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- 7-Eleven Redefines the Convenience Store for the Digital Age
- 7-Eleven is renowned in the retail industry for its adoption of technologies that track sales, manage inventory and connect stores with headquarters accounting systems and regional distribution centers. Yet, 7-Eleven believed that it needed to go further to ensure its brand promises of 24/7/365 reliability and convenience to customers. While...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., It Services, Branding, Strategy, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Midwest 7-Eleven Franchisor Protects Their VIP and Mobile Data With Atempo Live Backup
- 7-Eleven Stores is the recognized pioneer and leader in convenient, extended-hour retail stores. Their small business lacked an enforceable backup strategy and their valuable data was being lost and productivity suffered. Senior IT Manager evaluated Live Backup after reading about it in TechRepublic and found it to be ideally suited...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., Mobile, Atempo, 7-Eleven Stores, Atempo Live Backup, Backups
- Case studies 2008-04-24
- 7-Eleven's precious shelf space
- 7-Eleven's precious shelf spaceThe problem with this approach is that......oftentimes things aren't given enough of a chance. Companies are too quick to write something off in the name of speed and having new revenue streams. The TV show Cheers was near the bottom of Nielsen ratings in its...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Consumables, Shelf-space, shelf space, 7-Eleven Inc., Food Products
- Discussion threads 2005-08-16
- 7-Eleven's precious shelf space
- Baseline Magazine has an interview with 7-Eleven CEO James Keyes on how the company uses data from its point-of-sale systems to spot trends, find growth opportunities and control shelf space. 7-Eleven's store are like a big, distributed research facility, where it can test market ideas for different products in different...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., shelf space
- Blog posts 2005-08-16
- 7-Eleven rings in cell phone service
- 7-Eleven rings in cell phone serviceIf ever the government needed to step in, this is it.Look, I understand there is a demand/need for this product, but as usual the lowest income folks end up paying the WORST possible price for it.To add to it, the minutes sold are NOT the...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government, 7-Eleven Inc., cell phone service, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2004-04-27
- HP Case Study: 7-Eleven, Inc.
- 7-Eleven, Inc. is the premier name and largest chain in the convenience retailing industry. The challenges were growing revenues through reliable delivery, ensuring uptime of retail operations, enabling rapid and reliable business change through automated management and reducing IT operating costs, while improving operational efficiency. The solutions include HP OpenView...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., HP OpenView, Utility Computing, It Management, It service Management
- Case studies
- 7-Eleven Inc. Speeds Deployment and Consolidates Servers With VMware Virtual Infrastructure
- 7-Eleven, Inc. is the largest chain in the convenience retailing industry. As with many organizations, 7-Eleven's process for deploying new servers was lengthy and costly, frequently hindering the allocation of server resources for development and testing. Also, server resources to develop and test applications were limited, increasing the number of...
- Tags: 7-Eleven Inc., VMware Inc., Servers, Hardware
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- Print2Email 7.20 (Windows)
- The Print2Email with PDF application is targeted to both individuals and businesses to provide a seamless Email interface to any windows application, allowing them to print to Email. Print2Email is based on the Black Ice printer drivers, which are the most advanced and fastest raster-image print drivers available on the...
- Tags: Windows Application, Adobe PDF, Printer Driver, Microsoft Windows, Printing, Black Ice Software, Print2Email 7.20, Printers, E-mail, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup
- To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, operating system, John Gruber, Linux, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Windows 7? Yes ... uh, wait ... no ...
- How do you like this....Microsoft has just patented "sudo":http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390RE: Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Windows 7? Yes ... uh, wait ... no ...Of course, Microsoft has been copying things from the Mac for years. Look at Windows and Mac OS from the very beginning... the Mac had a...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Sudo, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Dragon Oath Official Client 0.50.7630 (Windows)
- Dragon Oath is the debut free-to-play MMORPG from MMORPG publisher ChangYou.com US Inc. Based on the story of one of the most popular Chinese novel "Tian Long Ba Bu," Dragon Oath is one of the first community and team play oriented MMORPG with the 24/7 event system, 9 distinctively different...
- Tags: Pet, MMORPG, Microsoft Windows, Mount, ChangYou, Dragon Oath
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Mobile Auction Manager for eBay ( For OS 4.2 - v4.7) (Mobile)
- This release is for blackberrys with OS 4.2- OS 4.7 inc orig storm for phones with OS 5.0 inc betas see item belowMobile Auction Manager for OS5.0+Mobile Auction Manager makes managing your eBay auctions on the move easy ! You can bid on auctions you are watching as well as...
- Tags: Mobile, Operating System, eBay Inc., PB Mobile Soft, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- Smart grid grants
- Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S. today. President Obama has chosen a Florida solar power plant as the location for making his announcement. He'll be in Arcadia, Florida, at Florida Power and Light Co.’s...
- Tags: Grant, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag
- What would you say is the most expensive part of a SharePoint deployment? A recent study by InfoTrends, a consultancy, identified where the money is being spent on SharePoint and where it's not. The results may surprise you. So I was speaking the other day...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- PA Semi ARM chip bound for Apple tablet
- I saw this comingI was watching the History Channel and Nostradamus predicted the coming of the Anti Iphone A tablet will do as good as the Newton....Unless they came up with some really new and gotta have feature like it can run for 16 hours I just don't see the...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, apple tablet, chip, tablet, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Research: Small DIY botnets prevalent in enterprise networks
- Does the size of a botnet really matter? It's all a matter of perspective. Contrary to the “common wisdom†that based on their size, big botnets are theoretically capable of infiltrating a huge percentage of enterprise networks, a recently presented study entitled "My Bots Are Not Yours!...
- Tags: Enterprise Network, Espionage, Cyberthreats, Spam, Robots, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Emerging Technologies, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- The PMI Group, Inc. Increases Enterprise System Performance and Streamlines IT Maintenance
- PMI Group wanted to ensure that PMI Group's enterprise systems are reliable and easily accessible to its globally dispersed workforce and maintain high employee satisfaction, evident in the company's listing as one of the "Best Places to Work in the Bay Area". The challenge was to minimize IT costs and...
- Tags: PMI Group Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, Performance, Information Technology, Banking, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Financial Services, Finance, Management
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City
- Developers, developers, developers, developers... [nt][nt]Here's to that rounding error getting smaller:DRE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York CitySweet! Wish I could be there to see it. Who knows, maybe something will come up in NYC and I'll be there.RE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in...
- Tags: Chipsets, Branding, developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Gigabyte Technology, motherboard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- What really happened to Wikipedia
- Well, not quite.:-) Nice piece.I'd question that the influx of money (which is still trivial - a few million dollars is NOTHING to run a top 10 website) has anything much to do with the processes such as the living people's bio policy. One is the Foundation, the other is...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikimedia
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- On2 shareholders sue to stop Google acquisition
- On2 Technologies, the video compression company acquired by Google last week, has been sued by shareholders looking for a better deal. According to an SEC filing Techmeme, two class action suits were filed in Delaware and New York State. According to On2: Both complaints generally allege, among...
- Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Acquisition, On2 Technologies, Company, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
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