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- Accounting Firm Boosts Productivity Through Rapid Adoption of Easy-to-Use CRM Solution
- To drive continued growth, Plante Moran, a leading U.S. - based financial services firm, needed to automate business development efforts. The company sought to replace its IBM Lotus Notes contact management system with an easy-to-use customer relationship management system built on a flexible, scalable platform. After evaluating a number of...
- Tags: Accounting, Contact Management, Business Development, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Strategic Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Marketing, Software
- Case studies 2009-11-20
- The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda
- Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Hochang Machinery Lays Platform for Global Expansion and Improves Productivity by 30%
- Hochang Machinery wanted to implement standard internal work processes to support continued rapid revenue growth and support the company's global expansion as overseas production accounted for a growing proportion of overall revenue. The challenge was to deploy an enterprisewide cost analysis system customized to meet the requirements of the marine...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., ERP, Analysis, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- Intel's Otellini: Strong second half; recovery coming in 2010
- Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit today and kicked off the conversation with some good economic news: "We found bottom," he said, and it was discovered earlier than anyone might have thought. "It's been a strong second half and it's not...
- Tags: U.S., Patent, Recovery, Paul Otellini, Intel Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Intelligent Office Increases IT Efficiencies With Help of Small Business Server 2008
- Intelligent Office is a virtual office solutions provider with seven locations across Ontario, and plans for growth across Canada. The company provides entrepreneurs and businesses with executive office space and services such as professional phone answering and receptionist services. With an eye on sustainable business growth, Intelligent Office wanted to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Office Suites
- Case studies 2009-10-14
- HP's Touchsmart: A PC, maybe, but cooler as a TV
- Very well thought out box.I suspect HP has a hit. They have a really nice design on that thing.Screen which easily swivels is very importantIf PC manufacturers want people to increasingly use these devices' touch features, I believe that it is very, very important that they allow users to...
- Tags: Desktops, PC, HP TouchSmart, Hewlett-Packard Co., TV
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Will Windows Mobile jump back to number 2 by 2013?
- Don't summon the marketing people...Win7 house party ads check cNet Buzz Report for a nice roast, Bill Gates shaking his posterior, and misleading Laptop Hunters ads...these are the people you want to sell people on WinMo?Personally I'd say to have MS do the same thing that they mostly do with...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, phone, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, mobile, WinMo
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Kiloutou Achieves More Detailed Financial Reporting and Speeds Up Annual Closing by One Month
- Kiloutou wanted to support a strong growth plan, as determined by management, towards the goal of opening 100 new outlets and make financial reporting quicker and more detailed. The challenge was to provide companywide management rules and a single database to cover customers, suppliers, and rental inventory and enhance administrative...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Oracle Corp., Financial, Kiloutou, Asset Management, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence
- Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....
- Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- XevaSoft Employee Monitor 2009 1.4.1 (Windows)
- Are your employees really working? Research from various sources has shown that up to 40% of workers waste countless hours at work on chatting, shopping, gambling Web sites and accessing pornographic content. Imagine if your employees actually spent their time constructively and on what they're supposed to be doing. Company...
- Tags: Monitor, Employee, Microsoft Windows, Computer, XevaSoft, Productivity, Web Site Development, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-09-16
- Who might get health reform passed?
- They're notAnother poll shows that 71% of those surveyed believe there should be a public option. Again, it's of those surveyed - not all Americans. Sort of like your poll.As for the Round Table, I think most large companies are aware of how much their health care benefits...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, public option, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- The disruptive nature of cloud computing
- Maybe a little overstated don't you think?Let's really think about the amount of disruption from 1-10 on these examples: Gas Lamps to Light bulbs 10, nobody uses gas lamps anymore. Steel Mill example, maybe an 8 or 9. Open Source a 7 because even those that haven't used it benefitted...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Reformulating Murphy's law
- Reformulating Murphy's lawInteresting thoughtsIt's saddening that thought is such a rare thing among us humans.Imagine how different the world might have been.[i]"The applications to IT are less obvious but equally compelling. If you believe, for example, in the achievability of wintel security, you?ll spend lots of money setting your employer...
- Tags: Operating systems, Wintel, Unix
- Discussion threads 2009-08-01
- Online Services Expands Service Portfolio of Established European Service Provider
- Computacenter is one of Europe's leading independent providers of IT infrastructure services. The company had long delivered a range of managed services to large clients, but had become aware that the on-premises services that it could offer clients were not the right fit for many smaller companies that did not...
- Tags: Business Productivity, Microsoft Corp., Computacenter, Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- SAP: cautious optimism going forward
- Following on from this morning's earning announcement, it was a calm, cautious but emphatic SAP board fielding a set of disappointingly soft questions on today's earnings call. First some selected quotes: Leo Apotheker, CEO: "Things are still tough...closure rates are more volatile then in the past...I am...
- Tags: SPSS Inc., SAP AG, Leo, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales, Finance, Investment, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?
- Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?SuccessfulI think that this agreement has the potential to be huge. When you combine all of Microsoft's and Yahoo's page views, you have a lot of people viewing a lot of pages. As an advertiser, having one platform to get...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- Growth of 3G wireless broadband illustrates demand for 4G connections
- It's no secret that 4G wireless technology - aka Long Term Evolution and WiMax - is in the works and actually starting to see some deployment. But until then, a 3G technology called High Speed Packet Access, or HSPA, is seeing the big growth numbers around the globe. ...
- Tags: 4G, Mobile, Broadband, 3G, HSPA, Mobile Broadband, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Mobile Solution Helps Caregivers Stay Connected and Responsive to Patients' Needs
- The growth of patient information has made it increasingly difficult for healthcare professionals to access patient-related data and make informed decisions quickly. At The Nebraska Medical Center TNMC, slow paper-based processes were contributing to physician frustration and low employee satisfaction scores. In 2004, TNMC staff worked with the Healthcare business...
- Tags: Patient, Mobile, Health Care, Connected Corp., Wireless, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources
- Case studies 2009-07-14
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