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Microsoft SQL Server Migration Pays Big dividends for SAP/ERP Customers: Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems are the nervous system of an organization, tracking and coordinating vital operational support. They move products, place orders, assist in decision-making, track projects, and support numerous industry-specific needs. Implemented primarily in the 1980s and 1990s, most organizations have their ERP environments firmly in-place and under...; Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Wipro Technologies, Dividend, ERP, Server, Migration, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning System, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Storage, Databases, Software, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2008-02-01
Rich, branded experiences pay dividends for advertisers: Imagine a world where advertising is targeted and fun. That's what I think about every single day when I use or build rich internet applications. Productivity applications are great but there's also a lot to be said for engaging consumers and RIAs are a great way to do that. Any...; Tags: Advertisement, Brand, Rich Internet Application, Dividend, Advertiser, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2007-08-17
Share Register (exe): The Share Register allows maintaining your shareholders listing in a master file with key data and also incorporating summarized as well as transactional details at a glance. Maintaining a document library for the individual shareholder as well as company wide with the attachments being in pdf, gif, jpg, bitmap, word...; Tags: Shareholder, Dividend, Share Register, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, E-mail, Finance, Online Communications; Software downloads 2007-07-05
Japanese government investment in broadband pays dividends: How do you like these statistics? Japanese broadband customers pay about 70 cents per megabit per second of bandwidth. In the US, we pay $4.90, on average, according to Takashi Ebihara, senior director of the corporate strategy department at NTT East Corp. Why? A wide-ranging government policy on...; Tags: Government technology, International; Blog posts 2007-04-04
Would Microsoft make a good private equity play?: I'm not sure what they are smoking at The Financial Times today, but it's produced a hallucinogenic $288 billion in unrealized value that Microsoft is failing to deliver to investors. That is, value that would be extracted from the assets if the company were acquired in...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., private equity; Blog posts 2006-08-21

Software's SOA buzz yielding dividends: Software's SOA buzz yielding dividendsAn aside: Microsoft's cash cows...... now include servers and tools:"Meanwhile, Microsoft's server and tools business continues to grow rapidly and now approaches the size of its Windows and Office business units."People who observe that Microsoft's profits come from Windows and Office will have to expand...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, software, dividend, IBM WebSphere, SOA, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Applixware; Discussion threads 2006-07-20
Microsoft ups quarterly dividend 12.5 percent: Microsoft ups quarterly dividend 12.5 percentsmoke and mirrorsM$ executives are cashing in while they still can.Next year M$ stock will be worth nothing because of the onslaught from OSS.12.5% sounds better than $0.01 eh? nt.The emperor's new clothes...MS is in denial. Office and Windows are their only products that...; Tags: Game players, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, emperor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, dividend; Discussion threads 2005-12-15
An IT Investment That Pays Real dividends: Building ROI With Your Email System: The "Perfect storm" of corporate issues is fueling the demand for mission-critical email management systems. The good news is that an effective message management system yields a far-reaching return on investment that justifies the initiative to all departments. Furthermore, the ROI is dramatic and quantifiable with "Hard" returns that can...; Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, ROI, Dividend, Computer Associates International Inc., News, Roi/Tco, E-mail, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications; White papers 2005-06-01
OptionsVantage (2): Designed for market professionals requiring mobile access to option valuation and analysis. OptionsVantage provides popular vanilla option pricing models (black-scholes, binomial CRR) to calculate fair values, implied volatilities, and the Greeks (delta, gamma, theta, vega, and rho) for American and European stock, index, and currency options. Supports annual dividend yields...; Tags: Dividend, Pricing Strategy, Analysis, OptionsVantage, Version1.2, Pricing, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Investment, Marketing, Finance; Software downloads 2005-05-18
IBM boosts dividend, hears complaints: IBM boosts dividend, hears complaintsWay to go IBMJust shirk those you support you. Does history repeating itself mean anything to the mega corp?Guess not, we will see where this leads shortly.; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, IBM Corp., dividend; Discussion threads 2005-04-26
IT Consolidation with Virtualization Pays Big dividends: Download this white paper from HP to read about a powerful new approach to maximizing the value of your IT resources. Read about the cost savings and other benefits your organization can realize by pooling and sharing its data-center resources so that supply automatically meets demand. As part of a...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Dividend, IT Consolidation, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Management; White papers 2004-10-01
Microsoft to offer dividend, launch stock buyback: Microsoft to offer dividend, launch stock buybackBuying back stockNow if Gates gets his hands on $30 BILLION in stock, how does that make Microsoft less a threat? If it is consolidated into a few persons' accounts, then doesn't that increase the possibility of abuse since there would no longer be...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, stock buyback plan, stock, Microsoft Corp., stock buyback, dividend; Discussion threads 2004-07-20
Commercial Net Lease Realty, Inc. Deploys Oracle's E-Business Suite Online With Great dividends: The real estate industry has traditionally been slow to embrace technology. Until recently, Commercial Net Lease Realty CNLR and its subsidiaries conducted daily business functions on several old legacy systems. Increased competition and market growth forced the companies to re-evaluate its business processes and technology infrastructure. Oracle's online environment provided...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Dividend, Real Estate Industry, Hardware Upgrade, Real Estate, Operational Planning, Financial Planning, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Finance, Software; Case studies
Extending Digital dividends: Public Goods and Services That Work for All: The Internet and other information and communication technologies are rapidly changing the way we work, learn, communicate with each other, and conduct government. The most publicly visible metric for e-government success will be enfranchising all who want the opportunity to be involved in local civic life in spite of a...; Tags: U.S. General Services Administration, Dividend, Government, E-government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
CGI's Triangle Solution Modernizes Oil & Gas Production Accounting at APF Energy and Provides Solid Platform for Growth: Located in Calgary, Alberta, APF Energy Trust is a royalty trust that was created in December, 1996 to provide unit-holders with stable, regular dividend distributions based on cash flow generated from high-quality oil and gas properties located throughout Western Canada and the United States. To keep track of its oil...; Tags: Accounting, Dividend, CGI Group Inc., CGI, Scripting Languages, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Finance; Case studies
Lexmark Output Strategy Yields dividends for MB Financial: Based in Chicago, MB Financial Inc. is a $5.4 billion bank holding company. It was essential for them to develop a forward-thinking, unified, long-term strategy that would encompass document creation, workflow and how it all fits into their network and electronic document management system. MB Financial needed a partner that...; Tags: Financial, Dividend, Lexmark International Inc., Document Management, Financing Startups, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management; Case studies
Big dividends for Small Professional Services Provider Using SAP Software: Global Enterprise Management Solutions GEMS, essentially a professional services provider, the company resells and implements software primarily from its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. It faced the challenge of nonintegrated accounting and business processes and spotty, incomplete, and untimely information about projects. It chose SAP Collaborative Project Management, mySAP Customer Relationship...; Tags: mySAP ERP, mySAP, Professional Services, SAP AG, Dividend, mySAP CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software; Case studies
ITSM-Based Management Advances Customer-Centric Processes at Arizona Public Service: Arizona Public Service APS is the largest affiliate of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, which ranked first among US energy companies in dividend growth from 1995-2004. The APS Information Services IS organization supports Pinnacle West's businesses, managing the holding company's entire, multi-vendor infrastructure across generation, transmission and distribution. APS worked with...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Dividend, Information Service, Arizona Public Service, ITIL, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Service Level Management, It Services, Finance, It Operations, It service Management; Case studies
ITSM-Based Management Advances Customer - Centric Processes at Arizona Public Service: Arizona Public Service APS is the largest affiliate of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, which ranked first among US energy companies in dividend growth from 1995-2004. The APS Information Services IS organization supports Pinnacle West's businesses, managing the holding company's entire, multi-vendor infrastructure across generation, transmission and distribution. APS worked with...; Tags: Dividend, Information Service, Arizona Public Service, ITIL, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Service Level Management, It Services, Finance, It Operations, It service Management; Case studies
ITSM-Based Management Advances Customer-Centric Processes: Arizona Public Service APS is the largest affiliate of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, which ranked first among US energy companies in dividend growth from 1995-2004. The APS Information Services IS organization supports Pinnacle West's businesses, managing the holding company's entire, multi-vendor infrastructure across generation, transmission and distribution. APS worked with...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Dividend, Information Service, Arizona Public Service, ITIL, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Service Level Management, It Services, Finance, It Operations, It service Management; Case studies