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Live Webcast: Innovation That Will Keep Your Customers Coming Back!

When you tightly integrate your website, in-store systems, print catalogs and other sales channels, you make it easier for your customers to shop with you whenever, wherever—and however—they want. And that keeps them coming back for more. But to pull it all off, you need to have a powerful product...

Tags: Innovation, Webcast, Product Information Management, Product Information, IBM Corp., Product Marketing, Marketing

Webcasts 2009-08-13

GGB Targets US$1 Million Annual Savings by Improving Product Information Management

The company wanted to tighten control over enterprise-wide operations, which had become decentralized during the company's growth. The challenge was to increase efficiency and operational effectiveness and articulate and quantify the business case for better product information management to senior executives, in order to gain buy-in to implement process improvements....

Tags: Oracle Corp., Product Information Management, Product Information, Product Marketing, Marketing

Case studies 2007-08-17

The Business Value of Master Data Management and Product Information Management

The cost of poor information and disconnected processes in terms of operational efficiency, customer dissatisfaction or lost opportunity is enormous. Today, organizations are looking to grow profit, gain market share, contain costs and differentiate their products. This is achieved by getting the right information to the right people with the...

Tags: Product Information Management, Information, Product Information, Master Data Management, IBM Corp., Product Marketing, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2006-08-01

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management

This report is a must-read if you're an IT strategist who's currently evaluating product information management PIM technologies. It explains why the as-yet-immature PIM market is evolving quickly and presents Gartner's Magic Quadrant for this emerging tech sector. There are a variety of differences that separate the companies Gartner classifies...

Tags: Quadrant, Product Information Management, Gartner Inc., Product Information, Product Marketing, Marketing

White papers 2005-12-30

Putting Products in Their Place With Product Information Management: An Overview of Product Information Management

Two significant entities of every industry and enterprise are the products and the customers. Although managing the information that defines a product can appear to be simple, it can be challenging for enterprises. Issues such as mergers and acquisitions, multiple enterprise resource planning ERP systems, globalization, and varying data types...

Tags: Product Information Management, Product Information

White papers 2004-10-01

Product Information Management (PIM) Advances the Next Generation of E-commerce

Download this white paper by Julie Hahnke, President of IDTech, to learn how your business can benefit from correct, consistent and readily available product information, which can be securely shared with customers and partners alike. The author offers keen insights into the problems that result from a lack of product...

Tags: Product Information Management, Product Information, E-business, Product Marketing, Marketing

White papers

Additional Resources

10 ways to evaluate your IT management software

Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-05

DoneEx XCell Compiler 1.9.9 (Windows)

DoneEx XCell Compiler offers very easy and hassle free Microsoft Excel workbook copy protection. You can compile Excel spreadsheet into EXE application with securely hidden formulas in binary format and protected VBA code. With registration/license management feature you can protect your compiled Excel workbook from illegal copying from one computer...

Tags: DoneEx, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Net Neutrality: You own the Internet - make sure it becomes Law

how to get from there to herewhile net neutrality makes a lot of sense to most people, how can we make sure that it becomes law. Our open source government democracy is decidedly NOT neutral, and the same interests that would take away our rights on the internet, are the...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

So about this SIF thing

Difficulties in implementationLong before I retired from being a computer coordinator for our district, SIF was in the news.The reality for my district was changing Student Information Management software three times in 10 years (and a fourth since '06 when I retired). In each case, the transfer of data from...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, SIF

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant

Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Google Voice mails exposed for all to see and hear

If you believe the "explanation"then no problem, though honestly, I think we just witnessed another reason why "living in the cloud" is not for those with anything of importance that needs protecting.I doubt that Google intended for all of those private voice mails to be made public.RE: Google Voice mails...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Voice mail, voicemail

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?

Make a post explaining what SharePoint is...As you said, it is a complex product. I remember when Lotus Notes came out, it was difficult to pin it to a traditional category - what IS it? SharePoint may have some of the same issues of perception.What is SharePoint:There are 2 SharePoint?s,...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Quicken Deluxe 2010

With Quicken 2010, Intuit strives to make its flagship money management application easier to navigate and simpler to set up, thanks to spruced-up visuals and a refreshed start-up wizard. Although already a solid balance-keeper and financial assistant in previous versions, Quicken 2010 adds a few new features to visualize your...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Financial accounting, Financial services, home screen, Deluxe, Quicken

Product reviews 2009-10-15

Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Efficient Address Book 1.41 Build 66 (Windows)

Efficient Address Book is a professional, elegant and handy contact and customer information management software program. It supports endless levels of contact groupings and helps you manage the information of even thousands of contacts rapidly. You can add birthday and anniversaries to a contact and the program will remind you...

Tags: Contact, Microsoft Windows, EfficientSoftware.net

Software downloads 2009-10-14

Gartner: Windows 7 is 'all but inevitable'

Completely Disagree with Gartner's Recommendations...I would be skipping Vista at this point, and aborting all Vista deployment plans. Why? Simple...Any IT staff that is deploying Vista en mass to their enterprises bought it with Volume Licensing, which means they probably bought it with Software Assurance... better to use those support...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), gartner, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win 7, Microsoft Windows 7, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

7 Ways to Boost Your Productivity By Playing Online

So here you thought gaming was something to hide at work. Now comes new research to suggest that those who play online using the seven below activities actually exhibit higher productivity than those who don't. The research comes from Dr Brent Coker of...

Tags: Activity, Blogging, Internet, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Games, Sales, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-10-12

What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week

Watch for movement on these matters Last night, Oracle’s annual mega event, Oracle Open World, opened. This event draws some 37,000 people to San Francisco to hear, see and speak all things Oracle. With the keynotes starting in mere minutes, I thought I’d offer up my thoughts...

Tags: Probability, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Open World, Software As A Service (SaaS), Databases, Managed Hosting, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-12