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Telecommunications IT Team Reduces Search Time by 50 Per Cent With Enterprise Portal

Batelco is a leading telecommunications provider in Bahrain. The company employs 1,500 people and delivers mobile, broadband, fixed line and data services to more than 700,000 customers. Batelco has invested in a number of line-of-business applications, including IBM FileNet IDM. It wanted to consolidate all its applications into one portal...

Tags: Enterprise Portal, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Telecommunications IT Team, Batelco, Telephony, Content Management, Portals, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Processors, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-03-01

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Telecommunications Firm Increases Productivity, Enhances Communication With Unified Solution

Telekom Austria TA AG, Telekom Austria, is the fixed-net segment of the country's principal telecommunications company, Telekom Austria Group. Telekom Austria wanted to increase employee productivity and enhance communication internally among teams and externally with customers. As a part of the Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program RDP, Telekom Austria deployed Microsoft...

Tags: Telekom Austria, Telecommunications, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-11-01

Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors

Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...

Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-09

For your reading pleasure: One expert's view of how green power can affect the U.S. power infrastructure

Confused about exactly what your company can or should do about its future electricity consumption? A new book, "The Green Guide to Power: Thinking Outside the Grid," endeavors to provide an overview of the environmental impact of the existing power grid and some ideas about what we can do at...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-07

New HP ITSM Software Boosts Time-to-Resolution and Service Level Delivery at Major Managed Services Provider

InTechnology plc, a leading UK provider of IT and telecommunications managed services, offers a diverse portfolio of hosted voice and data services via its quality, end-to-end Internet Protocol IP network. InTechnology plc wanted to align its business processes more closely with IT Infrastructure Library ITIL and offer customers improved service...

Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., InTechnology Plc., ITIL, It Services, Service Level Management, Managed Hosting, Process Improvement, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations, Management

Case studies 2009-04-01

Wireless data caps: Are usage based pricing schemes here to stay?

Wireless data providers--notably AT&T and Verizon--have capped their wireless data plans at 5GB per month. In the billing statements that cap is pretty clear, but the ramifications of exceeding them aren't as obvious. In a research note dubbed “Free” Just Ain’t What it Used to Be, the...

Tags: Network, Video, Pricing Strategy, Wireless, Craig Moffett, Wayne Burdick, Definition Movie, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Hey, guess what? We're understaffed!

Hey, guess what? We're understaffed!And yet, you still seem to have plenty of ....... time to moonlight on this blog. So cry me a river! Try naming a single company in the U.S. that isn't trying to do more with less people. RE: Hey, guess what? We're...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Media Center PCs, Strategy, job

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Satyam management: We're staying; Unveils crisis plan

Updated: Satyam on Thursday said its top management team is staying despite the revelation that founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju cooked the books. In a statement, Satyam followed up on a day that included a stunning letter from Raju revealing a $1 billion cash sink hole and...

Tags: Satyam, Head, Corporate Governance, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in school

Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in schoolExcellent!Mailing this one out to those people I know that need it, and those people I know that should code like it.RE: Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in schoolI like the idea for students reminding themselves. However, now add a parent as a...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, PRODUCTIVITY, Learning, cell phone, phone, tool

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Building a Unified Communications and Collaboration Environment That Supports Virtual Teams

Unified Communications is giving businesses today that kind of advantage. Corporations are moving to Voice over IP VoIP telecommunications, presence-enabled applications, and converged fixed-mobile communications, making it possible to find people in virtually any location, on almost any device. Businesses are also using team collaborative tools such as online whiteboarding,...

Tags: Team, Virtual Team, Unified Communications, Collaboration, Team Management, Management

White papers 2008-12-01

Building the Foundation for a Seamless Microsoft SharePoint Upgrade

The client, a national provider of wireless voice, messaging and data services provides telecommunications solutions to nearly 300 million Americans. The company was leveraging Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 across many of its nationwide offices. Determined to make the most of its various SharePoint investments through a companywide upgrade to...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Harvey Nash, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-10-13

News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, BEA Beehive, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Open World, Help Desk, Java Development Tools, E-books, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Software

Blog posts 2008-09-23

8 tips to avoid being an IT scapegoat

8 tips to avoid being an IT scapegoatProject Manager Usually Ends up "Holding the Bag"The project manager is often not the one who sets the mission. That is usually done several layers up the management chain. The project manager is often not in a position to question the mission either.With...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Qwest Uses Process Simulation to Move at the Speed of Business Change

Qwest, a telecommunications company located in North America, provides voice, video, and data services to residential, SMB, and enterprise-level customers. Its provisioning operations were experiencing significant gaps in process automation and documentation, resulting in inefficiencies and missed business opportunities. In response, Qwest created a business process center of excellence -...

Tags: Business Process, Qwest Communications Inc., Operational Planning, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-04-23

IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened

Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...

Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Unified Communications Capabilities From Avaya Have Enabled Spraylat Corp. to Enhance Customer Service, Save Money, and Improve Productivity

Spraylat's management team wanted a new telecommunications solution that would help them to cut costs, boost productivity, enhance customer relations, and improve their mobility and home office options. They also sought more in-house control over their telecommunications in order to institute changes and upgrades quickly. Working with an Avaya Authorized...

Tags: Customer Service, Unified Communications, Avaya Inc., Spraylat Corp., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Collaboration, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2008-04-01

Silicon chips for optical quantum computing

UK researchers at Bristol University have shown that it is possible to control single photons on a silicon chip. The team developed 'the world's smallest optical controlled-NOT gate -- the building block of a quantum computer.' As said the lead researcher, 'This is a crucial step towards a future optical...

Tags: Optics, Abstract, Silicon Chip, Computing, Quantum Corp., Chip, Quantum Computing, Quantum Computer, Quantum Technology, Quantum Circuit, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-30

White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod A. Beckstrom has been tapped to join the Bush Administration to help secure federal networks against attack, the Post reported today. Beckstrom most recently founded Twiki.net, an enterprise Wiki support company, and previously created CATS Software and Mergent Systems. He's also coauthor of a...

Tags: White House, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cyberattack, Post Story, Hacking, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Are all engineers secretly terrorists?

Are all engineers secretly terrorists?Some people can't be trusted[b]OF COURSE[/b] engineers have the makings of terrorists. Most of our job is figuring out how things can go wrong, after all. Sure, we then go on to taking preventive steps but the fact remains that we're very much into...

Tags: Leadership, oscillator, motivation

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

New mapping tool can save lives

It is obvious that knowing the location and availability of resources such as hospitals, transportation equipment and water during an emergency situation can save lives. Researchers at Georgia Tech started in 2000 to develop a collaborative mapping tool named GTVC short for Geographic Tool for Visualization and Collaboration. Even if...

Tags: Asset, Software, Tool, GTVC Overview, Productivity, Transportation, Asset Management, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-17