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The change imperative: It's back-to-basics time

It's about accepting we now operate in a global economy and that we are competing at a level where we need to work as hard, and as smart, as the next nation. I hope President-Elect Obama can help instill a new work culture in the US. by Phil Fersht

Tags: Banking, BPO, Business Operations, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Deterioration, Financial Services, Imperative, It Operations, It Services, Management, Meltdown, Outsourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-11-10

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'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

New DVDs store digital photos for centuries

Obsolete solution surely?1. Surely the cost of cloud disk storage, being two orders of magnitude lower, renders this obsolete?2. Important to consider the file format too: no good having jpg if Photoshop 3010 can't read it! Indeed could one be sure that tiff will still be around in 1000 years?...

Tags: Consumer electronics, disk, mankind, photograph, Cranberry DiamonDisc, digital photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Protect Your Business Information: Prevent Document Deterioration, Misuse and Loss With EDM

Security concerns are in the news a lot lately. The government has issued public alerts against terrorist activity. Military experts are debating how to maximize armed forces' safety amid intensified conflict in Afghanistan. Medical experts are producing vaccine to combat Swine Flu. Each issue focuses on the need to ensure...

Tags: Safety, Optical Image Technology, Security Concern, Military Expert, Government, Healthcare, Security

White papers 2009-09-29

Software Firm Provides Real-Time Data Mining Solutions Using SQL Server 2005

GSTAT provides business intelligence and data mining solutions, including real-time Next Best Offers NBO to customers across a range of industries. GSTAT developed its GSTAT Xeligence data mining solutions using the Microsoft Application Platform, including Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database software. Customers using GSTAT's Xeligence NBO solution from finance, telecom...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, GSTAT, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

Case studies 2009-08-14

Microsoft-Nokia: A dog of a deal born from weakness

AnalystsAnalysts keep repeating that Windows Mobile is old news. In the current state 6.1 is far behind the competition, except the skinned versions like HTCs TouchFlo interface. The thing that they don't tend to discuss is the fact that Microsoft has owned up to just about negelecting WinMo and they're...

Tags: Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Nokia Corp., WinMo, Microsoft Corp., leader, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

How safe are your CD-Rs?

How safe are your CD-Rs?Perhapsits his reader and not the diskRE: How safe are your CD-Rs?Have had branded CD-Rs fail in three years of time-frame.There have also been times when CD is unreadable right after burning even though the burner software good brand just verified that the data got written...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Branding, disc, CD-R, CD, DVD, Taiyo Yuden

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

ManageEngine VQManager 6.2 (Windows)

ManageEngine VQManager is a powerful, Web-based VoIP monitoring software that aids in troubleshooting VoIP calls for failures & quality deterioration. It monitors devices that support SIP (RFC 3261) & RTP/RTCP (RFC 3550). VQManager passively monitors VoIP QoS metrics and generates alarms based on user-configured alert parameters. Over 30 comprehensive, pre-defined...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, AdventNet Inc., ManageEngine VQManager, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking

Software downloads 2009-06-19

How badly are your business applications performing?

Due for formal release later this week, a study conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Precise at SAP's May 2009 SAPPHIRE reveals some remarkable stats about systems performance and the response times for problem resolution. 695 persons completed the survey. Some key metrics: ...

Tags: Consultant, Performance, Business Application, SAP AG, Consulting, Performance Issue, Transaction Performance Issue, Performance Management, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-15

How IT can help save the global financial system

The ongoing global economic downturn, or "Great Recession" as it has been billed, exposed weaknesses in the U.S. financial system and the widespread interdependence of global financial markets. But what about the weaknesses in the information technology infrastructure that makes the global financial system what it is...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Data, Financial System, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-26

HP's printing business: Will ink spending be questioned in the long run?

From a business model perspective I often marvel at Hewlett-Packard's printer business. Sell printers at a loss. Milk customers for recurring revenue. Make money from the ink. It's a work of art.  But it really sucks on the consumer side of the equation. Case in point: My...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Printing, Printing Business, Document Management, Printers, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Firefox gets emergency update to fix the last update

Firefox gets emergency update to fix the last updateFixed ! Open Source in Action......Open Source fixed it...include the version # so good of you to include the version that was a problem. I thought info like that would be automatically provided by people at zdnet or wired. you guys are...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, emergency update, Mozilla Corp., FIREFOX IS, Microsoft Corp., Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Web Spam Filtering in Internet Archives

While Web spam is targeted for the high commercial value of top-ranked search-engine results, Web archives observe quality deterioration and resource waste as a side effect. So far Web spam filtering technologies are rarely used by Web archivists but planned in the future as indicated in a survey with responses...

Tags: Web, Spam Filtering, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

White papers 2009-04-21

Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaning

Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaningLOL!That's a good April Fools joke right there!A wise choice!You can't go wrong with it! If Loverock recommends it then it must be good.I'll stick with my Antivirus XP 2009, thanks.I'm KIDDING! :pVery Poor RecommendationsCommercial Anti-virus: You recommend ESET NOD32 and...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, clamAV, Conficker, antivirus, Clam AV, early Spring, Norton 360, good excuse, actualy, virus

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaning

Some of you have probably heard about Conficker.C, the computer virus/worm that is set to activate on April 1st.  Conficker.C exploits a particular vulnerability in Windows that was announced in October of 2008 which allows code to be remotely executed. Nobody exactly knows what Conficker.C is supposed to do on...

Tags: Antivirus, Malware, Antivirus Software, Virus, Conficker.C, Chances, CLAMAV, CCleaner, WinDirStat, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Tools & Techniques, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-27

Efficient Forest Fire Detection System: A Spatial Data Mining and Image Processing Based Approach

The drastic ascent in the volume of spatial data owes its growth to the technical advancements in technologies that aid in spatial data acquisition, mass storage and network interconnection. Thus the necessity for automated detection of spatial knowledge from voluminous spatial data arises. Fire plays a vital role in a...

Tags: Forest Corp., Network, Network Security, Computer Science, Spatial Corp., Image Processing, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Networking, Marketing Research, Databases, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-03-01

Stop bashing social networks

Stop bashing social networksWhy the commotion?The guy was on BBC 2's Newsnight and it was pretty obvious to me, that he's one of those types who would demonise computer games as the catalyst for violent behaviour.Although it was pointed out to him by another guest, that his evidence didn't reveal...

Tags: social networking, Stop Bashing, network

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

CES 2009: Flagship Viera plasma is 54" across, 1" deep, wireless-enabled [day 3]

One more Panasonic announcement. The Panasonic TC-P54Z1 is the company's new flagship Viera model, a 1080p one-inch-thin Z1 plasma. Like the previously mentioned "world's thinnest plasma," this HDTV is NeoPDP, and features WirelessHD technology as an expansion of VIERA Cast functionality: ...

Tags: Panasonic, Plasma, 1080p, Panasonic TC-P54Z1, NeoPDP VIERA Z1, Wi-Fi, Home Entertainment, Wireless, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

The bell tolls for your magnetic media

The bell tolls for your magnetic mediaWhat are you going to replace your magnetic media with?While I agree that it's good to take old data and put it on fresh magnetic media, users should not fool themselves into thinking that there's something better than magnetic media, and that is even...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, SSD, media, magnetic media, bell toll, disk

Discussion threads 2009-01-04

Enterprise software: A tour of the year ahead

Despite the recession 2009 is going to be a critical year for all of those key vendors that best describe their turf in acronyms--CRM, ERP, BPO and perhaps a relatively new one VRM. Those acronyms, which stand for customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, business process outsourcing...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, BPO, Business Operations, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Dennis Howlett, Enterprise Software, ERP, Financial, Financial Service, Information Technology, It Operations, Larry Dignan, Management, Marketing, Oracle Corp., Outsourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Outsourcing Company, Paul Greenberg, Software, Strategy, VRM

Blog posts 2008-12-15