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Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?

News They are looking for growth opportunities that come from having access to critical skills and a highly motivated workforce. Global outsourcing has moved past corporate penny pinching according to industry experts.

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[12 May 2008]

Emin Leydier Manages a 50% Increase in Production Without Increasing Administrative Workforce

whitepaper Emin Leydier replaced four heterogeneous management systems with Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to create a standardized, integrated, and scalable IT infrastructure and maintained a 50% increase in paper production (from 450,000 to 700,000 tons...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Eclipse Internet Improves Workforce Effectiveness by Automating Financial Processes

whitepaper Based in southwest England, Eclipse was founded as a dial-up internet service provider in 1995, evolving to offer broadband services by 2001. Eclipse wanted to streamline billing and payments processes - safely manage a complex billing structure...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Cisco Unified Mobility: Enabling Single Number Reach for Any Mobile Workspace

whitepaper Cisco Unified Mobility helps meet the changing needs of an increasingly mobile, collaborative, and virtual workforce. The application securely extends rich communications capabilities of Cisco Unified Communications Manager from primary workspaces...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[11 May 2008]

Software Development Company Uses Latest IP Technology to Support Its Rapid Expansion

whitepaper Telcotec's workforce had doubled in two years, from 20 staff to 40. Due to this rapid company expansion, the fast-growing telecoms software and services provider decided to move to considerably larger premises in south Dublin.

Tags: ethernet

[11 May 2008]

SQL Server Compact 3.5

whitepaper This is driven by market changes such as a growing mobile workforce and its need for productivity even when not "Connected" and an explosive growth of new devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), portable music players, and gaming...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Protection for Every Endpoint

whitepaper But today's workforce is increasingly mobile, and that means more and more workers are using a wide range of mobile devices to access corporate data over insecure public and home networks. Given today's increasingly volatile threat landscape...

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

Lighting Manufacturer Surya Roshni Streamlines Supply Chain With Bright Results

whitepaper The challenge was to manage workforce scattered across multiple locations and tighten cost control across the supply chain through daily monitoring and data analysis. New Delhi-based Surya Roshni Ltd is India's second-largest manufacturer of...

Tags: supply chain management

[11 May 2008]

The Kentucky Department of Education Is Leveraging Information Technology to Take Educational Opportunities to New Heights With a Flexible, Robust and Secure Nortel Solution

whitepaper Through the Kentucky Department of Education, the Office of Education Technology laid out its "2007-2012 Education Technology Master Plan" with the objectives of providing equal access to technology for all teachers and students, enhancing their...

Tags: ethernet

[11 May 2008]

Australian Agribusiness Pushes Data to Remote Employees to Speed Customer Response

whitepaper To achieve these goals, GrainCorp created software solutions that facilitate collaboration and move real-time information to its mobile workforce. GrainCorp is a leading Australian agribusiness and the largest grain handler on the east coast of...

Tags: decision support - dw front end

[11 May 2008]

SK Communications Supports Global Operations With Centralized Management System

whitepaper The system enabled the company to improve financial management, analyze sales patterns on a daily basis, and manage a globally dispersed workforce. Founded in 2002, SK Communications is one of the most popular Web portal service providers in South...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Wireless LAN Security Best Practices and PCI Compliance

whitepaper With a naturally mobile workforce, industries including retail, hospitality, gaming and restaurants were among the first to realize that a real-time network connection for roaming employees could bring greater efficiency.

Tags: wireless lan

[10 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Secretan said: "We are fast approaching the government's target of reducing CO2 emissions by 12.5 per cent by 2010.We have to make the capability available to our workforce to embrace sustainability. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as...

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more

News Currently 90 per cent of the industry's workforce are based in India's top seven ITO and BPO cities but the report says this will drop to 75 per cent over the next decade as employers turn to smaller alternatives.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Lekkerland Relies on Sun StorageTek Technology for System Backup

whitepaper Last year, the group's 7,400 workforce achieved sales of EUR 9.3 billion. Lekkerland GmbH & Co. KG is the full-service partner for all convenience distribution channels in Germany. The company's challenge was to keep pace with growing data volumes...

Tags: back-up

[06 May 2008]

Protecting against tomorrow's threats today -- proactive security from SophosLabs

whitepaper Spammed email, infected endpoint devices and, above all, the largely unprotected Web, are all part of the rapidly evolving threat landscape in which an increasingly mobile workforce presents unprecedented challenges to business security and...

Tags: network security

[03 May 2008]

Males in tech willing to show off their wad

News An even larger proportion of the 1,000 IT workers surveyed, 68 per cent, say senior managers should be forced to tell the workforce their salaries. The gender pay gap persists, and businesses that neglect to address it are risking alienating half...

Tags: men, women, salary, pay

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft earmarks $1.5bn for Yahoo! staff

News s workforce stands at approximately 13,200, following layoffs of roughly 1,000 employees in early February. Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5bn for employee retention at Yahoo! should it succeed in its unsolicited buyout bid for the internet search...

Tags: staff, yahoo, microsoft

[30 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities

Comment Even though some of my best performing and talented employees have been women, they still make up only a fraction of my workforce. CIOs should also try, without reverse discrimination, to encourage a more balanced workforce in all aspects of their...

Tags: discrimination, careers, women in it

[28 Apr 2008]

Global security spend to hit $10.5bn

News Increasing demand for a mobile workforce and awareness of damage caused by security breaches will continue to drive the global security software market, Gartner said. Global security software revenue is expected to reach $10.5bn worldwide this year...

Tags: smes, security

[28 Apr 2008]

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