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Are your systems falling down on resiliency?
Comment In addition, green computing among other things is bringing IT service-based accounting closer. The IT department is tasked with the operational management of software applications but it is the business that suffers when they fail. [12 Aug 2008]
The tech requirements of private equity funds
Comment Excel can be used to supplement an accounting system but accounting functions within funds require capabilities to perform other tasks such as tracking each fund's investment performance and allocations of costs, revenues and capital to partners... [20 Aug 2007]
Link up all parts of your business
Comment Many small and medium enterprises have individual systems to address a particular business need such as an accounting package for finance or a customer database for marketing. Bundling applications into a single platform is common with larger... [14 Mar 2007]
Q&A: Inmarsat CEO on catching the data wave
Comment Currently data rather than voice is Inmarsat's cash cow, accounting for 75 per cent of the company's traffic and 55 per cent of its revenue, growing at 15 per cent per year. He said: "The reason this has become important, even though terrestrial... [27 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules
Comment Among these courses was one on the basics of accounting and economics. Furthermore, undersea cables containing optical fibre were laid across the Atlantic Ocean starting in 1986, to be followed by the Pacific and all the seas, to the point where... [07 Sep 2006]
SMEs and open source - a perfect marriage?
Comment But while infrastructure applications are more interchangeable, it can be harder to shift data from older, proprietary line-of-business applications such as accounting and customer relationship management into newer, open source versions. [11 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: How small businesses buy IT
Comment They accumulate a portfolio of products from many vendors that they pull together to comprise a functional IT system for their customers - for example, an accounting system based on HP hardware, running Microsoft Small Business Server and Sage's... [03 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Pick a killer mobile app
Comment These have minimal impact on IT, little upfront investment and, with sensible accounting, premium call services could be paid for by savings elsewhere in telephony costs. This helps precisely identify the applications of value to specific... [29 Oct 2004]
Inside SAP: Fact file
Comment Key financials (since 1999 in line with US GAAP accounting rules): SAP NetWeaver - to integrate all applications, including non-SAP software SAP xApps - to pull together various applications, old and new, to meet a specific business requirement [10 Sep 2004]
Through the fog... SAP for SMEs
Comment All I needed was to run off a couple of custom reports, which I figured couldn’t be that hard using the market leading small business accounting package. Furthermore, in common with its big stepbrother, it is put together in the spirit of a total... [18 Dec 2003]
Wireless - flexible working's natural bedfellow
Comment Employees have access to line-of-business applications, including service management, salesforce.com, a web-based CRM package and an accounting system that is accessed through Microsoft Terminal Services and a VPN. [05 Nov 2003]
Services mega-deals not quite so mega
Comment Including business process outsourcing (BPO) deals, which involve farming out business tasks such as call centre operations or accounting, the total value of outsourcing deals worth more than $200m rose from roughly $46bn in 2001 to about $50bn... [05 Sep 2003]
Cheaper Microsoft Office - inevitable?
Comment The version for schools has been a hit with consumers, accounting for the vast bulk of retail Office XP sales over the past year, with Microsoft and retailers making little apparent effort to enforce licensing restrictions that limit sales to... [30 May 2003]
Outsourcing and offshoring - consultants look to fill their boots
Comment Forrester analysts predict that other services - including call centre services and back-office accounting - follow IT abroad. American businesses have long outsourced some operations to cut costs, most obviously in manufacturing, and the... [27 May 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Nanotech, ID theft and whether to issue an RFP
Comment According to the Federal Trade Commission, online identity theft is the fastest growing crime, with internet-related incidents accounting for two-thirds of all complaints. Well, the early applications of nanotechnology were a matter of 'improving... [14 Apr 2003]
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