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Oracle takes on SAP with retail apps
News For instance, he claimed the suite's stock management and price optimisation applications could reduce inventory by 10 per cent and increase profit margins by two per cent respectively for stores in the grocery sector. [18 Jun 2008]
Google - the best workplace in the UK
News Other IT companies in the rest of the list include search engine optimisation business BigMouthMedia, tech support company IT Lab and server hosting company Rackspace. At its Silicon Valley complex it's famed for pampering staff with gourmet free... [28 May 2008]
RIM quiet on touchscreen BlackBerry rumours
News We've taken everything we've learned about keyboards in the last decade and whatever tweak, whatever trick we've learned, whatever optimisation - they are all in the keyboard on the Bold. The new BlackBerry Bold may have been touted as an 'iPhone... [14 May 2008]
Network optimisation market speeds up
News One of the key additions is the fact Riverbed's WAN optimisation controller, called the Steelhead, is now able to optimise Microsoft Exchange 2007 traffic. Riverbed claims Office 2007-based email traffic can now be delivered in one-tenth of the... [26 Feb 2008]
Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?
News Using this the calculator recommends the best way to achieve savings ranging from consolidating equipment such as buying more efficient servers, lighting and cooling systems to process optimisation such as energy efficient services, minimising... [30 Jan 2008]
IBM turning green over data centres
News IBM designed the programme because more companies are looking for ways to accurately measure their energy consumption as part of environmental initiatives, said Rich Lechner, vice president of IT optimisation at IBM. [02 Nov 2007]
Motorola slaps Aruba with patent suit
News Wireless Valley's supposedly infringed patents include "method and systems for designing or deploying a communications network which considers frequency dependent effects" (6,625,454), and "system and method for design, tracking, measurement... [29 Aug 2007]
Cruise line gets ship-shape with workforce management tool
News Tour operator Royal Caribbean Cruise Line has invested in a workforce optimisation solution to cope with the rapid expansion of its contact centre. The system forecasts call volumes so that managers can accurately predict their workforce requirement. [16 Aug 2007]
First Choice picks call centre monitoring system
News The workforce optimisation software specialist is supplying First Choice with its Witness Actionable Solutions Impact 360 Quality Monitoring solution.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Tour operator First Choice has boosted customer service at its UK... [01 Aug 2007]
HP to buy Opsware for £1.6bn
News Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz is expected to lead the HP Business Technology Optimisation organisation - reporting to Hogan. HP has announced it is to buy data centre automation software company Opsware for $1.6bn. [23 Jul 2007]
Fighting against the data deluge
News In retail SAS is working with retailers on 'size optimisation' - so not all of a fashion retailer's stores carry exactly the same set of sizes, according to Goodnight. Research from IDC earlier this week warned businesses will face a data explosion... [24 May 2007]
BlackBerry blackout: RIM breaks its silence
News Ruling out those causes, the company has "determined that the incident was triggered by the introduction of a new, non-critical system routine that was designed to provide better optimisation of the system's cache". [20 Apr 2007]
Google going after PowerPoint?
News Battelle had other questions related to the merger: will Google spin out DoubleClick's Performics unit, which focuses on search optimisation? Google is adding a feature to its Docs & Spreadsheets web-hosted software that will enable people to... [18 Apr 2007]
Sony Europe signs up with Indian outsourcer
News According to Satyam, the move will "enable the Sony Infrastructure Services team to focus on core activities, such as platform enhancement, optimisation and innovation", as Satyam will handle IT development for Sony sales and distribution... [11 Dec 2006]
Wi-fi signals hate it when we...
News It's not just the physical interference of added 'clutter' in the office but also an increase in reflective surfaces that can make the signal even less effective, according to wi-fi optimisation and troubleshooting experts AirMagnet. [06 Dec 2006]
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