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Simon & Schuster - Developing a Strategic IT Outsourcing Partnership

Simon & Schuster UK, Ltd. (Simon & Schuster) is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing and media. Simon & Schuster had previously outsourced IT support through a resource-based contract and was looking for a more pro-active, strategic and structured approach to managing IT systems and supporting...

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Information Technology, IT Outsourcing, Syntax Integration, Strategy, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Case studies 2007-09-06

Mainframe-to-Windows Move Speeds Agility Up to 300 Percent for Global Publisher

Publishing giant Simon & Schuster needed to accelerate every aspect of its business, from authoring to getting books into the hands of customers. But it was still managing its order fulfillment and distribution processes on an aging mainframe that kept business processes slow, inflexible, and costly. So, the company ported...

Tags: Business Process, Simon & Schuster Inc., Mainframes, Operational Planning, Servers, Hardware, Business Operations

Case studies 2007-09-01

Can video make reading sexy? CBS to launch book channel online

“Video killed the radio star”? So sings The Buggles.CBS Corporation’s Simon & Schuster, however, is singing the praises of video to make books stars and is creating a new “book-centric” Internet video channel aimed at doing just that: BookVideos.tv!Slated for a June launch, BookVideos.tv will “humanize authors,” Sue Fleming, Vice...

Tags: Culture, Marketing, The Real Deal, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Soldiers of Anarchy demo (Windows)

After surfacing after 10 long years from underground, you're charged with leading a group of resourceful military veterans to restore order and free the world from its oppressors.

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-11-07

Real War demo (Windows)

Real War is the only real-time strategy game where you are in command of today's armed forces. All jets, ships and ground vehicles are taken directly from today's military -- with a few special items right off of the Pentagon's Drawing boards. In Real War -- based on the official...

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Microsoft Windows, Training, Military, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Games, Human Resources, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2003-11-03

Real War: Rogue States demo (Windows)

Real War: Rogue States extends the hit game Real War, which blends the ease of a real-time strategy game with units, weaponry, and scenarios currently utilized by the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff to train military personnel. Terrorist forces are threatening the free world, and the only power capable...

Tags: Force, Simon & Schuster Inc., Microsoft Windows, Real War, Terrorist Force, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2003-11-03

Deer Avenger 4 demo (Windows)

Pit the hunted versus the hunters once again in the fourth iteration of this funny parody series . Use your utilities and abilities to pull ahead and outwit the skillful hunter. But this time, you're not only the prey, but the hunter too.

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-10-24

Deer Avenger 2 demo (Windows)

In Deer Avenger 2, our hero is taken from heartbroken to hell-bent in the blink of an eye when a few moronic hunters turn his hot; doe-date into road kill. What would you do? In In Deer Avenger 2 you get to do just that. Head into lovely Armpit Estates...

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Programming, Development Tools, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-10-23

Farscape demo (Windows)

John Crichton, an American astronaut lost in space, is stranded on a hostile desert planet with an alien space babe. He is to find his crew, destroy all enemies, and get the ship back. The game takes place at a desolate planet in a far off dimension of the universe,...

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2003-10-23

Amazons & Aliens demo (Windows)

Choose one of three alien races competing for world domination or peace: The blue, stoneworking Pimmons; the militaristic, wild Amazons; or the "disgusting biotech," insectoid Sajkhi. Direct the fate of your race as you nurture them from the Stone Age through the Metal Age, and beyond. Command them to build...

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Race, Biotechnology, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2000-09-06

Deep Space Nine: The Fallen updated demo (Windows)

The Fallen utilizes a revolutionary multiple-character system that gives you three unique and compelling single-player experiences, as either Captain Sisko, Major Kira, or Lt. Commander Worf. Energized by an enhanced version of the revolutionary Unreal Tournament engine, The Fallen places the player at the heart of an exhilarating 3D adventure....

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Animation, Microsoft Windows, Fallen, Camera System

Software downloads 2000-07-28

Mob Rule (Windows)

In Mob Rule there are a wide range of fun things to do, including shootings, extortion, exploitation, controlling, breweries, and brothels, attacking and stealing from rival mob headquarters, and causing general mayhem. You start in a humble way with a single building from which you must create an empire. When...

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Microsoft Windows, Games, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 1999-09-23

Shattered Light demo (Windows)

The planet Delos's attempt to bind and utilize a new energy source backfires. The result is a new world filled with magic and monsters called the Laria. As humanity neared the brink of extinction, it learned that it could cast spells, and it then began to reclaim its environment. Now...

Tags: Simon & Schuster Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 1999-04-01