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Geomant Consolidates Financial Data to Gain Greater Insight Across International Operations

Founded in 1997, Geomant is a system integrator headquartered in the United States with branch offices in the United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Serbia, and Austria. Geomant wanted to consolidate financial information from disparate sources - including JD Edwards, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft SQL databases, and Geomant's project...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Geomant, Financial Information, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2008-05-01

MSD Organizer Multiuser (exe)

MSD Organizer Multiuser is a network professional information manager that manages your property and budget, organizes your phone book, manages your tasks and activities, has alarms for several events and birthdays, keeps a personal diary, and manages your music. The financial information is kept in local and foreign currencies. You...

Tags: MSD Soft, MSD Organizer Multiuser, Financial Information, Productivity, Financial Accounting, Telecom & Utilities, Finance

Software downloads 2007-11-26

Eliminating Internal Communication Barriers With Microsoft Business Portal-Level 100

A wide variety of company information in Word, Excel, PDF documents and e-mail reports are cluttering your company network. Important financial information is stored in your company's accounting system. Sound familiar? Join this webcast to learn how the Business Portal from Microsoft Solomon expands the distribution of information to everyone...

Tags: Barrier, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Financial Information, E-mail, Microsoft Excel, Financial Accounting, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Finance

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Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

iPhone gas application roundup

On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Software makers may sue eBay

Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...

Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-25

What paper trail?

I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook

On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users

Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...

Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts

A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...

Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Diagnose your hard disks, free

Hard drive acting kinda funny? Free application HDDScan is a utility that diagnoses your hard drive's ills. The app allows you to analyze drive temperatures, conduct S.M.A.R.T. tests, export and print reports to document changes in your hard drive's health, and works on ATA,...

Tags: Hard Drive, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Did Levi's use failed IT as a 'convenient scapegoat'?

Several observers have suggested Levi Strauss used IT failure as an excuse to deflect attention away from deeper and more significant financial challenges. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Financial, Implementation, Information Technology, ERP, Levi Strauss, Software Deployment, Francine, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-07-25

If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?

Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost (read "free"). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE, Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.)...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Comprehension, Productivity, Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft's cloud-developer services -- "Zurich" and "Red Dog" -- during his speech at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 24. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Zurich, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, SQL Server Data Services, Data Centers, Retail, Financial Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...

Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up

Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...

Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

COPA suffers another blow

COPA suffers another blowRepeal COPAGood decision. The COPA thugs would dumb down all information to 2nd grade level.

Tags: Regulations, Child Online Protection Act

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Government, markets and regulation

Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...

Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending

Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...

Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24