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Enterprise IP telephony's "baby steps" problem

We hear a lot about companies making "wholesale" switches from traditional telephony to VoIP.We hear less about companies that are getting there by a series of baby steps. But my sense is that in the enterprise space,there are far more baby-steppers than mass adopters.In some cases, these baby steps are...

Tags: Allstate Corp., VoIP, Brandi Landreth

Blog posts 2005-10-10

Open source risks now insurable

Open source risks now insurableDo you want to be a face?That unlimited risk liability can be very damaging. Just wondering if you're considering adding your own cash.And I'd be curious about who the potential buyers of such policies might be and how much they're expected to pay.This doesn't show...

Tags: Financial Planning, open source, revenue, insurance, Allstate Corp., insurance company

Discussion threads 2005-08-15

COBIT and IT Governance Case Study: Allstate

Allstate is based in Northbrook, Illinois, USA, and offers a wide range of protection and savings tools that work together to achieve financial security. After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in the US, Allstate began using COBIT to evaluate IT governance and control, obtain benchmarks for assessing automated controls embedded...

Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Allstate Corp., Strategy, Management

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Leading Insurance Company Test Lab Turns to Virtual Machines to Improve Efficiency

Allstate, one of the leading insurers in the United States, was adding hundreds of servers to its data centers each year. If that rate of increase continued, even with the average server using typically less than 10 percent of its CPU capacity, the company would have required additional facilities. To...

Tags: Allstate Corp., Insurance, Virtual Machine, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware

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Top 25 advertisers in African American media

With $89.7 mln in spending, Procter & Gamble is the largest advertiser targeting African American consumers, according to Nielsen Company. McDonald’s is second with $37.7 mln, followed by Johnson and Johnson with $36.1 million in total spending for the 12 months October 2006 through September 2007. Collectively, top 25 advertisers...

Tags: Category, Media, McDonald's Corp., Advertiser, Product Category, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-05

On the outsourcing hot seat

On the outsourcing hot seatLet's see, how can I put this..."Q: Who wins and who loses from offshore relocations? A: The Indian companies and Indian employees win, and so do the American companies that outsource. For the American companies, this clearly is an instrument for them to improve their productivity,...

Tags: Government, Benefits, Strategy, outsourcing, outsource

Discussion threads 2004-01-20