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Chemical Company Simplifies Management and Saves Time With New Server Solution

Dead Sea Works, an Israeli chemical company, began deploying Windows Server 2008 Enterprise in late 2007 to take advantage of its advanced security features. Even in the early stages of deployment, the company found Windows Server 2008 highly secure and so easy to deploy and manage that it expects to...

Tags: Chemical Company, Server Management, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2008-01-01

Business Intelligence for Operational Effectiveness:Improving Insight and Visibility Into Chemical Companies' "Product-Intensive" Functions

Chemical companies' financial success is linked heavily to the critical areas that support the bulk of product manufacturing and ultimately take the brunt of margin scrutiny: procurement, manufacturing, and distribution. At the same time, when managers do get the information they need, the application of it in terms of changing...

Tags: Chemical Company, Engineering, Manufacturing, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-05-01

Business Intelligence for Industry Operational Effectiveness: Improving Insight and Visibility Into Chemical Companies' "Product-Intensive" Functions

Chemical companies' financial success is linked heavily to the critical areas that support the bulk of product manufacturing and ultimately take the brunt of margin scrutiny: procurement, manufacturing, and distribution. At the same time, when managers do get the information they need, the application of it in terms of changing...

Tags: Chemical Company, Industry, Engineering, Manufacturing, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-05-01

ProCalV5 & Eastman Chemical Company: A Real Success Story

Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, is one of the largest chemical manufacturers in the United States. Following an exhaustive search lasting over a year, Eastman Chemical selected Prime Technologies' paperless, compliant calibration management software, "ProCalV5" to replace their old obsolete system. ProCalV5 is designed in close consultation with calibration professionals...

Tags: Chemical Company, Prime Technologies, ProCalV5 & Eastman, Engineering

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Brickbats over bricks

This is an IT Tech site, Mr. Fuller.ntCodes as gatekeepers?As an architect, I have never once consulted a building code to determine which product I should use for a building, especially considering that neither clay brick or fly ash brick is likely to be used in a structural capacity. ...

Tags: Performance management, CalStar

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Could you green the world brick by brick?

One California-based company is going to try. And they're going to make those "green" bricks in Wisconsin, not ship them in from China. The new-fangled brick has been pioneered by CalStar Products. A basic ingredient of the CalStar brick is coal ash, residue from burning coal. There...

Tags: Brick, CalStar Products, Coal Ash, Michael Kane, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

More details on HDI's 100-inch laser 3D TV: more energy-efficient, lower cost, walks on water

California startup HDI is already creating buzz with the 100-inch laser-based 3D HDTV it's been demoing. If the claims made by the company rep I corresponded with today turn out to be true, we could be looking at a Holy Grail of sorts for the next generation of television. ...

Tags: 3D, Plasma, Laser, HDI, HDI Prototype, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Developers plan integrated platform for managing energy, resource conservation goals

It must be awfully annoying for businesses to have to deal with point applications for environmental/energy management. Plainly speaking, these things should be just part of overall management tools associated with compliance, sustainability and overall operational excellence initiatives. Someone must have clued in ESS, which provides Environmental,...

Tags: Software, Sustainability, Compliance, Greenhouse Gas, Crisis Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-21

How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device

A CREDIT TO ENTREPENEURSThis is the stuff of history; Thomas Edison, Alexander Fleming, John Logie Baird.I lost my sister to cancer at age 36yrs so he has my heartfelt sympathy and utmost admiration Robert Goldman is the kind of person who should be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine.RE:...

Tags: software, GoldMan, breakthrough medical device

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Nice Group Streamlines Process Manufacturing With Oracle E-Business Suite R12

Defending its market-leading position is a priority for Nice Group. The company's main competitors are state-owned chemical organizations and multinational enterprises such as Procter & Gamble. To ensure it can maintain market share, Nice Group implemented a new, integrated business management system based on Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. The...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Management, Oracle E-Business Suite, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-08-01

Tsk, tsk: Greenpeace scolds HP, Lenovo and Dell on latest green electronics listing

Yes, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo have been doing plenty in the area of power management. But all three just got dinged on the latest of Greenpeace's ongoing Guide to Greener Electronics. The link that I've just given you provides very details specifics on why each company has received the company...

Tags: Greenpeace, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Lenovo Group Ltd., Electronics, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-10

No more free tomatoes from your neighbor?

No more free tomatoes from your neighbor?Yikes!!Yikes!My mother grows tomatoes. I'll have to keep an eye on this and tell her.unenforceable, and not likely to pass in current formIt will likely get modified, or dumped in favor of a bill that has better language.ROFLA $1,000,000.00 fine? If nothing else, it...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Monsanto, free tomatoe, food, tomatoe, Roundup

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions

EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...

Tags: Earth, Soup, Computer, EvoGrid, Life Form, Productivity, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-04

WACKER Speeds Query Response by Up to 500 Per Cent With the IBM Systems Solution for SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator

WACKER is a globally active chemical company headquartered in Munich. With a wide range of state-of-the-art specialty products, the WACKER Group is a leader in numerous industrial sectors worldwide. WACKER's products are required in countless high-growth downstream markets. WACKER needed to boost query performance and enable more concurrent user sessions....

Tags: SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, IBM Corp., WACKER, Web Services, Performance Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

IBM backs research behind Lithium-ion battery alternative

Looks like more people have it in for the Lithium-ion batteries. IBM is the latest company to undertake a research initiative focused on next-generation rechargeable battery options, ones that it says can store up to 10 times more energy than today's Lithium-ion versions. IBM doesn't plan to...

Tags: Lithium-ion, Battery, Lithium-ion Battery, IBM Corp., Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Happy Friday: 48 Snow Leopard screen shots

Happy Friday: 48 Snow Leopard screen shotsHaha, this is a blatant copy of Vista!!Using Apple zealot logic where the HTC Touch Diamond (and every other full screen touch screen cell phone ever released in the last 5 years) is a clone of the iPhone instead of the HTC Touch (that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Apple Inc., Snow Leopard, HTC Touch, High Tech Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?

The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...

Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-24

Telecommuting nightmare: Workers use mobile devices 2 to 6 hours per week in bed, survey says

More than 1 in 4 employees are so tethered to laptops and smartphones that they can't resist taking them to bed with them before sleeping, according to a small survey released today. According to the survey, 57 percent of people who work in bed do so between...

Tags: Mobile, Telecommuting, Mobile Device, Survey, Worker, Marketing Research, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Teflon: is it safe?

Teflon: is it safe?And? If it does much more good then harmthen we have to live with it. CRT monitors and cell phones "may" cause tumors, but they are both used in the process of saving lives. Should they disapear, too? It is like saying that some heart medication that...

Tags: teflon, Teflon, plastics

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Chemical Company Gains Valuable Visibility Into Sales and Service With CRM Solution

Arch Chemicals is a manufacturer and distributor of biocides, including treatment and performance products. The company reports approximately U.S.$1.5 billion in annual sales. Arch Chemicals is a global biocides company with manufacturing and customer support facilities worldwide. Due to its diverse portfolio of businesses, the company needed a better way...

Tags: Customer Service, Performance, CRM Solution, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Arch Chemicals, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Performance Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software

Case studies 2009-05-01