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- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft lab
- You may have heard of Microsoft's Live Labs, Office Labs, adCenter Labs. Get ready to add one more Microsoft incubator that is designed to speed up the delivery of Microsoft-created innovations to market: Startup Labs. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Team, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, Product Development, Team Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- GXDirector (msi)
- GXDirector is a software for product development, quality control, maintenance, and general device control. Read property values from a physical device, edit them if needed, and write new values back to the device, or save values in a file for later use. You can attach all types of devices to...
- Tags: Device, Gurux, GXDirector, Product Development, Quality, Tools & Techniques, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-09-01
- Mozilla engineering executive moves to Facebook team
- Facebook announced this morning that Mozilla's current vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer -- one of the developers of Firefox 3 -- will join Facebook as the social networking company's director of engineering. In a statement, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says: "Mike has a...
- Tags: Facebook, Team, Mozilla Corp., Product Development, Team Management, Web Browsers, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Podcast: Bomgar believes appliance-based remote control beats software or SaaS solutions hands down
- During this podcast, Bill Detwiler speaks with Joel Bomgar about his company's appliance-based remote support solution--the Bomgar Box. Bomgar explains the advantages (easier deployment, better security, lower TCO, increased uptime, client OS flexibility, and more efficient product development) his product has over the competition.You can read more about Bomgar's solutions...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Remote Support, Bill Detwiler, Bomgar Box, Remote Administration, Podcasts, Product Development, Software As A Service (SaaS), Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies
- Download resources 2008-07-17
- Collaborative Technology Prepares New Zealand Medical Robotics Innovator for Global Growth
- Smart Orthotics Limited is a New Zealand based technology company that has designed and developed a world-first 'Smart' disability aid that enables disabled users to walk by using patented robotic technologies. In order to complete the development of its robotic exoskeleton mobility aid and prepare for release to market, Smart...
- Tags: Robotics, New Zealand, Microsoft Corp., Product Development, Team Management, Robots, Collaboration, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites
- Case studies 2008-07-10
- If Brian likes it, it's gotta be good
- My Irregular colleague Brian Sommer waxes lyrical about the OpenAir/NetSuite deal. Brian has more years' experience implementing and analyzing business applications than most others I know. If he says something is good, then that's high praise and well worth a buyer's attention. Condensing Brian's analysis: We believe this deal...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., Back-office, Brian Sommer, Operational Accounting, Product Development, Finance, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Hengyang Steel Implements Integrated Solution to Streamline Product Development and Delivery
- Hengyang Steel Tube wanted to integrate manufacturing and managerial information systems to better manage product development and delivery processes and communicates key business data to finance department for management system monitoring and financial forecasting. The challenge was to improve employees' understanding of business data, enabling them to make more informed...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Streamline, Data Management, Product Development, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Strategy, Storage, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Databases, Research & Development, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Management, Hardware, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Implementing Volume Activation 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
- Based in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a worldwide leader in software, services, and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Product activation is a new requirement for volume-licensed customers of Microsoft. Microsoft wanted to provide these customers with a tool that would enable them to meet this requirement in a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Product Activation, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Product Development, Productivity, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Internet, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- jNetX Deploys Embedded Database to Support Growth and Innovation, While Ensuring Reliability
- jNetX develops and markets the key service components of programmable SS7 and Internet Protocol IP networks. jNetX wanted to continue it's growth levels of more than 200% in 2007 and expand customer base globally and focus resources on innovation and product development. The challenge was to grow reputation as a...
- Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., jNetX, Storage, Product Development, Leadership, Databases, Strategy, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- illumin8-ing improvements for knowledge workers?
- The printing press was a pretty pivotal invention, challenging artificial limitations on the dissemination of ideas maintained by scriptoria and opening flood gates to the vibrant philosophical, social and technological innovations of the Renaissance, Reformation, and beyond. From those early innovations, we entered a long period in...
- Tags: Journal, Elsevier, Illumin8, Productivity, Product Development, Research & Development, Business Operations, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Testing Solutions to Improve Web-Based Enterprise Product's Quality and Reduce Time-to-Market for Intralinks
- MindTree Consulting offers testing solutions to ensure that dependable solutions get launched and deliver true business value to IntraLinks, the developers of the world's leading online business collaboration tool On-Demand Workspaces. MindTree has built dedicated testing teams with different competencies to work along with the in-house testing teams of IntraLinks,...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Web, IntraLinks Inc., Product Development, Team Management, Groupware, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Digital Lifecycle Simulation
- Digital Simulation CAE is increasingly recognized as being critical to improving product development efficiency. However, many companies have not realized expected returns on their simulation investments because simulation activities are disconnected from mainstream development processes and results arrive too late to influence design. In this paper, the user explores how...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Product Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Developing a Feature-Rich Reference Design for Blackfin Based Surveillance DVR
- Analog Devices, Inc. ADI is an S&P 500 company and a global manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. The significant challenges encountered in extending rich features to the new reference design and achieving cost reduction were: enabling simultaneous store, stream and playback (triple...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Analog Devices Inc., Digital Video Recorder, Leadership, Product Development, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-01-26
- Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Streamlining Collaborative Product Development
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how to improve the efficiency of the product development process in order to reduce time-to-market and maximize market share. Immedient's Collaborative Product Development CPD Solution provides a collaborative environment with integrated project management tools to support efficient product development across the entire organization,...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Immedient, Product Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
- Webcasts 2008-01-21
- QuickBugs (exe)
- QuickBugs is a tool for reporting, tracking and resolving the countless bugs, issues, changes and new features involved in product development. Key attributes include extreme ease-of-use and flexibility, a shared XML repository accessible to multiple users, multiple projects with assigned responsibilities, configurable access and privileges for users on each project....
- Tags: QuickBugs, Microsoft Excel, Product Development, Microsoft Office, Tools & Techniques, Office Suites, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-15
- Naked IT: Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur (with podcast)
- The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. In this segment, French serial entrepreneur, Loic Le Meur, discusses Seesmic, his fifth startup, which is building a community of personal videographers. Many Seesmic users embrace a casual, "come as you...
- Tags: Podcast, Information Technology, Twitter, Tool, Enterprise, Loic Le Meur, Seesmic, Productivity, Product Development, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Successful Virtualization Garners Cost Savings, But Also Harbors IT Risk
- Global Enterprise Manufacturing GEM, a fast-growing international conglomerate, recently deployed a vast virtual infrastructure to support more than 12,000 users across 22 business divisions. The company's new virtual networks span diverse departments, from finance to marketing to product development, and have resulted in substantial cost savings. By employing virtualization, GEM...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cost Savings, Virtualization, Product Development, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Cisco Engineering Teams Use Cisco Unified MeetingPlace to Increase Productivity and Reduce Travel Costs
- With the ever-increasing costs of travel, concerns around efficiency, and the need for employees to multitask to stay on top of their job responsibilities, enterprises are actively seeking solutions that use technology to improve the productivity of business and technical groups. The use of rich media for conducting meetings is...
- Tags: Team, Cisco Systems Inc., Product Development, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-12-13
- SpaceClaim Professional 2007+ (exe)
- SpaceClaim Professional 2007+ puts intuitive 3D at the fingertips of engineers. The solution is ideal for those across product development who need to work with 3D. If you need to quickly develop new concepts, modify designs for review, improved manufacturing, and faster analysis, or reuse designs for faster-time-to-market, SpaceClaim is...
- Tags: 3D, Solution, Product Development, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
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