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The Economy: Where Are We & What's Next?: The Associate Research Director of BusinessWeek Research Services will use his recent research data to clarify where people are with the economy and where they are likely to be in the months ahead. The presenter explores what the current economic conditions mean for the business and provides insights as to...; Tags: SAS Institute, Economy; Webcasts 2008-05-08
27% of Americans think the economy is good or excellent: 27% of US consumers rate current economic conditions as good or excellent, a new low for annual Discover survey. At the same time, consumers rating the economy as poor rose to 36%, a new high. Singles and families with children showed more concern about the economy than those married and...; Tags: Economic Condition, Economy, Financial Accounting, Finance, AM; Blog posts 2008-01-13
What would an economic downturn mean for SOA?: There's been a hysteria of doom and gloom lately over the state of the economy. While I believe the economy is very resilient and has weathered storms worse than the current situation, it's only natural that we see upturns and downturns in the business cycle. The 2008...; Tags: SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-01-07
Comcast's stumble: More competition than economy?: Comcast has cut it outlook for 2007 citing "an increasingly challenging economic and competitive environment." And just to hammer the point home, Michael Angelakis, co-chief financial officer, said Thursday at a UBS investment conference in New York that "this is not a robust economy." The reasons for...; Tags: Comcast Corp., Economy, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-05
SOA, seen through the lens of the economy: I just finished my keynote speech to this week's SOA Congress being held in Mainz, Germany, in which I which covered the top 11 trends that will shape SOA during 2008. Bad economy -- SOA saves. Good economy -- SOA adds revenues One trend...; Tags: SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-11-14

Speed It Up - Active Warehousing With SAS Data Integration: From Batch to Real-Time: The global economy has fueled a need to "Speed it up" to fulfill the demand for current, reliable data for decision support. The SAS Data Integration Server, with its active warehousing capabilities, can help to meet this need. This paper presents methods and best practices for using real-time techniques that...; Tags: Warehousing, SAS Institute, Data Integration, Economy; White papers 2007-05-14
The Business Value of Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Release 12: Globalization is an inescapable force in doing business, whether it's about pursuing new markets and customers or responding to a new set of global competitors. The global economy offers a tremendous opportunity for growth, but at the same time presents management with some tough challenges. Finance is no exception, as...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Economy, Taxes, Globalization, Operational Accounting, Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Strategy, Management, Software; White papers 2007-02-01
Transforming the World's Emerging Markets: Globalization will be increasingly important in determining the rate of economic growth, with emerging markets accounting for a larger piece of the world economy by 2020. The shift of labor-intensive production processes from regions like Western Europe to lower-cost economies will continue. Companies will use networking technologies to tap into...; Tags: Emerging Market, Economy, Globalization, Financial Services, Marketing Research, Strategy, Management, Marketing; White papers 2006-11-01
AutoKeeper (exe): AutoKeeper helps vehicle owner track vehicle related expenses such as fuel purchased, repair and maintenance expenses and monitor fuel cost and vehicle condition through fuel economy. It records expenses by trips, calculates fuel economy and has various bar and pie charts to help monitor and analyze vehicles performance and efficiency....; Tags: Economy, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Excel, Hardware, Components, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2006-10-02
Project Management as a Knowledge Management Primer: The Learning Infrastructure in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations: Projects as Knowledge Transformations and Beyond: The digital economy is based on knowledge and the ultimate objective is the reinforcement of performance. The business strategy has been shifted from the management of tangible assets to intangible resources and the traditional competitive position of business units is based on their capacity for effective action. The main conclusion...; Tags: Project Management, Knowledge, Conclusion, Knowledge Management, Economy, Business Strategy, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-04-20
Perspectives on Grid: Grid Computing - Next-Generation Distributed Computing: Two major needs have dramatically increased the value of the concept of grid computing in the last few years. A lean economy has forced those with a limited IT budget to more fully utilize their existing computing assets and to become more flexible to respond to rapidly evolving markets by...; Tags: Grid Computing, Distributed Computing, Economy, Network Technology, Utility Computing, It Management, Corba, Networking, It service Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2004-01-27
Services in the New Economy: Research Issues: Globalization and the growth of the knowledge-based economy are perhaps the two key forces at work in the economy today. They are inducing changes in the economy and the nature of work in ways that one does not yet fully understand. Although the effects of these changes are pervasive throughout...; Tags: Economy, Globalization, Strategy, Management; White papers 2003-09-01
How to Outsource: 4 Simple Steps to Success: The sluggish economy has made cost-cutting a top priority for most organizations, and IT is no exception. But saving money isn't the only reason to outsource. According to Gartner, it's not even the top one these days. The new number one motivation to outsource is the ability it gives companies...; Tags: Outsource, Syntel Inc., Economy, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; White papers 2003-06-25
Case Study: Energex: The Australian economy has remained strong over the last decade, making it one of the world's fastest-growing industrialized economies. When the energy industry deregulated, the company was in a strong competitive position and ideally placed to take advantage of the increased opportunities in the new and expanded national market. For...; Tags: Business Process, Customer Service, Economy, Operational Planning, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Operations, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
The Economy and the Information Era - What Next?: BetterManagement LIVE 2006: The presenter of this webcast discusses how the information age will affect the economy.; Tags: SAS Institute, Economy; Webcasts
The New Economics of Media: The three sources of Media 2.0 value creation are revelation, aggregation and plasticity. This gives rise to fundamentally new kinds of economies like distributed economies of scale, coordination economies and production economies of scale and scope. These economies require radically different product strategies like openness, intelligence, decentralization and connectedness. In...; Tags: Media, Economy, Strategy, Management; Presentations

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Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy: No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...; Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-08-29
AMD dual-core "Kuma" Phenom X2 spec in the wild: AMD dual-core "Kuma" Phenom X2 spec in the wildI really want to see AMD compete but...I have this feeling that by the time they get a 65nm processor to market Intel will make another leap ahead and AMD will go back to being the economy choice. I really hope...; Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Dual-Core, dual-core; Discussion threads 2008-08-28
SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years: SaaS market will 'collapse' in two yearsHe doesn't get itSo to summarize Debes (who comes off a little like Vinny from da mob or a coke dealer - his words, not mine):(1) SaaS and Cloud computing as a delivery vehicle has been tried before and therefore will fail (like all...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, software-as-a-service, SaaS IS, SaaS Model, Lawson Software Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-08-28
How do we address the have-nots?: How do we address the have-nots?It's the NetThe problem is no longer the availability of hardware: many computers are being dumped that can easily be made productive again, by installing a lean Linux on it like Xubuntu. So poor people can have a fine computer for free. That's easy to...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, computer, Internet access; Discussion threads 2008-08-28