Apple's iPhone Enterprise program is drawing positive if cautious reviews. The beta initiative aims to allow corporate IT departments sample and experiment with iPhone 2.0 software before its general release. The iPhone has scads of people in the business world using it, but mostly through consumer accounts....
Workplace conflicts and miscommunications happen all the time. How can you protect yourself from accusations, reprimands, and other misery-causing office situations? Lifehacker's Gina Trapani says good note-taking skills can save the day. For example: What do butt-covering notes look like? First, all your notes should be dated. Date the...
It's probably just a matter of time before Apple gives the businesspeople what they want: a way to sync the iPhone with an Exchange server making the former easier to justify as a business expense. In the meantime, Synchronica's new Mobile Gateway 3.0 appears to get the job done quite...
When it comes to protecting your Microsoft Exchange server, you need a continuity solution that:Mitigates both planned and unplanned downtimeIntegrates application and data protectionOffers support for synchronous and asynchronous data mirroringProvides high availability for quick disaster recoveryDownload this white paper from NEC to read about NEC ExpressCluster X, a complete...
This paper is one is a series of papers on intranet solutions with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino which is intended to help readers understand the fundamental methodology and capabilities of the product and how to utilize it to deliver a feature-rich, secure, and functional corporate intranet solution. It will include implementation...
People typically think of their intranet as an internal Web site that they can only access through a Web browser. They believe it's only available while connected to their company's network and that it may have static information, discussions, documents and even some applications. But one constant generally remains: A...
Based in Germany and with offices in China, South Africa, Spain, France, Poland, Switzerland and the USA, Karl Worwag Lack-und Farbenfabrik GmbH & Co KG Worwag develops and manufactures specialist paints and coatings for the industrial and automotive sectors. The company needed to find answers to customer support questions and...
Valuable company process and workflow knowledge was being lost through the use of diverse business applications. Fischer Italia wished to capture information and share it throughout the company, enabling greater people productivity and reducing costs. Working with IBM Business Partner Wintech, Fischer implemented a new enterprise-wide management system based on...
EuroChem is the largest agrochemical company in Russia, accounting for a third of the entire country's production of fertilizers. EuroChem needed to improve collaborative capabilities; introduce corporate document management; unify business processes; and boost personal productivity. EuroChem worked with Concern of Information Technologies, an IBM Premier Business Partner, to build...
Bacardi-Martini Ltd. needed to replace an out-dated manual supplier invoice processing system. Working with IBM Premier Business Partner Intec Systems Ltd., it implemented a fully automated electronic invoice management system based on IBM Lotus Domino, resulting in greater...
This document highlights a report based on the key aspects of TSA's disclosure of its use of personal information during commercial data testing for Secure Flight as required by the Privacy Act, and TSA's actions to more fully disclose its use of personal information. It also informs that TSA has...
The Blackberry is the current champ in the PDA market, but it may be under threat from Windows Mobile because Exchange Server 2003 SP2 allows smart phones to scale to a level that the Blackberry can't.
SONY's e-Vehicle car stereo department needed to reduce cycle times and costs caused by physical prototypes. CATIA V5 analysis modules enabled SONY to create and analyse a virtual 3D model with impressive accuracy. The number of physical prototypes have been cut from three or four to one, reducing costs and...
The worsening financial shape of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. PBGC mirrors the declining health of the overall pension system. In 2004, 326 companies in the S&P 500 had underfunded defined-benefit plans, according to a recent study by Credit Suisse First Boston analysts David Zion and Bill Carcache, up from...
This paper states that ENs Extendable Notes and CNs Callable Notes are here to stay. The number of EN/CN programs and the overall outstanding ENs and CNs are increasing exponentially in the US market. To date, most EN/CN programs have originated from the US market and the non-US markets have...
When the federal government posts a notice about the details of a government contract, it uses a form of "Shorthand" language to avoid unnecessary repetition of information common to many contracts - called numbered notes. Similar to footnotes, these numbered notes must be considered when examining the specifics of a...
Real-time data can prevent distortions in product demand forecasts. However, it is not something that can happen all at once. The "real-time" or "agile" enterprise is sure to come up as a topic of conversation. This has been an ongoing discussion in the company since last strategic planning exercise. The...
The advent and acceptance of what often is referred to as a "simultaneous closing" where a property is sold and the private seller financed note is also simultaneously sold to coincide with the sale of the property has become an integral way that many note deals get done these days....