The people over at NASDAQ who make up stock indexes have come up with a new one in their eco-related products: the Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index. You can follow its performance through the symbol QGRD. Or, you can watch historical performance at this link. The...
TicketCreator is a unique ticketing software to print tickets for your events, like concerts, theater performances or sport matches. Create, design, and print attractive tickets with row and seat numbers, tickets with serial numbers or unnumbered tickets even for complex venues in any format and on your normal printer. Moreover,...
Chartastic Chart Viewer is a quick and easy way to check performance of your favorite stocks over time. Our easy to use interface gives you instant access to thousands of charts with up to 40 years of historical data. Choose between line, candlestick, mountain, and OHLC chart styles, and choose...
Siemens is one of the largest technology companies with six major business divisions. They chose DB2 and SAP for scalability, performance, increased savings, and lower TCO.
Greven City Council operates six servers simultaneously to meet the database needs of approximately 70 different specialist processes within the city's local administration. The challenge was to speed up slow, computer-intensive operations, such as the monthly payroll run, and enable parallel running of processes and improve the daily backup, which...
Pearson wanted to cut monthly close times by standardizing and consolidating financial reporting for three major global businesses and reduce software licensing and management costs. The challenge was to build transparent, consistent, agile financial management and planning infrastructure to gain real-time enterprise performance visibility and increase competitive advantage and ensure...
Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...
Indusa Infotech Services Pvt. Ltd's database archive and purge software, ArchivePlus, can significantly improve the efficiency and availability of live production databases. It enables unrestricted access to years of data and multiple archive definitions - while reducing costs and enhancing performance. Based on SQL Server 2008 data management software, ArchivePlus...
The Dell Energy Smart architecture, including new 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers, provides a comprehensive, system-wide approach to balancing performance with energy efficiency. By focusing on four key tenets - design, measurement, control, and reporting - this architecture can support scalable, energy-efficient infrastructures that can help optimize performance per watt and...
Peter Alguacil over at Pingdom has crunched numbers on tech company profits per employee and Google comes top with $210K per person in 2008. Microsoft $194K Baidu $164K Apple $151K Cisco $122K Adobe $119K Ebay $110K Intel $64K ...
Trade Manager Pro manages trade and portfolio risk for stocks, futures and options. It also tracks your trading performance in real time to insure you are staying within your risk tolerance guidelines. You can also test your trading strategies to insure they are profitable before you put any money at...
Displays current stock quotes, as known from various TV stations. It can be set up with various options. The scrolling performance is very high. Colors and fonts can be chosen freely. Any ticker code can be used. Two or more ticker lines are possible.
China Mobile Henan wanted to eliminate potential system risks to improve the availability of Oracle databases and Oracle E-Business Suite applications and improve the performance of the Oracle enterprise resource planning system. The challenge was to increase the efficiency of monthly and yearly accounting processes. China Mobile Henan engaged Oracle...
Invensys wanted to condense end-of-period consolidation and reporting cycle for 200 globally dispersed businesses operating on disparate financial systems and simplifies intercompany accounting and eliminates mismatches. The challenge was to provide executives with timely, at-a-glance performance data with advanced drill-down and analysis tools on the desktop and gain broader, in-depth...
CompanÃa de Parques Nacionales de Puerto Rico wanted to integrate disparate systems in a single platform to consolidate operations throughout the organization and centralize financial operations between the central office and the various installations to improve operating efficiency. The challenge was to create applications performance monitoring alerts to make timely...
Johns Hopkins University APL wanted to enable APL's core team of eight systems administrators to efficiently support more than 80 developers and 5,000 end-users of Oracle technology - all of whom rely on Oracle-based systems for their research and administrative work. The challenge was to ensure high availability and performance...
The role and use of information technology solutions will be critical to achieving the goals of effective investing and execution, accountability of funds and the transparency and measurement of performance. The depth and breadth of programs require a large array of technologies from applications to execute business and operational processes,...
To determine the potential of Solid-State Drives SSDs to replace Hard Disk Drives HDDs in the enterprise, Intel IT conducted a Proof of Concept PoC that included performance tests, measurement of power consumption, and Total-Cost-of-Ownership TCO analysis. It found that using SSDs to replace data HDDs in disk arrays could...
With regard to intervention in the current crisis, and prevention of future crises, establishing an integrated loan performance monitoring and early warning system is the key. To that end, CCAF affords regulators with the information and necessary tools to enforce such a system and ensure lending safety and soundness. All...
Nortel today announced that it intends to reduce its workforce by an additional 3,200 positions worldwide over the next several months, almost doubling the total number of laid off employees after 1,800 workers were cut earlier this year.r"There is nothing more difficult than notifying employees, and Nortel is extremely conscious...
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