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Avoid the Postal Hike Blues With e-Mail Appending

Postal rates are increasing in May, and smart marketers are insulating themselves from the hit by plunging headfirst into acquiring multichannel contact points for all of their customers. E-mail appending, a service where a vendor matches missing e-mail addresses to your postal file, must be considered. Typically, the costs are...

Tags: Penton Media Inc., E-mail Address, E-mail, Online Communications

White papers 2007-04-02

Windows Vista Review - Part 5: Windows Vista Features

For many of those interested in Windows Vista, it all boils down to the features: The applications, services, and other embedded functionality that, at a clinical level at least, makes up the whole of the next operating system. Fair enough. This paper provides a complete run-down of Vista's most important...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2006-11-16

Windows Vista Review - Part 3: Installing Windows Vista

While a person will install Windows Vista in ways that are similar to previous Windows versions, under the covers, everything has changed. The DOS mode portion of Windows Setup, present even in the NT-based Windows variants such as Windows XP, is finally gone, exorcised from people's lives for good. But...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2006-11-09

Windows Vista Feature Focus: Windows Movie Maker 6

The original version of Windows Movie Maker WMM, which shipped as part of Windows Millennium Edition Me was a victim of bad timing: Just before Windows Me shipped, Apple released a far more advanced tool called iMovie that was, at the time, part of Mac OS X. Microsoft is shipping...

Tags: Movie, Microsoft Windows Vista, Penton Media Inc., Windows Movie Maker 6, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2006-07-15

Windows Vista in the Enterprise

Will Windows Vista offer a compelling upgrade for business customers? The answer is complex. Windows Vista is a major Windows update with a plethora of new features. Many of them will require retraining both for business users and IT administrators, and Microsoft - as it often does in new Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2006-06-18

Workflow, Tomorrow's Application Logic

Historically, workflow has been limited in its usage within applications due to the lack of availability of generalized technology. For the first time, Windows Workflow Foundation provides application developers and independent system vendors with a generalized workflow engine for building workflow on the Windows platform. At the professional developer conference...

Tags: Penton Media Inc., Workflow, Microsoft Windows, Process Improvement, Operating Systems, Software, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2005-09-16

B2B Customer Retention: Seven Strategies for Keeping Your Customers

Business marketers have much to gain from retention marketing. Business customers tend to be fewer and more valuable - meaning you can't afford to lose even one. But how do you keep your customers active and buying from you, versus the competition? How do you prevent defection? This white paper...

Tags: Penton Media Inc., B2B, Marketing Research, Strategy, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing, Management

White papers 2005-05-16

Uninterruptible Power Supplies

Power interruptions can cause severe repercussions for business computer systems. The problem is especially difficult in places where power outages and fluctuations frequently occur. A UPS provides a backup battery and power inverter circuitry to insulate systems and data from power outages. In situations where momentary power fluctuations occur, a...

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Fluctuation, Penton Media Inc., Power Supply, Outage, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Manufacturing, Backups, Productivity

White papers 2000-04-01

Requirements of a 21st Century CFO: Meeting the Challenges of a Complex, Unpredictable Business Environment

Finance's role is ascendant in organizations today. Unfortunately, up to now, finance's changing and growing workload has been likened to comic book heroes Superman and astronauts ("The Right Stuff"). Flattering perhaps, but when you can't call on supernatural powers or mission control for help, how do you respond to the...

Tags: Environment, Penton Media Inc., Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance

Webcasts

Best Practices in Travel & Entertainment Expense Management

This web seminar will provide corporate executives, from organizations of all sizes, with best practices in T&E expense management and insight into the advantages of automating and streamlining their expense management process. By attending this Web-based seminar, executives with responsibility for financial and T&E management will learn the latest drivers...

Tags: Web, Penton Media Inc., Management, Best Practice, Entertainment, Channel Management, Marketing

Webcasts

The Future of Auditing Standards, and Their Impact on Corporate Governance

In a recent survey, 76% of CFOs polled by Business Finance believe the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley outweigh the benefits. Although the backlash from the Enron, MCI, and myriad other scandals continues to argue for new regulations to ensure tough auditing, controls and governance standards, finance executives and other corporate constituencies...

Tags: Auditing, Penton Media Inc., Standards, Quality, Corporate Governance, Regulations, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government

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Best Practices in Financial Services: Achieving Excellence in Customer Management, Productivity and Strategic Alignment

As the financial services needs of customers rapidly change, the banking industry faces significant delivery challenges. Extending customer relationships, making them profitable and delivering service seamlessly across multiple channels and lines of business is essential to succeed in today's market - and can deliver strategic advantage in the banking business....

Tags: Financial Service, Penton Media Inc., Best Practice, Banking, Financial Services

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Embracing Excel and Improving Your Enterprise Planning Process

In this webcast you will learn how Cognos Planning engages the enterprise to deliver timely, fact-based plans that connect operational planning and financial planning. In delivering a connected plan across the organization, it is important to deliver driver-based plans that embrace the whole company though a common view of business...

Tags: Cognos Inc., Penton Media Inc., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Financial Accounting, Office Suites, Software, Finance

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Linking Strategy to Execution With Plan-to-Perform Blueprints

Effective implementation of best practices in planning, budgeting and forecasting can be a daunting process. Simple, integrated, accurate, and dynamic plans that link strategy to execution shouldn't seem a lot to ask -- yet most organizations remain mired in overly complex and time-consuming planning processes that are of little ultimate...

Tags: Penton Media Inc., Best Practice, Strategy, Management

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Moody's Bottom Rung list includes AMD, Clearwire, Palm, Unisys; Media default Armageddon

Moody's has released its "Bottom Rung" list of companies that have a high risk of default and weak liquidity and there are a few technology and telecom household names on the list including AMD, Clearwire, Palm and Unisys. Media companies are the biggest chunk of companies on the verge of...

Tags: Unisys Corp., Palm Inc., Media, Clearwire Corp., Moody's Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Telephony, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Telecommunications, Strategy, Networking, Marketing, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-10