names |
| COMPSCI | Computers, Electronics, and Telecommunications R&D |
| ELECTRON | Computers, Electronics, and Telecommunications Business |
| MAGSALL | Journals and Magazines |
| MAGTEXT | Full-Text Journals and Magazines |
| PCINFO | Personal Computer Information |
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| (c) 1997 IDG Communications. All rts. reserv. | |
| 0005649 | |
| /TI | Burger, fries and project management |
| McDonald's finds that implementing groupware can be easier than | |
| getting people to use it | |
| AU= | Byline: Charles Von Simson, CW Staff |
| JN= | Journal: Computerworld Page Number: 39 |
| PY=, PD= | Publication Date: April 02, 1990 |
| Word Count: 748 Line Count: 54 | |
| SH= | Section Heading: On site |
| /CP | Caption(s): Hamburger icon |
| Text: | |
| DL=, /TX | OAK BROOK, Ill. --- Looking for a way to bring more discipline |
| to his group's planning process, Jim Sappington found himself in | |
| a situation that is familiar to anyone who has looked at project | |
| management software. | |
| ``It all looked great,'' said Sappington, senior manager of | |
| the financial systems group at McDonald's Corp. ``But I couldn't | |
| find something useful to do with it.'' The problem, he explained, | |
| was that while several vendors offered pieces of the calendar, | |
| to-do list, report writer and electronic mail functionality he | |
| was looking for, none offered a collected group of functions that | |
| had been integrated into a single package. | |
| Finally, Sappington settled on software from Information | |
| Research Corp., a Charlottesville, Va., developer of a | |
| group-oriented project management system and report writer called | |
| Syzygy. The DOS-based software incorporates all the functions | |
| Sappington's accounting systems group needed, including the | |
| ability to easily incorporate information from the Lotus | |
| Development Corp. 1-2-3 and Microsoft Corp. Excel spreadsheets. | |
| Sappington saw Syzygy's primary value over other products as | |
| the collection of several features in one package. ``It allows us | |
| to communicate effectively as well as take care of our own | |
| personal projects,'' Sappington said. ``Products like Lotus | |
| Agenda really only address one part of the planning process.'' | |
| The system is currently being used by five accounting | |
| systems developers which are linked over Novell, Inc. Netware. | |
| The five are accountants who support information systems for the | |
| financial and accounting groups at McDonald's. Once tax season is | |
| over and the team has more time, they will begin to roll the | |
| system out to other parts of the company. The first targeted | |
| group is about 20 people in a different financial systems | |
| function. | |
| What project management software does, in general, is | |
| provide a flexible framework for scheduling tasks and | |
| appointments. At the most basic level, a typical system allows a | |
| manager to input several tasks under a name and have the name | |
| appear, much like a spreadsheet, when any one of the tasks is | |
| called up on the computer. | |
| Most of these products offer a number of different features | |
| and levels of complexity. Syzygy includes a shared calendar | |
| feature, support for E-mail, project and task scheduling and | |
| organization and a database query report writer. All of the | |
| features can be shared between the personal computers running the | |
| software. | |
| Agenda change | |
| While managers such as Sappington said that there is an | |
| ever-increasing need for such software as organizations flatten | |
| and reporting structures become less formal, products to date | |
| have not done very well in the marketplace. Lotus Agenda, the | |
| most prominent entry, is being revamped with an improved | |
| interface as sales lag. | |
| While Sappington said that the Syzygy interface is ``much | |
| more structured'' and hence easier to use, he acknowledged that | |
| it does not have a spreadsheet's advantage of being immediately | |
| necessary. ``You still have to force people to use it to get them | |
| started,'' Sappington said. ``Once they get going, everyone uses | |
| it differently, and some far more than others.'' | |
| However, while Information Research has done some good work | |
| on the interface, it is not a leap beyond Agenda. It does, | |
| however, have some very powerful additional features, including a | |
| menu-driven report writer that allows for the creation of | |
| standard queries to generate reports from database files. | |
| ``That is the most powerful feature,'' Sappington said. ``It | |
| allows us to better integrate information from a number of | |
| sources into our planning and goal setting process. As far I see | |
| it, that's what this whole area is driving at.'' |
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| None | None | All Basic Index Fields | Word | S PROJECT(W)MANAGEMENT |
| /CP | CP | Caption | Word | S HAMBURGER(W)ICON/CP S CHART/CP |
| /TI | TI | Title, Headline | Word | S PROJECT(W)MANAGEMENT/TI |
| /TX | TX | Text | Word | S REPORT(S)WRITE?/TX |
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DISPLAY CODE |
FIELD NAME |
INDEXING |
SELECT EXAMPLES |
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| None | AN | DIALOG Accession Number | ||
| AU= | AU | Author | Phrase | S AU=VON SIMSON, CHARLES |
| DL= | DL | Dateline | Phrase | S DL=OAK BROOK, ILL. |
| JN= | JN | Journal Name | Phrase | S JN=COMPUTERWORLD |
| None | LC | Line Count | ||
| PD= | PD | Publication Date | Word | S PD=8908:8912 |
| PY= | PY | Publication Year | Word | S PY=1990 |
| SH= | SH | Section Heading | Word | S SH=(ON(W)SITE) |
| None | SO | Source Information1 | ||
| UD= | None | Update | Word | S UD=9999 |
| None | WD | Word Count |
1 Display includes Journal Name, Publication Date, Page, Line Count, and Word Count. Data is missing for November and December 2005.
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| /YYYY | Publication Year | S S2/1990 |
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| 5 | -- | Full Record except Text |
| 6 | Short | Title |
| 7 | -- | Title and Abstract |
| 8 | Free | Title and Indexing |
| 9 | Full | Full Record |
| K | -- | KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats |
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