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...
Sometimes, it takes a good retail excursion to find a deal that isn't otherwise possible. Case in point: the Toshiba T135. While we have already reviewed two different versions of Toshiba's Windows 7 entry to the thin-and-light laptop landscape, we were pleasantly surprised by this retail-only configuration. This is not...
Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...
Photo gallery:BMW X5 MMost cars sporting BMW's vaunted M badge maintain a dual character: Clark Kent for everyday commutes and Superman for track days and weekend jaunts. But the all new 2010 BMW X5 M is more like Dr. Bruce Banner--it can never really hide the Hulk lying beneath the...
The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...
hmmfor once, i agree with you. why are they still making the celeron...? shouldn't the atom replace that?Intel Celeron?is Inhel still making this 10 year old crap?surplus maybe? ntnti feel 298 is bad for celron processor..but still good option for ppl who r new to these creepy labtops..RE: Walmart unveils...
wrongwell matthew, because you have been wrong consistently about the smartphone market the last few years i would argue they are both doomed, when you like them. the pre doesn't help palm as it should regardless of critical acclaim and motorola will participate in the race to the bottom (margin...
PrintFab is a new printer driver suite with dynamic color profiles and RIP functionality. It is designed to break the limits of standard printer drivers - especially for printing digital photos and DTP. The innovative dynamic PrintFab color profiles ensure full control over color mixture and ink consumption combined with...
Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...
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