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- Retail Group to Improve Remote Location IT Maintenance With New Solution
- METRO Group has offices and stores in 32 countries throughout the world. Branch environments present business challenges including limited network connectivity, little IT expertise at individual stores, and limited physical security. The company needs a solution that it can use to remotely deploy Windows operating systems and to maintain its...
- Tags: Information Technology, METRO Group, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- RFID tags help you to choose clothes
- A German department store, the Galeria Kaufhof in Essen, part of the Metro retailing group, is using RFID technology in a new way. Of course, it is using the tags to track the clothing items from its suppliers up to checkout. But according to a short article in Baseline, men...
- Tags: METRO Group, RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- METRO Group Saves Time and Reduces Operating Costs With Global Portal Solution
- The METRO Group, an international retailing company with 270,000 employees, wanted to create METRO Group Networking - the "Workspace of the future." METRO Group Networking is the standardised work and information platform for all METRO employees in all sales lines and cross-divisional service companies. The process entailed integrating various technical...
- Tags: METRO Group, Sales Strategy, Portals, Networking, Groupware, Sales, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Photos: Store of the future
- The intelligent dressing room is part of the Metro Group's vision of tomorrow's store.
- Tags: vision, METRO Group
- Image galleries 2006-03-10
- METRO Group Looks to Meet Customer Demand and Maximise Revenue Using RFID Technology in the Supply Chain
- In the fiercely competitive high-risk retail industry, success depends on constantly increasing the availability of goods to meet consumer demand and maximise revenue streams. METRO Group is one of the largest worldwide retail groups and is strongly committed to using the potential of innovative new technologies to meet customer demands...
- Tags: Revenue, Supply Chain, METRO Group, Intel Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), RFID, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- Case studies
- METRO Group's Future Store Takes German Public by Storm - Thanks to Wireless Technology
- With a vision in place to become a 'Store of the future', METRO Group set about creating the Future Store initiative. Business partners including IBM, SAP and Intel and other IT and consumer companies worked with the METRO Group on the project. In harnessing IBM Business Consulting and Wireless e-business...
- Tags: Wireless Technology, METRO Group, IBM Corp., RFID, Business Services, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- METRO Group Pioneers RFID, Reducing Losses Arising From Inaccurate Stock Replenishment in Retail Stores
- METRO Group is one of the most important international retailing companies. The company wanted to reduce the amount of money lost through goods in stores being out of stock or not on shelf but in stock. The challenge was to improve efficiency of inventory management and stock replenishment and enable...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Stock, METRO Group, Tagging, Replenishment, RFID, Investment, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Finance
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- My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- EasyStock Info (exe)
- easyStockInfo from easyStockDater is a stock company information data base. The user can search stocks by entering the ticker or sliding a speed slider. The database contains following data fields: company name, ticker, sector, industry group, industry, sub industry, associated index, associated index ticker symbol, main exchange, country of origin,...
- Tags: Stock, Ticker, Industry, easyStockDater, Investment, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- What's a Little Money Between Friends?
- Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...
- Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- 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
- Taskix (zip)
- Taskix is a utility that allows you to reorder the buttons in your Windows taskbar with your mouse. If you have 'Group similar taskbar buttons' set, it also works inside stacked groups. Simply extract the files from the ZIP into a folder of your choice and start the EXE. It...
- Tags: Robust IT, Taskix, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Software
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Categorizing failure and lining up ducks
- To really understand IT failures, it's helpful to organize, categorize, and line them up like ducks. I group IT failures into management process trials and technical tribulations. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Failure, Hardware, J.Crew, PROJECT FAILURES ANALYSIS Technical Glitch, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law
- Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of...
- Tags: Legislation, Copyright Law, Creator, Government, Intellectual Property, Vertical Industries, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email
- Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...
- Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Training Manager 2008 - Standard Edition (exe)
- Track your training records, requirements and compliance with Training Manager 2008. Print personnel transcripts and status reports. Assign training to an individual, group, or job role. Require retraining based on time, version, or one time only. Schedule and manage class sessions, attendance, cancellations, and no-shows. Training Manager 2008 is easy...
- Tags: Training, Kaizen Software Solutions, Training Manager 2008, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- CentreDesk Artizan (zip)
- CentreDesk Artizan is a multi-user call centre application, that is affordable and easy to use. Member of the CentreDesk group of Help Desk applications. Fast, easy call logging, easy call tracking, with the full history of all actions taken. Easily assign logs to artisans Time tracking, (calculates holidays and working...
- Tags: Call Centre, Merging Technologies, CentreDesk Artizan, Help Desk, It Operations
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Google is your friend
- Google is your friendThe underlying principles should determinewho is a freind, or who is not.There is nothing wrong with being a [b]for profit[/b] company, which is what Google is. It would be an entirely different issue should they hide their EULA agreements, or who they deal with, or what they...
- Tags: Channel management, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
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