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National Construction Estimator 2009 (Windows)

Craftsman's National Estimator program is quick to learn and allows you to create construction estimates using any or all of Craftsman Book Company's national cost databases - framing & finish carpentry, general construction, electrical, plumbing & HVAC, renovation & insurance repair, repair & remodeling, home improvement, painting and concrete &...

Tags: Estimate, Craftsman Book, Craftsman, Costs, Construction, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Taxes, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2008-12-14

Numbers show Obama plan won't work

Honest numbers and real straight talk about who will pay those costs have yet to come from either side in this debate. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Costs, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Small differences can make a BIG difference

I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving some of the energy and raw material supply issues facing the planet....

Tags: Chemicals, Clean Technology, Costs, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

A Mischief of Mice: Examining Children's Performance in Single Display Groupware Systems With 1 to 32 Mice

Researchers have explored the application of single-display groupware systems to support small group educational activities. Recently, these systems have been extended to support entire classrooms of students using a single large display simultaneously. There are several advantages to this shared-display design over a more conventional one. Costs are typically lower...

Tags: Mouse, Performance, Student, Costs, Mice, Groupware, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-04-21

Medical and Hospice Center Revives Failing Network at an Affordable Cost

The Frannie Peabody Center is a private, non-profit organization committed to compassionate care for people infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS in Maine communities. Costs are always a factor for non-profit organizations. Operating costs at Frannie Peabody Center are fixed. Frannie Peabody Center doesn't have any on-site IT...

Tags: Network, Frannie Peabody Center, Costs, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2008-03-06

Where insight and information technology come together: Combining clinical expertise and cutting-edge technology to transform healthcare

Healthcare systems around the world are being pushed to the breaking point. Costs are rising, quality is inconsistent and access to care in many countries is insufficient. In addition, globalization, consumerism, demographic shifts and expensive new technologies and treatments are driving the need for fundamental change. The...

Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, IBM Corp., Costs, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2007-02-01

Process Resource Manager

Traditional IT environments are often silos where both technology and human resources are aligned around an application or business function. Capacity is fixed, resources are over-provisioned to meet peak demand, and systems are complex and difficult to change. Costs are based on owning and operating the entire vertical infrastructure-even when...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Costs, Resource Optimization, HP Process Resource Manager, Utility Computing, Virtualization, It Management, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, It service Management, Storage

White papers 2006-03-20

Hotels on the frontlines

A great article on the legal battles bewtween various ecommerce sites and adware vendors was just published here. My only problem with the article is the author, an attorney, confuses the harm caused by key word searches with the harm caused by having competing pop-ups delivered by...

Tags: Hotel, Hotel Industry, Costs, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2005-03-31

DB2 UDB for LUW for Smarties - Part 1 of 2

Costs are tight, DBAs are clever, a database is a database - so why not get the mainframe DB2 DBAs to look after DB2 for LUW? This webcast is a crash course on administration for DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, Windows. It is designed so that an experienced mainframe DBA...

Tags: Database Administrator, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Computer Associates International Inc., IBM DB2, Costs, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts

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Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

LinkOptimizer Light 4.1.7 (Mac)

LinkOptimizer is a workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign.LinkOptimizer works automatically with Adobe Photoshop to: reduce the size of images linked to InDesign document by eliminating excessive image data.It will automatically reduce the image resolution, scale and crop the images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in the InDesign document...

Tags: Job, Adobe PhotoShop, Apple Macintosh, Zevrix Solutions, LinkOptimizer, Recruitment & Selection, Business Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy

The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

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...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

LinkOptimizer 4.1.7 (Mac)

Dubbed "the greatest plug-in of all time" (Glen Drake, Pindar publishing group), LinkOptimizer is a workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. LinkOptimizer works automatically with Adobe Photoshop to: reduce the size of images linked to InDesign document by eliminating excess image data: LinkOptimizer will automatically reduce the image resolution,...

Tags: Job, Apple Macintosh, Zevrix Solutions, LinkOptimizer 4.1.7, Recruitment & Selection, Business Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-11-06

10 ways to evaluate your IT management software

Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-05

Copyright associations want enforcement for free

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...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Is Nvidia planning to add X86 compatibility to its chipsets?

I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...

Tags: Processors, Video Decoding, chipset, Intel x86, CPU, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

Every year, retailers' ads for Black Friday—the day after Thanksgiving and the unofficial starting of the holiday shopping season—manage to leak out a few weeks beforehand this year being no exception. And every year, said retailers freak out when the ads appear online, perhaps fearing that competitors could...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Retail Company, HDTV, 1080p, Retail, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04