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Momentum Webcast: An Introduction to Software Asset Management: Optimize, Secure and Build (Level 100)

Software Asset Management SAM is a relatively new concept for many businesses in the United States. Increasingly, companies seek to optimize their technology investments and ensure better corporate governance, which requires a better understanding of the value of their technology assets. Microsoft Software Asset Management enables to put the people,...

Tags: Asset, Software, Webcast, Technology Investment, Microsoft Corp., Software Asset Management, Microsoft Software Asset Management, Asset Management, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management

Webcasts 2005-08-23

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Web Help Desk Pro 9.2.3.1 (Mac)

This help desk software Pro edition of Web Help Desk for Mac OS X Server offers an industry leading web-based help desk software that empowers IT help desk technicians with iPhone web-app access, email-to-ticket conversion, trouble ticket email notifications, self-service knowledge base, track billable time & materials, LDAP & AD...

Tags: Asset, Web, Apple Macintosh, MacsDesign Studio, Web Help Desk, Help Desk, Call Centers, Asset Management, It Operations, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-11-25

Web Help Desk Pro 9.2.2.1 (Windows)

This help desk software Pro edition of Web Help Desk for Microsoft Windows offers an industry leading web-based help desk software that empowers IT help desk technicians with iPhone web-app access, email-to-ticket conversion, trouble ticket email notifications, self-service knowledge base, track billable time & materials, LDAP & AD integration, and...

Tags: Asset, Web, Microsoft Windows, MacsDesign Studio, Web Help Desk, Help Desk, Call Centers, Asset Management, It Operations, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-25

Art of the software deal can get messy

Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Gartner Inc., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Software Audit, Software-as-a-service Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Savings from power managing your desktop may be bigger than you realize

When it comes to power management software options, you pretty much have two courses you can take: You can opt for one of the standalone packages being touted by the likes of Verdium or 1E, or you can handle this sort of management through a broader patch management or systems...

Tags: Numara Software Inc., Software, Desktop, Power Management, Systems Management, Persystent, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-23

SCO Group wins Unix copyright appeal

I see M$ dirty fingerprintsThis BS decision is the result of M$ FUD and dirty money paid to SCO to continue annoying the FOSS and Linux in particular.Prove itI bet you cant!Was that before... or after you adjusted your tinfoil hat? Take your meds dude, it's for your own good.A...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Unix, SCO Group Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Software and Consulting Company Achieves Strong Vertical Growth

With a sharp vertical focus on supporting the financial and asset management of local and regional governments, INFOMA Software Consulting provides vertical solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV. To meet ambitious growth goals and address increasingly complex customer challenges, INFOMA pursues a multitiered strategy. The company created a partner channel...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Software, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Asset Management, Government, Outsourcing, Operational Planning, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Case studies 2009-08-01

News to know: Microsoft, Yahoo; AMD; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Who will get the Windows 7 bits and when? Microsoft's fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Clinical Trials Firm Uses IO and SAM for Postmerger Strategic Planning and Integration

Worldwide Clinical Trials Worldwide provides clinical research and drug trial services for companies around the globe. Approached by Microsoft, Worldwide participated in an Infrastructure & Software Optimization assessment, which analyzed the firm's Infrastructure Optimization maturity as well as its Software Asset Management SAM maturity. As a result, Worldwide received an...

Tags: Asset, Maturity, Clinical Trial, Microsoft Corp., Integration, Asset Management, Healthcare, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-06-01

What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?

What's Cloud Computing and What's Not?Cloud Computing Definition in 4 wordsOther people's virtual serversWhat is the Cloud? What....is computing? These two terms are definitive. We don't need someone trying to define something that is defined already by its terms.Cloud computing is accessing your IT resources through the cloud. The term...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

SysInfo 9.0 (Mac)

SysInfo is a system and storage solution for asset inventory and configuration reporting for most major Linux, UNIX, Apple Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows platforms as well as leading NAS and SAN Storage Systems and logical volume software solutions. SysInfo provides extremely detailed system hardware, software, OS configuration, and storage asset...

Tags: Asset, Apple Macintosh, MagniComp, SysInfo, Storage, Asset Management, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-05-08

CRM Software Helps Asset Management Firm Comply With Regulation and Win New Business

With 800 clients, Warren Wicklund is an innovative asset management business based in Oslo, Norway. It was founded in 2002 and now specialises in hedge fund management. Like many financial institutions during the global economic crisis, Warren Wicklund - a leading asset management firm in Norway - is under pressure...

Tags: Asset, Software, Regulation, CRM Software, CRM, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-05-01

Hooray! Oracle acquisition of Sun makes perfect sense

Hooray! Oracle acquisition of Sun makes perfect senseYou said ..."Open source, too, may take a hit, as I don?t expect Unbreakable Linux to remain Oracle?s point on the OS arrow. Solaris will be the prime OS, meaning Oracle?s channel pipeline to Red Hat will shrink."As one WHO has a TON...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Linux, Corporate law, Sun Solaris, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Oracle acquisition, Hooray, acquisition, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Microsoft adds legacy app support to Optimization Pack refresh

Microsoft is making available for download as of  April 1 the final version of its desktop-virtualization-management product that is designed to help Vista users run legacy Windows 2000 and Windows XP apps. The spring 2009 refresh of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack MDOP is out as of...

Tags: Legacy Application, Optimization, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, MED-V, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Asset Management, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-04-01

IBM and Sun: Is it about the hardware or the software?

The Wall Street Journal reports IBM is in acquisition talks with Sun Microsystems. At this point, the companies are refusing to comment on the rumor. If it comes to pass, the acquisition would give IBM a larger share of the high-end server and storage markets and enhanced access to certain...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, IBM Corp., Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ian Finley

Blog posts 2009-03-19

The 'IBM buys Sun' story

Since sometime last summer a company called Southeastern Asset Management has been both accumulating Sun shares and hawking them to various big players. They got nowhere with HP, nowhere with Microsoft, nowhere with the Koreans, and nowhere with IBM - but recent political change has changed that: bringing IBM back...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Corporate Law, Sun Solaris, Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Business Operations, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009

Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009What I see is another executive whodoesn't get the fact that sometimes you simply have to accept a situation where there is no growth, but simply maintenance of market share.CEOs and their ilk need to learn that a balance must be struck...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2009-02-24

IT Consultancy Helps Customers Simplify Management, Compliance, and Intelligence

Universal Management Solutions UMS helps its customers align IT with business strategy by providing Software Asset Management SAM and licensing services for companies with IT environments ranging from several dozen to 60,000 computers. Often called upon to help rectify challenges resulting from inadequate SAM programs, UMS wanted to provide its...

Tags: Asset, Software, Information Technology, Environment, Compliance, Microsoft Corp., Asset Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Management

Case studies 2009-01-21

10 reasons to purchase new hardware during a recession

TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware. But IT consultant Erik Eckel suggests that trying to coast on failing or outdated equipment will cost you more in the long run. You...

Tags: Employee, PC, Recession, Server, Hardware, Organization, Budgets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-20