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- Vantage Service Check: Driving Support Costs Out of Internet Services Delivery While Discovering New Revenue Opportunities
- As the broadband subscriber base continues to grow, demand for customer support by customer care will also grow exponentially. With new subscribers comes an upsurge in trouble calls and the need to reduce the cost of managing these calls. Introduction of full triple-play services will add significant complexity to the...
- Tags: Video Service, Revenue Opportunity, Compuware Corp., Internet Service, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Internet, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Telecommunications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Driving New Revenue Opportunities With Converged Services
- Evolving from a single store 30 years ago to a superstore network today, JB Hi-Fi is a large and fast growing Australian home entertainment product retailer focused on "Cheapest prices, best brands" with a huge range of products. Rapid national expansion and increased business communication requirements highlighted the need for...
- Tags: Computer Telephony Integration, Revenue Opportunity, Nortel Networks Corp., IVR, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2006-08-14
- Webcast: Uncovering Revenue Opportunities with Simplified License Management
- Check out this on-demand Webinar, "Introducing FLEXnet Operations," from Macrovision for an overview of the features and benefits of FLEXnet Operations, a license management solution that can help you maximize upgrade and renewal revenues while reducing your fulfillment and support costs. This audiocast and accompanying slide presentation outline the key...
- Tags: Webcast, Revenue Opportunity, Macrovision Corp., License Management
- Webcasts 2006-06-01
- Student Loan Finance Corporation: Automated Loan Origination and Servicing
- SLFC has been servicing student loans since 1979. Tight margins typical of the industry drove SLFC to look at ways to achieve greater profitability. The keys to increasing profitability are trimming costs and increasing volume. To achieve these objectives, SLFC launched an initiative to improve the efficiency of is flagship...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, BEA Systems Inc., Computer Sciences Corp., portal, Web
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- Management Tool Increases Revenue Opportunities at United Kingdom Application Service Provider
- Applicable, a U.K. Application Service Provider ASP, manages more than 150 servers located at five datacentres in cities such as London, Bristol, and Glasgow. Applicable needed to build on existing server management tools that included WhatsUp Gold. It wanted a solution that provided the following: in-depth server data to spot...
- Tags: Revenue Opportunity, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2005-11-01
- EV-DO: Controlling Challenges and Creating Revenue Opportunities With Tiered Services
- CDMA2000 1xEvolution Data Only (EV-DO) is a recently implemented technology that optimizes the radio network to provide high-speed data services to wireless services. With basestation upgrades, Wireless Service Providers can deliver speeds of 300 to 600 Kbps with peak rates up to 2.4 Mbps for downloads - effectively accelerating wireless...
- Tags: Revenue Opportunity, EVDO, Bridgewater Systems, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Business Services, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-06-03
- H.264 & IPTV Over DSL: Enabling New Telco Revenue Opportunities
- Telcos need a competitive edge that leverages their industry-leading position with broadband digital subscriber line DSL technology to offer new services that effectively compete with cable and give them new revenue opportunities with their customers. The IP video services IPTV market presents attractive revenue-generating forecasts, and a new video compression...
- Tags: Revenue Opportunity, IP Television, Telecommunications Company, H.264, Broadband Internet, DSL, TVs, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Maporama International Identifies New Revenue Opportunities With Salesforce
- Paris-headquartered Maporama International is a rapidly growing specialist in location-based services. Customers are blue-chip and multinational. Maporama Intl. had been using Microsoft Outlook and Exchange to track customers and leads, which was proving labour-intensive to synchronise and was producing islands of information. The company considered a number of CRM solutions...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Revenue Opportunity, Paris-headquartered Maporama International, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies
- WiMAX, A New revenue opportunity for Service
- This webcast uncovers the WiMax Vision, which will create additional revenue generating opportunities and usage models. In the webcast, you will learn how multiple platforms will co-exist and serve various usage models - from consumer broadband to a mobile/portable broadband. Understand how 802.16 complements 802.11 and 3G networks, and how...
- Tags: Revenue Opportunity, Intel Corp., Usage Model, WiMAX, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Developers Bring Innovative Products to Market Faster and Broaden Revenue Opportunities
- Conduits Technologies, Inc. has established itself as a leader in style and innovation by developing applications such as Pocket Player for playing media, and Pocket Slides, a full-featured presentation application that lets users create, view, or give presentations from a Pocket PC. Conduits uses the consistent Microsoft Windows Mobile developer...
- Tags: Developer, Revenue Opportunity, Conduit, Microsoft Corp., Pocket PC, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Software, Finance
- Case studies
- Italian Hypermarket Automates Customer Loyalty to Generate New Revenue Opportunities
- Leading Italian hypermarket chain Bennet employs 7,200 people and generates annual turnover of U.S.$1,801 million. The company wanted to automate management of its loyalty scheme to improve operational efficiency and customer service. To achieve this, and streamline new software development overall, it deployed Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and the Microsoft...
- Tags: Revenue Opportunity, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Italian Hypermarket, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?
- Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- 2007 US ad revenues up 26%
- The Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP PwC announced that the 2007 Internet Advertising Revenue Report shows Internet advertising revenues in the US continued their upward climb. For the full year 2007, revenues totaled $21.2 bln, exceeding 2006 performance by 26%, itself the former record year. Q4 2007 Internet...
- Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Internet Advertising, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Introduction to BIT
- This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...
- Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Vector Girls Photo Screensaver (exe)
- Photo Screensavers bring you a new dimension in presenting pictures that prompt the imagination and recall girls abstract scenes. While your computer is idle, five full size pictures appearing on your screen will give you the opportunity to take a look at these beautiful girls' abstract photos. This version is...
- Tags: Screensaver, Photograph
- Software downloads 2008-05-16
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Does the Kindle have iPod-ish potential?
- Amazon's Kindle may meaningfully contribute to the e-tailer's revenue in a couple of years, according to Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney. Mahaney's take--delivered in a research note outlining the bullish case for Amazon--takes a few leaps Techmeme. Mahaney has little data on the Kindle (just like the rest...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Insurance, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge
- In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...
- Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- The newspaper's last stand
- Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...
- Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Virtualization and security
- It's easy to spot market trends when many vendors call to schedule meetings and all of them want to speak about the same topic. The topic du mois is security in virtualized environments. Some of the suppliers are taking a very broad view of both security and virtualized environments. Others...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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