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Streamlining Publication Production Processes at Reed Business Information France

As a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier, Reed Business Information RBI provides business professionals across five continents unrivaled access to a wide range of communication and information channels. Although RBI France's main technical challenge was in transforming content back and forth from XML, its solution requirements did not end simply at...

Tags: Reed Business Information, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Case studies 2008-11-01

Case Study - Datacentre Consolidation at Ernst and Young

Ernst & Young AG is one of Germany's leading certified accounting companies, and is part of Ernst & Young Global operations. The company decided to embark upon a radical act: IT decided to bring the IT servers of its national data centres in Eschborn near Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Rotterdam under...

Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Consolidation, Frankfurt, Reed Business Information, Strategy, Management

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How IT and Sales Can Work Together to Sell Complex Products More Effectively: Increase Sales Effectiveness for Build-to-Order Products

This webcast will reveal how companies are able to sell complex products with extreme accuracy in less time and with lower costs. Based on the industry's first survey of best practices in sales effectiveness for build-to-order products, the attendee will see how IT and Sales are collaborating in both traditional...

Tags: Information Technology, Reed Business Information, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

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Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage

The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Proprietary advantage the argument against health IT?

Proprietary advantage the argument against health IT?Health Care = Big BusinessThose of us who live in the developed world outside the US and have nationalized health care systems (Canada, Europe, Japan, etc.) are always astounded at how much Americans pay for health care. My father just had two major surgeries...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, health-IT

Discussion threads 2009-03-20

Top-growing sites in UK in June 2008

Property May-2008 Jun-2008 % Change Total Internet 34,489 34,860 1% Channel4 3,544 4,664 32% John Lewis Partnership 2,119 2,416 14% Guardian Media Group 3,793 4,305 14% First Choice Holidays PLC 3,939 4,246 8% 365 Media Group 2,299 2,462...

Tags: Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-09-14

Maybe It's Time for Twenty-Somethings To Take Over Media

Media companies have to become technology companies, able to quickly and effectively deliver new services that appeal to a generation of readers who only spend about seven minutes a day of their free time reading stuff printed on paper.  That’s the contention propounded this morning by Harold...

Tags: Media Company, Technology Company, BusinessWeek, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Top financial news & research sites in May 2008

May-07 May-08 Growth Total Internet 177,487 190,858 8 Financial News & Research 47,493 64,287 35 Yahoo! Finance 11,740 18,492 58 AOL Money & Finance 10,266 15,222 48 MSN Money 12,087 13,707 13 Forbes Property 5,497 7,014 28 ...

Tags: Financial, Site, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Building a Business Strategy Around Search

Reed Business is a division of Reed Elsevier, a world-leading publisher and information provider employing 36,000 people in over 200 locations worldwide. It needed to implement an Enterprise Search solution. Having undertaken a full review of the available Enterprise Search solutions, Reed Business chose FAST for its scalability, security, flexibility,...

Tags: Enterprise Search, Business Strategy, Reed Business, Cloud Computing, Search

Case studies 2008-07-01

A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management

I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal.  This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...

Tags: BitTorrent, Broadband Internet, Cable, Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, DOCSIS, Geek, George Ou, Internet, Japan, Marketing, Network, Network Management, Networking, P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Personal Technology, Presentation, Richard Bennett, Telecommunications, Video, Wireless Network

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Frontline Wireless folds but Martin 'hopeful' public safety network will survive

Whither the next-generation national public safety network? Frontline Wireless, which had been trumpeting a proposal for a public/private partnership for public safety, announced a few days ago that it was "closed for business." The problem? FW couldn't raise the $128 million bond required to bid on spectrum expected to cost...

Tags: FCC, Network, Auction, Wireless, Safety Network, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-10

The Future of Business Media: I'm toast; Web ad ROI

The Future of Business Media: I'm toast; Web ad ROIAnnoyed searchers.Quoting:"If Google uses its toolbar data to target data through DoubleClick it can sell audiences one off," says Horan. If that outlook plays out, Google will be able to sell advertisers 500 35 year old men in Denver shopping for...

Tags: Web-ad ROI, online advertising, ballroom

Discussion threads 2007-10-30

The Future of Business Media: I'm toast; Web ad ROI

I strolled into the Future of Business Media conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City thinking I'd get some insight on my craft. After 40 minutes, I think I'll grab a beer. I might need one. It's close enough to noon. Why the worry? Journalists are toast....

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Media, ROI, Economics, Online Advertising, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-30

A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2

A new survey of the personal use of Web 2.0 applications by CIOs emerged late last week and provided another interesting, if high-level, datapoint about the future of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Carried out by CIO Insight, the survey reported the usual trends like high rates of use...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, AJAX, Network, Ruby On Rails, Idea, Product, Business, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Office 2.0, Jury, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Linux.com: Microsoft issues campaign funding ultimatum to open standards legislation backers

Linux.com: Microsoft issues campaign funding ultimatum to open standards legislation backersOf course....Everyone knows this goes on.This is just the sort of thing we can expect from MS. my own personal bias based on many other things known about MSIt is possible that this source is credible. Even so nothing will...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Groupware, Microsoft Office format, OpenDocument Format, Part-of IT, Microsoft Corp., Linux.com

Discussion threads 2007-04-18

Who owns public employees' emails when they're about 'private' subjects?

Who owns public employees' emails when they're about 'private' subjects?This one is easyThe emails are the property of the county if the county's computers were used to store them, or write them. If there's an issue about privacy, then it should be taken up on a personal computer that the...

Tags: e-mail, exemption

Discussion threads 2007-04-04

Report: triple-play cable VoIP slowing growth of IM-based VoIP

To me, the most interesting part of research firm In-Stats newly published findings that more than 10 million U.S. homes now have at least one active VoIP user is not that round number.Its the fact that the growth in VoIP subscriptions from cable companies- many of which offer these...

Tags: yahoo, trends, General, AOL

Blog posts 2007-04-02

Microsoft to standardize its HD Photo format

Microsoft to standardize its HD Photo formatAh, so using PNG is obviously not OKAny Standard As Long As It's Ours, I guess. What benefits are there to be had from yet another format? Wouldn't it be better to find an established standard, or would that prevent the sale...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., J2K, PNG, HD-Photo Format

Discussion threads 2007-03-07

Hyperlocal content: Local news or community gossip?

If “all politics is local,” is all news local?” Such is the theory behind citizen media site Backfence, touting “Do-It-Yourself-Local-News”:Find out whats going on in the world closest and most important to you: Your neighborhood.What is the most important "news" in people’s “worlds”? Backfence suggests:Who won the T-ball championship? Have...

Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Media, Culture, User-Generated Content, Amateur Content, Social Media, Metrics, Backfence

Blog posts 2007-01-06

Convert stored data into business intelligence: Implement online analytical processing (OLAP) with Microsoft Analysis Services

A data warehouse is a general structure for storing the data needed for good business intelligence BI, but data in a warehouse is of little use until it is converted into the information that decision makers need. The solution is online analytical processing OLAP, one of the best technologies for...

Tags: Business Intelligence, OLAP, Microsoft Press, Microsoft Corp., Analysis, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Book chapters 2006-09-27