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- Schedule and Cost Control
- View Available Dates and Locations Learn the skills you need to effectively establish and manage a realistic schedule and detailed budget. Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn to develop a work breakdown schedule, grasp diagramming techniques, identify task relationships, determine the critical path, employ estimating techniques, and...
- Tags: Technique, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Schaumburg, Cost Management, Cost Control, Work Breakdown Structure, Productivity, Project Management, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, It service Management, Finance
- Training 2008-02-01
- West Corporation Improves Cost Control and Competitive Advantage With Optimized IT
- 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...
- Tags: Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, Cost Control, Computer Associates International Inc., Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Salesforce becomes enterprisey, readies for war
- 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...
- Tags: Sales force management, Dennis Howlett, Salesforce.com Inc., Graham Smith, Marc Benioff
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
- Realizing Increased Cost Control and Disaster Prevention With Virtualization
- 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...
- Tags: Cost Control, Project Leadership Associates, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Accountancy Firm Boosts Confidence and Cost Control With Software Asset Management
- 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...
- Tags: Accountancy, Cost Control, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Governance, Groupware, Benefits, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Transport Firm Gains Effective Job Management, Multicurrency Transactions
- Kasembo Transport is a leading Zambian transport company, situated in the copper belt region. Kasembo Transport needed to upgrade its stock and cost control systems, which were run on an outdated version of the Pastel accounting system. Further, with the growth of its business, Kasembo had identified additional requirements for...
- Tags: Job, Cost Control, Microsoft Corp., Kasembo Transport, Financial Services, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2006-10-01
- Predictive Monitoring and Alerting in Heterogeneous IP Networks
- AdRem NetCrunch goes a long way to redefine the common perception of core or standard network management functionality based on agentless monitoring, to include features such as physical and logical topology mapping, fault and performance management, and capacity planning, to name a few. With reasonable purchase costs, quick deployment and...
- Tags: Network, Cost Control, Monitoring, IP, IP Network, Network Management, AdRem NetCrunch, Networking, Financial Services, Network Administration
- White papers 2006-07-04
- IT Professional's Guide to Budgeting and Cost Control - ISO
- 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...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Budgeting, Cost Control, ISO, IT Professional, Financial Services
- Download resources 2005-03-16
- The Hosted Customer Service Desk - It's About Cost, Control, and Reliability
- 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...
- Tags: Customer Service, Cost Control, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-09-08
- CAL-AIR Reaches New Levels of Cost Control and Process Efficiencies
- CAL-AIR, incorporated in California in 1953, provides a wide range of engineering, design, construction, maintenance, and repair services for nearly every type of mechanical and process system in commercial/industrial facilities. To keep pace with what technology could offer the company and its customers, CAL-AIR began to look at options for...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Cost Control, CAL-AIR, PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne, Hardware Upgrade, Financial Services, Hardware
- Case studies
- Leading the Market Through Innovation: BLANCO Migrates Its SAP Systems to an HP-UX 64-Bit Platform
- Based in southern Germany, BLANCO GmbH + Co KG is one of the leading providers of innovative, design-oriented system solutions for workstations in KITCHEN TECHNOLOGY, CATERING + MEDICAL SYSTEMS. One of the company's biggest challenges is to maximize efficiencies across all lines of business. Aggressive competition dominates the market for...
- Tags: Innovation, Health Insurance, HP-UX, 64-bit, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Competition, Cost Control, Logistics, SAP AG, Supply Chain, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Strategy, UNIX, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Human Resources, Corporate Insurance, Management, Software
- Case studies
- Cost Control: Inside the Oracle Optimizer, Part 2
- In Part 1 of the series, the author discussed the basic mechanisms of Oracle's cost-based SQL optimizer for making the best decisions about the access paths to data. In this concluding paper, the author will address the use of histograms, external costing features, SQL hints for changing execution plans, and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Cost Control, SQL, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers
- Cost Control: Inside the Oracle Optimizer
- 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...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Cost Control, CBO, Tools & Techniques, Financial Services, Programming Languages, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers
Additional Resources
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Service integrators = Ed Tech bargain hunters?
- I'm not entirely enamored of my ISP right now. Their backbone is dated, downtime too frequent, the email interface they provide is kludgy at best, application support for their web hosting is more limited than what you can get from $1.99 a month hosts, and, well, I'm just not...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Hosting, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...
- Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Red Hat buys Qumranet, adds gasoline to the spreading VDI bonfire
- VDI, somewhat ironically, may also work well for market mover Microsoft as it seeks to slow the momentum to outright web-based and OSS/LAMP-supported applications and services for large businesses. Microsoft must realize that enterprises have had it with the high cost of maintaining and managing the traditional Windows OS in...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Server, SolidICE VDI, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco
- 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 loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businesses
- Electronic Arts's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker. RALEIGH, North Carolina--Electronic Arts's creature-building game Spore offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Spore, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, Electronic Arts, video games, Nintendo
- News items 2008-09-05
- Dell repair adventure, conclusion
- Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
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