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- CenterPoint Energy Powers Progress With Real-Time Collaboration From Centra
- For Houston, Texas-based CenterPoint Energy, being big has its benefits-and challenges. In seeking to become more efficient, CenterPoint Energy confronted a training and logistics problem. Many of the employees who needed training were scattered across the country. The traditional classroom approach to training would require flying employees or instructors to...
- Tags: Collaboration, Centra Software, Training, Supply Chain, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Human Resources
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- Generating Revenue With eLearning and Collaboration
- Liquent is the world's premier provider of electronic publishing solutions and regulatory and intellectual property information, and was named to the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50 for Eastern Pennsylvania in 2000 and 2001. Liquent needed to create a Web-based solution that would provide convenient, effective product training and on-going...
- Tags: Revenue, Collaboration, Liquent Inc., Centra Software, E-learning, Intellectual Property, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Human Resources
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- Symposium Helps Stanford University Broaden Its Curriculum
- Computer-based multimedia courses have always been a key component of Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth EPGY. With students from more than 35 countries, one of EPGY's major goals is to use technology to provide a classroom experience via the Web. They're meeting that goal today with Centra Symposium,...
- Tags: Centra Symposium, Stanford University, Centra Software
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- Wyndham Deploys Strategic Applications and Frequent Guest Program Using Centra Online Collaboration
- Wyndham International, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, offers upscale and luxury hotel and resort accommodations through a proprietary lodging brand and a management services division. Instead of relying on traditional training methods, which included flying trainers out to property locations, holding conference calls and drafting lengthy memos for email or...
- Tags: Collaboration, Online Collaboration, Centra Software, Wyndham
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- Europe's Leading Organizational Learning Conference and Exhibition Utilizes Real-Time Collaboration Technology to Sustain Delegate Loyalty
- Principal Media Limited is a media communications company specializing in the organizational learning and skills market place. The company's flagship event is Learning Technologies, Europe's leading IT training and eLearning exhibition and conference held at London's Olympia 2. The show's organizers were looking for a way to engage the delegates...
- Tags: Collaboration, Centra Software, E-learning, Branding, Workforce Management, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Human Resources
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- Alion Science and Technology, and Advanced Systems Technology, Inc.
- The U.S. Army faced the possibility of disenfranchising many of its geographically dispersed officers (approx. 2,300 a year) in the Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve who could not readily participate in the traditional classroom setting of the Combined Arms and Services Staff School (CAS3) because of civilian obligations...
- Tags: U.S. Army, Centra Software, Workforce Management, Computer-Based Training (CBT), Business Structures, Human Resources, Finance
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- Centra Software Case Study: Cingular Wireless
- Cingular is the result of a joint venture between SBC Communications and BellSouth that united eleven different wireless companies. When leadership took over the new Cingular in October 2000, the challenge was clear: How would they build a nationally competitive business and single corporate culture from a joint venture that...
- Tags: Cingular Wireless, Centra Software, Computer-Based Training (CBT), Wi-Fi, Leadership, Wireless, Strategy, Management
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- Nortel Networks Uses Live Internet Collaboration to Train Its Sales Force and Support Staff Cost-Effectively
- Nortel Networks, Inc. is one of the world's leading suppliers of networking products that serve corporate enterprises, service providers and telecommunications carriers. Nortel Networks is using Symposium to deliver new product training to employees throughout the U.S. Symposium is enabling Nortel Networks to provide customized training based on audience requirements....
- Tags: Internet, Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Sales Force, Centra Software, Sales, Symposium Software, Networking, Telecommunications
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- Customer Self-Service on Cutting-Edge Web-Based Platform
- Centra Software, the leading global provider of business software solutions for eLearning and real-time collaboration, has set itself some aggressive goals. A Pivotal customer since May 2000, Centra hopes to have 80% of its customers using Pivotal's customer-facing CRM system, Pivotal CustomerHub, by the end of the year to streamline...
- Tags: Centra Software, CDC Software, Pivotal Corp., Patches, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software
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Additional Resources
- Appearance: PPUG meets tomorrow in Philly
- If you're in the Philadelphia area I'd like to invite you to attend the Philadelphia PowerBook User Group PPUG meeting tomorrow at the Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant. We meet from 12 noon to 3pm over lunch and fine local beer. Want to debate my theory on...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Philadelphia, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Software makers may sue eBay
- Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...
- Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...
- Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?
- AOL is shutting down XDrive, AOL Pictures and other properties in a belt tightening move that may indicate the company is setting itself up to be sold. The larger question: Who will buy AOL from Time Warner? According to a memo posted by TechCrunch, AOL executive vice...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Portals, Business Structures, Litigation, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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