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Service Middleware for Performing and Optimizing On-Site Work

The growing importance of services is placing greater emphasis on company worksites as points of contact with customers. Although back-end enterprise systems are the foundations of differentiated services, they often become too large and complex to keep pace with changing customer service needs. Consequently, worksite employees must bear the burden...

Tags: Customer Service, Enterprise System, Worksite Employee, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Middleware, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-10-01

Additional Resources

588 Kleiner Perkins iFund developers accidentally leaked to Web

A MySQL file containing contact information, founder bios, business plans, demos and financial information for 588 applicants to Kleiner Perkins's iFund – a $100 million fund to invest in startups building applications for the iPhone – was accidentally posted to the Web and indexed by Google. Kleiner...

Tags: Developer, Web, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fruux, BIOS, Open Source, Databases, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Comcast to launch meter to track Web usage

It only seemed fair that Comcast would give its customers a way to track their Web usage, seeing how the company imposed a a 250 GB limit on the Web data that its customers use in a month. But when the company announced that limit earlier this year, there was...

Tags: Web, Comcast Corp., Usage, Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Tech CEOs: Will they step up in a downturn?

Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don't all CEOs follow this playbook? We've heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a...

Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, CEO, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Mobiles for your users

We all have users for whom a mobile phone of some sort makes a lot of sense. Our district has always either provided a phone or a moderate subsidy for key staff who need to stay in touch. Principals need to be reachable in case of emergencies with...

Tags: District, Phone, Mobile, Telecom & Utilities, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...

Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Telecommuting Policy

Telecommuting is the concept of working from home or another location on a full- or part-time basis. Telecommuting is not a formal, universal employee benefit. Rather, it is an alternative method of meeting the needs of the company. This policy allows your organization to detail if, how, and what's expected...

Tags: Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Download resources 2008-11-19

Members of right-wing UK party exposed

There's turmoil at the right-wing British National Party today after personal information on 10,000 members was published on the Web, The Times reports. Names, addresses, telephone numbers and professions were published. The members include teachers, scientists, a government employee and at least one...

Tags: Officer, Member, Telecom & Utilities, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Greening the data center

Rising costs of energy - along with limited availability of energy in some areas – are forcing the IT industry to take a new approach in designing and managing data centers, says IBM's Christopher O'Connor. Commentary--Energy efficiency is a significant global issue today, and is expected to be even...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Organization, Energy Consumption, IT Equipment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, data center, green, IBM, costs, Christopher O'Connor

News items 2008-11-17

Zappos CEO: transparency helped employees during layoffs

Just under two weeks ago Zappos.com, the online shoe retailer, very publicly laid off nearly 8 percent of its workforce. The truth is, the company didn't intend for everything to be so public. It just was, due to the social media darling's corporate culture of transparency. Is...

Tags: Layoff, Employee, Twitter, Zappos.com, Public Relations, Workforce Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-17

OLPC's 'Give 1 Get 1': What a difference a year makes

The One Laptop Per Child OLPC program on Monday launched this year's 'Give 1 Get 1' program and it's simply stunning how the environment has changed. I did the Give 1 Get 1 program last year and my daughter found the XO an interesting tool that has...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Christopher Dawson, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Employee Internet and Email Abuse - Mapping the Legal Minefield for Employers

Download this whitepaper to understand your legal position on employee misuse of Email, Web and Instant Messaging. Written by noted expert in IT and Internet Law, Dr Brian Bandey and with chapters including Explaining the Law, Harassment and Understanding Employer's Liability, this whitepaper is a complete guide for Employers to...

Tags: Marshal Ltd, Internet, E-mail, Harassment, Online Communications, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity

White papers 2008-11-17

How much does Exchange really cost?

Serena Software says it will save $750,000 when it junks Exchange in favor of Google Apps at the end of this year. But some say the numbers don't add up, wondering how an 800-employee company spends a million dollars a year running its email servers in the first place. by...

Tags: Serena Software Inc., E-mail, Cloud Computing, E-mail Servers, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Phil Wainewright, Cost, Exchange, Disaster Recovery, Data Management

Blog posts 2008-11-15

BearingPoint's Q3 earnings call - part 1

To BE or not BE Several news groups and Wall Street firms covered BearingPoint's BE Q3 results this week but one point was not well covered, if at all. Look at this bullet point that is at the bottom of a list of points BE...

Tags: Attrition, Earnings, Worker, Career Advancement, BearingPoint Inc., Professional Development, Training And Certification, Career, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Data leaks: Watch out for careless and disgruntled employees

Outside hackers certainly can keep IT departments scrambling to keep a company's network and data secure. But what about "The Insider Threat," employees who are either careless or disgruntled with a company's data and pose even bigger threats? Cisco, completing a three-part study on the topic, released...

Tags: Employee, IT Professional, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-13

VMware follows in Virtuallogix's footsteps

My friends at VMware recently sent me a note telling me 1) that they had acquired Trango Virtual Processors and 2) they were jumping into the mobile device virtual machine market.Trago VMware has chosen to rename Trago's product as VMware Mobile Platform. This isn't the only entry into this market,...

Tags: Phone, Handset Company, Mobile, Operating System, Handset, VMware Inc., Hardware, Virtual Machine, VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, Mobile Virtualization Platform, Telecom & Utilities, Desktop Virtualization, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-13

VMware's MVP brings virtualization to mobile phones

VMware provides a full line of virtualization software for the data center and down to the desktop.  Now it is reaching down to an even smaller form factor: mobile phones. On Monday,  the Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization pioneer unveiled its new VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform MVP, based on technology it acquired fom Trango Virtual...

Tags: Phone, Virtualization, Mobile, Operating System, Handset, Cell Phone, VMware Inc., VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Papermaster temporarily blocked from Apple job

Papermaster temporarily blocked from Apple jobHow does that tie him to IBMfor his entire career? I can see an issue if you are earning 70,000 dollars a year, but the salaries some of these division heads earn are in the million dollar range, and I am sure job offerings are...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Apple Inc., Papermaster, job, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?

This week's Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a 'Unified National Smart Grid': a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the...

Tags: Web, Vision, Al Gore, Grid, Web 2.0 Summit, Michael Wesch, Web 2.0, Transportation, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Bank of Ireland: data breach repeat offender

A Bank of Ireland employee lost an unencrypted USB memory stick containing personal information belonging to 894 customers. Stopping this problem requires more stringent government enforcement. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Bank Of Ireland, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Michael Krigsman, Bank For Ireland, Ken, Identity Theft, Disaster Recovery, Productivity, Financial Services, Security, Data Management

Blog posts 2008-11-07