forecasts
RSS forecastsRecord Mac sales give Apple stellar quarter
News Apple's guidance for the upcoming quarter, however, was well below Wall Street forecasts. Apple has reported record Mac sales and one of its best third quarters ever. For the company's third fiscal quarter, which ended June 28, Apple reported... [22 Jul 2008]
Nokia grabs bigger slice of market
News This is up from earlier forecasts of between six per cent and seven per cent unit growth. Nokia is gobbling up market share on mobile handsets fuelled by sales in emerging markets. Last week, the Finnish mobile phone maker beat sales expectations... [21 Jul 2008]
NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News The analyst forecasts the gross transaction value of relatively low value purchases - such as refreshments, tickets and food - made via NFC will exceed $75bn globally by 2013, with the lion's share of contactless business being done in the Far... [18 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry ready to burst into new pastures
News The results marked a departure from the company's recent quarters, when it comfortably beat analysts' forecasts. BlackBerry maker RIM is charging ahead with international expansion plans and investments in new handsets and software to stay... [16 Jul 2008]
Unified, Flexible Stockbroking System for Leading Italian Bank
White Paper Banche Popolari Unite SIM (BPU) needed to equip its financial advisors with tools that help them to analyze client needs and elaborate investment forecasts. Using this approach, they can calculate the most valid 'Asset allocation' proposal. [09 Jul 2008]
Performance Management 2.0: Broader or Better? (Part 1 of 2)
White Paper Does PM 2.0 also integrate methodologies such as balanced scorecards, strategy maps, budgets, Activity-Based Costing (ABC), forecasts, customer relationship management and resource capacity planning? Performance Management 2.0 is being referenced... [09 Jul 2008]
QICT Improves Visibility and Control Over Financial Data With Integrated System
White Paper QICT wanted to ensure visibility and control over financial data across the organization and better assess working capital requirements and speed up the completion of cash forecasts. Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT) is a modern... [08 Jul 2008]
Lowara Leverages Performance Management System to Support Data Integration and Standardization
White Paper Lowara worked with IConsulting to implement a system based on Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management to support and integrate the entire data collection cycle for Web sales, budget preparation, various forecasts, and strategic three-year plans as... [08 Jul 2008]
S.T.M. SpA Improves Visibility Into Data and Increases Operating Spread by 5%
White Paper S.T.M SpA worked with eXstone to use Oracle's JD Edwards World Supply Chain Management applications to implement a new expense planning system and introduced a new process which automatically estimates expenditure for raw materials purchases and... [06 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the start of next year. [02 Jul 2008]
International School Saves 10 Working Days Each Month by Automating Financial Reports
White Paper The director of finance found it difficult to extract information about the school's cost centers - making it harder to prepare budgets and forecasts. The American International School of Bucharest, based in Romania, has more than 600 pupils that... [01 Jul 2008]
International School Saves 10 Working Days Each Month by Automating Financial Reports
White Paper The director of finance found it difficult to extract information about the school's cost centers - making it harder to prepare budgets and forecasts. The American International School of Bucharest, based in Romania, has more than 600 pupils that... [01 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo Photo credit: Apple silicon.com went to check out the technology behind the weather at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts in Reading. This month silicon.com looked at tech being used at the summer music festivals, the best mini... [30 Jun 2008]
Optimizing Operations Across the Supply Chain: Demand Planning Technologies Reduce Inventories, Spur Collaboration
White Paper Establish baseline sales forecasts, incoroporating multiple inputs Read this paper by John Brandt to see how demand planning software packages can help manufacturers to: Perform sophisticated analysis that improves the use of human and capital... [30 Jun 2008]
Mobile banking set to boom
News The analyst forecasts 41.5 billion mobile financial service (MFS) transactions will be made by the end of 2011, with services being driven by rapid consumer adoption especially by mobile users in developing countries who do not currently have... [18 Jun 2008]
