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- Getting Past Fear & Anxiety: 5 Best Practices to Manage Through Challenging Economic Times
- This paper is aimed at small business owners interested in increasing revenues and productivity during the downturn. Special attention is paid to how to make technology work harder for one during the downturn. This paper provides specific how-to advice for each best practice cited so that readers can immediately implement...
- Tags: Economic Times, Best Practice, Manage Inc., Downturn, AMI-Partners
- White papers 2009-04-17
- Winning With Environmental Strategies: How & Why Businesses Should Adopt Green Practices
- This paper is aimed at small business owners who are interested in learning more about green business practices that will help increase productivity and efficiencies throughout their business. This paper provides specific how-to advice for each best practice cited so that one can immediately implement ideas one finds most compelling.
- Tags: AMI-Partners
- White papers 2009-04-17
- Disaster Recovery Planning: How Planning for a Disaster Can Save Your Business
- This paper is aimed at small business owners who are interested in learning about disaster planning best practices to help increase revenue and reduce risks. Special attention is paid to how technology can significantly reduce data loss risks while also benefiting business. This paper provides specific "How To" advice for...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Best Practice, AMI-Partners, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2009-04-17
- Marketing During Tough Economic Times: How to Get Your Marketing to Generate More Sales
- This paper is aimed at small business owners interested in learning how to radically improve their marketing to increase sales. Special attention is paid to best practices that will help one increase marketing effectiveness while saving money and time through the use of in-house printing solutions including: printers, PCs, web-based...
- Tags: Economic Times, Sales, AMI-Partners, Marketing Research, Marketing
- White papers 2009-04-17
- Four Steps to Developing a Service Management Strategy for Midsized Business
- BMC Express Solutions for Midsized Business allow companies to gain control of IT processes and assets while improving service, reducing costs, increasing security and achieving compliance with an easy to implement and maintain solution. AMI-Partners outlines a service management strategy that helps you meet the service delivery expectations that business...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Service Management, AMI-Partners, It Management, It Services, It service Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Analysts: Need to replace aging telcom equipment to give SMB VoIP a boost
- AMI-Partners is out with a new study that could merit some mulling over around here....The study, "2004-05 U.S. SMB Small and Medium Business Telecommunications Market Overview and Assessment," says that 42% of small U.S. businesses (less than 100 emplyees) and 61% of medium-size ones (100 to 999 employees)currently use or...
- Tags: AMI-Partners, IP, telephony, small and medium business
- Blog posts 2005-08-04
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- Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus
- Not for Smaller businessesA nice new angle to look at Microsoft's price cut. Microsoft is undoubtedly targeting the enterprise segment with BPOS, since in spite of the price cut, BPOS is complex and needs implementation support, and costs more from a total cost point of view. (Varguy reported a reseller...
- Tags: Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., BPOS price
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals
- Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's ambitious push into cloud computing -- and the enterprise. Ubuntu is best known for its Linux desktop and there are several desktop improvements in this upgrade -- including a faster boot and login and enhanced audio and and 3G broadband connectivity. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Eucalyptus, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- What happens if Google's Edu Apps aren't free anymore?
- There is no difference, Chris...With paid services, you always run the risk that they will suddenly start costing *more*.The price risk is therefore the same, with paid and free services alike. :-)RE: What happens if Google's Edu Apps aren't free anymore?I've moved completely to Open Office and haven't regretted...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Strategy, Word processors, price risk, Google Inc., Google Edu Apps, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- How Do You Put "Smart" Into the Smart Grid?
- This paper offers views on the most effective ways to integrate, store, manage and analyze Advanced Metering Infrastructure AMI and smart metering data. It also explains how to make sure the information that utilities use to make decisions is not only consistent, accurate and timely, but also contributes to operational...
- Tags: Audit, SAS Institute, Grid, Data Management, Portals, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Oracle & Google: Of Goats, Grids and GRI
- Oracle & Google: Of Goats, Grids and GRISAP and StreamServe Focus on Sustainability as WellGreat blog post, James! As you may know, at the CS Week conference in Washington DC, SAP and StreamServe also made announcements around helping utilities and their customers become more energy efficient.SAP announced two key steps...
- Tags: Google Inc., StreamServe Inc., SAP AG, GRI, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Cloud Computing for the Enterprise: Part 2: WebSphere sMash and DB2 Express-C on the Amazon EC2 Public Cloud
- Among the three cloud types - public, private, and hybrid clouds - the public cloud is probably the most well-known and mature in its offerings. Accessibility and affordability are two of the key characteristics that have led to the popularity of the public cloud. To these ends, the Amazon Elastic...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Amazon.com Inc., IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Middleware, Management, Hardware, Software
- White papers 2009-05-20
- Improving BIOS Debugging Using USB 2.0 Methods: Moving Beyond POST Checkpoints
- The Basic Input/Output System BIOS on modern computers, whether based on legacy BIOS standards or Unified EFI UEFI, send debug checkpoints during the initialization and boot process. Checkpoints are valuable for platform diagnostics and quality assurance. The current method of using a PCI card to display checkpoints has a number...
- Tags: USB 2.0, Checkpoint, USB, American Megatrends Inc., Checkpoints, BIOS, PCI, Quality, Hardware, Components, Storage, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-04-20
- Memtest86+ 2.11 (Windows)
- Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team, now working at www.canardpc.com. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.Memtest86+ is, like the original, released...
- Tags: Chris Brady, Web Site Development, Team Management, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Web Technology, Processors, Internet, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-04-08
- AMI and Beyond: How Wireless Broadband Enables the Smart Grid Today and Tomorrow
- As they plan to take their first step towards their Smart Grid vision, most utilities are beginning their journey with the implementation of an AMI Advanced Metering Infrastructure system. More and more of these utilities are also realizing that to truly harness the power of the Smart Grid, they must...
- Tags: Broadband, Grid, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications
- White papers 2009-03-03
- Smart Choices: Establishing a Solid Foundation for an Effective, Future-Ready Smart Metering System
- With the widespread adoption of IP-based communications, establishing such an infrastructure has become a viable economical proposition. However, the successful deployment of AMI and the associated communications infrastructure requires a detailed understanding of the business requirements, an assessment of key strategic options and a detailed understanding of the implications of...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., M2M, Alcatel
- White papers 2009-01-04
- Aclara application provides consumers with hourly visibility into electricity usage
- Want to find out how that cold snap last night is going to affect your monthly utility bill? Or whether or not you should do your wash in the morning, afternoon or night? If you're one of the 1.4 million customers in Pennsylvania served by PPL Electric Utilities, you can...
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Internet, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Ascendo English-to-Spanish, Spanish-to-English Dictionary and Phrase Book for BlackBerry (Mobile)
- Ascendo English-to-Spanish, Spanish-to-English Dictionary and Phrase Book is the most comprehensive product of its kind for BlackBerry.Includes 625,501 entries with long definitions comprised of context, parts of speech, gender and several meanings for most words.Incorporates keywords, compound forms, travel phrases, vocabulary quiz and more. Whether for business or leisure, Ascendo...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Phrase Section, From/To, Telecom & Utilities
- Software downloads 2008-10-30
- Ascendo English-to-French, French-to-English Dictionary and Phrase Book for BlackBerry (Mobile)
- Ascendo English-to-French, French-to-English Dictionary and Phrase Book is the most comprehensive product of its kind for BlackBerry.Includes 679,372 entries with long definitions comprised of context, parts of speech, gender and several meanings for most words.Incorporates keywords, compound forms, travel phrases, vocabulary quiz and more. Whether for business or leisure, Ascendo...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Phrase Section, From/To, Telecom & Utilities
- Software downloads 2008-10-30
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMwareFunny how they talk about the importance of interoperability when they donot have a dominant position. But, with Windows and Office, they are strangely not very interested in interoperability, and have to be dragged kicking and screaming to open up things like file formats and...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Lotus 123, VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
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