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- 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 (zip)
- 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, Channel Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-03-27
- construction company Supports 500 Simultaneous Users by Integrating Internal and External Messaging Systems
- Daelim Industrial Co is a leading Korean leading construction company established in October 1939 and has 3,000 employees. The company was using two communications. It used a groupware system called Chorus internally and an Internet e-mail system for external communications. Running two systems was inefficient and difficult to manage. It...
- Tags: Construction Company, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Construction, Groupware, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications
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- Oracle Case Study: Suffolk construction company, Inc.
- Suffolk Construction Company, Inc. is one of the largest privately held, general building contracting firms in the U.S. The company wanted to achieve new levels of productivity, efficiency, and service across project management, human resources, and financial functions. They wanted to automate and standardize management processes to support continued corporate...
- Tags: Construction Company, Oracle Corp., Construction
- Case studies
- UDA Technologies Case Study: Lasley construction company
- After seeing Construction Office on a colleague's computer in 2003, the President of Lasley Construction Company purchased the Professional QT version for his Ashville, North Carolina firm. To take advantage of the most up-to-date tools available, he upgraded to the current version in 2004 and then added the advanced scheduling...
- Tags: Construction Company, Construction
- Case studies
- Kokosing construction company, Inc. Improves Efficiency and Reduces Costs
- Kokosing Construction Company, Inc. is a multi-million dollar, regional general contractor committed to delivering the highest level of quality and superior service to valued clients around the Midwest region. The company wanted to upgrade Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system and increase business process efficiency. The company also aimed at reducing...
- Tags: Construction Company, Oracle Corp., Construction, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Case studies
- 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., E-mail Servers, Construction, Groupware, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
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- Web 2.0 and the end of advertising
- The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- iPhone's international rollout continues; 10 million units not a stretch
- Apple's iPhone will be headed to a few more countries courtesy of a new deal with French telecom carrier Orange. In a statement, Orange said: Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Orange customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic,...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Wireless, Telephony, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Frenemies
- Enterprises both large and small are psychologically complex places. Industrial and organizational psychologists are full of fascinating anecdotes about the ways the individual people that make up an enterprise organize themselves to hinder, help, block or share with one another. A common term in Hollywood is ‘Frenemies'...
- Tags: Collaboration, Environment, Rivalry, Silo, Groupware, Productivity, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
- Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
- Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....
- Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Small differences can make a BIG difference
- I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving some of the energy and raw material supply issues facing the planet....
- Tags: Chemicals, Clean Technology, Costs, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
- Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft's every move on...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards
- The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Microsoft delivers another update to Office Live Workspace
- Microsoft rolled out quietly on May 15 its 1.1 update to its Office Live Workspace service, which is currently in beta test. The 1.1 bits are available from the Microsoft Downloads site. adds performance updates, making Office Live Workspace run faster with Microsoft Office programs, plus the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- What open source teaches publishers
- I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...
- Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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