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Engineering Company Automates Processes and Reduces Costs With New Business Software

IPSH is a major engineering company based in Malaysia. Founded in 1987, the company enjoyed rapid growth and expansion of key business areas. However the company's growth was placing a strain on its DOS-based accounting system, which it had used since its inception. Poor support and compatibility issues, as well...

Tags: Software, Engineering Company, Accounting, Financial Reporting, Business Software, Microsoft Corp., IPSH, Engineering, Financial Planning, Operational Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2009-07-03

Engineering Firm Expects Communications Upgrade to Save $1 Million Annually

Pennoni Associates is a multidiscipline engineering firm with 20 offices in the northeastern United States. Employees in branch offices sometimes struggled to collaborate effectively over long distances. Pennoni upgraded to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 to help the firm form teams and exchange information faster and...

Tags: Engineering Company, Microsoft Corp., Pennoni Associates, Engineering

Case studies 2008-08-01

Electrical Engineering Firm Migrates From Linux to a Microsoft-Based Platform

Consulting Ltd. is an engineering firm located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada specializing in the design of Electrical and Instrumentation systems for Oil and Gas installations in Western Canada. Candor Engineering deployed numerous Linux servers for its Web applications, email, file and back-up servers. They soon became frustrated with downtime, rising...

Tags: Engineering Company, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Engineering, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2008-01-07

Engineering Company Cuts Production Times With Integrated ERP System

Sheet metal engineering company WH Williams is a leading Australian manufacturer of custom-made metal products. A fast turnaround time is essential, so the company employs a mix of conventional and unique techniques, including laser cutting and bending. WH Williams wanted a resource planning tool that could assimilate resources, inventory, production,...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Engineering Company, ERP System, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Engineering, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-01-01

Boosting Your Bottom Line: 10 Ways to Maximize A/E Firm Profitability

Successful architecture and engineering firms have one thing in common - a strong bottom line. However, today's increasingly competitive environment is making it more and more difficult for A/E firm leaders and managers to maintain profitability levels. By nature, architecture and engineering firms are project-driven businesses, which impact all aspects...

Tags: Engineering Company, ZweigWhite, Engineering

White papers 2005-10-01

Engineering Firm Adds Vibrant Color to Presentations With Lexmark C534n

BFMJ Inc. is a structural engineering firm specializing in design consulting and project management. As BFMJ has grown, its existing color printer could no longer provide the quality and speed the firm demanded. Photographs and charts lacked brilliant color, detracting from the impact of client proposals and engineering reports. Even...

Tags: Engineering Company, Lexmark International Inc., Engineering

Case studies

Aerion: Betting on a New Model for Business Travel

Aerion Corp. is an advanced aeronautical engineering company focused on the development of supersonic business jets. The company needed the design resources of a cutting edge aeronautical engineering company. The company needed in-house computer resources to conduct initial evaluations and designs. Aerion knew that to ensure optimum price/performance value it...

Tags: Engineering Company, Linux NetworX, Linux, Engineering, Productivity, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

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Calling all innovators: Google hangs "Help Wanted" sign

Google is hiring again. And in case you hadn't heard, the company is known for having some pretty sweet perks for its employees. And we're not just talking free meals and on-site dry cleaners. In a blog post titled "Investing in Innovation at Google," the company goes...

Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-03

The perfect computer?

Do we have the technology to build a perfect computer? Would it be perfect for a specific purpose or is it possible to build a perfect general purpose computer? Small Business Computing's Mark Beckley has some answers. Do we have the technology to build a perfect...

Tags: Motherboard, Computer, Machine, Chip, Small Business Computing, Watt Power Supply, Productivity, PCs, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet, Mark Beckley Small Business Computing, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-02

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

2010 Infiniti QX56

Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...

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Product reviews 2009-10-30

Needles and haystacks: Balancing precision and recall

Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are bandied about in most every...

Tags: Recall, Pregnancy, Attivio, Spam Email, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, search, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Edraw Max 5.0 (Windows)

Edraw Max enables students, teachers and business professionals to reliably create and publish kinds of diagrams to represent any ideas. Edraw provides you a versatile, easy, quick and professional solution to let you enjoy your working. In a corporate environment, the folks over in human resources need to be able...

Tags: EDrawSoft, Microsoft Windows, Graphics, Edraw Max, Edraw

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Dear Microsoft: What's the deal with Windows 7 upgrades?

Location?38.921473?N 77.066946?WYep, same here ...... stonewalled at every turn. With you ...... I can see, because you've been pulling on Microsoft's scab lately. But in Ed's case, I don't know why they would treat him like that.^o^Message has been deleted..Believe it or not ...... it makes little difference. The...

Tags: upgrade media, reverse engineering, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

SAP regaining its mojo?

Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...

Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Can you teach programmers to be journalists?

Megan Taylor over at PBS' MediaShift writes about the challenges of getting programmers and journalists to work together.MediaShift . Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom? | PBS It's an interesting subject because newsrooms are increasingly digital and they need to add programming skills to help...

Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Journalist, Programmer, Ms Taylor, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

SAP and Siemens: kiss and make up?

The other week news broke that Siemens planned to can its estimated €40 million plus annual maintenance agreement with SAP. What a difference a few weeks makes. According to a press release issued by SAP: SAP...today announced that Siemens AG, a global leader in electronics and electrical engineering, has...

Tags: Siemens AG, SAP AG, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Can a car be fuel efficient and fun?

Ford wants it both ways: using less fuel, have fun driving. To that end they are working with some engineers at the University of Michigan to test drive and then virtually test drive hyrbids and electric cars to find what works both for saving fuel, and having fun while...

Tags: Car, Ford Motor Co., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Windows 7 in action: a closer look at Windows XP Mode

Now that's coolSo XP apps can be run directly on the desktop? Now that's cool :).How is this different than Virtual PC?Ed, I have XP running under MS Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista Business x64 machine. How is this different? I know that I had to supply...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows XP Mode, virtualization, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19