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- Client Firewalls Pack
- The Client Firewalls Pack includes four Excel workbooks: the Gap Analysis Report, the Vendor Selection Checklist, the Vendor Reference Questionnaire, and the Financial Scenario Planner. These tools are designed to help you identify any gaps in your current security needs and determine a vendor that will best meet your requirements....
- Tags: Gap Analysis, Vendor Selection, Client Firewalls Pack, Microsoft Excel, Firewalls, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Networking
- Download resources 2005-06-07
- Vendor selection not always by the book
- Vendor selection not always by the bookNot surprising.A formal deliberative process would be, well, fair, and business isn't interested in fair. These procedures are quite common, it allow them to select the vendor they want, and exclude others.Some companies use this type of process to drive the price down...
- Tags: vendor selection
- Discussion threads 2005-03-12
- Vendor Selection Checklist: E-commerce
- Trying to decide which e-commerce solution works best foryou? Try TechRepublic's Vendor Selection Checklist:E-commerce--put down which features matter most to you, and our tool can help you identify the vendor that most closely meets your needs. Using this checklist in conjunction with our Gap Analysis Tool: E-commerce will help you...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Vendor Selection, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Download resources 2005-02-07
- Vendor Selection Checklist: Display Devices
- Our Vendor Selection Checklist: Display Devices tool will help you assess the products and services available from various vendors so that your decisions are based on the facts and issues most applicable to your needs. This download is for TechRepublic Pro members only.
- Tags: Vendor Selection
- Download resources 2004-12-07
- Vendor selection checklist: Supply chain management
- Use this tool to assist you in your search for the best Supply Chain Management solution. Weighting selection criteria to best fit your organization will quickly identify the vendor most likely to meet your expectations. This download is available for free as part of a TechRepublic...
- Tags: Supply Chain, TechRepublic Inc., Vendor Selection, SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- Download resources 2004-10-22
- Vendor Selection Checklist: Flat Panel LCD Monitors
- To effectively evaluate LCD monitor vendors and make the best purchase decisions, you need data that allows you to build a sound comparative analysis. Our Vendor Selection Checklist: Flat Panel LCD Monitors tool's detailed worksheets (Criteria Ranking, Vendor, and Comparison) will help you assess the flat panel LCD monitors available...
- Tags: Flat Panel, Monitor, LCD Monitor, Vendor Selection, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Download resources 2004-05-11
- Notebook computers vendor selection checklist
- Find the best solution to keep your network safe. Learn how our Vendor Selection Checklist: Notebook computers can help you choose the right laptop vendor for your organization with this free sample version. This download is available for free as part of a TechRepublic Pro membership.
- Tags: Notebook Computer, Vendor Selection, Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Download resources 2004-04-23
- Key to ‘Win-Win’ Strategic Outsourcing Relationships
- In this paper HSS proposes a vendor-selection checklist. Outsourcing skeptics claim that an outsider cannot give the same concentration and focus as the in-house team. It therefore becomes imperative to do thorough vendor-scrutiny before entrusting critical technical roadmaps and confidential information on him. Understanding the emphasis of a vendor’s business,...
- Tags: Team, Hughes Software Systems, Vendor Selection, Team Management, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2003-01-23
- Bite Achieves Record Levels of Customer Satisfaction Using Siebel Communications
- Bite is the second-largest mobile telecommunications provider in Lithuania. In order to achieve the company's goal of having a highly satisfied customer base, the company has launched a comprehensive customer experience improvement program to develop its people and sales channels. The program is also optimizing customer touch points. At the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., Customer Satisfaction, Vendor Selection, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
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- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...
- Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry
- No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...
- Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Symantec Goes Into The Cloud With Email Filtering
- Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls IKM Pros have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec....
- Tags: Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., E-mail, Online Communications, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OS
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OSThe cloud providers fully support the platform the provide. On the otherhand, try to get help from MS for problems with your application hosted on Rackspace. It will be a LONG wait.And, end users have to pick their poison. No matter which platform they...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Strata, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debateSAP MaintenanceSAP is a large company that feels they are bulletproof. They make their money on large accounts, and increasing maintenance is just a money grab in lue of increasing market share in SMB where thay have no clue how to penetrate.RE: Forrester...
- Tags: SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Forget the damn netbooks. Can Ã¢Â€ÂśWindowsÃ¢Â€Âť replace Windows?
- Forget the damn netbooks. Can “Windows” replace Windows?It's not about Windowsbut It's about pirated Windows. In my country, you will rarely see a person who willing to buy a genuine copy of Windowseven the rich people except it's coming with the PC they buy. So, if they couldn't afford a...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Zune 3.0
- Photo gallery:Zune 3.0 softwareIn order for Microsoft's Zune MP3 player to compete against Apple's iPod, Microsoft not only had to create a great MP3 player; it also had to create a solid software client to compete against iTunes. In doing so,it's created an attractive, full-featured digital-media jukebox that some users...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Zune
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
- Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
- My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Microsoft quietly halts sales of third-party activation offering
- Microsoft quietly halts sales of third-party activation offeringWhat now if you use MS SLPS?This is a very disconcerting time for software vendors. With a major recession on the way, they need all the help they can get to fight piracy and offer flexible revenue-generation options for their customers to stand...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, piracy, ISV, Microsoft Corp., sales
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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