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- Reminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials today
- Reminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials todayReminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials todayWhat happened that made them down 4.73 percent at closing?Here's a previewIf this reporting period is anything like several previous ones, heres's how it will go: The anal-ists crank up their earnings estimates to a ridiculously...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Q2 2008 financial, Q2 2008, Reminder, financials, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- Simplifying the enterprise: the next big thing
- One of the key messages to come out of the recent Workday financials launch is the notion of modeling the business from the business reality perspective rather than the accounting oriented approach that typified many so-called ERP implementations of the 1990s and early 2000s. In the ensuing discussion among my...
- Tags: Financials, ERP, Workday, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Gross Profit Calculator (exe)
- Confirm your business requirements or planning to buy a business this is the solution to assist you with this important decision before you spend a single penny (if buying a new business). Enter the costs from the financials that you have received including your anticipated expenses as if you had...
- Tags: Financials, Business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Software downloads 2007-07-03
- Import/Export Firm Boosts Efficiencies by Integrating Financial and Customer Data
- The U.S. Export Store exports consumer products worldwide using a network of over 250 distributors and affiliates. For its first five years in business, the company managed financials through a manual bookkeeping system based on Microsoft Office Excel and the use of an off-site accountant. But with growth, the company...
- Tags: Financial, Financials, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Export Store, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2005-10-20
- Sarasota Memorial Health Care System Connects Employees to Business Processes with PeopleSoft 8 HCM
- Sarasota Memorial Health Care System needed to replace legacy mainframe human resources (HR), financials, and materials management systems. These systems required significant internal maintenance resources, lacked scalability, and were not easily accessed in offsite locations. PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture established an integrated environment, combining human capital management (HCM) with strong...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Business Process, PeopleSoft 8, Financials, Health Care, Human Capital Management, Human Capital, Internet, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Cole Haan: mySAP ERP financials Helps Footwear Manufacturer Streamline Business, Reduce Costs
- Cole Haan is one of North America's premier designers and marketers of quality footwear, accessories, and outerwear. The key challenges were to integrate financials with other critical business systems, streamline business processes and build enterprise-wide visibility. The solution and services offered were mySAP ERP Financials and SAP Apparel and Footwear...
- Tags: mySAP ERP, mySAP, Streamline, Financials, SAP AG, ERP, Cole Haan, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Xcel Energy Rapidly Consolidates Core financials for $15 Billion Corporate Entity
- Xcel Energy is the fourth largest combined electric and natural gas utility in the U.S. After combining its corporate legacy systems at the end of the merger in 2000, Xcel Energy needed a faster, more flexible ERP solution to consolidate its financials. An Xcel Energy evaluation team including representatives from...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financials, ERP, Natural Gas, Xcel Energy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Hardware Upgrade, Telecom & Utilities, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Watkins Keeps financials Out of Hot Water
- Watkins Manufacturing Corp. manufactures hot springs spas, the world's number one selling brand of portable hot tubs. Business was booming for the spa company, but executives wanted to ensure that company financials remained strong and out of hot water with a comprehensive budgeting and forecasting system. The biggest challenge that...
- Tags: Financials, OutlookSoft, Forecasting, Watkins, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe
- Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- SAP's SaaS pull-out will help rivals in Europe
- The news that SAP has pushed back the roll-out of Business ByDesign by twelve to eighteen months should be music to the ears of its SaaS competitors, especially on SAP's home turf in Europe. By announcing its own SaaS product for the midmarket late last year, SAP put its stamp...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Questioning IT
- Questioning ITThick vs Thin.The essence of what you're saying here is that thin client is better than thick client. You don't exactly use those terms and you throw in a bit of anti-Microsoft rhetoric, but focusing on the underlying principals (as you correctly recommend), this is a thick vs thin...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Thin clients, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, thin client, security
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Sun plans layoffs following weak quarter; Blames U.S. economy
- Sun Microsystems' third quarter results were hurt by "significant challenges" related to the slowing U.S. economy. Sun also plans to cut 1,500 and 2,500 jobs. The company on Thursday reported a third quarter net loss of $34 million, or 4 cents a share, on revenue of $3.26...
- Tags: Layoff, Sun Microsystems Inc., Operational Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Tomorrow
- TomorrowWe are sure that Portal is the platform to do Enterprise 2.0I totally agree that the mashup & community concepts will continuously develop and with Generation 2.0 there will internet users just expect all to be delivered on their own MyPage. Financials / Insurance, Media, Travel etc. will all eventually...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, portal
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Reminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials today
- Just a reminder that Apple will announce their Q2 2008 financial results in a conference call today (23 April 2008) at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET.Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog has a little preview: So there are two things to watch for on Wednesday: 1) Apple's sales figures...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Cleantech money, there's more, but there's also less
- A report on venture capital investment shows cleantech is doing better now than it was a year ago. However, the sector is suffering due to the current economic woes of Wall Street and big financials that went skinny-dipping with the subprime sharks. The upside is very...
- Tags: Clean Technology, Upside, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
- EIC podcast: Gaga for Google; Tech earnings; Psystar; Microsoft's Albany
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google, its quarter and how it threw Comscore under the bus a bit and delivered an impressive one-day stock gain. Meanwhile, Google's stellar financials may have Microsoft yearning for Yahoo even more. It was a busy week...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Albany, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Business systems for a faster, flatter world
- One of the biggest problems facing enterprises today is that the world is communicating faster than their IT systems can keep up with. This is particularly obvious in businesses that operate multinationally. Their managers collaborate and communicate daily across timezones and geographies by phone, email and Web conference, but their...
- Tags: On-demand, NetSuite Inc., OneWorld Option, Sales Strategy, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- eBay: Did listings change make a difference?
- eBay: Did listings change make a difference?Ebay - protect the seller, screw the customerI am one of the folks that got ripped off, $800, too bad. PayPal Protection? It's for the seller stupid. Every try to have PayPal use a credit card and STILL have it take money from your...
- Tags: Financial services, eBay Inc., PayPal
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables
- There's nothing like a conversation to bring out insights and new ideas. Tony Baer and I were chatting on this very pearl of productivity last week, that an open roundtable analyst call always allowed us to move the needle forward in terms of thought leadership in ways that solo writing...
- Tags: Permission, Data, SOA, Cloud, Cloud Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Could Apple sell 45 million iPhones a year?
- Could Apple sell 45 million iPhones a year?Fun Facts$45M? That is unlikely.Putting things into perspective with some fun facts found [url=http://www.symbian.com/about/fastfacts/fastfacts.html]here[/url]:[b]Significant Symbian Facts & FiguresMarket leaderAs of 31 December 2007: * 22.4 million Symbian smartphones shipped by licensees in Q4 2007 up 53% from Q4 2006 ...
- Tags: Smart phones, Engineering, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Symbian Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, battery, Symbian Smartphone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
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