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Managed Print Services and Beyond:How You Can Cut Costs and Go Green While Increasing Employee Productivity

Did you know that print costs typically consume 3% of total revenue for businesses today? For many organizations, this is nearly equivalent to the amount spent on research and development each year. According to the Photizo Group, a recognized thought leader in print services management, hardcopy costs are the last...

Tags: Cost, Ricoh Corp., Employee Productivity, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-10-08

Automobile Company Cuts Communications Costs by 50 Percent With Unified Solution

Automobilgesellschaft Weilbacher, an authorized Mercedes-Benz sales and service company in Germany, has five locations throughout the country and nearly 200 employees. Each day, the company receives more than 300 customer calls, which are routed through a central call center. The company had a mix of IP telephony systems supporting its...

Tags: Customer Service, Unified Communications, Employee Productivity, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2009-06-01

Alaska Native Corporation Saves Nearly $1 Million With Unified Communications

Alaska-based Alutiiq offers services such as construction, security, and training for government-funded and privately funded projects around the world. The company has 6,200 employees operating out of multiple locations that span the globe. For interoffice and remote communications, Alutiiq relied heavily on separate office-based telephony systems. The segregated communications infrastructure...

Tags: Unified Communications, Employee Productivity, Microsoft Corp., Alaska, Collaboration, Telecommunications

Case studies 2009-05-01

Shared-Services Company Standardizes IT Systems on New Desktop Software

Gestivel Servicos is a shared services company that provides financial, administrative, quality-control and IT services to its parent company, E.T.E. Group. To enhance employee productivity, Gestivel deployed a standard desktop image to 384 computers based on the Windows Vista operating system and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Since the upgrade,...

Tags: Software, Desktop, Information Technology, Desktop Software, Employee Productivity, Microsoft Corp., Gestivel Servicos, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations

Case studies 2008-06-10

Italian Energy Provider Sparks Employee Productivity With New Operating System

Edipower - one of the largest power suppliers in Italy, supplying consumers with approximately 25 billion kilowatt-hours of power per year is constantly seeking ways to maximize productivity while maintaining rigorous security standards and decreasing IT management costs. By deploying Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Edipower enhanced...

Tags: Operating System, Employee Productivity, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2008-02-01

How to Improve Employee Productivity in Midsize Businesses

The true key to employee productivity at midsize businesses lies in making sure that IT solutions provide tools that enable organizations to harness the deluge of data in meaningful ways, rather than being consumed by it. Oracle Application Express provides this powerful leverage. It eliminates repetitive tasks and frees employees...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Midsize Business, Employee Productivity, Oracle Application Express

White papers 2007-11-01

Additional Resources

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Live Webcast: Deliver Continuous Data Protection

Can you really afford any downtime in times like these? In today's tough economic and competitive climate, businesses and organizations need to protect themselves from unplanned downtime that affects their sales, service, customer satisfaction, employee productivity and reputation. Besides business continuity BC, they also need to have a plan and...

Tags: CA ARCserve, Webcast, Continuous Data Protection

Webcasts 2009-10-19

Sidekick outage says more about the future of 'Pink' than Microsoft's cloud

This isn't about any service.This is about Microsoft in general. It brings up the question of whether they can manage a server environment. It doesn't matter what that environment is. Preservation of data is always job one. And this is the job where the failure occurred. So Pink, Azure, cloud,...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Corp., Azure, job, Pink, IT administration

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

How You Can Cut Costs and Go Green While Increasing Employee Productivity

Did you know that print costs typically consume 3% of total revenue for businesses today? I didn't either, but thanks to a tip from my friends at Ricoh, Doc got an advanced preview of a free, new white paper that you can download now. It's an eye opener, as strong...

Tags: Operational Accounting, Finance, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-10-12

7 Ways to Boost Your Productivity By Playing Online

So here you thought gaming was something to hide at work. Now comes new research to suggest that those who play online using the seven below activities actually exhibit higher productivity than those who don't. The research comes from Dr Brent Coker of...

Tags: Activity, Blogging, Internet, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Games, Sales, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Refog Personal Monitor 5.4.1.985 (Windows)

Discipline employees and monitor actions of advanced computer users with Refog Personal Monitor. The PC monitoring tool intercepts and logs keystrokes, cut-and-paste operations, records launched applications and Web sites visited by your employees or family members An instant alert will be e-mailed when they type one of a number of...

Tags: Monitor, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Mipko Software, PC Monitoring Tool, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-10-10

OsMonitor Monitoring Software 9.5.4 (Windows)

OsMonitor monitoring software was designed for LAN monitoring and employee monitoring. You can find every detail about your employees' PC and Internet usage on server. OsMonitor is the powerful employee monitoring software for companies in all size. It allows you to know every detail about your employees' PC and Internet...

Tags: Software, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, OsMonitor Monitoring Software 9.5.4, OsMonitor Monitoring Software, Email Recorder, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-08

IBM Smart SOA approach in action: Application Foundation Demo.

This demo shows how the IBM® Smart SOA™ application foundation helped JK Enterprises as their business expanded. You'll see how IBM helped them improve their agility and employee productivity—increasing their ROI, and decreasing costs.

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Roi/Tco, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Download resources 2009-10-07

UserGate Proxy & Firewall 5.2 (Windows)

UserGate is a complex solution for sharing Internet access among employees in your company, making traffic calculations, and protecting your local network against malicious activity and software, such as hacker attacks, viruses and Trojans. UserGate is a flexible yet very powerful program that can be used in small- and mid-sized...

Tags: Internet Access, Firewall, Network, Microsoft Windows, Entensys, UserGate, BrightCloud Service, User Statistic, Internet, Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2009-10-06

Microsoft vs. Google: An e-mail showdown at L.A. City Hall

Contract worth $7.25 million? Google will probably do it for free, or as a minimum at a greatly reduced price. Cities like Los Angeles should take advantage of the competitive situation to drive the cost of email for the city to near zero.Remember, with Google, they also get GoogleApps. One...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, cloud computing, Google Inc., e-mail, operating system, desktop, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services bet

ASCII/xerox allianceASCII group the worlds oldest group of solution providers has teamed with xerox in print managed services in the smb spaceRE: Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services betI work for ACS. I was a bit surprised to get this news this morning.What Makes This Deal Different Larry ?...

Tags: Document management, Outsourcing, Xerox Corp., ACS, big service

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Microsoft says Google Chrome Frame doubles IE attack surface

Actually, it means that some of the browsing will be much safer by using Chrome. Notice that Microsoft's ONLY arguments here are bogus security arguments. They do not even try to deny that Chrome is much faster and better.RE: Microsoft says Google Chrome Frame doubles IE attack surfaceIf Google Chrome...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, plug-in

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Windows Live: A little more than a dollar in ad revenue per user a year

No surprises hereMS makes money on two things: Windows and Office. Without those two products, it would be a 30-employee software company.InterestingI wonder why the issue. The Live services are essentially plastered in ads much more so than Google. And while I really like the Windows Live services...

Tags: advertisement, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Listen to iWorkers to improve productivity and morale

Now that summer is a distant memory, it’s time to get really busy. I know, I know, it didn’t feel like it slowed down. Financial stress, job uncertainty, and the general economic malaise seem to have made people work harder. Non-farm business sector labor productivity increased 6.6% during the second...

Tags: Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Sheri McLeish

Blog posts 2009-09-21