The Benefits of Virtualization for Small and Medium Businesses
[ Source: VMware ]
March 2010-
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) of all sizes are rapidly adopting virtualization and achieving significant benefits in a number of areas. This survey white paper provides SMBs with the benefits and key findings as to why virtualization is rapidly growing in the SMB market.
Pacific Timesheet Just In Time Tracking
[ Source: Pacific Timesheet ]
June 2009-
Pacific Timesheet is Web-based timesheet software that provides payroll, project, job costing, time, and attendance features in one system. Other modules include automated approvals, billing and pay rates, time-off scheduling, custom reporting, iPhone timesheet, IVR integration, time clock integration, and DCAA compliance. The software supports all major operating systems and browsers. It is available in license or ASP/online.
Improving Bottom Line Performance Through Precision Forecasting And Scheduling
[ Source: GMT Corporation ]
March 2009-
Whether in a contact center or bank branch environment, workforce managers everywhere face the constant challenge of balancing the yin and yang priorities of service levels and labor costs. This is especially true in today's economic environment where inaccurate forecasts can lead to poor scheduling decisions and can have dramatic impact on bottom line profitability. In this guide, GMT Corp. analyzes how to improve bottom-line performance in contact centers and bank branches through precision forecasting ...
The Greening of Training: How Sustainability Is Reshaping Organizational Learning
[ Source: SkillSoft ]
February 2009-
More and more companies are making sustainability a highly visible part of their corporate strategy. There are many factors driving companies to go green, from the desire to improve corporate image to competitive differentiation in the market. But whatever the reason, the training department can be a key part of a green strategy. This dovetails nicely with the overall trend in training to align learning with corporate initiatives. If your company is championing a green ...
Mentor Graphics Collects Customer Feedback for Product Innovation
[ Source: Brightidea, Inc. ]
December 2008-
In June 2008, Mentor Graphics launched Mentor Ideas, a Web-based environment for capturing product enhancement ideas from customers. This initiative is focused on the Mentor Graphics PADS product line and customers, and, due to the success of the initial pilot, the company has now launched a similar initiative for its Expedition product line.
Case Study: Metron Enterprise and Howard County, Maryland
[ Source: eTelemetry ]
July 2008-
Howard County, Maryland, has approximately 3,000 users on its County IT network. Users who engaged in streaming music and inappropriate surfing or had misconfigured PCs, for example, were straining the network and impacting employee use for legitimate work purposes. Limited resources and an inability to monitor network activity left Howard County without any reliable way of identifying the sources of these violations. The IT department would be routinely asked to analyze hard drives for evidence of ...
Itanium: Slip/Sliding Away
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2011-
Oracle has followed the trend of other major ISVs and terminated further software development for the Itanium platform. Looking at the decline in revenue of HP's Itanium-based servers, combined with loss of support by Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware and Fujitsu (in addition to Oracle), it's clear that the Itanium ecosystem is collapsing quickly.<br><br>
Due to HP Itanium's decline to date, Microsoft and Oracle have already pulled out to avoid ...
How to Use the Six Laws of Persuasion during a Negotiation
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
August 2006-
In order to be successful, you must master the persuasion process, which will enable you to deliberately create the attitude change and subsequent actions necessary for persuading others to your way of thinking. In other words, you have to be able to "sell" your ideas in order to make changes in your favor and, in a win-win situation, provide the other side with a fair deal. This entails a process that can appeal to the ...
Skills Gaps in the World’s IT Workforce: A CompTIA International Research Study
[ Source: CompTIA ]
September 2008-
This ground-breaking research identifies trends and gaps in IT skills, explores issues surrounding recruiting and hiring, investigates the current and potential IT market growth and demand for IT professionals, and discovers which factors most influence, and are expected to influence, the IT industry.
The IT industry has experienced many changes and much growth in the past decade with the fast pace of technological change and the ever-increasing globalization of business. We believe that ...
Why, What, Where and How of Outsourcing
[ Source: S5 Systems ]
April 2008-
To implement a successful outsourced project considerable planning and
efforts are required. This white paper discusses the important guidelines to help through your next outsourced project.
This whitepaper is for product/project managers, CFO and other managers involved in making decisions related to outsourcing.