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SAP ERP Helps Tata Motors to Serve Their Customers Better and Faster: Tata Motors Limited, India's largest automobile company, is the leader by far in commercial vehicles in each segment, and the second largest in the passenger vehicles market with winning products in the compact, mid-size car and utility vehicle segments. Tata Motors Limited, wanted a replacement for homegrown legacy systems and...; Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Tata Motors, Manufacturing, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware; Case studies 2007-05-14
Tata Motors Realizes Benefits of Reduced Costs and Time to Market by Deploying UGS Teamcenter on Intel Architecture for High Performance PLm Computing Application: Tata motors was using a product lifecycle management tool on a RISC-based platform that had quite a few problem. The bill of material module was not tightly integrated with the design data and visualization was not available across the organization creating bottlenecks and need to physically travel to the design...; Tags: UGS Corp., Benefit, High-performance, Product Lifecycle Management, Tata Motors, Intel Architecture, Product Marketing, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; Case studies
Siebel CRM Drives Closer Cooperation Between Tata Motors and Dealers to Improve Sales and Service: Tata Motors is India's largest integrated automaker, with a line-up that includes commercial, utility, and passenger vehicles. Faced with increasing competition from abroad, a cyclical business environment, and the challenge of a widely dispersed dealer network, Tata Motors implemented Oracle's Siebel Automotive, a comprehensive Customer Relationship Management CRM solution designed...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., Sales, Tata Motors, CRM, Siebel CRM, Operational Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Finance, Marketing, Software; Case studies

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eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a "gem" and Skype a "killer" app: Updated: eBay reported second quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.2 billion, up 20 percent from the second quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $568 million, or 43 cents per share. GAAP profits were $460 million, or 35 cents per share. Wall Street...; Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in California: Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in California.....Cool! Just wish they were in the affordable for average Joe's income range! ]:)RE: Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in CaliforniaBut MY question is. . . DOES IT HAVE LEG/HEAD ROOM FOR ME? A 6'8" TALL MAN?!?!?!?!?!?!batteriesKeep your eye on battery technology. That's the...; Tags: Engineering, battery, Tesla Motors; Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in California: Remember the 100% electric 2008 Tesla Roadster? You know, 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds? A 13,000 rpm redline? And, of course, 220 miles per charge, thus costing about two cents per mile? According to a letter from the...; Tags: Production, California, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-14
Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency: They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...; Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance: Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade danceCorporate Communism!This is an example of what I call Corportate Communism. Microsoft is showing it's anti-capitalist leanings. When companies like Microsoft can't compete in the market, they buy the competitor. Some argue that's capitalism. I...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Government, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-02
Daily Debrief: California gets Tesla car factory: On Monday, Tesla Motors announced it would build its electric sedan manufacturing plant in Northern California. In the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with CNET Car Tech Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham about why this decision is a win for the company and the state.; Tags: Manufacturing, News, kara tsuboi, wayne cunningham, tesla roadster, gavin newsom, arnold schwarzenegger, bay area, san francisco, electric car, green, global warming; Videos 2008-07-01
Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable: You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...; Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die: Perhaps never has the Detroit auto industry faced such a challenge. Not from the small cool VW beetle in the 1960s. Not from the onslaught of Datsun and Toyota a decade later. Not from the Honda Civic in the Nineties. This time the challenge is not...; Tags: Industry, Gasoline, Therapy, General Motors Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-27
Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most: Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the mostBrilliance = Techie + Financial ManagerialI think one of the reasons Microsoft has been so succesful is that Bill Gates was adept not necessarily the best at both spectrums: the techie and the business side. Witness General Motors under the "Smith" bean counter tenure:...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates; Discussion threads 2008-06-26
Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autos: Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autosMaybe just maybeChrysler should start working on the quality of their cars and leave the installation of gizmos to car owners who like modding their cars. Back to the basics, a quality product that can hold a candle to the likes of Toyota. Disclaimer:...; Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Ford Motors, Chrysler LLC, Wi-Fi; Discussion threads 2008-06-26
Improving Windows Vista's reliability: Improving Windows Vista's reliabilityThank you AKH...... for telling the Vista bashing universer what the rest of us already knew. The naysayers bleat loud and long about how much Vista "suxors" but the rest of us just keep on using it, crash free and stable.Yep, it does "just work."One flaw...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Improving Windows Vista, operating system, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-06-23
Apple announces ZFS on Snow Leopard: Finally, a modern file system on a consumer OS As if Grand Central weren't enough bad news for Microsoft, now they have ZFS to contend with. Building a reliable, high-performance file system takes years and Microsoft doesn't have years to respond. The formal announcement is...; Tags: Disk, File System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sun ZFS, Checksum, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-06-19
IBM lays claim to 'greenest' data center title, at least here in North America: OK, by the time this next week is out, you will be as weary as I am of all the "greenest" "more energy-efficient" data centers ever built news that I will report. The good news is that no matter WHICH claim to be the greenest is true, there is some...; Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-06-19
(Photos: Backstage at Kennedy Space Center, Act 2): (Photos: Backstage at Kennedy Space Center, Act 2)Ares I vs. VThere's a parachute picture (Image 9) that refers to "the Ares 1 cargo launch vehicle" but as far as I know, no such beast exists. Ares 1 will be the launch vehicle for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV, for...; Tags: Ares, photograph; Discussion threads 2008-06-18
Top automotive sites: eBay Motors, Nascar.com, AutoTrader.com: Top automotive sites: eBay Motors, Nascar.com, AutoTrader.comDidn't tell me anythingWhile the information listing for the top automotive sites was interesting, it said too little.How many hits were registered at each site (month/year)?What market share internet or other do their sites capture?What is the outlook for growth at each of these...; Tags: automotive site, AutoTrader.com, NASCAR, eBay Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-06-14
A UMan robotic arm: Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera. This robotic arm, dubbed UMan, or UMass Mobile Manipulator, can 'approach unfamiliar objects, such as scissors, garden shears and jointed wooden toys -- and learn...; Tags: Environment, UMan, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-06-06
2008 Toyota 4Runner Urban Runner Package: Photo gallery:2008 Toyota 4RunnerToyota techs up the 2008 Toyota 4Runner with an available Urban Runner Package, an experiment in integrating a portable navigation device into the car's dashboard. The navigation device is a TomTom, branded as a TomTom Toyota, and it does much more than simple navigation, potentially catapulting the...; Tags: navigation device, TomTom, Toyota 4Runner, Toyota Motor Corp.; Product reviews 2008-06-05