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Retain Talent in Your Organization

whitepaper Studies show that companies with high employee retention rates enjoy high customer satisfaction levels, consistent sales growth, positive morale, and deep institutional knowledge. Estimates differ, but it's clear that the length of job tenure in...

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[12 May 2008]

Hire Talent From Inside or Go Outside?

whitepaper The prevalence of outside hiring can be seen in the exploding use of search firms and job boards, and in the growing rates of voluntary turnover in organizations - most people who quit do so for jobs elsewhere.

Tags: planning and services

[12 May 2008]

Data Center Solutions: Planning Considerations for Data Center Facilities Systems

whitepaper Enterprises are experiencing enormous growth rates in the volume of data being moved and stored across the network. The deployment of high-density blade servers and storage devices in the data center to handle these workloads has resulted in...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Clear Channel Communications Cuts Code 84 Percent, Speeds Interface 400 Percent

whitepaper The software that Clear Channel Communications executives used to optimize and obtain ad rates was increasingly difficult to troubleshoot and extend to meet business needs. In response, the company is creating a new version using the latest...

Tags: programming languages

[11 May 2008]

Mastering Storage Complexity

whitepaper Data volumes are doubling every two years, while storage utilization rates hover at 33%. Data center complexity in today's enterprise continues to grow at a dizzying rate. And data is needlessly duplicated - CMP Media Research estimates by as much...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

IBM and Peopleclick Provide Nationwide Insurance With Resources Management Solution That Saves Money, Improves Processes

whitepaper This reduced number of suppliers by half, lowered pay rates, realized financial savings, improved quality of work by suppliers, used better metrics to measure supplier effectiveness, streamlined processes and accountability.

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400) Performance White Paper

whitepaper The EVA4400's increased levels of sequential performance provide customers with improved data transfer rates for applications such as data warehousing, streaming video, high-performance technical computing, and backups and restores.

Tags: storage management

[11 May 2008]

Travel and Procurement: The Convergence

whitepaper How best-in-class companies achieve high adoption rates. According to a recent Aberdeen Group survey, companies that don't use an integrated travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management service, like Concur Travel & Expense, are falling behind...

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed

Case Study The improvement in the site's usability as a result of using the Tealeaf has meant that buyer-to-browser conversion rates have risen by 20 per cent. Usability testing software has helped a holiday company boost its sales by spotting a glitch in its...

Tags: testing, ecommerce, travel

[09 May 2008]

Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments

News Movement away from 'swipe and sign' in our restaurants means we are no longer liable for fraudulent payments and have also benefited from an improvement in transaction rates as a result of the shift. Hospitality group Whitbread has deployed an end...

Tags: pos, chip and pin, pci

[07 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News Mayes said that margins and growth rates, while reduced, will continue to far outstrip those of Western companies. India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the global outsourcing market have pushed it into extending a...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[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]

IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - Data Center Stored Cooling Solution

whitepaper By shifting energy consumption for cooling to off-peak hours when utility rates are lower, it helps reduce energy cost. IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - data center stored cooling solution can deliver significant...

Tags: infrastructure management

[05 May 2008]

Grant Thornton Achieves 99.7% Accuracy Tracking Mobile IT Assets

whitepaper This case study explains how the company simplified its IT asset tracking process to minimize loss rates during business expansion. Grant Thornton LLP is one of America's largest accounting firms. Learn how Grant Thornton used Computrace to...

Tags: asset management, asset, thornton, minimize

[03 May 2008]

Solutions for the Datacenter's Thermal Challenges

whitepaper To achieve optimal utilization of compute resources, customers must be able to measure, analyze, and, most importantly, dynamically provision power supply and cooling capacity to match utilization rates.

Tags: data center

[02 May 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

News A previous ChangeWave survey of enterprise smart phone users found the iPhone device beat the competition hands down on user satisfaction rates. But what do the people who know them best really think about them?

Tags: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

Skype trialled on Java mobiles

News The calls can still be cheaper in some cases, Skype said; for instance, callers can make international calls without paying international rates. Calls to landlines and mobile phones entail additional charges, while calls to Skype clients are...

Tags: java, mobile, skype

[30 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment If there is any improvement in detection rates at airports, it seems to be marginal to date. Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with a full toolkit as well as other objects that are now classified as...

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft Software developers from NeoSmart, a not-for-profit technology-development organisation, claim they have successfully bypassed User Account Control, a security feature in Windows Vista.

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

Kids flocking to Blyk to bag free calls and texts

News But many individual campaigns have had significantly higher response rates than that, according to Blyk, which cites a Penguin Books promotion for Nick Hornby's novel Slam which it said gained "an unprecedented 67 per cent response rate".

Tags: mobile advertising, blyk, mvno

[25 Apr 2008]

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