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- Consultancy Deploys Productivity-Enhancing CRM Solution to Gain Competitive Advantage
- As an executive-search consultancy, Lure Executive Services seeks to deliver high value. Employees interview client companies to learn about their businesses and goals. They also network to identify, interview, and place quality employees. Interviewing and networking generate large amounts of data, which was stored using manually-intensive systems. After an extensive...
- Tags: Competitive Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Consultancy, Networking, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2008-04-15
- Finnish Consultancy Improves Customer Relationships With New Internal Solution
- Finpro is a management consultancy based in Finland. It employs 300 experts that specialize in delivering quality client services to help companies achieve global success. Finpro needed a customer relationship management system to improve the quality of its professional services, by providing fast and easy access to up-to-date customer information....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Consultancy, CRM, Finpro, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Global Consultancy Turns to Top Layer Networks for Checks and Balances
- One of the largest consultancies in the world, Global Consultancy provides accounting services and consultation projects to companies of all sizes, with customers in most countries. The challenge for this consultancy was that when an intrusion or cyber threat exploded across its vast network, it was difficult to pinpoint infected...
- Tags: Network, Consultancy, Top Layer Networks, Networking, Network Security, Security
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Intelligent Working Gives Incepta a Strategic Boost
- Incepta Marketing Intelligence IMI, part of the Incepta Group plc, is a fast growing £20 million strategic research consultancy with 160 people and seven offices worldwide. Incepta offers strategic and tactical advice for business success based on consumer and market understanding. Recently IMI was ranked 11th Top International Research Agency...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Consultancy, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Team Management, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing
- Case studies 2006-11-16
- Consultancy Streamlines Global Operations in Seven Weeks With Early Adopter Program
- IT consultancy Columbus IT has operations in 28 countries, many of which ran separate business management solutions. The launch of the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Technology Adoption Program TAP provided a unique opportunity for Columbus IT to build an integrated solution across its subsidiaries in Norway, The Netherlands, and France,...
- Tags: Business Management, Microsoft Corp., Consultancy, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2006-09-12
- Leading Consultancy Enhances International Teamwork With New Collaborative Solution
- Accenture is a world leader in management consultancy and information systems. The Dutch government was introducing e-payments for public transport. The project was being managed by geographically-distributed Accenture consultants and success depended on excellent teamwork. Accenture deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. This technology, in tandem with a centralised...
- Tags: Teamwork, Accenture Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Consultancy, Team Management, Government, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Consultancy Integrates Business Management Technology and Boosts Government Sales
- From helping customers determine channel and contract vehicle strategies to negotiating government contracts, immixGroup helps clients do business with the federal government. The company's rapid growth, to U.S.$100 million in annual sales in 8 years, was outpacing its ability to cost effectively manage company operations. immixGroup needed to integrate its...
- Tags: Business Management, immixGroup, Government, Microsoft Corp., Consultancy, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies
- Consultancy Sees Annual Revenue Growth of 25 Percent Through Partnership
- The IT consulting firm imason formed its business around the concept of using Microsoft tools and technologies as the basis for its Web-based solutions. Since 1999, the firm, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has used its partnership strategically to help it increase its revenue an average of 25 percent annually....
- Tags: Partnership, Microsoft Corp., Consultancy, Business Structures, Finance
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- Dick, Jane, and MySQL: why recessions favor open source
- Dick, Jane, and MySQL: why recessions favor open sourceA few questions+ can you give me an accounting open source software that is accepted by accountants that produces year in year out up to dates forms accepted by the fiscal administration ?+ can you give me the name of an...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, recession, MySQL, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
- Firm Cuts Insurers' Modeling Time Nearly 95 Percent With High-Performance Solutions
- IHA Consultants, a small IT consultancy, helps healthcare and property/casualty insurers by providing Web-based stochastic solutions for advanced actuarial modeling. The company's Stochastic Actuarial Reserve and Trend Model solutions use Microsoft High-Performance Computing HPC technologies to develop financial reporting and forecasting models that are not possible using nonstochastic methods. With...
- Tags: Solution, Actuary, Insurance Company, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Research & Development, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
- Case studies 2008-11-18
- Social media consultants: snake oil or value add?
- Social media consultants: snake oil or value add?Think ComprehensiveSocial networks are only one part of any strategy for anyone on the 'net. Simply put, you don't make money off of them directly, so they are there to bring people into something that does drain their wallet. What's that...
- Tags: social media, value-add
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind
- By now, you're probably up to your eyeballs in unsettling economic crisis news. The stock markets, tanked. Mondays $700 billion Hail Mary of a bailout plan, dead on arrival though since resuscitated. Real estate value, sunk. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke warned last week that the difficulty households and businesses were...
- Tags: Job, Financial, Economist, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Microsoft Dynamics Goes for the Mid-market (Again)
- Microsoft Dynamics Goes for the Mid-market AgainPartner + Vendor lead approach better all roundI think a partner-led (or partner+vendor) approach is much more credible than a vendor-led sale. A partner can talk about cross-platform integration, compatibility and value added services like support and training. Sometimes a vendor could be prejudiced...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Microsoft Dynamics
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- In remembrance of scoundrels past
- In remembrance of scoundrels pastSame mess - different scum.I agree. I did some consultancy work for a large brand name in sportswear and was horrified by their IT systems. It had been held in thrall by one man who started his IT career in the 70s and was still going...
- Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, information technology, IT System
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- An enterprise balancing act in the cloud
- Video of Dr Sukh Grewal talking about GE's 'Support Central' environment at last week's Office 2.0 Conference. There's a solid article in the current Economist magazine about Zoho, which I consider a far more credible enterprise 'software as a service' office suite than Google Docs....
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, General Electric Co., Information Technology, Environment, Office 2.0, Zoho, Daniel, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Open source and innovation as maintenance models
- Open source and innovation as maintenance modelsThroats to chokeExcellent article but you state..."The problem with open source is that no large enterprise is going to bank its business on a model where there isn’t a throat to choke when things go wrong... ...I have seen SugarCRM practices emerge but...
- Tags: open source, maintenance model
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Data 7 Embroidery Conversion ActiveX DLL (zip)
- By adding the Data 7 Consultancy Embroidery Design Conversion ActiveX DLL to your own software applications you can instantly gain the facility and power to convert and export to over 20 embroidery formats of designs including the Home Style formats. Formats supported are DST, DSB, DSZ, U??, PES, JEF, SEW,...
- Tags: Dynamic-link Library, ActiveX, Data 7 Consultancy, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Development Tools, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-08-12
- Massachusetts Research Consultancy Rebuilds Its Server System on Microsoft Platform
- Mass Insight had been running an outdated server platform on an underpowered server that was too strained to handle the high demands of its workforce. Mass Insight collaborated with partner iCorps Technologies to deploy a new terminal service solution based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. The result is a secure,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Terminal Services, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-08-12
- The social media corporate identity crisis
- The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...
- Tags: Brand, Social Media, Twitter, Joel Postman, Popeyes Chicken, Q., Branding, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Software that Makes Your Company More Entrepenuerial
- A class of social software is helping companies become more entrepreneurial and none a moment too soon. In a survey of 300 business executives, Interminds LLC, a management consultancy, found that nearly three quarters (71 percent) of business executives indicated that...
- Tags: Innovation, Software, Entrepreneurial, Intermind Corp., Business Executive, Entrepreneurship, Branding, Management, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
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