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The Instituto del Cafe de Costa Rica Standardizes Processes With a Robust and Scalable IT Infrastructure

Instituto del Cafe de Costa Rica ICAFE wanted to integrate and standardize information in a robust database to facilitate access to up-to-date information. The challenge was to create a Web environment to improve online inquiry and communications services among coffee producers, processors, exporters and roasters as well as improve and...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, CAFE, Costa Rica, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-11-01

Bank Cuts Project Management Time by 25 Percent and Increases Employee Productivity

Founded in 1914, Banco Nacional de Costa Rica BNCR is the largest state-owned bank in Costa Rica, with more than 1.3 million clients. It is subject to a very high level of accountability from oversight offices and the people of Costa Rica. A key part of meeting these expectations is...

Tags: Bank, Microsoft Corp., Costa Rica, BNCR, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2007-11-01

Costa Rica's Central Bank Uses 64-Bit System for Greater Performance, Reliability

Ensuring that monetary transactions go smoothly between banks, financial services firms, and the federal government is a mission-critical responsibility for the Banco Central de Costa Rica BCCR. To improve the overall performance of the system and to prepare for future growth, the BCCR decided to migrate its database servers to...

Tags: Bank, Performance, Microsoft Corp., Costa Rica, 64-bit System, 64-Bit, Performance Management, Financial Services, Network Technology, Financial Planning, Databases, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2007-05-11

Additional Resources

A single national market for health care

health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

iNoticiero 1.1 (Mobile)

iNoticiero is an application that lets you keep up to date will all the latest and news from all over Latin America. The Cities covered include Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Tags: Mobile, LucidOne Communications, iNoticiero, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Travelto Costa Rica 1.7 (Mobile)

Travelto Costa Rica application contain travel-related information from websites contributed by the public. Thus, you can get local experiences and knowledge from people who know more about your destination. It features built-in destination directory which enables a quick search and download of more destinations, full screen photo auto-play that gives...

Tags: Destination, Mobile, Molinker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Strategy, Internet, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Top 10 Risks of Offshore Outsourcing

Minimize your risk!Very in-depth and informative article! Outsourcing should be done in baby steps. Before jumping into bed with an outsourcing company and transitioning an entire department make sure you know what you want to accomplish by outsourcing.There direct saving and in-direct saving due to the time and energy...

Tags: Managed hosting, outsourcing, baby step, offshore outsourcing

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

$99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer Experience

$99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer ExperiencePhone as a uniform data device NOT mobile providers' preferenceMobile phone companies prefer NOT to be treated as just a data ISP. Instead they have traditionally maintained false fragmentations, such as separate voice, SMS and lately data streams, when all can be...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Wireless Customer Experience, phone, wireless, carrier, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Latin America Contact Center Landscape

Changing demographics in the United States along with cost considerations and overheating of traditional offshore destinations have forced U.S. corporations to explore Latin America as an outsourcing destination for their back-office and contact center operations. While certain countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica feature more prominently amongst corporations...

Tags: Contact Center, NeoIT, Call Centers, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-06-01

Hey, guess what? We're understaffed!

Hey, guess what? We're understaffed!And yet, you still seem to have plenty of ....... time to moonlight on this blog. So cry me a river! Try naming a single company in the U.S. that isn't trying to do more with less people. RE: Hey, guess what? We're...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Media Center PCs, Strategy, job

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Lonely, Scared & Bitter

Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow and other insightful books, is also a prolific blogger who is well worth reading. He has posted the fascinating graphic above, attributed to Jessica Hagy - no accompanying text except the title 'Lonely, scared & Bitter' and the chart. ...

Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-24

Is Command & Control Management Inefficient?

When most people think of how businesses are organized, they visualize command and control management: the pine tree visual with the leaders at the top. Since we are entering the Western festive season here are some appropriate images to illustrate this. The traditional 'Christmas Tree'...

Tags: Fractal, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Currency (UIQ3) (Mobile)

FEATURES - 137 currencies; - conversion between any given currency; - retrieving currency rates using an Internet connection.STARTUP AND SETTING RATES1. Start the application 2. In Options/Settings, select your Base currency, and your Internet access point you should do it only once 3. Add or remove currencies to the list...

Tags: Mobile, Currency, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2008-06-23

HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies

HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....

Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., No. 2

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

WiMax saved: Sprint, Clearwire form joint venture; Google, Intel among backers

WiMax saved: Sprint, Clearwire form joint venture; Google, Intel among backersToo many cooks. nt.Seems like the perfect marriageIt's a Mormon marriage for sure, but the list of partners is very impressive in terms of what they bring to the party - aside from money and what is stated above.Intel...

Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WiMAX, Clearwire Corp., Clearwire Form Joint Venture, Intel Corp., Sprint Communications, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

Vista price slash

Vista price slashHmmmm...It's getting hard to tell the fanboys from the trolls.It's not my fault that Microsoft is a monopolyand uses abusive tactics, lies, and bullies businesses with threats in order to sell their technically inferior product that uses the OS/2 memory manager, lifted a BSD TCP/IP stack for NT/2000/XP,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Adrian, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Island Travel Deals 1.0 (Mac)

Get travel deals from http://www.virtualisles.com on all kinds of Island destinations, save on hotels, air, package deals in these locations: Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Virgin Islands-St. John.Choose on the back of widget which feed you want to display,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Travel Widgets, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-01-18

Bali: what China says the U.S. says about climate change

As befitting its power and greenouse gas emissions, the U.S. has been the center of much of the coverage of the U.N. conference on combatting climate change. That conference is now in its final stages with the most powerful participants showing up for closing talks. Here's...

Tags: U.S., Associated Press, Conference, Climate, U.N., Free Trade, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-12