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Procter & Gamble Creates a Collaborative Community

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer packaged goods. The company markets nearly 300 brands to approximately five billion consumers in more than 160 countries. Procter & Gamble wanted to support innovation among geographically dispersed development teams and speed time-to-market and reduce costs. The...

Tags: Collaboration, Siemens AG, Procter & Gamble Co., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-01-01

Transforming Lab Notes Into a Corporate-Wide Asset

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has one of the largest and strongest portfolios of consumer product brands in the world, including Pampers, Ariel, Pantene and Pringles. The company wanted to develop a method for sharing information among laboratories; create a platform for existing vertical applications; and identify a scalable product that...

Tags: Siemens AG, Procter & Gamble Co., IBM Lotus Notes, Product Marketing, Strategy, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2007-01-01

HP Case Study: Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is a world-class consumer packaged goods company that manufactures and markets consumer products for everyday use. P&G was looking to identify a capable partner to help improve service levels, reduce cost of operations, and provide a rewarding work environment for transitioned employees. P&G chose to transition...

Tags: Accounts Payable, Hewlett-Packard Co., Procter & Gamble Co., Operational Accounting, Finance

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P&G Selects Marimba for Management of Desktops, Laptops, and Servers Across 70 Countries Worldwide

Procter & Gamble Company, a Fortune 50 company and global leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of superior consumer and health care products, selected Marimba as their global solution for software configuration management and content deployment to P&G's desktops, laptops, and servers. They looked at several vendors and Marimba...

Tags: Desktop, Marimba, Procter & Gamble Co., Health Care, Server, Laptop Computer, Vertical Industries, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Healthcare, Notebooks, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Human Resources, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

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Procter & Gamble (P & G) Warehouse Management System

The Procter & Gamble Company (P & G) is a recognized leader in the development, distribution and marketing of superior fabric and home care, baby care, feminine care, family care, beauty care, healthcare and snacks and beverage products. With P & G China's rapid inventory turnaround time, its existing paper-based...

Tags: Warehouse Management System, Procter & Gamble Co., Symbol Technologies Inc., Vertical Industries, Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing

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Procter & Gamble Touts IT Services Model, Saves $500 Million

Procter & Gamble implemented ITIL's "Follow The Sun" management process, which entails staffing data and operations centers around the world according to time zone. Among the IT processes ITIL addresses are: service-level management, capacity management, contingency planning, availability management, cost management for IT services, configuration management, problem management, change management,...

Tags: Information Technology, Procter & Gamble Co., International Data Group, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations

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P&G Leverages Itanium 2 Into Research Innovation

Proctor and Gamble (P&G) employs nearly 98,000 people working in almost 80 countries worldwide. After evaluating its high-performance, super-computing platform, the organization realized it needed to replace an older machine to enable required modeling for solid and fluid mechanics research. Its decision to deploy Itanium 2 offers insight for other...

Tags: Innovation, Procter & Gamble Co., Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, High-performance, Leadership, Processors, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

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IT Due Diligence: Partnering With Private Equity Before and After the Sale

In 2004, J.W. Childs JWC had the opportunity to acquire the Sunny Delight Beverage Co. SDBC through a unique carve-out of brands by Procter & Gamble. The deal was further complicated by the fact that the global marketer of juice-based drinks would emerge from P&G without any IT infrastructure of...

Tags: Private Equity, Partnership, Information Technology, Procter & Gamble Co., Strategy, Management

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Additional Resources

Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky

Poker sites fight to get domain names back from KentuckyHypocrites and anti-competitionWhat exactly is Kentucky's problem with online gambling? It must not be the gambling part because these same people admit to trying to get casinos into Kentucky. So it must be an effort to do away with the competition...

Tags: Games, Domain names, Taxes, Poker Sites, Hypocrites, game, domain name

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Another online poker site caught cheating: UltimateBet

Another online poker site caught cheating: UltimateBetAnd this is Zero Day material because...?Where's the computer security bit of the story?RE: Another online poker site caught cheating: UltimateBetThat's a funny comment.RE: Another online poker site caught cheating: UltimateBetWell Duh! There is no "true" security value in this story. Gambling is inherently...

Tags: Regulations, Iovation, UltimateBet, online poker site, poker site, poker, security

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, BEA Beehive, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Open World, Help Desk, Java Development Tools, E-books, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Software

Blog posts 2008-09-23

SanDisk's music on flash gamble - will it work?

SanDisk's music on flash gamble - will it work?MP3 files are small enough to downloadBut I wonder if something like this might work better for movies. Probably never happen, though, because it would be too difficult to apply the draconian DRM required by the MPAABuy the whole album?I'd say...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital media, MP3-Files, whole album, music, DVD, SanDisk Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

SanDisk's music-on-flash gamble - will it work?

SanDisk and several record companies are announcing a new way to buy MP3s: slotMusic. They are loading the music on flash memory - micro-SD cards it looks like. Will this work? Compared with downloadable MP3s, there are a couple of advantages. First, you get...

Tags: Record Company, SanDisk Corp., Media, MP3, Apple iTunes, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Video: The week in Green tech

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson describes the acceleration of computer and genetic technology through Moore's law, and then outlines nature-inspired methods for building nanotech. He also explains why decoding DNA from the ocean is important to green tech's future. ...

Tags: Biofuel, Green Technology, Video, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Is nuclear a good carbonless solution?

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Paul Deninger of Jefferies and Company moderates a panel discussion about whether nuclear technology will be a viable solution in the future. Elise Zoli of Goodwin Procter adds that nuclear is a cost-efficient energy alternative to coal.

Tags: Solution, Green

Videos 2008-09-17

BPA health scare gets more serious

BPA health scare gets more seriousThis will never be bannedWhy even waste the space for this article? This compound will never be baned. A company's bottom line is way more important than a person's health and americans are to apathetic to do anything.The extent of this will be...

Tags: Food & Beverage, BPA health, BPA, food

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

NVIDIA slapped with securities lawsuit

NVIDIA slapped with securities lawsuitLooks like some lawyers are going to get rich.Looks like some lawyers are going to get rich. man them guys are blood sucking leaches. they are akin to sharks. they smell blood and they go in for the kill. they try and make you think they...

Tags: Notebooks, Investment, NVidia Corp., securities lawsuit, GPU

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

SAP teams up with InnoCentive; Software IP questions abound

Updated: SAP is partnering with InnoCentive, an "open innovation market place," to link so called "seekers," or companies looking to solve a business problem, with "solvers," developers that can save the day. For instance, SAP is looking for someone to create novel uses of social networking in enterprise applications. ...

Tags: Team, IP, SAP AG, InnoCentive, Intellectual Property, Business Structures, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Social Networking, Cloud Computing, Networking, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Maybe It's Time for Twenty-Somethings To Take Over Media

Media companies have to become technology companies, able to quickly and effectively deliver new services that appeal to a generation of readers who only spend about seven minutes a day of their free time reading stuff printed on paper.  That's the contention propounded this morning by Harold...

Tags: Media Company, Technology Company, BusinessWeek, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?

Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?Patentability and ProfitThe problem with new drugs like Vytorin is that we must rely on short-term studies & short-term observation in order to gamble on the drugs' safety. There is, presently, only one cholesterol medication that has not only proven to be most effective in...

Tags: tobacco, new drug, drug company

Discussion threads 2008-09-03