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- An Office Business Application Is Improving Sales at Microsoft by Providing "Anywhere, Anytime" Access to Customer Data in Siebel Through Office Outlook 2007
- The salesperson working at Microsoft spends their entire day with customers and, because they are rarely in the office, must be able to access and act on customer information regardless of location. The official repository for such data and the source of Swanson's past frustration is a Siebel CRM system....
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Business Application, Siebel Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Forecasting, Office Business Application, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Sales, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software
- Case studies 2007-06-01
- Software 2007: Ballmer touts Office for composite apps
- At the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer paced across the stage explaining Microsofts software + services platform strategy to the crowd of IT execs and software vendors and promoting the business value of Office Business Applications OBAs, which uses Office as a front end for...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, Microsoft, General, ERP, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Office Business Application Extends Reach and Value of Epicor Enterprise Solutions
- Epicor delivers innovative enterprise software solutions that enable companies around the world to meet business challenges today and empower them for greater success tomorrow. Epicor sought to increase the reach of its applications to more workers and provide access to its applications within the context daily business activities. Epicor developed...
- Tags: Business Application, Epicor Software Corp., Office Business Application, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Office Business Application Extends Reach and Value of Enterprise Solutions
- Epicor provides integrated Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, Customer Relationship Management CRM, Supply Chain Management SCM, and professional service automation PSA software solutions to more than 20,000 customers in more than 140 countries. Epicor realized the value of making its applications accessible to end users through familiar desktop tools. To be...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Business Application, Epicor Software Corp., Office Business Application, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Office Business Application Improves Sales Force Productivity, Helps Increase Sales
- Microsoft needed to make the customer data in its Siebel customer relationship management system and other applications more accessible and usable to the company's enterprise sales force. The Siebel UI was frustrating to use, forcing salespeople to spend too much time entering customer data instead of in front of customers....
- Tags: Sales Force, Microsoft Office, Business Application, Microsoft Corp., Office Business Application, Customer Data, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software
- Case studies
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- Driving SOA through a lousy economy
- Dave Linthicum and Loraine Lawson have been having an interesting blogosphere discussion on the role of SOA in a down economy. Dave says lousy times will spur SOA; Loraine says SOA may see the budget axe. In his own informal survey, Dave found that 75 percent of...
- Tags: SOA, Loraine Lawson, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- White Space devices pass key technical test
- White space devices -- which take advantage of used portions of the television spectrum -- have passed the "burden of proof" stage, the FCC says. They work, and they don't interfere with TV or wireless mics. If we actually get wireless net on white space spectrum, it will have...
- Tags: Spectrum, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman, Device
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Can IT strengthen the economy?
- At the Garner IT Expo in Orlando, Fla., Cisco CEO John Chambers explained that many company heads are looking for flexibility along with cost effectiveness--aspects that video conferencing and social networking provide. He says that, soon, IT and business strategy will be so intertwined that we won't know the difference...
- Tags: Information Technology, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Cisco, collaboration, Gartner, CEO, cost effective, video conferencing, IT, business strategy, economy
- Videos 2008-10-15
- Does IT really need to fear multicore?
- While multicore chips hold great promise for applications and computing power they could wreak havoc on technology departments. That's the message from Gartner analyst Carl Claunch, who argued Thursday that IT types should fear--yes fear--multicore technology. Multicore chips carry multiple brains on them and companies like Intel...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Multi-core, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- ebay beats Q3, adjusts guidance for Q4, FY08
- eBay reported third quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.12 billion, up $228 million from the third quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $592 million, or 46 cents per share. GAAP profits were $492 million, or 38 cents per share. Analysts had been expecting...
- Tags: Earnings, eBay Inc., GAAP, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- It's not easy being green--Optimizing eco-friendly packaging
- Early adopter brands have further differentiated their products and won consumer affinity by adopting green strategies in their brands and packaging. But risks are many says Affinnova's Steve Lamoureux. Commentary--On every progressive brand manager’s short list is a sustainability initiative. In just a few short...
- Tags: Risk, Brand, Standard Quantitative Approach, Branding, Marketing, Steve Lamoureux, Affinnova, Special to ZDNet, Steve Lamoureux, Affinnova, Special to ZDNet, green, packaging
- News items 2008-10-15
- Judge freezes assets of massive spam ring
- The Federal Trade Commission won a huge antispam victory in court yesterday, with a federal courts in Chicago's order to freeze the assets of a botnet spam group generally known as HerbalKing. The group used botnets to spread its poison around the globe. Just one botnet...
- Tags: Asset, FTC, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Signs your company might soon go belly-up
- Before a company goes under, just about everybody knows it. And before everybody knows it, a bunch of people are already whispering in the corridors and around the water cooler, certain they see the writing on the wall. But what about you? Can you read the clues sprinkled like breadcrumbs...
- Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- JetBlue unveils high-tech terminal Oct. 22; IT as customer service tool
- Joseph Eng, executive vice president of JetBlue's systems and technology, said the company will unveil its high-tech terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Oct. 22. The terminal when it launches will be the culmination of one big technology project. JetBlue's terminal at JFK,...
- Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, JetBlue Airways Corp., Tool, Projects, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Operational Accounting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 80 ways to mix open source and business
- Open source and business do mix. In fact, according to Matthew Aslett at the 451 Group, you can mix open source into more than 80 combinations of development model, licensing model, and revenue schemes. Usually, people talk about three licensing combos: Proprietary, mixed, and "pure" open source...
- Tags: Aslett, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 360 degree virtual reality training RIA
- SitePoint and TechCrunch both have some information up about something that EffectiveUI is building for Intelligence Gaming. It's a video-based virtual reality training simulation for the army. It's one of the coolest RIAs that I've seen. The application uses a combination of high quality video and hardware to immerse people...
- Tags: 360-degree, Rich Internet Application, Video, Training, Hardware, Corporate Communications, Virtual Reality, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Apple vs. Dell: Battle of the 13-inch notebooks
- Since my last comparison, Apple and Dell have both come out with even smaller notebook computers to tempt you away from your old fashioned desk-bound workstation. How do they stack up? Today I look at the low end MacBook White and Dell Inspirion 13 to find out. ...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Battery, Apple Inc., Centimeter, MacBook White, Engineering, Serial ATA, Notebooks, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Gartner Top 10 embraces the Cloud
- As in previous years, the analysts at Gartner have unveiled their 'Top 10 Strategic Technologies,' and Jason Hiner provides details elsewhere on ZDNet. The press release is here. One of the analysts involved David Cearley discusses the Top 10 over on YouTube, and posts the information from...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., David, Jason, Semantic Web, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Facebook and its ilk are for the enterprise too
- Companies are blocking Facebook, frowning on social networking and pretending that employees don't peruse information from Wikipedia and Delicious, but they should embrace those sites. In fact, it may make sense to bring them into the enterprise instead of buying some corporate social networking application. Gartner analyst...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Chances, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- ManageFusion 2008
- I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...
- Tags: Software, Application, Symantec Corp., Software Virtualization Solution Professional, Steve Morton, Security, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
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