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HP lands $675 million outsourcing pact with Unilever

Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it has inked a seven-year outsourcing pact with Unilever valued at $675 million. Under the pact statement, HP will manage Unilever's technology infrastructure in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Turkey and the Middle East. HP will also manage Unilever partners such as SAP, Microsoft...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Unilever PLC, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Global Brand Implements New Infrastructure to Increase Availability, Productivity

Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods. Its brands include Flora, Bertolli, Dove, Lux, Pond's, Persil, and Domestos - brands that are locally popular and globally recognized. New to Microsoft software and technology, the Unilever team wanted deployment to go smoothly. It wanted to minimize...

Tags: Brand, Unilever PLC, Microsoft Corp., Branding, Team Management, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2007-09-01

Dell's IT Infrastructure Services, Desktops, and Notebooks Allow Global Consumer Packaged Goods Marketer Unilever to Support Staff Efficiency and Productivity With Business-Critical IT Services

Unilever is a multinational corporation that owns 400 consumer brands spanning a wide range of home, personal care, and food products. The outdated client technology and non-standard services inhibited flexibility, limited scalability, and created overhead; the company wanted to completely refresh its IT infrastructure while reducing deployment and maintenance costs....

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Unilever PLC, Food & Beverage, Notebooks, Desktops, Manufacturing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Case studies 2007-09-01

IBM wins 7-year Unilever outsourcing deal

IBM wins 7-year Unilever outsourcing dealI guess Unilever will start circling the bowl nowThis type of move is almost invariably one of the first steps that companies on the way to the garbage heap take, and it is almost always regretted soon afterward. However, by the time they realize their...

Tags: Unilever PLC, Unilever outsourcing, IBM Corp., outsourcing

Discussion threads 2005-12-26

Images: Can 'Webisodes' sell sprayable spread?

Unilever's "Sprays of her Life," a series of short films available on the Web, are the centerpiece of a new ad campaign.

Tags: Unilever PLC, centerpiece, advertisement, Web

Image galleries 2005-07-26

Images: Can 'Webisodes' sell sprayable spread?

Unilever's "Sprays of her Life," a series of short films available on the Web, are the centerpiece of a new ad campaign.

Tags: Unilever PLC, centerpiece, advertisement, Web

Image galleries 2005-07-26

Oracle Helps Unilever Achieve Rapid Roll-Out of Oracle's Enterprise Manager to European Operations

Unilever is one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer products. The company's goals were to rapidly deploy Enterprise Manager with minimal resources, continue to implement best-practice across European business units, continue to deliver world-class service levels to users and manage growing workload without increasing the number of database administrators....

Tags: Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Corp., Unilever PLC

Case studies

Case Study: Unilever - Building Learning Communities

Unilever needed to design a new leadership development program that delivered behavioral change and business results, all in an acceptable investment in time and money. The most significant challenge was to limit the residential component and still achieve the intensity of a shared group learning experience that was to be...

Tags: Professional Development, Unilever PLC, Communispace, Leadership, Management

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Unilever Belgium - Ensuring Continuity

Unilever is one of Belgium's leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods FMCG. They needed to effectively manage the storage, distribution and supply of products, protect financial position and competitiveness by ensuring business continuity and implement disaster recovery as the first step in a new business continuity strategy for recently centralised...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Unilever PLC, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management

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Bocada Case Study: Unilever

Founded in 1930, Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product. GIO-ES at Unilever staffs over 550 IT professionals to meet the demands of over 200,000 employees worldwide. From their global headquarters in...

Tags: Bocada Inc., Unilever PLC, Backups, Team Management, Quality, Channel Management, Productivity, Management, Business Operations, Marketing

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Consumer Goods Company Troubleshoots Computer Workstations 99 Percent Faster

In 2005, Unilever launched an upgrade of its computing infrastructure under the program name Odyssey. The project team for Unilever in Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey AMET needed a deployment solution that could upgrade the operating systems and software on more than 9,000 computers in 30 countries. The desktop...

Tags: Lifecycle Management, Unilever PLC, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Consumer Goods Company, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites

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Additional Resources

U90 Ladder (exe)

U90 Ladder is the software tool used to create applications for the M90 PLC. After you plan the control task, use U90 Ladder to write, debug, and download the PLC control and HMI applications into the M90. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Application, Unitronics, U90 Ladder, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-30

HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks

What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank's web application directory structure is in fact using the bank's legitimate domain names as redirectors due to XSS flaws within. It's even more interesting to measure the average...

Tags: Bank, Vulnerability, XSS, Flaw, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Financial Services, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-29

VisiLogic (exe)

VisiLogic is the software tool you use to create control projects for Vision controllers. After you plan the control task, use VisiLogic to write, debug, and download the PLC control and HMI applications into the controller. The PLC application is your control, or automation application. You write the PLC application...

Tags: Application, Controller, Unitronics, VisiLogic, PLC Application

Software downloads 2008-06-20

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destructionSCADA vulnerabilityAs an Engineer who has spent the past 20 years working on SCADA systems for water and wastewater plants, I have some comments on this article. And yes we are a user of CitectSCADA First, where I work, we NEVER connect our...

Tags: Enterprise software, NETWORKING, hacking, terrorism, SCADA, network

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayed

Yahoo said Thursday that Edward Kozel resigned from its board of directors. The company will reduce the size of its board from 10 directors to nine and delayed its shareholder meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July 2008." Investor Carl Icahn has proposed an...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Mr., Director, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost

Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lostStuff and nonsense>From day one, the purpose of Philly’s network is to increase digital inclusion and economic development. The measure of their success should be how lives and businesses are being helped in disadvantaged communities.The city to stick to...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless Philly, wireless, EarthLink Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS

I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Open source tries again with health care

Open source tries again with health careMisys StrategyDana -- Be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater with throw-away comments like open source became a tactic; not a strategy...confirmed when Misys later did a deal to buy half of Allscripts...Because of the potential disruptive nature of open...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, open source, health care, Misys

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

Keells Super Uses Motorola for Real-Time Inventory of Goods

Keells Super is one of the largest super market chains in Sri Lanka. It is a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings PLC, a Sri Lankan blue chip conglomerate. In a single Keells Super store, there are between 12,000 - 15,000 individual items for sale. The IT team wanted to improve...

Tags: Mobile, Stock, Motorola Inc., Keells Super, Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2008-04-09