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- Panel: do cloud computing economic advantages break down in enterprises?
- Cost of computingCompanies will utilize this to get rid of expensive license models of Microsoft flavors.Hardware costs are...not the biggest problem. Bandwidth is what is ridiculously high. To get into anything with high enough upload speeds will set you back plenty. Some cable companies are offering decent speeds in the...
- Tags: Intellectual property, cloud provider, Hardware Costs, Desktop computing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Intuit enhances Quickbooks by bringing cloud apps to desktop software
- Intuit, a trusted name for some 4 million small business customers who manage their finances using the Quickbooks software, is bringing a bit of the cloud to the desktop. The company, like so many others these days, is unveiling an app store of its own and opening its API to...
- Tags: Software, Desktop, Intuit Inc., Sales Force, Desktop Software, Intuit QuickBooks, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
- Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- VA now loves its VistA software
- In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Vista Software, Yes Vista, VA Hospital, MUMPS, hospital, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Rockwool Group Consolidating 400 Servers With Enrollment for Application Platform
- Rockwool Group, a leading manufacturer of stone wool insulation products, generated U.S.$2.7 billion in 2008 revenue from the efforts of its more than 8,000 employees. The company operates 21 factories on three continents and has sales and distribution offices around the world. As the company has enjoyed enviable growth, its...
- Tags: Information Technology, Server, Microsoft Corp., Rockwool Group, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Databases, Sales, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-10-07
- Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"
- 6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Regulations, regulation, Videotron, network, Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, Bush
- Discussion threads 2009-10-03
- Not your father's tech school
- Tech schools are more important than universities now.The entire economic system has been changed so much that a university education is almost pointless. A person seeking a "job" would usually be far better off with an 18 month targeted investment in a particular skill. And we all know...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, BS Degree, CTE, job
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration
- Distance learning - providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance - has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services. In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take...
- Tags: Education, Distance Learning, Collaboration, Training, Enrollment, Straighterline, Employee Orientation Training Day, E-learning, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-06
- McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape
- McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of 'Web 2.0 in business' research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I'd argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company...
- Tags: Web, McKinsey & Co., Consulting, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Chartered Cuts Time to Report a Bill of Materials From One Hour to Less Than One Minute
- The ability to respond quickly to customer requests is a significant competitive advantage and more important than ever in challenging economic times. However, the use of suboptimal systems to track and manage critical Intellectual Property IP and process attributes was hampering Chartered's ability to react quickly to design opportunities. Staff...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Semiconductors, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring
- Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., Restructuring, Senior Executive, Executive, $119mm, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Strategies for Developing a Highly Collaborative Support Environment
- Web collaboration has emerged from the economic ashes of 2009 as a bright new support tool with a compelling ROI. It's no wonder: Web collaboration benefits for technical support include improved service levels, reduced operational costs and an impressive competitive advantage. View this TechRepublic Webcast to hear...
- Tags: Strategy, Web, Web-based Collaboration, Environment, Collaboration, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Webcasts 2009-08-26
- Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?
- Do we put competitive advantage at risk when moving to generic services? Or perhaps the whole scenario of enterprise IT being edged out by the cloud is overblown? Consider the the mainframe, as Dana Gardner recently put it: "In the early 1990s, IT pundits, and my former boss Stewart...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Information Technology, SOA, Cloud, Jim, BBrad, Business Intelligence, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Servers, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Microsoft admits the obvious but not the truth
- Microsoft admits the obvious but not the truthObviousMicrosoft reminds me is so many ways of General Motors of the 1970's. I suspect that the end result will be much the same. Companies, like countries and people have life cycles.Still not convinced about open sourceAs a consultant dealing with...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, people resource, Microsoft Corp., Linux, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Are we being smart about the smart grid?
- A recent conference sponsored by "Fortune" magazine featured a panel discussion on the smart grid. How? Why? What? The panel was led by members of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.). Here are three of their suggestions: 1)...
- Tags: Grid, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Lack of media monitoring by Apple = arrogance
- Lack of media monitoring by Apple = arroganceCould it be your blog.......doesn't even show up on their radar because it's so insignificant? 4000 people that read the page isn't all that much to Apple. I don't see your blog post being reposted on any other popular tech news sites....
- Tags: Blogging, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., arrogance, media monitoring
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Is it "Windows" or "Vista" that's dragging Microsoft down?
- Is it "Windows" or "Vista" that's dragging Microsoft down?I think it is simply "Microsoft"ntI think it is the economy & VistaBusiness just are not buying new computers.Look at Dell's sales.Look at worldwide PC sales.Every (and, I am exaggerating) business is delaying the purchase of new computers.Now, on to Vista.Many (most?)...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IS IT, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-24
- Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?
- Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?Define "making money"If a unit in and of itself loses $1 billion a year, but another unit benefits by $$3 billion a year as a result of that unit's existence, do you close it? And how do you make such measures reliably?Example: Internet Explorer.If...
- Tags: Workforce management, He/She/It, Microsoft Corp., layoff, future layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-07-24
- VMware Virtualization: The Right Investment for a Tough Economy
- Now more than ever, IT organizations must find a way to cut costs quickly and dramatically. In this tough economic environment, budgets are being squeezed and IT departments are expected to "Do more with less." Analysts and CIOs agree that virtualization is the most strategic IT investment a company can...
- Tags: Information Technology, Investment, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-07-21
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