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Canon U.S.A. Inc.: Creating the Big Picture for Learning: Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in professional and consumer digital imaging solutions, sells its products through a wide network of retailers and dealers. The sales training division, within the Imaging Systems Group ISG, delivers learning to this mix of external dealers and internal sales professionals. But keeping up with the...; Tags: Sales Training, Chief Learning Officer, Canon USA Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, E-learning, Document Management, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Case studies
Blended Learning Delivers sales training Solution: Keane, Inc. is a leading business process and IT services firm with more than 9,000 employees in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India and Australia. Keane set out to implement a cost-effective, timely, consistent sales training program. Keane created a four part blended learning program designed to foster...; Tags: Keane Inc., Sales Training, Blended Learning, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales; Case studies
Software Supplier Cuts Costs, Improves Collaboration With Switch to Live Meeting: Softchoice Corporation is a leading technology supplier that sells software and hardware products to customers throughout North America. To stay connected with employees while enhancing its reputation as a "Trusted technology advisor," Softchoice uses Web-conferencing technology for company-wide meetings, weekly sales training sessions, customer demos, and Web seminars. However, the...; Tags: Sales Training, Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Web Conferencing, Microsoft Office, Sales, Internet, Office Suites, Software; Case studies
Novell Identity Manager 3: sales training: Provisioning employees, customers, and partners can be costly and time-consuming. Anyone who's ever done it manually knows that to be the case. But those who have experienced provisioning with Novell Identity Manager know what a difference intelligent automation makes. Now with Novell Identity Manager 3, the value is even more...; Tags: Novell Inc., Sales Training, Sales, Business Structures, Finance; Webcasts
Training Firm Sold on New Collaboration and Communication Solution for More Efficient Follow-Up: With 70 percent market share, Game Face, Inc. is one of the leading sales training organizations in the professional sports world. The company is looking to position itself for future growth with better communications and collaboration throughout its three sales offices. However, it was effectively blocked because of limited communication...; Tags: Sales Training, Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., Training, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Groupware, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies

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Web 2.0 and the end of advertising: The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...; Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008: Americans spent $1.23 bln on video games, hardware and accessories in April 2008, up 47% from April 2007. Total hardware sales grew 26% to $426.2 mln, with the Wii selling 714,200 units, followed by the handheld Nintendo DS at 414,800. Software sales surged to $654.7 mln from $389.4 mln in...; Tags: Software, Video Game, Video, Hardware, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Games, Sales, Personal Technology, AM; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software: Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....; Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China: Both the inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China, according to IDC. The demand from the public, education and financial sectors increased the sales of the SDM Serial Dot Matrix printer, resulting in a 16% increase in Q4...; Tags: Inkjet Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, NB; Blog posts 2008-05-15
What open source teaches publishers: I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...; Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test): Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...; Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman; 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
What's wrong at OpenSolaris: The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...; Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Digital Camera (exe): All data recovery software, data recovery services for hard drive/disk recovery and remove bad sector from hard disk/drive. Password recovery utility from tally. NTFS/FAT partitions recovery. We provide physical data recovery training, cyber forensic training, tracking e-mail accounts, IP tracing, recovering deleted evidence. This version is the first release on...; Tags: Data Recovery, Digital Camera, Camera, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-05-15
Workday: a tipping point?: Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...; Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Dell: We're greener than HP: Dell said Wednesday that it is designing its laptops and desktops to consume up to 25 percent less energy by 2010 compared to today. Welcome to the latest in the "we're greener than you" game where green technology intersects with marketing-speak. Green IT is fashionable, but increasingly...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green Technology, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
UK warned of China, India software threat: Key UK industry figures believe Britain should forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost end of the software market, and instead carve out a high-end niche. UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60 billion behind China this year, fuelling high-level calls for...; Tags: Revenue, China, India, U.K., Tools & Techniques, Management, Nick Heath silicon.com, software, Inda, services; News items 2008-05-14
Ticketing 4 Schools (zip): Sell digital tickets using student ID cards and barcode scanner to school dances and events. The software will check if the student has permission to attend then the software will determine the price that each student will pay based on how you set up the price structure. After tickets are...; Tags: Software, Student, Software 4 Schools, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Scanners, Management, Sales, Hardware, Peripherals; Software downloads 2008-05-14
GymGoal Lite (zip): GymGoal Lite puts over 200 weight training exercises at your fingertips. Every exercise comes with detailed instructions. Most of exercises are illustrated by drawings. The software makes it easy to find exercises by worked muscles, type, equipment, level of difficulty, and other parameters. GymGoal Lite also offers ready-to-use workout routines,...; Tags: Exercise, Smaltek, GymGoal Lite, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management; Software downloads 2008-05-14
Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...: Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health of Google and also its new service Google Health. Health is a tricky area for Google. I remember chatting...; Tags: Google Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-13