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National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?

News Still, it is a real boost not to have to commute and many of my problems are start up problems, once I've discovered how to connect to the VPN, work should be a lot smoother. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out...

Tags: home, work

[16 May 2008]

The Integrated Commerce Solution: Closing the Costly Information Gap Between e-Commerce and CRM to Boost Sales Productivity

whitepaper The client is a multi-billion dollar designer and manufacturer of electronics products including wireless and data capture solutions. The client needed to empower internal sales with a tool to more efficiently manage leads to fulfillment - a fluid...

Tags: crm software

[16 May 2008]

Doctors Boost Patient Load and Still Get Home for Dinner With Microsoft-Based System

whitepaper The Michigan Knee and Shoulder Institute, of Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a leading sports-medicine practice in the region, staffed by two board-certified orthopedic surgeons. Before adopting a first generation Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

Financial-Software Leader Credits Productivity Boost, Reduced IT Costs to 2007 Software

whitepaper Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. JHA), a leading provider of software and services to banks and credit unions, has long depended on Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint to produce timely and effective marketing, sales, and...

Tags: business management

[16 May 2008]

How Symantec Residency Services Boost IT Effectiveness

whitepaper As the risk, cost, and complexity associated with managing IT infrastructures continue to grow, today's enterprises often find themselves struggling to realize the full value of their IT investments. As a result, more and more organizations are...

Tags: infrastructure management

[16 May 2008]

Avoiding Common Pitfalls in SOA Adoption: Tips to Help You Reap the Benefits of an SOA Implementation

whitepaper SOA, frequently touted as the elixir to an enterprise's problem of application inflexibility and high maintenance cost, is often considered as a recipe for a company to boost its IT Return On Investment (ROI).

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Gov't department readies for Vista rollout

News According to Defra, Vista's power management features will help reduce the department's carbon footprint while the BitLocker encryption system will boost security. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll...

Tags: upgrade, encryption, carbon, defra

[15 May 2008]

Developers Use New Testing Capabilities to Reduce Costs and Boost Productivity

whitepaper As a small organization, they wanted to boost the quality of their products without sacrificing flexibility or increasing development time and costs. OpenNETCF Consulting is a highly respected firm known for supporting and developing mobile...

Tags: programming languages

[15 May 2008]

IBM and OmPrompt Deliver Boost for Delivery Logistics at Kimberly-Clark Europe

whitepaper Kimberly-Clark Europe wanted to communicate easily with numerous trucking companies that deliver its products but have different forms of electronic messaging systems. The company deployed OmPrompt's Message Integration Service delivered through...

Tags: customer support services

[15 May 2008]

Boost Development Effort Through Repository-Driven Engineering: Understanding How Dynamic Component Generation Can Fit Into a Product-Line Strategy

whitepaper Component-based development allows higher productivity, but because of the too-fine granularity of the components used and their explicit assembling, one can end up with additional underlying issues. In this paper, one is introduced to product-line...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Korea Food Service Corporation Installs Web-Based Ordering System for Greater Efficiency

whitepaper In addition to regular business process reengineering, the company has looked to information technology to automate workflows and boost productivity. Founded in 1997 as a delivery center for McDonald's Korea, Korea Food Service Corporation (KFSC...

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed

Case Study Usability testing software has helped a holiday company boost its sales by spotting a glitch in its website's navigation that could have been costing it tens of thousands per week in lost business. Thomson Holidays is a subsidiary of TUI Travel.

Tags: testing, ecommerce, travel

[09 May 2008]

Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News Ames director, Pete Worden, said the massive performance boost will fulfil Nasa's increasing need for capacity for future missions and scientific research. The latest upgrade will boost performance a further 16 times.

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News But keeping up with other UK broadband players such as O2 - which Fogg said has recently started heavily marketing its ADSL2+ product - the company will need to upgrade equipment in exchanges and boost line capacity to cope with demand for higher...

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity

News The network may also give a boost to flexible working by enabling more people to work from home. The race to become the UK's first 'Fibrecity' has been won by the seaside resort of Bournemouth, better known for ice-cream and old people than high...

Tags: h2o, fibre, bournemouth

[08 May 2008]

Yahoo! - Microsoft walks away

News A Google deal would boost Yahoo! chief Jerry Yang signalled a more open stance towards Microsoft yesterday, saying he had been seeking common ground when the software maker abruptly ended deal talks on Saturday.

Tags: bid, yahoo, microsoft

[06 May 2008]

Manufacturer Empowers Employees to Slash Inventory and Improve Supplier Performance

whitepaper Smith employees have been able to reduce inventory 20 percent year over year, boost inventory turns by 100 percent, and increase customer fill rates. A. O. Smith Water Products Company manufactures water heaters, boilers, and hot-water storage...

Tags: storage management

[06 May 2008]

Wyoming Auto Dealers Boost Web Traffic 20 Percent With Integrated Web Site

whitepaper Chuck Ruwart and his brother Bob operate auto dealerships in Wyoming. They wanted to integrate their marketing to look bigger than either dealership could look on its own. That required a way to get auto information from both dealerships onto a...

Tags: application servers

[03 May 2008]

Get Started on Your Job Hunt With Word Templates

whitepaper Looking for a new job can be challenging, but sometimes a tiny boost can give the user a huge head start. One can find the boost one need at the Templates on Microsoft Office Online Web site, which offers hundreds of preformatted templates and...

Tags: business management

[02 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News He said this internal hunger for efficiency does not stay within the organisation's walls - but rather it's pushed out to other business as pressure is put on suppliers to boost efficiencies of products and services.

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

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