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Top 10 Reasons to Start Using Web Conferencing

whitepaper One of the major expenditures alleviated by Web conferencing is business travel. Although Web conferencing can't reduce the travel budget to zero, it can assist in bringing the costs down. Web conferencing will reduce hard travel costs (flights...

Tags: video conferencing

[12 May 2008]

One Touch Business Travel and the End of the Expense Report

whitepaper Read Concur's paper to learn why, despite the fact that billions of dollars per year are spent on business travel and entertainment (T&E) by employees on behalf of their organizations: Travel and Expense Management is still viewed as separate...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Avoiding the Compliance Trap for Travel and Expenses

whitepaper Organizations weighing Travel and Expenses (T&E) automation should look beyond the value of streamlining the process to solutions that include analytic and reporting features that enforce compliance controls and provide audit evidence while...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed

Case Study Thomson Holidays is a subsidiary of TUI Travel. 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.

Tags: testing, ecommerce, travel

[09 May 2008]

Employees at Middle East Construction Business Access E-Mails Round-the-Clock

whitepaper Many employees who travel extensively lacked e-mail access when working away from the office. United Arab Emirates-based ETA Star Group manages construction projects across the region. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, they can reach inboxes...

Tags: application servers

[07 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News Because they both travel in the same direction it doesn't mean to say that one invalidates the other," he said. CIOs are increasingly becoming "green ambassadors" - taking responsibility for driving the adoption of sustainable business practices in...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment But this has then freed them up to travel more strategically - to places such as Asia - in order to expand the business. Because it can stand-in for face-to-face meetings and therefore - so the logic goes - cut down on corporate travel and reduce...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs

News The obvious areas - at least outside of its non-power generating business - were its buildings (covering things like heating, lighting, computer equipment etc) and its corporate travel. In order to cut emissions caused by its corporate travel E.ON...

Tags: green, e.on, carbon emissions, travel

[25 Apr 2008]

Why next-gen videoconferencing can mean more travel

Case Study Rather telepresence has freed them up to travel more strategically - i.e.to locations where the company is looking to expand its business. While high-end videoconferencing can play a role in reducing the costs of corporate travel - financial and...

Tags: travel, teliris, videoconferencing

[24 Apr 2008]

Say it in pictures - Google mobile ads go graphical

News Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky Google is expanding its advertising business into a new domain: graphical ads that appear on mobile devices.

Tags: iphone, android, google, mobile

[24 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

News stuck to its forecast for sluggish 2008 revenue growth of between three and 15 per cent in the face of weaker online-advertising demand in sectors such as finance, retail and travel. s business. posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit...

Tags: profit, microsoft, yahoo

[23 Apr 2008]

silicon.com Classics: The best of Google Earth

News Ten things not to do with your data tips for better business travel The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a photo tour of the best of Google Earth - from burning...

Tags: google earth

[22 Apr 2008]

Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities

Comment Neil Hammond, head of IT for British Sugar, said: "Increasingly the business is becoming more mobile, with more international travel. The main business priorities driving IT spend in 2008 are the usual issues of efficiency and cost-cutting but the...

Tags: cio agenda

[18 Apr 2008]

Google reports sterling quarter

News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt told investors on a conference call: "It's clear to us that we're well positioned for 2008 and...

Tags: profits, google

[18 Apr 2008]

Measuring Employee Productivity Gains From e-Workforce Solutions

whitepaper The calculated cost reductions associated with increased employee productivity and travel reductions, as a result of deploying the program, known as e-Workforce. Intel developed a method to measure the business value of a program that included the...

Tags: program, productivity, workforce, travel

[17 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment These folks never seem to travel, live, sleep, do business, or serve customers with the stuff they design. And suppose luggage designers had to travel a whole year non-stop with their own luggage, and ditto for the designers of electronic point of...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

Law Firm Improves Efficiency and Security With New Operating System

whitepaper To provide exceptional service, PGR employees need to respond quickly to requests from clients and associates, despite frequent travel demands. With the help of Microsoft Registered Partner Best Buy For Business, PGR deployed a prerelease version...

Tags: document management

[14 Apr 2008]

silicon.com Classics: A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side

News Ten things not to do with your data tips for better business travel So you're out and about, need to get online but Starbucks is too busy. Why not try the more relaxing surroundings of a nearby pub - especially now they're all smoke-free?

Tags: wi-fi

[09 Apr 2008]

silicon.com Classics: 10 weird uses for an iPod

News Ten things not to do with your data tips for better business travel Most people are happy to use their iPod for listening to tunes and watching the occasional video, but the latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories in the silicon...

Tags: ipod

[03 Apr 2008]

Choosing a Microsoft Web Conferencing Solution

whitepaper These factors raise the importance of Web conferencing solutions that can increase productivity and reduce the costs of inefficient communications and expensive corporate travel. This paper reviews common business requirements for Web conferencing...

Tags: communications software

[03 Apr 2008]

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