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Construction Company Boosts Productivity, Communications With Mobile Solution

Lee Company, a construction company based in Franklin, Tennessee, needed better communication while its staff worked at job sites. With Windows Essential Business Server 2008, and Windows Mobile phones, staff has easy access to mobile messaging. Lee Company also plans to give Windows Mobile phones installed with line-of-business solutions to...

Tags: Construction Company, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Construction, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Marketing, Sales

Case studies 2009-02-19

Construction Company Uses Accessible Information to Improve Asset Management

The Bowmer & Kirkland Group, a large British construction company, wanted to better understand software licensing. The group sought to learn what type of license agreements it should use for new software and how it could best manage its software assets. As part of a Software Asset Management SAM implementation,...

Tags: Construction Company, Asset, Software, License Management, Microsoft Corp., Asset Management, Tools & Techniques, Construction, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management

Case studies 2008-03-01

noax IPCs and VMT Control Systems, as Used in a Tunnel-Driving Machine

The Bilfinger Berger construction company is a worldwide construction company. Their machines are used for advance preparations underground. During the machine operation, the workers and all equipment in the tunnel are subject to strong vibration. It can also happen that heavy blows severely jolt the cockpit and its computer, giving...

Tags: Construction Company, Computer, Berger, Construction, Productivity

Case studies 2008-01-25

Intranets in Large Construction Organisations: Exploring Advancements, Capabilities and Barriers

The role of Intranets has changed significantly from a passive role of providing company information to its employees to a more dynamic role to share and capture knowledge. The paper investigates how Intranets can benefit the performance of large construction companies. The current state of developments in Intranet technologies are...

Tags: Construction Company, Barrier, Intranet, University Of Salford, Construction

White papers 2007-07-01

SAP ERP Has Helped HCC Get Clear Visibility Into Cost Implications Across Sites

Hindustan Construction Company is an eighty year old organization with a track record in executing complex infrastructure projects across sectors. Hindustan Construction Company wanted to derive competitive advantage by adopting industry best practices and establish a solid information systems platform for facilitating growth. The challenge is to closely monitor projects...

Tags: Construction Company, SAP AG, ERP, Clear, SAP ERP, Construction

Case studies 2007-05-14

CostOS Estimating Professional Edition 1.8.426 (Windows)

CostOS Estimating enables Cost Estimators to build cost estimates quickly and accurately. It catches the experience gained from previous estimates and enables the user to quickly build new ones based on previous already estimated items. A construction company can build a network of suppliers and subcontractors, keep a record of...

Tags: Construction Company, CostOS Estimating, Construction, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-03-27

Construction Company Streamlines Project Management With New Messaging System

For Leonhard Weiss, a leading construction company based in Germany, completing projects on time and to budget is vital. To achieve this, Leonhard Weiss relies on good communications and effective collaboration among all employees. With the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Cellent, the company was invited to trial Microsoft...

Tags: Construction Company, Project Management, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Construction, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Case studies

Additional Resources

2010 Infiniti QX56

Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...

Tags: Infiniti QX56

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Dear Microsoft: What's the deal with Windows 7 upgrades?

Location?38.921473?N 77.066946?WYep, same here ...... stonewalled at every turn. With you ...... I can see, because you've been pulling on Microsoft's scab lately. But in Ed's case, I don't know why they would treat him like that.^o^Message has been deleted..Believe it or not ...... it makes little difference. The...

Tags: upgrade media, reverse engineering, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Alternative to electrical retrofits helps Verizon Center save $25K monthly

So, you're not so sure your business can afford an electrical systems retrofit in order to save money on power consumption? The Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., has sidestepped this problem by installing some technology from Energy Automation Systems that is helping it save about $25,000 per month on electricity.That's...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-23

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

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

Barnes & Noble ebook reader named the QUE, coming 7 January

It will be interesting to see . . . If they can keep the price down, or will they blow themselves out of the water by making it more expensive than everything else out there . . .Hard to price higher than the Kindle DXNo matter what features you put...

Tags: E-books, Digital media, Que, e-book, Barnes & Noble Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

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

Microsoft makes changes to browser ballot screen; user testing to commence

Microsoft is trying to play games again.The selection screen is reasonable except for the screed under the IE8 browser indicating that it is "better faster safer easier". First of all, "better faster safer and easier" than what ? IE6 ? Firefox ? Safari ?...If the...

Tags: Web browsers, selection screen, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

HTC Imagio (Verizon Wireless)

Verizon Wireless' V Cast video and music service bundle has long been a staple feature of its high-profile feature phones, like the LG enV Touch and the Samsung Rogue for example. But it is typically lacking in Verizon's smartphone offerings, so as not to detract from the smartphone's more business-friendly...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Corporate communications, Smart phones, Cellular phones, screen real estate, Verizon Wireless, HTC Imagio, High Tech Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-06

Easy Time Tracking PRO 5.2.1 (Windows)

Easy Time Tracking is a powerful, yet extremely easy-to-use FREE time management and customer billing application. Easy Time Tracking is an ideal solution for the individual contractors who need to know how much time they spent on certain tasks and how many hours they need to bill their clients for....

Tags: Billing, Contractor, Microsoft Windows, Time Management, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-10-06

The 'Seven Laws of Projects'

great!Seventh Point is the one always happen.RE: The 'Seven Laws of Projects'Unfortunately very true.A successful project is typically one where someone gets lucky and manages to balance your seven points to an 'optimal' level.Accepting #2 has given us the opportunity to go for more of an agile approach. If you...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Time-to-Market

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Microsoft says Google Chrome Frame doubles IE attack surface

Actually, it means that some of the browsing will be much safer by using Chrome. Notice that Microsoft's ONLY arguments here are bogus security arguments. They do not even try to deny that Chrome is much faster and better.RE: Microsoft says Google Chrome Frame doubles IE attack surfaceIf Google Chrome...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, plug-in

Discussion threads 2009-09-24