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Communication and Collaboration Solution Helps Low-Fare Airline Do More With Less

AirTran Airways, a growing, low-fare airline focused on the business traveler, prioritizes efficiency in all aspects of its business. Even during an economic slowdown, the company continues to make investments that promote long-term cost savings. AirTran invested in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to improve communication and collaboration among its...

Tags: AirTran Airways, Operational Cost, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-07-01

Infrastructure as a Competitive Weapon

Enterprise software infrastructure plays a critical role supporting mission-critical applications and services that run the business. Ensuring those systems are reliable yet cost efficient is essential; and of course they must be extremely fast. Getting a system up and running is trivial; keeping it online over the long...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Operational Cost, Managed Hosting

Webcasts 2009-03-10

Recession-Proof Your Service & Support Organization

With revenue growth uncertain, all areas of the enterprise will be asked to cut costs and streamline operations in 2009. Service and support revenues have become an economic engine for both software and hardware companies. But challenging economic times are forcing companies to streamline their operations...

Tags: Revenue, Citrix Systems Inc., Operational Cost, Service, Operational Accounting, Finance

White papers 2009-01-01

MicroPulse Technologies Accelerates Sale Close Time by 30% and Cuts Operational Costs by 60% With Dell PartnerDirect

MicroPulse Technologies must provide customers with the right solutions and the right answers quickly to retain business and shut out competitors. With a small sales and engineering staff, time is precious. With Dell PartnerDirect, MicroPulse can confidently offer its customers the best pricing and support, close sales faster and reduce...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Operational Cost, MicroPulse Technology, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Pricing, Sales, Marketing

Case studies 2008-10-01

Incorporate Service Management Best Practices Into the Service Life Cycle

When planning an IT budget, no CIO wants to devote increased funding to operational costs at the expense of new service development - because new services represent growth initiators for the organization, while operational costs do not. Yet more and more enterprises have been making this budget shift in recent...

Tags: Service Management, Operational Cost, It Services

White papers 2007-05-01

Solution Provider Helps University Cut Operational Costs 30 Percent, Enhance Security

Relying on a legacy open-source IT infrastructure, the Universidad Autonoma de Occidente endured high administrative costs and lacked powerful e-mail and collaboration solutions for a growing faculty and student population. With the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Intelecto Soluciones y Tecnologia, the university deployed a Microsoft-based infrastructure that has...

Tags: Security, Microsoft Corp., Operational Cost, E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Open Source, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

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Public Broadcaster Uses IT Technologies to Reduce Operational Costs Up to $100 Million

In these days' competitive media markets, the Public Broadcasting Service PBS faces rising competition and substantial capital requirements. In a bold move to reduce capital and operational costs and position itself for the move to digital TV, PBS recently launched the ACE project, an overhaul of its operations and distribution...

Tags: Information Technology, PBS, Operational Cost, Programming, Development Tools, Processors, Servers, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

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The role of data governance in the enterprise

According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...

Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News

News items 2009-11-12

End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

SaaS: Shelfware as a service?

Think the conclusions are a bit flawedI think we can all agree that SaaS saves operational expenses, increases agility and improves the user experience. I don't think the fact that Salesforce.com has been successful can be held against the category.The shelfware point is a bit more subtle. The...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, shelfware

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

SaaS: Shelfware as a service?

Software as a service is portrayed to be the future of information technology, but it isn't quite the cure-all it's cracked up to be. Shelfware and lock-in may not save you a lot of money. That's the message from Gartner analyst Rob DeSisto. Here's...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Shelfware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

HP MPS solution for AIB

Allied Irish Bank AIB wanted a Managed Print Services MPS solution at its head office that would improve service quality, deliver cost savings and lower operational risk. One of the IT improvements, A 75% consolidation of the hardware fleet leading to a more efficient and manageable print, copy and fax...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Fax

White papers 2009-10-14

Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware

Watch the free, on-demand webcast to learn how modern enterprise software infrastructure must keep pace with dynamic business needs. As a business changes through growth, contraction, or seasonal variation, its middleware must be flexible, cost-efficient, and easily modified to accommodate this fluctuation. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Video, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-10-12

Clouds vs. Appliances

I still prefer DistributedWhen you set up the Namespace "properly" a sysadmin can handle both client and server machines - i.e. No gurus vs. grunts. With the same configuration on all machines, it is easy to bring machines up in short order. Client maintenance consists of 1) Reboot and then...

Tags: server, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-10-10

Making the case for migration

This brief describes how Gerber Scientific, working with an IBM storage implementation team, migrated its production SAP applications and Oracle database from an existing proprietary storage infrastructure to the IBM XIV Storage System. IBM Rational Performance Tester was used to simulate the target SAP workloads during the project's proof of...

Tags: SAP AG, Migration, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-10-08

Why on ZDnet?

I think most of the folks who read this section of ZDnet understand how digital tech and the future of energy, mineral and water and air resource use are so closely interconnected. But occasionally somebody who really doesn't want global warming written about, or hates the very idea that...

Tags: Pollution, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Intel to Ireland: Vote Yes to Europe or else?

Irish politics is a sport not for the faint hearted. As Conor Cruise O'Brien once said: Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being...

Tags: Ireland, Intel Corp., Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Investment, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Business Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-10-02

The Case for Thermoelectrics in the Data Center: A New Approach and Use of an Old Science

Over the past several years' corporate enterprises and the Information Technology IT industry in general have increased their awareness relating to the "Greening" of the data center or the "Greening of IT" for the main purpose of reducing energy consumption and costs. Many standards, technologies and best practices have been...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Applied Methodologies, Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-10-01

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29