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Grupo Antolin Achieves Cost Efficiency and Supports Business Expansion Through SAP ERP 6.0 Upgrade

A year ago, the competitive cost of its IT environment was far from favorable. Application maintenance costs were rising as a percentage of the IT budget and the ability to invest in more innovative IT projects was diminishing. Consequently, the IT department opted to upgrade from SAP R/3 to SAP...

Tags: Business Expansion, Information Technology, SAP AG, International Data Group, Grupo Antolin, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2008-04-01

UTM-1 Edge Provides the Sure Shot for Supporting Business Expansion

The Manfrotto Group is the world leader in the creation, production, and distribution of professional support systems for the photography, video, and entertainment industries.. Manfrotto Group needed a VPN solution that could be centrally managed out of the data center while securing the new access to information and corporate resources...

Tags: Appliance, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Business Expansion, Manfrotto Group, Data Centers, Strategic Planning, Strategy, VPNs, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Networking

Case studies 2008-01-24

Omni Mold Implemented Siemens PLM Software Technology to Maintain Fast Delivery of Ultra-Precision Molds During Time of Business Expansion

Omni Mold was established in the late 1980s as a niche tooling enterprise using AutoCAD, two-dimensional CAD program. After expanding operations to meet ever-increasing customer demands, Omni Mold faced the challenge of working efficiently with a lean headcount. Omni Mold is a firm believer in leveraging advanced technologies to produce...

Tags: Mold, Business Expansion, Software Technology, Siemens AG, Omni Mold, CAD, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Software, Management

Case studies 2007-09-01

SaaS Enabling e-Marketing Solution for Rapid Business Expansion

FMCG companies often run promotional offers & campaigns for consumers on their websites. The entire process of redirection from a company website to client website is however transparent to the end user. This process involves two steps, promotion creation and promotion hosting. The client wanted to stream line this promotion...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Business Expansion, Retail Company, Web Site, BLUE STAR INFOTECH, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Site Development, Retail, Managed Hosting, Web Technology, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Internet

Case studies 2007-01-08

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Companies undergoing rapid expansion can all too soon find their IT infrastructures becoming unwieldy, inadequate and expensive to manage. Switching to virtualization with a consolidated and simplified datacentre environment can help pull IT back to the heart of the business - powering growth, not hindering it.

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Dell EqualLogic, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-11-04

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

HTC Tilt 2 (AT&T)

Editors' note: Portions of the Features section were taken from our review of the HTC Pure since the two smartphones share a number of same features.After waiting in the wings, AT&T's business customers are finally getting their turn with the HTC Touch Pro2. Dubbed the HTC Tilt 2 (and obviously...

Tags: Keyboards, Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, High Tech Computer Corp., smart phone, AT&T Corp., Tilt2

Product reviews 2009-10-20

Lenovo SL510

Without proceeding any further, I am about to make a guess: you have already decided whether or not you're buying a ThinkPad. The iconic brand, the unending combination of professional respect, solid features, and unabashed blandness, combine to make a product that has surprising appeal across the board, yet remains,...

Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, IBM ThinkPad, Intel Core 2 Duo, Lenovo Group Ltd., Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-16

The original open source niche remains just that

the niche is expandingWhile M$ if on the ropes firing its employees, FOSS companies are hiring and getting infusions of capital from forward looking investors.Nopethe money is not there, and never will be.Yeah, and they are hiring and expandingJust look at the stewards of some of the most "successful" open...

Tags: open source, F/OSS, Sun Microsystems Inc., OH WAIT

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Garmin Nuvifone G60 (AT&T)

Photo gallery:Garmin Nuvifone G60If you've been following the story of the Garmin Nuvifone at all, you know it hasn't been the smoothest of rides. After being announced in January 2008, the launch of Garmin's first smartphone was delayed time and time again, and we had all but given up on...

Tags: Handhelds, GPS, Smart phones, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., display, Garmin Ltd., Garmin nuvifone, Garmin Nuvifone G60, Nuvifone G60, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-10-09

HTC Touch2 (unlocked)

Photo gallery:HTC Touch2On September 1, Microsoft announced that the first batch of smartphones running its updated mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, would start shipping on October 6. The next day, Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC wasted no time in announcing one of its first Windows Mobile 6.5 offerings, the HTC...

Tags: Smart phones, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Mobile operating systems, Keyboards, Operating systems, HTC Touch2, High Tech Computer Corp., smart phone

Product reviews 2009-10-06

If open source were a monopoly

As always thoughtful, Dana. But there's a related problem..Open Source projects are notoriously bad a promoting the unpopular decisions. As such you can see open source as a form of populism.If someone wants to do a clean break - the sort of break which move technology forward - you will...

Tags: Open Source Project, open source, fork, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Newegg announces IPO, plans for expansion

Online electronics retailer Newegg is going public, launching an IPO estimated at $175 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. The retailer has largely been focused on IT products such as hardware, software and peripherals since its launch in 2001 but recently...

Tags: Information Technology, Retail Company, Newegg.com, Retail, IPO, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Successfactors: Execute, Execute, Execute!

Successfactors SFSF the Strategic Human Capital Management/people performance software as a service company I last wrote about in June, today expanded their scope to embrace 'Business Execution Software', which is now the strap line under their company logo. As Larry Dignan covered here...

Tags: Talent, Performance, SuccessFactors Inc., Talent Management, Business Alignment Category, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-10

HTC Touch Pro2 (Sprint)

Photo gallery:HTC Touch Pro2 SprintSprint has really filled out its smartphone lineup quite nicely this summer, offering a little something for everyone. The Palm Pre brought a touch-screen smartphone to the masses; the BlackBerry Tour gave mobile professionals an international e-mail machine; and the soon-to-be-released HTC Hero will certainly please...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Sprint Communications, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch Pro2, HTC Touch, smart phone, T-Mobile

Product reviews 2009-09-09

AOL hires Garlinghouse at 'pivotal moment'

AOL has hired Brad Garlinghouse, the former Yahoo exec who penned the "Peanut Butter Manifesto," as president of its Internet and mobile communications. Garlinghouse will aim to expand AOL's e-mail and instant messaging services and bolster the company's Silicon Valley footprint. Garlinghouse had roughly the same gig...

Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Will China save Apple?

Save Apple from what?All their industry leading profits when there is supposed to be a recession?yea, and I don't even like Applebut how can you justify a heading like this? Oh, I forgot, they have to be 'provocative', right? More and more these blogs have become running jokes and...

Tags: Smart phones, Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Top 5 IT Budget Killers (and how you can fight back)

You've heard it a million times: Do more with less. It may be good business, but as budgets shrink and IT demands grow, you may start to wonder if the people who are saying ""do more with less"" think that it's a magical incantation. Run the servers without electricity! ...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-08-26

Every company is a media company

Not a fact."every company needs to publish to its various communities, its customers, its staff, it?s neighbors."Eh, no. Not every company. A lot of small "mom & pop" businesses don't. A lot of franchises just let the corporate side take care of that. A lot of small churches don't.In your...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media company

Discussion threads 2009-08-23

Industry fight against Google hurts education

So it's NOT OK for Microsoft to control technology......but it IS OK for Google to try and take over the world of information?Sorry...not buying it.Google does no evil, just IS evil?Look at the account TOS. Anything that requires an active Google account -- gMail, gTalk, gApps, etc. -- is...

Tags: Google Inc., education

Discussion threads 2009-08-21