Jan 07, 2009 




Whitepapers and Case Studies
 
Enterprise Innovation eGuide to Call Center Manager
Businesses must rapidly transform themselves into truly customer-centric organizations with processes and operations geared to delivering on customer needs. The use of call centers in particular is key in enabling this transformation to occur. The strategies and changes required for this shift are detailed in this Enterprise Innovation e-Guide and highlight the following steps to improving customer relationships and maximizing customer retention through call center initiatives.
 
 
A guide to patch cord management
Patch cords have the potential to be the weakest link in copper and fiber network infrastructures. It is essential to follow correct procedures in administration of copper and fiber patch cords to achieve optimum performance and reliability.
 
 
Integrating, modeling, and managing data to drive performance
Organizations are accumulating ever greater amounts of data. It comes from ERP systems, data warehouses, operational data stores, customer-facing systems, and a wide array of other sources; residing in numerous locations, often in different formats and isolated silos.
 
 
Business intelligence in a weak economy
Reduced credit availability. Falling demand. Earnings pressure. Currency volatility. There’s no doubt that today’s economic conditions have sparked a range of challenges for companies, including compromised cash flows, difficulty managing inventories to meet fluctuating demand, and declining sales, revenues, and profits.
 
 
The FULL PROMISE of business intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) is the number one investment priority among CIOs.1 Organizations worldwide demonstrate that BI improves the decision making process and directly improves the bottom line. These organizations also show that the value of business intelligence increases as more decision makers access complete, consistent, and trustworthy information. And yet, these same smart companies often find business intelligence adoption lagging among business users.
 
 
Service-oriented architecture: the foundation for enterprise performance management
The thousands of articles, presentations, podcasts and blogs that have been written about service-oriented architecture are a clear acknowledgement that SOA provides significant benefits for developing business applications. Yet, in a recent survey of almost five hundred business and IT professionals, Ventana Research learned that, while 81 per cent of respondents view SOA as important for business intelligence (BI), many still have much to learn about what SOA is and what it means for BI, a key aspect of performance management solutions.
 
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Industry Press Releases
 
Cisco Energy Tax costs companies an estimated $6.1 billion over 5 years
Energy costs are going through the roof. And companies of all sizes need to find ways of reducing their consumption - and their spend.
 
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Headline News
   
1. IT execs losing ground on compensation, salary study says
  Most IT executives are losing ground as a result of the economic recession.

2. Chinese government campaign targets Internet porn
  China's government has launched a campaign to stamp out Internet pornography.

3. Survey: Microsoft has strongest patent portfolio
  U.S. technology companies led an annual survey rating the strength of corporate patent portfolios, with Microsoft coming out on top.

4. No clear sign of settlement in Oracle-SAP suit
  Oracle and SAP don't seem especially close to a settlement, but observers say one would make sense.

5. China finally gives okay nod to 3G licenses
  China's State Council has finally given its okay nod to the issuance of the long-awaited 3G licenses.

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Blogs & Opinion
Opinion
Next from Apple: A large-screen iPod Touch?
No doubt there's a market for a bigger-screen iPod Touch, and if the latest rumors are true, that's exactly what Apple has in mind.

Top 5 IT predictions that won't pan out for 2009
Some things that won't happen next year

Thai crisis bites approval rating of Hong Kong govt officials
When's the last time a Hong Kong government representative resigned over a blatant error?

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Product News & Reviews
   
1. New activist tool: Cyber sit-ins
2. Sun's launches first x86 quad-core servers
3. Vista backlash: Microsoft lets Vista users revert to XP
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Events
   
1. The 5th Annual Banking and Finance Technology Forum Asia Hong Kong

2. International Hotel Investment Forum Asia Pacific
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