The Queensland Department of Corrective Services is using intranet technology and developing an Information Management Strategic Plan to help it keep a firmer grip on the state's jail inmates.

The stocks of many of the former heavyweights of the information management industry have come back with a vengeance.

Microsoft has unveiled Office Online, which will deliver the traditional Office 2000 desktop to users as an Internet-hosted service.

A forms processing solution from Cardiff Software has cut a week from the time the NSW Board of Studies took to mark last year's higher school certificate (HSC) exam papers.

Database specialists Informix and Ardent have agreed to merge.

Computron Software has teamed with accounting firm Pannell Kerr Foster (PKF) Worldwide, to deliver a Goods and Services Tax (GST)-compliant financial reporting and management tool.

Online retailers have some way to go towards smoothing their back-order fulfilment processes.

GMB Research & Development has released an email manager which captures, indexes and stores all emails at the server level to provide a complete corporate transaction record.

The dawn of the century means fresh ideas and new directions.

With the bug beaten, organisations are now developing strategies for an online future that will deliver concrete returns.