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- IBM considering financing IT project partners because of banking crisis
- I recently ran into Drew Clark, head of IBM's Venture Capital Group, based in Menlo Park, California. I asked him about the financial crisis and what IBM could do in response. "We would never make an equity investment but we are looking at financial help in projects where we partner...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Financing, IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing
- SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- What's really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank
- Concerns about IBM's third quarter are popping up almost daily. The standard set of concerns revolves around technology spending and the willingness to pay IBM's army of consultants fees for big bang projects as well as a stronger dollar. But underneath the surface there's a bigger worry that isn't being...
- Tags: Asset, Bank, Financial, Financing, IBM Corp., Finance Unit, Financing Unit, Global Financing, Commercial Financing, Participation Rate, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
- National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
- Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Borland Delphi, Financing, Programming Languages, Financial Accounting, Development Tools, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- 44% of businesses rely on credit cards for financing
- Share of businesses using credit cards has jumped from 16% in 1993 to 44% today, according to National Small Business Association. The proportion using bank loans dropped from 45% to 28%. A Federal Reserve survey showed that share of firms using business credit cards jumped from 34% in 1998 to...
- Tags: Bank, Credit Card, Financing, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Vonage refinances debt; Off of deathwatch
- Vonage isn't out of the liquidity woods yet, but on Friday the company took a big step in the right direction. Vonage said in a statement Friday that it signed a letter of intent "with a third party financing source" to provide $215 million in private debt...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Financing, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Dell: We'll save $3 billion; Cut 8,800 positions
- Dell on Monday gave a preview of its analyst meeting later this week and reaffirmed that it will aim to save $3 billion over the next three years and reduce headcount by 8,800. In fiscal 2009, Dell said it will focus on its consumer, enterprise, notebook, small and...
- Tags: Desktop, Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Investment, Financial Accounting, Notebooks, Finance, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Norwegian Trade and Financing Agency Enhances IT Mobility and Security
- An agency of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry, GarantiInstituttet for EKsportkreditt GIEK provides loan guarantees for enterprises seeking financing. GIEK needs to provide its financial analysts with mobile IT services while ensuring the safety of critical and sensitive data. GIEK chose the Windows Vista operating system to provide...
- Tags: Security, Information Technology, Financing, Microsoft Corp., Investment, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Norwegian Trade and Financing Agency Enhances IT Mobility and Security With New Operating System
- Garantiinstituttet for eksportkreditt is part of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry. It provides loan guarantees that make it easier for enterprises to obtain financing. An agency of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry, GarantiInstituttet for EksportKreditt GIEK provides loan guarantees for enterprises seeking financing. GIEK needs to...
- Tags: Security, Information Technology, Operating System, Financing, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Eurogroup Ensures Stable and Secure Network Interaction Across 34,000 Member Enterprises
- Eurogroup was established in 1999 to provide small- and medium-sized enterprises with credit and corporate consulting services. Eurogroup wanted to have only one database for Eurofidi and Eurcons and reduce time for financing authorization. The challenge was to provide an IT platform capable of tight integration with other legacy systems...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Financing, Eurogroup, Hardware Upgrade, Investment, Financial Accounting, Databases, Hardware, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Improve patient care by improving the capabilities of your PACS
- As your healthcare organization makes the transition to digital imaging and recordkeeping, you face a whole new set of technological challenges. But if you can transform the overwhelming amount of data into usable information, you can access records faster and more reliably - and benefit from operational efficiencies and better...
- Tags: Patient, Pacs, Imaging, Financing, IBM Corp., IBM Healthcare Medical Imaging eKit, Document Management, Healthcare, Investment, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Resource centers 2008-02-20
- Financing Options to Improve IT Acquisition and Long-Term Management Strategies
- IT network infrastructure has emerged as the critical communication, collaboration, and information facilitator of the modern enterprise, broadly enabling most business processes, decision making, practices, and innovation initiatives. To deliver these capabilities, the IT organization has evolved its role beyond supporting a collection of servers and software into managing a...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Financing, International Data Group, IT Network Infrastructure, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- CarBasePro (exe)
- CarBasePro used car lot software is an affordable car lot management DMS program for car dealers providing support for sales, inventory, management, forms, buy-here pay-here financing, payments and used car lot management. Whether you are starting a used car lot dealership or you are a dealer with an existing used...
- Tags: Data Entry, Financing, CarBasePro, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Records Management, Sales
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
- Engineering Company Saves 20 Days of Compliance Administration With New Licensing Agreement
- Firth Rixson is one of the United Kingdom's original alloy and steel forging specialists. It provides high quality manufacturing material for aerospace, power generation, oil, and related industries. United Kingdom based forging expert Firth Rixson negotiated a tailored financing solution for its Microsoft Volume Licensing Enterprise Agreement in 2006. The...
- Tags: Licensing Agreement, Administration, Compliance, Financing, U.K., Microsoft Corp., Firth Rixson, Service Management, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Fund Your Education Technology Purchases With Leasing
- Education administrators face constant challenges to do more with less, to update their technology, and to safeguard their capital expenditures budgets. This Webcast discovers how leasing with Cisco Capital can help to fund education technology needs and implement solutions that can improve academic and administrative effectiveness. The presenters of this...
- Tags: Financing, Leasing, Cisco Systems Inc., Capital Structures, Finance
- Webcasts 2007-12-01
- Financing Solution Proves to Be the Dealmaker as Convergis Goes From Strength to Strength
- Based in Northampton in the UK, Convergis is a wireless network specialist and a Cisco Premier Partner. They had a situation where the distributor would not release a large order on account and the customer had no facility to pay upfront. They had reached a stalemate and the opportunity looked...
- Tags: Financing, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless Network, Financing Solution, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Content M&A: Credit crunch crimps landscape
- Media company deals will get done but there are potholes ahead. On a panel about dealmaking in the content space at the Future of Business Media conference, the consensus seemed to be that deals will get done, but the big fish will struggle with financing--especially if an...
- Tags: Acquisition, M&A, Financing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Finavera's renewable energy funding cycle
- If I reported on every green tech financing announcement that crossed my inbox, I wouldn't have time to do anything else. But this one caught my eye because of where the funds are going: into wave energy and wind farm projects. So here's the deal. Renewable energy...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Green Technology, Financing, Farm, Finavera, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Car Dealer Triples Development Speed With Agile Methods and Visual Studio Team System
- DriveTime, a used-car and finance company for people with less-than-perfect credit, has more than 100 dealerships in the United States. Because the company finances more than 99 percent of the cars that it sells, and many of its customers don't have complete financial records, DriveTime created its own software for...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Team, Financing, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Microsoft Development Tools, Investment, Finance, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- Global Entertainment Group Boosts Competiveness With Financing for Volume
- Employees at global sports, entertainment, and media company IMG use the latest technology to keep the business competitive. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Bytes, IMG managers found a cost-effective way to meet this need through Microsoft Financing. IMG secured finance for a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, which gives it a...
- Tags: Financing, Microsoft Corp., Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Investment, Marketing, Finance
- Case studies 2007-09-01
White Papers and Webcasts
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Todd Glass of Heller Ehrman moderates a discussion, among tech execs, on the various solar technologies making a difference in the green movement.
We need to get back to freethinking and innovation that is core to our roots. Companies like Intel were founded on thoughts like the famous quote from Robert Noyce - "Don't be encumbered by the past, go out and do something wonderful."
