Monday - May 5, 2008
"Too much information is a dangerous thing" -- how often have we all heard that expression? Maybe it should be "too much inaccurate information is a catastrophic thing." Never has so much data been collected and stored within organizations. Smart organizations want to make use of this data, not only to keep the organization going, but also to gain competitive advantage, or make a better, more efficient and effective workplace. Business leaders agree that business intelligence and analytics, based upon accurate information, are key components in achieving this.
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Saturday - May 3, 2008
Teller-line capture. Customer relationship management software. Real-time alerts. Threat detection and recovery, branch automation, in all its flavors, is here to stay, and community bankers are increasingly embracing it. Atlantic Southern Bank, decided to automate the way it reviewed its financial numbers by signing on with Banker's Dashboard. The results were immediate.
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Thursday - April 24, 2008
With the rapid advance of SaaS offerings, data warehouse or business intelligence appliances, and BI capabilities embedded within enterprise applications, companies are now faced with a variety of new deployment options for BI. Traditional on-premise software installations still prevail as the dominant method for BI deployment, but alternative approaches are rapidly taking root and gaining attention within the maturing BI marketplace.
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
IBM has introduced a mashup portfolio designed to help line of business users create applications for specific situations. The driver behind development of the portfolio is the recognition that there is a huge amount of value in unstructured data and content that doesn't always fall neatly under the IT enterprise umbrella.
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Wednesday - April 2, 2008
HP has released a number of new offerings targeting the mid-market, including new Linux management tools, remote security access products and -- for companies embarking on a customer relationship management implementation -- two new additions to the HP ProLiant server line that include configuration blueprints for two popular applications: Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Oracle's Siebel CRM.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
Microsoft hopes its efforts to improve the usability of its Dynamics ERP software can give it a boost in taking on more-established rivals like SAP and Oracle. Jakob Nielsen, principal user experience manager for Dynamics at Microsoft, said ease-of-use upgrades in the next Dynamics version could prove attractive to dissatisfied corporate ERP software users.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
North American manufacturers have faced years of intense, globalized competition. This onslaught compelled them to modernize their manufacturing processes to compete effectively. The result has been that many plants have become models of efficiency and agility. This modernization allowed manufacturers to more quickly adjust production to address shifts in demand and business goals.
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Wednesday - March 19, 2008
Microsoft Convergence is a very large show. Last week in Orlando, Fla., there were in excess of 9,500 people, most from outside of the United States, and by that measure alone it was a successful event. Convergence is one of Microsoft's chances to meet face to face with its partners and customers for the usual mix of training, new product announcements and the like.
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Monday - March 3, 2008
Perhaps nowhere as in government services is the need for truly collaborative software and information systems so great. The organizational and information management challenges are as immense and far-reaching as government itself, and if anything have intensified in the face of budget cuts and constraints, population growth, demographic shifts and a more complex, technologically dependent and affluent society.
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Thursday - February 21, 2008
With rising interest around new mobile communications platforms, there are several early adopters that are successfully utilizing this medium to market and communicate with customers. However, there is still a large majority of marketers who want to first maximize their current e-mail efforts. Most marketers have only scratched the surface when it comes to using e-mail as an effective marketing tool.
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Friday - February 1, 2008
Database vendors, as well as human resources, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and specialist recruitment management systems developers are all working with organizations to improve their recruiting and personnel management capabilities -- and they're taking advantage of Web 2.0 technology in doing so.
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