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Environment Agency Becomes More Efficient by Integrating Financial and HR Systems

The Environment Agency's role is to protect the environment in England and Wales and ensure that air, land, and water resources are used in a sustainable manner for the benefit of future generations. The Environment Agency relied on disconnected inherited systems and multiple regional data centers to manage its back...

Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Financial, Environment, Environment Agency

Case studies 2008-05-01

Environment Agency Creates Business-Focused Culture Through Integrated Back Office

The Environment Agency is the leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. It wanted to improve efficiency and educe costs. The challenge was to meet government performance targets. The Environment Agency commissioned Oracle Consulting to build "One Business One System " (1B1S), an enterprise-wide...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Environment, Back-office, Environment Agency

Case studies 2008-05-01

Environment Agency Gives Green Light to IBM Customer Service Delivery Strategy

The Environment Agency is the public body tasked with improving and protecting the environment in England and Wales. Faced with increasing demands on its network of over 40 regional/area offices, the agency needed to centralise customer contact provision. This would help it manage increased telephone and online enquiries. It would...

Tags: Strategy, Customer Service, Environment, IBM Corp., Environment Agency, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

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BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think

Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...

Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

IT Dojo video: Five practical tips for choosing the right UPS

On the surface, choosing a UPS for your organization's server room may seem like a simple task, but like many IT tasks, the devil is in the details. In this IT Dojo video, Bill gives you five tips to help you choose the right uninterruptible power supply for your environment....

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Information Technology, Video, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000

EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...

Tags: Payment, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?

Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft as well as others, but the larger question is...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Why bother with desktop virtualization?

The proponents of making proper use of desktop virtualization technology including access virtualization, application virtualization and VDI the combination of access virtualization and processing virtualization do their best to make it sound like the best things since pockets. Aren't today's laptops, desktops and handheld devices good enough to get the...

Tags: Desktop, Worker, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Techies choose Obama - by a landslide

If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...

Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-05

JCODER Lite (exe)

JCODER Lite free Java IDE is an Integrated Development Environment IDE for Java developers. It allows you to compile and debug your Java program from the editor environment, as well as browse through your classes. You will get all the tools you need to create professional programs: project management, wizards,...

Tags: Java Community, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-10-05

To ESped or not to ESped

To ESped or not to ESpedBlended SolutionOur SIS eSchooData allows a link to be created from student rosters directly to a copy of the IEP created by the Special Ed techers in their fully functional IEP tool IEP Direct. It seems to be a good fit. Special Ed teachers...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, IEP Direct, ESped

Discussion threads 2008-10-04

Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs

A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...

Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Salesforce.com: Worries emerge

Salesforce.com on Friday was downgraded from a buy to a sell by UBS analyst Heather Bellini because software as a service companies are likely to face the same headwinds as larger applications vendors. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com is targeting larger enterprises and that means it faces a slower buying cycle. ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Put your PC on an energy diet!

With soaring energy prices people are concerned about how much electricity their gadgets are consuming. Go green by saving dollars and the environment by putting your PC on an energy diet! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: PC, Energy Saving, Desktops, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...

Tags: SMB/SME, Apple Inc., small and medium business, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Microsoft was kind enough to let me know that the Hyper-V Server, that is a dedicated, minimal Windows 2008 Server platform dedicated to being a bare metal, type-1 hypervisor, is now available. It joins products of this type available from VMware, Citrix and several Linux distributions. ...

Tags: Industry Standard, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Apple wins royalty rate showdown

Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...

Tags: Apple wins royalty rate showdown, RIAA, royalty rate showdown, piracy, Apple Wins, music, showdown, MPAA, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Melwin Browser for Kids (msi)

Worried about your children and browsing on the Internet? Do you fear them viewing illicit materials or going to a site and infecting your computer with spyware or a virus? Rather than completely taking away your children's Internet privledges, use the Melwin Browser for Kids to provide a safe browsing...

Tags: Children, Melwin Enterprises, Internet, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Portraits of Autumn screensaver (pd)

This free screensaver from American Greetings showcases three beautiful autumn settings: a waterfall, a park bench under a natural canopy, and a covered bridge, all framed in the brilliant colors of fall. In each environment, leaves fall and other animations affect the changing screen.Note: The screensavers from American Greetings require...

Tags: American Greetings Corp., Screensaver

Software downloads 2008-10-03