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Website Strategy for Organisations in the Corporate Services Industry

Strategy is the key to maximising return on investment online. A website should not stand alone. By integrating online with offline, as well as integrating with business systems and processes, resources can be optimised and maximum potential reached. By offering multiple sources of accurate, timely information of relevance to the...

Tags: Industry, Corporate Services Inc., Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Roi/Tco, Branding, Marketing Research, Strategy, Internet, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Management

White papers 2009-07-27

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Research: Small DIY botnets prevalent in enterprise networks

Does the size of a botnet really matter? It's all a matter of perspective. Contrary to the “common wisdom” that based on their size, big botnets are theoretically capable of infiltrating a huge percentage of enterprise networks, a recently presented study entitled "My Bots Are Not Yours!...

Tags: Enterprise Network, Espionage, Cyberthreats, Spam, Robots, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Emerging Technologies, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Mailspect taming unstructured Email data

Paul Sterne, CMO of Mailspect, collared me yesterday and brought me up to speed on what he's doing now.  Paul and I worked together at Open-Xchange.  His company is doing something that is new to me. It might be something new to you as well. Here's what Mailspect has...

Tags: MPP Web Services Mailspect, ESM, E-mail, Online Communications, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-09-17

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Cloud Survey results - everything old is new again

My friends at Stratus brought my attention to a recent survey done by Laura Didido of Information Technology Intelligence Corporation ITIC that reminds me a great deal of surveys executed by my former employer, International Data Corporation IDC. Early in the adoption cycle of client/server computing, IDC...

Tags: Survey, ITIC, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Marketing Research, Hardware, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-22

CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers

The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Leasing, Avaya Inc., CIT, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Verizon dishes off rural assets to Frontier in $8.6 billion deal

Frontier Communications will acquire rural assets from Verizon in an $8.6 billion stock swap.  The deal appears to be a win-win for both sides. Frontier becomes the largest "pure rural" communications provider with 7 million access lines, 8.6 million voice and broadband connections. Frontier will have 16,000...

Tags: Asset, Verizon Communications Inc., Frontier Communications, Asset Management, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Twitter's Oprah-tunity: Time to get down to business

Twitter's Oprah-tunity: Time to get down to businessChange the sloganWhy is it just for her and Friends. What happened to Family? Is that in her Plan? Bring back the noble senior Phil D. I say, at least he made me think about things and not so much...

Tags: Operational accounting, Twitter, Oprah-tunity

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

What BearingPoint

What BearingPointGood riddance?The Brits are finding out the hard way about digitizing medical records. Their own national IT project is way over budget and not very close to a solution (I know because I read the Register!). If the FBI can't even get their case file system working, what chance...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Outsourcing, Operational accounting, Financial services, Brits, BearingPoint Inc., acquisition

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

News to know: Microsoft's killer instinct; Google's blunder; Palm OS; Windows 7;

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Jason Perlow: Why Microsoft's Killer Instinct Must Return Ryan Naraine: Google flags entire Web as 'malware' Google blames 'human error' for search...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile, Operating System, Palm OS, Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Saving Costs and Energy With Windows Vista

Businesses are rapidly responding to the growing requirement for greater environmental stewardship by defining goals that will improve corporate environmental practices. Sustainable IT, also known as "Green IT", is one goal that is often at the top of the list. As evidence of the importance of sustainable IT, the market...

Tags: Information Technology, Green IT, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2009-02-01

Patent wars: RealNetworks wins; Global Crossing pays up

RealNetworks defeated a patent infringement suit that was trying to come back from the dead. Meanwhile, Global Crossing licensed a portfolio of call center patents from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, an outfit that collects dough from a who's who of corporate America. First, RealNetworks said on...

Tags: Patent, Global Crossing Ltd., RealNetworks Inc., Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, Katz, Ronald Katz, RAKTL, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Sovereign Bank Protects Web Applications With WebDefend Application Firewall

Sovereign Bancorp, Inc., the parent company of Sovereign Bank, is an $82 billion financial institution with principal markets in the Northeast United States. Sovereign Bank offers a broad array of financial services and products including retail banking, business and corporate banking, cash management, capital markets, wealth management, and insurance. Being...

Tags: Web Application, Financial Company, Online Banking, Attack, Breach Security, Sovereign Bank, Banking, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Security, Finance, Internet

Case studies 2009-01-13

eGrabber Case Study: Corporate Systems Associates

Corporate Systems Associates, Inc. is an Information Technology consulting company offering solutions and permanent IT executive placement services to Fortune 500 Insurance-Financial-HealthCare companies. Corporate Systems Associates has been using ResumeGrabber to parse resume information from word documents and web pages into GoldMine database. As their business grew, resumes came pouring...

Tags: Web, GoldMine, eGrabber, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2009-01-01

eGrabber Case Study: AlphaGraphics Inc.

Alphagraphics - Corporate Headquarter office uses ACT! software to manage and build their franchise network. Alphagraphics receives almost all their new leads interested in learning more about owning a franchise via the Internet; they have several sites where businesses submit request form. With more than 100 requests coming every week,...

Tags: ACT!, eGrabber, Alphagraphics, Internet

Case studies 2009-01-01

VMware follows in Virtuallogix's footsteps

My friends at VMware recently sent me a note telling me 1) that they had acquired Trango Virtual Processors and 2) they were jumping into the mobile device virtual machine market.Trago VMware has chosen to rename Trago's product as VMware Mobile Platform. This isn't the only entry into this market,...

Tags: Phone, Handset Company, Mobile, Operating System, Handset, VMware Inc., Hardware, Virtual Machine, VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, Mobile Virtualization Platform, Telecom & Utilities, Desktop Virtualization, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Windows 7: Five things Microsoft needs to do

Windows 7: Five things Microsoft needs to doShould Windows go incremental?Would you welcome more incremental updates to the OS rather than a big release every few years? Why or why not?RE: Windows 7: Five things Microsoft needs to doGreat article.I don't think the incremental approach would work well for most...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, O.S, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, Microsoft NEEDS

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

What's a Little Money Between Friends?

Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...

Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-09

TechCrunch50: Day 1

When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-08

My Awesome IT Job: Senior vice president, CA

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that love their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., Strategy, Team Management, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-08-01