Wednesday - April 9, 2008
Archer Technologies on Tuesday launched the Archer Exchange, a virtual marketplace for on-demand application development wherein companies that have developed applications in-house can put them up on the exchange for sale to other corporations. The company made the announcement at the RSA Security Conference, being held through Friday at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center. Enterprises getting applications from the exchange will find it reduces application development time because they only have to tweak the applications to meet their in-house needs, said CEO Jon Darbyshire.
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Tuesday - April 8, 2008
Whether your company calls them "technical support technicians," "help desk representatives" or "strategic Support Analysts," in-house help desk professionals are an integral part of any business. Increasing productivity and satisfaction ratings while reducing costs and resources are the hallmarks of an effective IT help desk.
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Monday - April 7, 2008
A little over a year following the initial release of its Clearspace collaboration platform in February 2007, Jive Software announced the availability of the Clearspace 2.0 Monday. The newest iteration of Clearspace enables users to share information and connect with coworkers and business partners in order to increase communication and workplace productivity.
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Friday - March 28, 2008
Companies now have many options when it comes to packaged applications for CRM, and these applications are helping companies reduce development time, in some cases by as much as 65 percent, which in turn helps save money. These resources are now freed up to explore greater CRM customization that ultimately helps companies focus on aligning their CRM systems with their core business objectives.
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Friday - March 21, 2008
Have you seen that movie "Groundhog Day?" You probably have, but on the off chance that you missed it, it's the movie where Bill Murray's character -- who's kind of a jerk -- wakes up every morning to find that it's the same day over and over again. It's a great movie, but I'm not actually calling your attention to it to recommend watching it. Instead, I'm bringing it up because it makes a great metaphor for IT audit.
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Wednesday - March 19, 2008
Laying the groundwork for their continued business health, Intel and Microsoft have coughed up $20 million to fund research into desktop and mobile parallel computing for consumers and businesses. The money, to be paid out over the next five years, will be split evenly between new research centers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Tuesday - March 11, 2008
Bloggers -- especially those whose traffic volumes can rival a minor newspaper's -- are getting used to the royal treatment. Consumer electronic vendors, hotels, auto manufacturers -- heck, even politicians -- are reaching out to the people who have made it their avocation to blog about them. Everywhere, it would seem, except in the CRM industry.
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Monday - March 10, 2008
So daylight-saving time has just begun in various parts of the world, and that means many of us -- including the normally razor-sharp team here at LinuxInsider -- may be reeling a little bit. An hour's sleep is a big deal, so "springing ahead" -- which always sounds so chipper and perky -- can actually make the ensuing days feel long and tough. Which brings us to the topic of today's column: Tough projects.
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Monday - March 3, 2008
Perhaps nowhere as in government services is the need for truly collaborative software and information systems so great. The organizational and information management challenges are as immense and far-reaching as government itself, and if anything have intensified in the face of budget cuts and constraints, population growth, demographic shifts and a more complex, technologically dependent and affluent society.
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Wednesday - February 27, 2008
What kind of business benefits can virtualization provide? It can increase server utilization; help cut costs; let users leverage the multi-core processors common in data centers; give applications mobility, thus improving data recovery capability; reduce physical downtime; make it cheaper, faster and easier to do application testing and deployment; and it lets an enterprise pool its servers, maximizing their use.
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Friday - February 22, 2008
There's a lot to be said for immediate gratification -- especially in business. This was one of the first lessons that I learned in entering the business world. I learned that in business, "six months" really means "never." In one of my first jobs, I represented security in regular project inception meetings.
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