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- A Major Industrial Manufacturer Is Able to Quantify the Value of Strategic Supply Chain Initiatives and Determine the Best Timeline for Implementation
- The company needed to fulfill orders for products and services faster than its competition. In order to do this, it needed to improve collaboration with partners throughout its supply chain. The challenge was to determine which set of initiatives would deliver the most impact. An IBM Global Business Services team...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Initiative, Rational Quantify, IBM Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Multi-Layer Analysis to Quantify the Impact of Optical Burst Reordering on TCP Performance
- This paper provides a new methodology to quantify the impact of optical burst reordering in OBS networks on the TCP/IP end-to-end performance. The paper assumes a multi-layer network stack consisting on TCP/IP on top of OBS. It proposes a multi-layer analysis of burst and packet reordering that is realized by...
- Tags: Packet, Rational Quantify, TCP, Analysis, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2007-04-30
- Pragmatic Text Mining: Minimizing Human Effort to Quantify Many Issues in Call Logs
- In this paper, the author discusses their experiences in analyzing customer-support issues from the unstructured free-text fields of technical-support call logs. The identification of frequent issues and their accurate quantification is essential in order to track aggregate costs broken down by issue type, to appropriately target engineering resources, and to...
- Tags: Text Mining, Rational Quantify, Association For Computing Machinery, Call Centers, Productivity, Development Tools, It Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-08-23
- IDC Whitepaper - Quantify the Business Benefits of ITSM
- The Benefits of IT Management with HP IDC explains how the HP OpenView Service Desk solution generates significant cost savings and improves IT staff productivity and efficiency.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Rational Quantify, International Data Corp., Service Level Management, It Services, Benefits, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Human Resources, Management
- White papers 2005-01-19
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- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Churchill Club podcast: Irrational decisions and the rational people who make them
- Renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, say that anyone--under the right set of circumstances--is capable of irrational action. But irrational behavior is not random. In conversation with Guy Kawasaki--one of the Club's most popular moderators--the authors of, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of...
- Tags: Decision, Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- The Secrets of CEOs
- I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...
- Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx
- IBM will announce Monday that it is launching a beta of "Bluehouse," a social networking and collaboration service designed to link businesses with various partners. The move, part of a broader effort to define IBM's cloud computing strategy, will put it in direct competition with Cisco's collaboration...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Beta, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Roundup: Enterprise software announcements
- A roundup of enterprise software-related announcements released today: IBM unveiled new automated security software for midsize companies to help them test for Web application security vulnerabilities and find advice on how to fix their security issues. The software, called IBM Rational AppScan Express Edition, also helps smaller...
- Tags: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software, Credit Card, IBM Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Agresso's answer to ERP addiction
- Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...
- Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobe
- Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobedo you honestly this this fixwill last? I can almost guarantee by the time you read this, there is a work around. "just use the google" and ye shall find.the most effective way to curb "piracy" is to ask for reasonable prices, gouge...
- Tags: Corporate communications, SECURITY, encryption, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web video, Amazon Web video leak, Adobe Systems Inc., video, Internet video, leak
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Gauging the ThinkPad: Before (IBM) and after (Lenovo)
- Gauging the ThinkPad: Before IBM and after LenovoI'm deeply dissapointedI've bought a business Thinkpad T61 for a premium price one year ago, hoping for the best of their product line. A few weeks ago their update tool pushed a BIOS and graphics card update to fix the famous overheating issue...
- Tags: Notebooks, System Spec, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM ThinkPad, laptop computer, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- More on Microsoft's PC ads
- More on Microsoft's PC adsPaul, ... meet the herd.Microsoft is simply issuing soothing tones to a herd. Most don't really want leave the herd, but there are a couple of much smaller herds making some claims about greener grass, and the Microsft herd simply needs a little soothing re-assurance.Your mistake...
- Tags: Group Membership, Third-party endorsement, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., herd, Apple Inc., PC
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- All signs point to state senator's son as Palin 'hacker'
- All signs point to state senator's son as Palin 'hacker'Cracker is the term people are looking for.Though script kiddie would be more applicable.RE: All signs point to state senator's son as Palin 'hacker'I saw this information on www.michellemalkin.com and a few other blogs. Nothing in the main stream left wing...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Palin, hacker, knowledge, Cracker
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Creation in science classes? Maybe...
- Creation in science classes? Maybe...The Last QuestionIf you really want to confuse people about this issue, have them read Asmiov's "The Last Question". Then see if they think about this issue the same way.Take care............WayneWhy is there necessarily a conflict?As a former science teacher, I handled the topic of...
- Tags: creationism, science class, theory
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- UK educator: Teach creationism
- UK educator: Teach creationismthe virus is spreadingindeedI didn't see the partabout the Universe being created from a drop of blood (Qu'ran) or the whole fire-and-ice thing from the Eddas or any of hundreds of others. How about equal time for the Navajo and Hopi creation accounts? Why not...
- Tags: Monotheism, creationism, Creationism
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- 2009 Mazda RX-8 R3
- Photo gallery:2009 Mazda RX-8 R3The Mazda RX-8 has always combined excellent sports car handling with a truly unique look, and also suffered from poor torque, making its off-the-line performance distinctly unimpressive. For 2009 the car gets a new trim level, the R3, which mixes elements of a touring and track...
- Tags: Mazda RX-8, Mazda Motor Corp., car, Mazda RX-8 R3, RX-8 R3, tach
- Product reviews 2008-09-08
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Can Google not do evil?
- Can Google not do evil?So happy"We are so, so happy with Google Chrome," mumbled Mozilla CEO John Lilly through gritted teeth. "That most of our income is from Google has no bearing on this statement." - http://notnews.today.com/?p=57RE: Can Google not do evil?Your vision of Microsoft being the dark side and...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Free trade, Google Inc., Google Chrome
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
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