The downturn in the global economy has required many organizations to strengthen financial management and replace systems that no longer deliver the information needed to weather the financial crisis. For Yantai Wanhua, that meant replacing the hundreds of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets it used for budget management with a more effective...
Track your project expenses effectively and increase profits! Designed for contractors, builders, remodelers, project managers, cost engineers, architects. Tracks construction costs tied to user-defined cost categories. Reports budgets, actuals and committed costs. Using intelligent algorithms accurately forecasts costs at job completion, reports variances, alerts for over and under budget activities....
From everyday business expenses related to sales and service to training and collaboration, business depends on spending and investment to improve the bottom line. Unfortunately, many companies are currently struggling to control their expenses as well as effectively tracking costs and managing policies and compliance. The good news is, despite...
West Corporation is a leading provider of outsourced communication solutions to many of the world's largest companies, organizations and government agencies. To ensure the agility and responsiveness of these systems, which includes 6,000 servers, they needed to find an Enterprise IT Management EITM solution that could help it deliver a...
As Salesforce.com sheds more of its 'cool' on-demand status and transitions to looking more enterprisey, I notice it has hired Graham Smith as CFO. Fellow Irregular Mark Crofton muses:...about the irony that a company whose motto is "No Software" keeps hiring big enterprise software company execs...Obviously, as an employee of...
As data-center space and energy costs rise, more and more companies are looking at blade servers, server consolidation and virtualization to help control and manage costs. Additionally, disaster preparedness and disaster-recovery planning are key issues in many companies, and the associated technologies can help to address the information systems portion...
H W Fisher & Company - a top 25 firm of chartered accountants - uses a range of Microsoft products, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Microsoft encouraged H W Fisher to implement Software Asset Management SAM as an exercise in corporate governance that would benefit...
Get your phone bill under control. Cost Control Voice keeps you up-to-date about all the calls you made with your Treo Handheld. And with the tip of your pen it will estimate these costs for you! Cost Control Voice for Palm OS works in the background of your Treo...
See what you have spent online before the monthly bill arrives Being online is fun. Surfing the web, checking your e-mail, play online games - all with your Palm OS device on the go. But do you really know how much these little online sessions will cost you? Or...
Burn your own CD version of TechRepublic's IT Professional's Guide to Budgeting and Cost Control . This download is a complete image of the CD available for sale in our TechRepublic catalog. Whether you are experienced at running the budget gauntlet or brand new to the process, you will...
Support organizations today face many similar business challenges as they strive to effectively service their internal and external customers, regardless of their size or industry. In the face of these challenges, customer service managers may find themselves searching for new technology to address their customer service initiatives. One of the...
Oracle's Cost-Based SQL Optimizer CBO is an extremely sophisticated component of Oracle that governs the execution for every Oracle query. The CBO has evolved into one of the world's most sophisticated software components, and it has the challenging job of evaluating any SQL statement and generating the "Best" execution plan...
Store all your usernames/passwords and other account info on your PC with S10 Password Vault, strongly encrypted yet easily accessible using a single master password. It can auto-type the appropriate information for you in any website or program, without having to switch between windows as with copy/paste. Also features launching...
Spiders and dust on a slippery slopeWorst inside of a computer I've ever seen was a spider infestation. Must have been a million of them. But what I wonder is where does voiding the warranty stop?A generic abuse statement may not be sufficient in the world of EULA's....
Maybe "law" can become a GDP driverNow that America has seen virtually every domestic industry go down the toilet, maybe it can provide law services to the rest of the world.If this self-righteous lawsuit is any indication, the is no need to fear the loss of American innovation and savvy;...
I guess it goes to show that......even the almighty apple is not immune to issues. We have some iMacs (about 100 - 120) in my organization compared to about 2500 Windows Desktops and out of the 90 we ordered a few years ago (17" iMacs) we had one come...
Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...
Not available on the N1000I don't see any options for this on my N1000.Bummer.Has the resolution improved on HD content?That was one thing I'd like to know. I can see a future, where everything you would ever need in the home will go thru the internet. I am already set...
Excel OCX is a powerful ActiveX Control written in Visual Basic 6.0 (ensuring maximum compatibility, ease-of-use and effectiveness) which contains a smorgasborg of functions to exchange data between Excel and Visual Basic, create professional looking reports in Excel, and much much more. Using Excel OCX in your Visual Basic application...
Population ControlWhat is it now, the big 'O' is going to sterilize the peasants so they don't reproduce? If you want to get the low IQ, better to castrate Windows admins.NT.*yawn**yawn* - yeah, okay, heard all that before. If you want to propose a solution (other than resorting to communism...
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