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Structured Neural Network Techniques for Modeling Loyalty and Profitability

Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty are related to key measures of financial performance for firms. The ability to find key drivers for predicting loyalty and profitability is an important step in developing marketing strategies that lead to high quality, long-term relationship with customers. Traditional techniques for modeling the network of...

Tags: Technique, Neural Network, Profitability, Modeling, Research & Development, Productivity, Business Operations

White papers 2005-03-09

5 Keys to Improving Imaging Center Profitability

Join this Webcast to hear about five key business strategies that can help Diagnostic Imaging Centers improve profitability despite increasing competition and high operating costs: Improving referral opportunities, developing, and continue to refine a plan for growth, improving resource utilization, and using financing to the advantage.

Tags: Siemens AG, Imaging, Profitability, Document Management, Investment, Financial Accounting, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Webcasts

Top Down Vs. Bottom Up

Financial service companies are currently implementing or planning to implement the last major improvement to management reporting. This change will significantly upgrade the quality and quantity of information available to support the professional management of the business. They are moving from a top down design to a bottom up design...

Tags: Line Of Business, SAS Institute, Profitability

White papers

Profiting From Promotions Analysis

In this webcast the presenter explains how to use weekly Electronic Point Of Sale EPOS data from retailer extranets to improve the sales effectiveness and profitability of the Promotional Programmes. Other manufacturers have already used the approach to obtain on-going gains of over 1 million Euros per annum. With the...

Tags: SAS Institute, Profitability, Manufacturer, Analysis, Sales Strategy, Manufacturing, Sales

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Maybe I was wrong about Mac Servers

Maybe I was wrong about Mac ServersSo ZFS is the sole criteria for a quality server OS or not?Has data loss due the underlying file system really been the problem Robin and you are making it out to be?RE: Maybe I was wrong about Mac Serversye: Veritas VxFS indeed has...

Tags: Desktops, Servers, server, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Chinese antitrust and Microsoft

Chinese antitrust and MicrosoftTo the previous poster...Truer words have never been spoken posted this at the wrong levelIrony...Chinese Government is the biggest monopoly of all.RE: Chinese antitrust and Microsoftwhy would China care about the retail price of microsoft products in light of such cheery articles as these: "only 244...

Tags: Corporate law, Regulations, Microsoft Corp., Chinese antitrust, antitrust, Chinese Government

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here

Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Herethese things are nice, but-if ISPs start removing the 'unlimited' feature of unlimited accounts, the entire idea will be for naught. Few will watch internet television when it could affect their surfing habits later that month or week when they bump into the limitations...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), TVs, TV & Home Theater, Digital TV Transition, Look Now, digital television

Discussion threads 2008-06-15

EAMT Automated Forex Trading System (rar)

An automatic and automated forex trading system allows you to benefit from the profitability of the forex market without having to become an expert in trading. In automated trading through managed accounts, the trading program executes the trades for you. With a reliable auto trading platform, you are not required...

Tags: Trade, EAMT Automated Forex Trading System, Productivity, Benefits, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-06-11

Do the Busybox cases change anything?

The GPL violation cases known collectively as the BusyBox cases never went to court, but they do seem to have settled the question of whether the license is enforceable. It is. So why is Edward Walsh, an attorney at Wolf Greenfield in Boston, trying to...

Tags: Software, GPL, Open-source Software, Compliance, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Market Alternatives for Sun

Market Alternatives for SunLack of dividend is the root of the problemAlmost none of these tech companies issue dividends, and those that do have quite low yields (MSFT 1.57, Intel 2.3).It used to be that the dividend was a major reason to be an investor, but take that away, and...

Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Sun Microsystems Inc., dividend

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Market disconnects

Last November 12th, the day of the 1:4 reverse stock split, Sun's shares closed at $20.33 for a market cap of around $15.7 billion. Six months later, on May 12th, they closed at $13.42 for a market cap of about $10.3 billion - a 34% decrease over...

Tags: Shareholder, Market Capitalization, Trader, Sun Microsystems Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Is SAP's weakness its real strength?

Conversations with Doug Merritt, a member of SAP's executive council and the person driving Business Objects as a platform for intelligence are always entertaining. Merritt represents the unconventional, disruptive element within SAP that was in evidence during Shai Agassi's tenure. For me, Merritt charaterizes the public face of fracture I...

Tags: SAP AG, Merritt, Phil, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Leadership, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Adding up Sun's pieces

Adding up Sun's piecesFocus on the small businessIf Sun wants to monetize their strategy have a separate sales channel focus on the SMB's that don't have deep pockets and entrenched technology and are willing to listen when someone says there is a better cheaper way of doing things.Sun has too...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Servers, Murph, Sun Microsystems Inc., stock, server

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

SAP: build to flip?

Executives from SAP added more color on the decision to decelerate the rollout of Business ByDesign, it increasingly looks like the management is moving more firmly into sales mode with a view to enhancing profitability. Several times during the day, board members Leo Apotheker and Henning Kagermann,...

Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Corporate Governance, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Research & Development, Strategy, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-19

What open source teaches publishers

I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...

Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?

Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?until Google finnally invest into there own OSthey should start a nice bsd that in time will be the next os x and then MS will fine that they are in real troubleRE: Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?made...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Why HP-EDS is a disaster in the making

As I've noted elsewhere HP's takeover of Compaq destroyed essentially all of HP's pre-takeover value and left the Compaq organization operating as HP. Now they've announced their intention of taking over EDS. On the good news side there won't be a culture clash in bringing these...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn

Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...

Tags: Financial, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-12

AMD still mum on its 'asset smart' strategy

The wait for AMD to outline its so-called "asset smart" strategy continues. AMD CEO Hector Ruiz in his annual shareholder meeting address failed to add any more detail about its manufacturing strategy going forward. AMD outlined its new server roadmap on Wednesday. In many respects, Ruiz...

Tags: Asset, Shareholder, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Strategy, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Government IT failures: "Room for improvement" [interview and podcast]

Given the size, scope and frequency of government IT failures, it's important to understand the dynamics underlying these projects. To learn more about federal IT, I interviewed two federal systems experts from CA, developer of the Clarity project portfolio management PPM solution. Gil...

Tags: Project, Podcast, Agency, Information Technology, OMB, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Government, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-07