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- Reduce Cost and Improve Service Levels with Application Performance Monitoring Simplification
- Organizations are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty. They strive to closely align IT infrastructure to the business and also face challenges to reduce costs. While virtually every IT organization has multiple management solutions in place, the unfortunate truth is that most companies are struggling to develop a product mix...
- Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Performance Monitoring, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2009-11-19
- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- 10 ways to evaluate your IT management software
- Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-05
- News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...
- Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- What should open source do in a car?
- Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...
- Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years
- Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Ross MacMillan, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Sales Compensation & Performance Management 2009 Survey Results and Analysis
- Based on 1000+ companies, the CSO Insights' 2009 Sales Compensation & Performance Management Report provides summaries of what strategies and tactics companies are employing. The findings offer insights and the report offers suggestions on key elements that should be considered as you plan, deploy and manage compensation plans and sales...
- Tags: Compensation, Sales Compensation, Varicent, Analysis, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Benefits, Sales, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-10-13
- Promoting Growth through Incentive Compensation Management
- Efforts to motivate behavior in a complex business environment lead to complex sales compensation plans. While many of these plans have met success, some well-intentioned plans can lead to unexpected outcomes. Adopting a sophisticated sales compensation management solution can provide visibility into and control over sales compensation plans and help...
- Tags: Incentive, Incentive Based Compensation, Sales Compensation, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- White papers 2009-10-13
- Two Perspectives of the HR Technology show
- Some positive surprises - strong attendance Last week, Dr. Katherine Jones and I attended the HR Technology show. Katherine is one the best known HR analysts out there and covered the space for Aberdeen Group for a number of years. Together, we sat down with 21...
- Tags: Human Resources Inc., Katherine, Herewith, HR Tech, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- SalesExec Sales Manager 2.0.15 (Windows)
- While CRM software is managing your customers, SalesExec is managing your salespeople. SalesExec helps sales management stay organized and productive by managing personnel details, generating compensation and commission plans, tracking initiatives and products, creating performance appraisals, tracking training and education history.
- Tags: Commission, Microsoft Windows, Mad Dog Productions, Performance Appraisal, Sales Force Management, Performance Management, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales, Management, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-01
- The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale
- ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...
- Tags: RAID, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT System, power supply, information technology, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Fads vs Business Value: Knowledge Management & Enterprise 2.0
- Anyone with a computer and access to stock photos can put together a slide presentation and upload it to sites such as slideshare, and sometimes it seems like everyone and his brother is doing just that on social media, enterprise 2.0 and other 2.0-ish subjects. ...
- Tags: Knowledge, Training, Originality, Knowledge Management, Harassment, Strategy, Training And Certification, Business Intelligence, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Management, Data Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Personalised Banking Services With Microsoft Dynamics CRM
- Sales support had been provided partly by the Bank portal from the front-end. "However, the core banking systems used by the employees in the background mostly functioned as silos, resulting in the lack of feedback on the entire process of how the customers were served. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Sales Strategy, Banking, Portals, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Financial Services, Internet, Marketing, Software
- Case studies 2009-09-24
- How Kanye West influences enterprise social business strategy
- Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...
- Tags: Marketing, Collaboration, Analytics, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Entertainment, Business Strategy, MTV, Radian6, Jive Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- The taboo of failure
- Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...
- Tags: Strategy, great manager, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-09-07
- Six days in and first Snow Leopard update seeded to devs
- LIAR!!!!Macs don't have issues/bugs/flaws/etc! This update is a performance/feature update! /sarcasmBad ApplesWith a limited number of hardware and software permutations, it is dissapointing how poorly Apples quality control performs. Did they just find out these bugs except for the Flash fiasco that is unlikely given that they already have fixes...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Kudo, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Imonggo Free POS Software 3.58 (Windows)
- Imonggo free pos software is not only a point of sale software,, but also a complete retail management solution that enables you to operate and manage hundreds of retail stores. The all-in-one Imonggo pos software combines point of sale, inventory management, sales analysis and business intelligence functions into an easy...
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Microsoft Windows, Inventory Management, Imonggo POS Software
- Software downloads 2009-08-18
- CRMWeb 2.5 (Windows)
- CRMWeb is a flexible, efficient and easy to use CRM software solution for small and medium-sized companies. CRM Web is integrating all success relevant departments of your business: sales, marketing and customer service. Flexibility, integration, adaptability, performance and reduced total costs are the key features of our web-based CRM software...
- Tags: Customer Service, Customer, Microsoft Windows, CRM, Misoft Systems, CRMWeb, CRM Web, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-08-11
- Surgical decisions: How to change business executives' minds about information technology
- Let's face it, without IT, there's no business. But, IT has always been viewed by business executives as a cost center, versus a strategic asset. A relatively new work published by Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross puts forth some ideas how to turn this thinking around. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Aetna Inc., Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
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