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- It's payback time: If the Vista team could write ad copy ...
- It's payback time: If the Vista team could write ad copy ...They should do nothing of the sortThey should concentrate on fixing their own problems and not try to market themselves by childishly pointing their finger at the competition. Perhaps if Apple had focussed more on delivering a sturdy OS...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), team, voyeur, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, Vista Team, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- JTI: Unchaining the Supply
- The expected payback is less than 12 months. This webcast shows how a combination of HP Integrity servers, HP StorageWorks, and HP Services helped with an SAP migration running on Microsoft SQL Server.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Payback, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- Flaw finders to software makers: It's payback time
- Flaw finders to software makers: It's payback timeIts the>"I see more researchers not work closely with vendors and just giving them a 30-day grace period before going public with the flaws," Ferris said.
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, flaw finder, software, flaw, vulnerability, finder, payback
- Discussion threads 2006-08-17
- Long-term SOA payback tough to predict
- Short-term, measuring SOA payback is relatively straightforward. A company saves x amount of dollars by not having to reinvent a service for a new application. But the big payback happens gradually, over the years, through business gains and agility. Capturing this kind of data is, well, not so straightforward....
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-07-04
- Sun and Google shake hands
- Sun and Google shake handsI was blown out of my chair.....by the shockwave that was predicted about todays announcement that would change the internet forever and bring MS to its knees............Ok, maybe that was just gas.The only thing that could make this betterwould be a 5th story on the same...
- Tags: INTERNET, OpenOffice, payback, Sun Microsystems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., AJAX
- Discussion threads 2005-10-04
- Successful CRMs yield 16-1000% ROI
- Successful implementations of customer relationship management CRM applications have yielded returns ranging from 16% to more than 1,000%. IDC also found that technology-related savings account for only 7% of the average return, while benefits accrued from increased productivity and business process enhancements account for 51% and 42% of the return....
- Tags: ROI, CRM, payback
- Blog posts 2004-02-02
- Raising Availability, Lowering TCO, and Achieving Fast Payback With Solutions From Symantec and MAJORTECH
- The Korean Broadcasting System faces an increasing demand on its applications from a growing number of viewers and staff. The company turned to Symantec solutions to boost availability, enhance storage management, and strengthen data protection. The solutions have improved availability by two percentage points and reduced recovery times 50-fold. They...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Payback, TCO, Korean Broadcasting System, Storage, Security, Hardware
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- Finding the Payback From CRM
- In this highly competitive environment, it is clear that organisations are becoming increasingly dependent on Customer Relationship Management CRM techniques simply to maintain their slice of the market. Customers, after all, are becoming more prepared to 'Shop around' and switch suppliers to get the service they require, while traditional 'High...
- Tags: Intervoice, Payback, CRM, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
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- Discussion features insights into using RESTful services plus cool iPhone app
- Included in the discussion is my introduction on how to increase value payback, followed by a presentation from Adrian Trenaman, distinguished IONA consultant, on creating RESTful services using FUSE. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Iona Technologies, RESTful, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Cache Payback: Put Performance in Your Pocket With the Client Result Cache
- Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) enables the user to take advantage of features exposed by the underlying Oracle Call Interface. One such feature new in Oracle Database 11g Release 1 and Oracle Database 11g Release 1 Client is the client result cache. The client result cache is a portion...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Client, Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Will Oracle answer these questions?
- Will Oracle answer these questions?In declineYears of no raises and other HR changes have demoralized the workers, sorry, the 'human capital' at Oracle; innovation is discouraged, CYA is the order of the day. Perhaps AL after Larry, there will be a purge and a reawakening, but it may be...
- Tags: Leadership, Enterprise software, Oracle Corp., fusion
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Time to blow up the software industrySoftware is designed for Libraries and Charter or Municiple School systems.Big competition in the Linux vs Windowes Enterprise software her; Unix and Novell for Agencies and Police Departments. The Court House use Proliant-Linux I heard.BBD - old wine in new bottleBBD is just old...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, E-mail providers, ROI/TCO, cloud computing, SaaS Model, SaaS IS, enterprise software, software, Google Gmail, BBd
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- The #1 reason IT often fails to deliver value
- The #1 reason IT often fails to deliver valueI can't believe you would try to blame...IT failures on anyone other than IT staff. You sound like someone who isn't man enough to suck it up and take the blame for your own short comings. Blaming top executives for your...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Waste not. ElectraTherm turns "waste" heat into an electricity source
- A couple of months back, I reported about an IBM data center project in Switzerland that was shunting its excess heat "waste" toward warming up a public swimming pool. Along those lines, a company from Carson City, Nev., has come up with a commercial waste heat generator called the ElectraTherm...
- Tags: Electricity, KWh, ElectraTherm Green Machine, Data Centers, Podcasts, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- Measuring the Business Value of Server Virtualization: Understanding the Impact of Guest Management
- The benefits of moving to a virtualized server infrastructure are substantial, immediate, and enduring. There is an achievable short-term payback for the initial move to virtualized server infrastructure, and there is a compelling business case for subsequent investment in management tools to realize the full benefits of virtualization. Cost advantages...
- Tags: Management Tool, International Data Corp., Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Benefits, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-06-01
- The Folks at NTR say it's a small, but crucial, step from software to landscape
- I spoke with two execs at NTR recently, and they were talking software, of course. But they were really talking about the planet, energy conservation and taking some action. Now. Not waiting. Not expecting a magic fix. NTR, based in Barcelona, is a...
- Tags: Software, NTR Global, Tree, Harsch, Tools & Techniques, Telecommuting, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Technology and the costs of change
- Technology and the costs of changeMissing linkOne link which might solidify your thinking is to consider not the cost or the size of the change ... but its impact on customers. It is surely this link which one tries to firm up in writing a business case. It is the...
- Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Unix, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA
- Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...
- Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- To Catch a Thief
- To catch a thief ... the high-tech way. Somone broke into Kait Dupalga's apartment and stole TVs, iPods, a set of car rims – and Kate's Mac laptop. The big break in the case came when a friend of Kate's sent her a text message congratulating...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mr., Friend, Photograph, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
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