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Zoho lands Swisscom as partner

Zoho said Tuesday that it will partner with telecom company Swisscom to offer the company's business applications to its enterprise customers. Swisscom has 300,000 business customers and for emerging software as a service SaaS player Zoho it's a big win. Zoho said in a post that the...

Tags: Swisscom AG, Zoho Business, Human Capital, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Deploying Ethernet Access for Business Services

The leading provider of telecommunications services in Switzerland, Swisscom wanted to stay ahead of the competition with best-in-market business services and enable more bandwidth for video and other services demanded by corporate customers. The challenge was to simplify the infrastructure to keep operating costs low and enable more flexible service...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Swisscom AG, Business Service, Cisco Systems Inc., Ethernet, Networking

Case studies 2008-06-01

Swisscom Takes an Important Step Toward True Unified Communications

Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecommunications provider, manages a large number of internal telephony systems. A growing demand for Voice over IP VoIP technology has prompted the organization to find a true unified communications solution while minimizing the loss of its existing investments. Swisscom deployed Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and...

Tags: Swisscom AG, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Microsoft Office, Networking, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2007-10-15

MySQL Scale-Out by Application Partitioning

Eventually every database system hit its limits. Especially on the Internet, where one has millions of users which theoretically access the database simultaneously, eventually the IO system will be a bottleneck. In general, as a first step, MySQL Replication is used to scale-out in such a situation. So people need...

Tags: Swisscom AG, MySQL, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-09-15

Tan Don't Burn With Coppertone

Swisscom is exploring the use of remote-controlled planes for targeted advertising. Such planes would have a WiFi or Bluetooth transmitter that would send out messages to phones and PDAs. By blinking its lights and beeping, the plane would signal to crowd members that a message was coming and that they...

Tags: advertisement, Coppertone

Blog posts 2006-08-06

Telecommunications Leader Safeguards Sensitive Information and Critical Documents

An internal audit at Swisscom, the leading Swiss telecommunications enterprise, showed that the company did not effectively safeguard sensitive information and documents from unauthorized use. That risk was not acceptable to Swisscom. The company charged a subsidiary, Swisscom IT Services, with designing and implementing a rights-protection strategy. After evaluating several...

Tags: Swisscom AG, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Security, Networking

Case studies 2005-10-01

Case Study: Mobile Content Delivery as a Managed Service

Swisscom Mobile is the largest mobile operator in Switzerland with 3.9 million subscribers, and is 25% owned by Vodafone. The challenge was to address the opportunity for mobile content with a single, high quality, feature-rich solution that manages all types of downloadable and streaming content. End2End's Content Delivery Solution has...

Tags: Mobile, Content Delivery, Swisscom AG, End2End Holdings, Swisscom Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Case studies

The 3-in-1 PC Card From Mobile Unlimited Transforms a Laptop Into a Mobile Office, Enabling Wurth to Save CHF 48,000

Those who work as managers for Wurth's field sales staff travel around a lot and need to be able to act quickly and flexibly. Today, field sales managers grab their laptops and dial into Wurth's central server - regardless of where they happen to be. Using Mobile Unlimited, they benefit...

Tags: UMTS, Mobile, PC, Swisscom AG, Microsoft Office, PC Card, Laptop Computer, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Sales, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies

Thanks to Public Wireless LAN, BLICK Has Reduced the Cost of Transmitting Photos to Its Editorial Office by 60 Per Cent

BLICK photojournalists use to transmit their photos to the editorial office via the fixed network or mobile phone. This took up to 20 minutes per photo. And previously, reporters could never be totally certain whether they were actually connected to the editorial office or not. The photojournalists now transmit their...

Tags: LAN, Ease Of Use, Swisscom AG, Microsoft Office, WLAN, Photograph, Editorial Office, Wireless

Case studies

Indesit Communicates Worldwide Via GPRS, Saving Around CHF 30,000 Per Year

Indesit's employees travel all around the world, and need access to the central system in Manno, Switzerland, at all times. Until recently, the field sales staff dialed in to the central computer from their hotel rooms via a dial-up line. This was not a straightforward procedure, because they had to...

Tags: GPRS, Swisscom AG, Computer, Indesit, Productivity, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies

Swisscom Mobile Links Business & IT to Maximize Customer Satisfaction

Swiss market. The largest operator of mobile telephony in Switzerland today, Swisscom Mobile currently holds a 65% share of its market. One aspect of mobile phone service in which customer responsiveness is crucial is new phone and new service activation. Swisscom Mobile set itself the challenge of performing the task...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mobile, Swisscom AG, Information Technology, Customer Satisfaction, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Case studies

Swisscom IT Services Uses Novell eDirectory to Provide Secure, Centralized Directory Services to Eight Regional Banks

Swisscom IT Services AG is one of Switzerland's leading IT service providers. Swisscom IT Services manages the information systems of many banks throughout Switzerland, including eight regional banks. The firm needed to either expand the existing directory services for these banks, or radically reconstruct them. Swisscom IT Services determined to...

Tags: Bank, Novell Inc., Directory Service, Secure Identity Management, Swisscom AG, Novell eDirectory, Swisscom IT Services, Directory Services, It Services, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Swisscom IT Services AG Enhances Efficiency Through Single Sign-On

Swisscom IT Services is a leading Swiss provider of IT services. The company wanted to consolidate a complex technical infrastructure encompassing four portals with roughly 29,000 transactions per hour. The challenge was to manage 20,000 external customer and partner users, as well as 600 applications more effectively. They wanted to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Swisscom AG, Single Sign-on, Swisscom IT Services, Authentication/Encryption, Business Structures, LDAP, It Services, Portals, Security, Finance, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet

Case studies

Swisscom Mobile Optimizes Customer Service With EAI

Swisscom Mobile used TIBCO's business integration software to implement a component-based architecture that integrates several systems, including CRM and billing systems. This loosely-coupled architecture eliminates interdependencies and reduces the number of interfaces, giving Swisscom Mobile a more efficient system with room for further development and new applications. The integration of...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Customer Service, Mobile, Swisscom AG, Swisscom Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Channel, EAI, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Sales, Middleware

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Additional Resources

McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position

Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...

Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

News to know: Apple vs. Psystar; Intel; Microsoft and multicore; Linux kernel

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple sues Psystar Sam Diaz: Complaint: 'Invaluable good is being eroded' Larry Dignan: The end of the Mac clones? Jason D. O'Grady: Apple: See you in court Larry Dignan: Intel's second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Linux Kernel, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Twitter, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Linux, Channel Management, Mainframes, Open Source, Telecommunications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Servers

Blog posts 2008-07-16

SOA market will double, but will success stories follow?

SOA market will double, but will success stories follow?No they won't.SOA proponents are throwing out the propaganda. But that is all SOA has to offer. SOA does one thing efficiently - burn money. If it has the word service in its description, it has become a joke. Every layer of...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA proponent, SOA, SOA Market

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products

In what appears to be either a common scenario of "when the security solution ends up the security problem itself", or a product launch basing its strategy on outlining the increasing number of critical vulnerabilities found in competing antivirus products, the IT/Security consulting firm n.runs AG claims to have discovered...

Tags: Antivirus Product, Antivirus, Vulnerability, Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Top Web properties in Germany in April 2008

Apr-08 Mar-08 Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Internet 34,539 1 1 Google Sites 25,790 2 2 eBay 18,394 3 3 Microsoft Sites 18,271 4 4 AOL LLC 16,602 5 5 United-Internet Sites 16,169 6 7...

Tags: Web, Site, Wiki, Internet, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-28

High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technology

What is it with high-tech giants and solar energy research and development? Apparently, as it turns out, many of the same manufacturing and design ideas that people have been applying to computer systems and microprocessor technology matter in the world of solar. Intel is the third huge...

Tags: Solar Energy, Transistor, Photovoltaics, Microprocessor, Technology, IBM Corp., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-16