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- The Electricity Supply Board & OnDemand Software
- The Electricity Supply Board ESB is a statutory corporation within the Republic of Ireland. It is Ireland's largest electricity supplier with a customer base of 1.8 millioncomprising domestic, commercial and industrial customers. The organisation employs over 9,800 of which 200 work outside of Ireland in representative offices across London, Cork,...
- Tags: Ireland, Board, On-demand, Organization, Electricity Supply Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Case studies 2006-11-09
- How SAP Is Helping Leading Irish Utility ESB Power Ahead in a Newly Open Market
- The Electricity Supply Board ESB is the national electricity supplier for Ireland. Like all major utility companies, the biggest challenge facing ESB is operating successfully in today's increasingly open marketplace. As part of the process of opening the domestic electricity market to competition in line with EU requirements, ESB was...
- Tags: Open Market, SAP AG, Electricity Supply Board, Enterprise Service Bus, Roi/Tco, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2006-07-19
Additional Resources
- Students: the broadband troubleshooter
- Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time I sat you down and explained a few things about ISP's, phone lines, telecoms...
- Tags: Tenant, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, Internet Service Provider, Tag, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Are solar-energy materials in short supply?
- Are solar-energy materials in short supply?Need Ink ContractsImprovements in solar photovoltaic sources of materials brings to my mind the need of inks that will allow painting your own photovoltaics in colorful designs and patterns stressing advertising as much as is possible to enliven the circles of users. Inks of N-type...
- Tags: Manufacturing, photovoltaics
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- How sick is Steve Jobs?
- How sick is Steve Jobs?Not appropriate to ...discuss someone's health in a public blog. Privacy should remain private.how long before M$ goes belly up?with Gate$ gone, M$ is even in a worst position since he too was relying on brainless drones.RE: How sick is Steve Jobs?[i]Jobs has insisted to friends...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Steve Jobs, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release
- Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug
- RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bugThis article is almost a week late.....FinallyYou write this article on July 22nd and I quote from the article: "Research in Motion RIM has finally shipped patches to cover the issue, which affects the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server."Your...
- Tags: Handhelds, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, execution bug
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Apple: Perception is Reality
- Apple: Perception is RealityRE: Apple: Perception is RealityAbsolutely, Apple's response will do nothing to allay investors fears and in many cases will accelerate the rumour mill.Apple need to come out a flatly confirm or deny Steve's current health and produce, at the very least, a barebones succession plan to restore...
- Tags: Warren Buffet, Apple Inc., Perception IS reality
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat
- AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seatMiller is a good choice for the board, but..he may not be a good choice to run Yahoo! I followed the news of AOL over the years and I think as a strategist he was doing the right things. I'm sure...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Miller, Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?Toshiba Cell Laptop anyone?...[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top]FYI[/url]Slap Yellow Dog Linux on it and you are good to go!Do we know if backwards compatibility is holding back......progress? Or is it just purists who would like to see legacy support end?Currently x86 outperforms US T2 in just...
- Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Real Bottom Line, Linux STILL, Linux architecture, Intel x86, Linux, slate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.
- Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Jewel Quest 3 (exe)
- Rupert and Emma have finally settled down and opened a Museum to display their many new found artifacts. While playing with a mysterious jewel board, their daughter Natalie unknowingly pops open a secret compartment. Suddenly, the air is filled with a cloud of spores, and Natalie's vision begins to fade....
- Tags: Board, Daughter, Clue, SpinTop Games, Natalie, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat
- Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Investor Carl Icahn, who reached a compromise with Yahoo this morning to avoid a nasty proxy battle for seats on the company's board of directors,...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Miller, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Team Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries
- Updated: Apple on Monday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 a share, on revenue of $7.46 billion, well ahead of Wall Street estimates as Mac sales continued to surge. However, Apple lowered its outlook and failed to allay concerns about CEO Steve Jobs' health. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Macintosh, Health Care, Apple Inc., Steve, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Video: Beyond the Icahn-Yahoo honeymoon
- Sam offers his take on the agreement between billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo. He says the latest development only settles the proxy fight, and now comes the big challenge--getting Yahoo's newly expanded board to work together. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Video, Corporate Governance, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Diaz's Memo: Beyond the Icahn-Yahoo honeymoon
- ZDNet's Sam Diaz offers his take on the agreement between billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo. He says the latest development only settles the proxy fight, and now comes the big challenge--getting Yahoo's newly expanded board to work together.
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Diaz, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Yahoo, Icahn
- Videos 2008-07-21
- Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?
- Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?The perception is ...... Apple can't be great without Steve Jobs. I personally don't feel this is necessarily the case even though when Jobs was ousted proved to be a disastrous decision for Apple.Apple is in a strong growth period and...
- Tags: Quality, Desktops, Digital media, Steve J, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow
- When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...
- Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddance!
- Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! As the great Obi-Wan Kenobi once said "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below...
- Tags: Coffee, Starbucks Corp., Modems, Retail, Wireless LANs, DSL, E-mail, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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