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- What SaaS can teach us about customer service
- What SaaS can teach us about customer serviceGood Advice!As someone actively engaged in the software as a service industry, I can confirm that Archie Black's advice is spot on. I work for PayCycle, an online payroll company that embodies the SaaS model. Our customers don't make distinctions between...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Product marketing, customer service, software-as-a-service, customer satisfaction
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing front
- Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing frontMarkets are based onDemand and Availability..Nobody needed a new OS at this stage.Nobody still does.. Ads won't change this.Plus for me.. i don't need fancy GUI tricks i could do 8 years ago under Enlightenment with X11 and Linux.There is no added...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Live Webcast: The Power of Collaboration
- Today's fast-moving business climate requires everything to happen in real-time. Add to that the fact that companies of all sizes now have people spread out over increasingly greater distances and it's easy to understand the challenges for everything from regular meetings and creative development to sales and training. ...
- Tags: Webcast, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-08-27
- Green tech reward program: Intel will recognize innovation that aids environmental cause
- I've had the pleasure of interviewing Intel Chairman Craig Barrett three times in my varied career, so I can say with authority that he is passionate about the environment. And about education. Then again, this is not surprising from technologist who also happens to be a Montana ranch owner. ...
- Tags: Innovation, Green Technology, Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Registration Deadline, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Office 2.0: Eating our own dogfood...
- It's been a fascinating experience helping Ismael Ghalimi organize the third Office 2.0 Conference, which runs from September 3rd to 5th at San Francisco's St Regis Hotel. As well as the terrific group of sessions and speakers we've organized, plus the action packed 'unconference' ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Amazon.com Inc., Conference, Session, Office 2.0, Office20.com, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Media Leader Increases Speed, Quality of Published Stories With Focused IT Investment
- Swiss media giant Ringier wanted to transform its work environment to heighten journalist productivity to gain an edge in a competitive industry. The 7,000-employee company envisioned an "Integrated newsroom" in which its journalists around the world had technology tools to support collaboration and advanced communications. With help from partners Peaches...
- Tags: Journalist, Information Technology, Media, IT Investment, Leader, Microsoft Corp., Ringier, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Office Suites
- Case studies 2008-08-25
- Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center?
- The announcement this week of the launch of Amazon's Elastic Block Store EBS adds another vital piece to the cloud computing picture. The announcement is particularly significant since it takes the gloves off when it comes to meeting the demanding needs of enterprise class computing requirements. The Elastic Block Store...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Elastic Block Store Announcement, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Intel teases shape-shifting programmable matter
- Intel CEO Justin Rattner teased his Intel Developer Forum audience with technology of the not-so-disant-future that could take an object design of any imaginable shape, 'hit the print command,' and see the matter take shape. SAN FRANCISCO, CA--Mobile phones in future could be thumb-sized in pockets, and in practically...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Matter, E-mail, Development Tools, PDAs, Online Communications, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Handhelds, Hardware, Intel Developer Forum, Intel, Justin Rattner, programmable matter, Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-08-22
- Words from the Woz
- Words from the WozWozWoz is my hero. We all talk about being true to ourselves. Woz is...well...he's Woz.Is there anything that he would regret?"But he said he has no regrets of how things turned out." What's that "how thing turn out"??? Doesn't it sound a bit negative. Yes,...
- Tags: wOz
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?I don't see it.I don't see where this is helping anyone. It seems like any help MS is giving to Novell is being tied up at Novell. For instance Novell's version of Open Office. I don't really see any of that coming down or...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Novell Inc., Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- BigFix makes government's power management mandate more palatable
- For those of you readers who work within federal government agencies and have been faced with meeting mandated conservation policies, software vendor BigFix has negotiated a deal with the General Services Administration to offer its software at an annual license of $3 per computer for the first year of new...
- Tags: Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- OK, so the meeting wasn't so bad
- Just a quick note on my first administrator's meeting: it wasn't too bad. I had a couple things going for me. We haven't had anyone looking at technology from a global level in a long time; we also have more money being dumped into technology than we have...
- Tags: Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- HP delivers strong third quarter fueled by blades, international, notebooks
- HP on Tuesday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 80 cents a share, on revenue of $28 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, HP reported earnings of 86 cents a share, 3 cents ahead of Wall Street estimates. Revenue also...
- Tags: Revenue, Notebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Operating Profit, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- <grimace>I'm going to my first administrators' meeting!</grimace>
- I'm going to my first administrators' meeting!You have your work cut out for you!Since most administrators and few teachers understand the very even the basics of computers, and since most states mandate computer objectives which focus on teaching software rather then concepts it will be a fight between the computer...
- Tags: administrator, first administrator, education, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- I'm going to my first administrators' meeting!
- I guess I have a real job now...no more teaching unless you count teaching teachers, but plenty of meetings. Now that I'm the district's technology director, I get to go to the weekly "Administrators' Meeting" that our superintendent holds. Fortunately, I really like all of the building principals...
- Tags: Job, Administrator, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Searching by color to nibble away at Google.
- I have to admit that I raised an eyebrow when I read the L.A. Times piece about "Black Google." No, it wasn't talking about the color of the screen (though I have written about a black screen search engine being green.) Instead, it was talking about the racial color of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Times, Search, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack
- With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Attack, Imitation, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?Instant boot into full OS...I imagine there has to be a way to perform this instant Linux boot while loading the full OS in the background and seamlessly giving you the full OS functions once its loaded. Now if the Linux community concentrated on that...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, notebook, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
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