InformationWeek

The Biggest And The Best
The Internet, intranets, and data mining are boosting productivity for the top 500 users of IT

Aerospace/Engineering
In a soft market for defense contracts, these companies reengineer to
compete in an expanded arena

Banking
Data mining helps banks gather more, and deeper, information on customers

Chemicals
Globalization drives the industry toward standardization on the desktop

Computers
Industry leads the move to the Internet/intranet culture

Consumer Products
Net-based computing helps speed information to customers

Electronics
Shorter product life cycles and outsourcing force companies to rethink enterprise systems

Energy
A standard client-server platform helps oil companies respond to cost-cutting pressures

Financial Services
Companies consolidate disparate systems to improve data access and productivity

Food Processing
Implementing the Efficient Customer Response technology lets food and beverage processors satisfy specific customer demands

Health Care
The world of mana ged care brings providers together to standardize on technology and cut expenses

Insurance
'White-collar automation' revolutionizes an industry determined to lick years of mainframe dependency

Manufacturing
Companies customize best-of-breed systems software for a
competitive edge

Media
Key players create IT infrastructures to help find new business opportunities

Metals/Natural Resources
Companies see potential in the Internet for low-cost market access

Pharmaceuticals
A quest to use knowledge management as a competitive tool leads drug makers to data warehouses

Profe ssional Services
To exploit knowledge assets, these firms are on the cutting edge of IT

Retail
Fast, accurate customer information is the retailer's strongest weapon

Telecommunications
Communications reform has carriers scrambling for position and taking
a savvy look at technology

Transportation
Shipping firms spend big to deliver information to customers

Utilities
As deregulation sets the stage for competition and alliances, IT will help utilities adapt