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- News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff
- 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. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Amway Corp. to Leverage Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12 and Oracle AIA as Part of Technology Foundation to Support 100% Growth by 2012
- Amway Corp. wanted to double the size of business by 2012 and support this growth with a solid technology infrastructure and replace front-end of e-commerce system to better serve customers. The challenge was to integrate front-end e-commerce system with back-end Enterprise Resource Planning ERP applications for better insight into business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Amway Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Web Technology, Operational Accounting, E-business/E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Finance, Internet, Software
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Handicapping the CRM field: Oracle leads the pack (but the race is tight)
- ZDNet Australia has handicapped the field of customer relationship management software and it appears that Oracle's on-demand and on-premise suite comes out on top with a score for 4.5 on a scale of 5. SAP and Salesforce scored a 4 rating overall on the same scale. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Can open source police open source?
- Can open source police open source?we need an international lawthat will allow the governments to go afer the GPL violators and use the proceeds to reimburse the authors.*sigh*There's plenty of people who are "here today, gone tomorrow" ripping off all sorts of code, be it open source or proprietary, not...
- Tags: UNIX, GPL, open source, BSD
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- Downer EDI Engineering Completes Jobs Up to 25% Faster With Project Management Solution
- Founded in 1933, Downer EDI Engineering is one of Australia's largest providers of engineering and infrastructure services. Downer EDI Engineering has been using scheduling software applications to manage schedules since the 1990s. Scheduling software packages did not provide the company with the accuracy and reporting capabilities that they needed for...
- Tags: Job, Oracle Corp., Oracle Primavera, Downer EDI Ltd., Downer EDI Engineering, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Service Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Wotif.com Experiences Perfect Database Stability, Reduces Administration Overheads
- Established in March 2000 and based in Brisbane, Australia, Wotif.com is a leading online marketplace that sells accommodations in more than 45 countries. Its portfolio includes over 13,000 hotels, motels, serviced apartments, resorts, guesthouses, and bed-and-breakfast facilities. The company pioneered 'Last Minute' accommodation through a price matrix that shows live...
- Tags: Accommodation, Oracle Corp., Oracle Database, Wotif.com, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Portals, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Internet, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Will Intel face antitrust case in Australia?
- Will Intel face antitrust case in Australia?Setting BoundariesI hope that Australia will do what America should have done a long time ago and reign in Intel. Like America Australia has a vigorous and productive inventor community. Those inventors create jobs and bring prosperity to their communities. The...
- Tags: Corporate law, Free trade, Semiconductors, Good Business, Intel Corp., antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- Complimentary Research Report: Enterprise Performance Management, The Australian State of the Art
- The field of Enterprise Performance Management EPM continues to grow. New performance indicators KPIs routinely emerge and are said to provide new performance insights and a panacea to the problems of aligning behaviors with key performance drivers. However, many Australian organisations are still extracting an insufficient return on measurement from...
- Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Oracle Corp., Performance, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Red Hat maps dispel some open source myths
- Red Hat maps dispel some open source mythsNot surprisedThis is for the best anyway. Who really wants to use Chinese software? Everything they make is inferior quality. Their software won't be any different.Americans and available "free time".Perhaps the big reason open source does well in the US...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students
- Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for studentsWow. Google sure is smarter than Microsoft.What can I say, I was bored.Why it won't work today but can be fixedWhy it does not work today:1) Math. It's everywhere. Especially in higher education. No equation editor, no go.2) Note taking. Microsoft Office...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tablets, OpenOffice, Live Mesh, Google Inc., Google Gears, operating system, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-01-26
- Birlasoft Gains Enterprisewide Insight With On-Demand CRM System
- Headquartered in Noida, India, Birlasoft provides information technology services to mid-range and large clients domestically and in Australia, Czech Republic, Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the United States. With a highly diversified salesforce using different Customer Relationship Management CRM solutions in different territories, Birlasoft found it time...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Birlasoft Inc., On-demand, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Oracle: Our iPhone app has more than 23,000 downloads
- Oracle said it has had more than 23,000 downloads of its Oracle Business Indicators application for the iPhone. Oracle and Salesforce were among the first with what I'd call real enterprise apps for the iPhone delivered via Apple's App Store. In fact, I'd argue those two--along with...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Sybase Inc., Sales Force Management, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale
- updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...
- Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook
- Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...
- Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Commercialising the Semantic Web
- Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...
- Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Fox Sports Australia Conquers Heterogeneous Data Protection With Atempo Time Navigator
- Fox Sports Australia offers the most relevant, comprehensive, live and exclusive coverage of sports on Australian television. Fox Sports went through a period of rapid expansion and started exploring other systems. Their IT department was also expanding into the production side of the business, with the company moving to a...
- Tags: Data Protection, Atempo, Netscape Navigator, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Business Intelligence, Databases, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-04-24
- Melbourne Health and BioGrid Australia Turn to New Database to Host Medical Images
- BioGrid Australia recently made available a set of historical Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI images from the past 15 years which had only been available on archival tapes, to help researchers understand how to treat epilepsy. However, the organization had no database or associated infrastructure that could cope with the specific...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Database, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Oracle's president meets unhappy customers in Australia
- Oracle's president meets unhappy customers in AustraliaPart of the jobIn any corporation, the buck stops at the top and Phillips going to Australia in person and meeting with customers is an indication that Oracle takes customer dissatisfaction seriously. Whether or not problems actually get fixed is another matter, but...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., unhappy customer
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- Oracle's president meets unhappy customers in Australia
- The Financial Review reports that Charles Phillips, Oracle's president, traveled to Australia this week to meet with unhappy customers: In the case of the Commonwealth Bank, friction came after Oracle software code related to a database for the institution's CommSee customer service application was found to contain an abnormally...
- Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Australia, Product Marketing, Tools & Techniques, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Update: Philadelphia's water project actually finished
- Philadelphia has finally finished it's ill-fated water utility billing system, called Project Ocean. Following a series of high-profile failures, with costs that approaching $47 million, the final phase was complete on-time and under-budget. To complete the project, Philadelphia dumped most of its planned Oracle applications, and went...
- Tags: Philadelphia, Oracle Corp., Corporate Governance, Sales Channel, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Leadership, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
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