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Merchandising Initiative Helps Rocket One of the Fastest-Growing US Retailers to the Top of the S&P 500

As retailers worldwide battle the recession, one chain has actually come out stronger. Charlotte, NC-based Family Dollar led the S&P 500 in stock appreciation and has garnered national attention for continued positive revenue, earnings and same-store sales increases. The challenge was to increase sales by ensuring that each store stocks...

Tags: S&P 500, Stock, SAS Institute, Same-store Sales, Retail, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance

Case studies 2009-08-01

Steak N Shake Stirs Up Performance With an IBM Cognos System

The Steak n Shake Company is a full service, casual dining restaurant open 24 hours a day. Offering made-to-order food at the speed and price of fast food, Steak n Shake is one of the oldest restaurant chains in the United States. It needed to achieve sustained same-store sales growth...

Tags: Cognos Inc., Performance, Same-store Sales, IBM Corp., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Case studies 2009-07-01

Best Buy cuts outlook; Sees 'most difficult climate ever seen'

Best Buy said Wednesday that it is facing "rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior have created the most difficult climate we’ve ever seen" and cut its earnings and revenue projections. Indeed, Best Buy's same store sales fell a whopping 7.6 percent for October. The company's outlook comes...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Same-store Sales, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Canadian Retailer Picks SAS~ Integrated Merchandise Intelligence Suite to Enhance Customer Experience and Drive Shareholder Value

In the past few years, Mark's Work Wearhouse, the leading Canadian retailer of high-quality casual, business and work apparel and footwear, experienced double-digit same store sales growth due to an entrepreneurial spirit and a clear focus on satisfying its customers' preferences. Satisfying core customers for its clothing/footwear while expanding its...

Tags: Shareholder, SAS Institute, Customer Experience, Same-store Sales, Retail

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EZ-Format for Excel 7.3 (Windows)

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Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data Presentation Products, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-06

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

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Beauty Salon Software 10.9 (Windows)

Daily, monthly, and annual tracking of sales. Returns, purchases, credits, refunds, gifts, certificates, layaways, complete employee, customer, vendor management. Inventory tracking by department, item, and category. Flexible taxing system which allows you to tax items differently. Create user roles, and easily associate permissions with each role you create; this way,...

Tags: Salon, Microsoft Windows, Agnitech, Tax Code, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Calling all innovators: Google hangs "Help Wanted" sign

Google is hiring again. And in case you hadn't heard, the company is known for having some pretty sweet perks for its employees. And we're not just talking free meals and on-site dry cleaners. In a blog post titled "Investing in Innovation at Google," the company goes...

Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-03

SIA: Chip sales "above expectations"; more growth expected

Echoing a growing sentiment that economic recovery is in the works, the Semiconductor Industry Association today said that worldwide sales of semiconductors were up nearly 20 percent from the previous quarter, though down more than 10 percent from the same quarter a year ago. For the quarter...

Tags: Semiconductor Industry Association, Semiconductor, Chip, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

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

Modern Warfare 2 - A game too far?

Show me a war where civilians didn't die.. And I'll show you some major propaganda footage.. So no.. not over the proverbial "edge" any more than any of the other scenes of carnage we see in computer games now.RE: Modern Warfare 2 - A game too far?I don't see anything...

Tags: Games, game

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

E-book reader news and releases round-up

Why e-books ?Using a "normal" paperback book I have indefinite battery life and extreme portability. I have no need to carry a hundred books at one time and can take along a few books for an extended read time just about anywhere and in any travel bag. I...

Tags: E-books, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, e-reader, Apple Inc., E-book reader new, e-book Reader, e-book

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

With BlackBerry Storm2, RIM wins the battle but loses the smartphone war [review]

physical keyboards vs touch screensYour rant against physical keyboards was uncalled for and inaccurate. At this time, no "touch" phone exists that could capture the accuracy and speed of a physical keyboard. If you do a lot of emails, txt, or document processing, you will concede this point....

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Smart phones, Handhelds, Research In Motion Ltd., keyboard, touch screen, RIM BlackBerry, physical keyboard, Apple iPhone, smart phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

SAP Q3: sales down, profit up

SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...

Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-28

SharePoint: The team that makes the donut(s)

No wonder they're successfulThey have a process, they watch actual humans use the product, and accept feedback.RE: SharePoint: The team that makes the donutsAs a long time SharePoint consultant my impression is that the SharePoint team is totally out of touch with enterprise customers. SharePoint 2010 is the same old...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, SharePoint 2010, team, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Ballmer: Zune services coming to 'next release' of Windows Mobile

As if Windows Mobile wasn't slow or bloated enough already...not much left to say. Windows Mobile is toward the horse's heiney of mobile platforms, right now and I doubt Apple or RIM will screw up their products just to let proven crapware back in... In a socialized world,...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, phone, Steve Ballmer, strategy, Internet, smart phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Zune, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-10-23