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Social Networking & Collaboration for the Workplace: How to Extend and Transform Business Processes With Social Networking and Collaboration Tools | 2009-10-13 | Plateau Systems |
| Research shows that informal learning accounts for over 80% of the learning that takes place in organizations1. As organizations realize the potential of informal learning, more and more they are looking for ways to help them harness this power and align those results with tangible business goals and strategies. This is where social networking and collaboration software steps in. These types of tools and technologies pave the way for organization to facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration, and learning activities that directly impact organizational initiatives. | |||
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Search Applications: The Future of Enterprise Search | 2009-10-09 | Endeca Technologies |
| Enterprise search is changing. It's about immediate usability. Watch this new program and learn how to use search applications to improve daily decision-making, increase revenues, and cut costs in your organization.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Software Development Tools, Internet and Web, Office Suites |
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Accounting Firm Saves Millions of Dollars, Draws Significant New Business | 2009-10-05 | Microsoft |
| Grant Thornton LLP needed a new document management solution that would reduce legal risk and operational costs, yet also drive business growth through secure team and client collaboration. That's what it has achieved with Microsoft and NextPage technologies. Its C3 solution is expected to save the company millions of dollars per year, to eliminate unneeded documents, and to streamline regulatory compliance.
Tags: Office Suites |
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Law Firm Practice Sees Revenues Climb Up to 20 Percent Because of Information Platform | 2009-10-05 | Microsoft |
| The law firm of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP wanted new ways to compete in the hyper-competitive environment for legal services, ways that would demonstrate its expertise as well as its ability to use that expertise to provide superior client service. It found what it was looking for in a custom information platform called Parkway, built using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the services of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner XMLAW. The firm uses Parkway to show potential clients how they have information relevant to client matters, and how they can access the information immediately, giving them more time to apply critical thought to those matters.
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Selling Smarter in 2009 and Beyond with Remote Selling | 2009-10-01 | Citrix Online |
| Discover how to increase sales efficiency and productivity with fewer resources.
This new IDC executive brief explores the use of Web conferencing to facilitate the sales process. From customer prospecting to retention, online meetings can enable instant product demos, ad hoc contract collaboration, product training and much more. Tags: Enterprise Planning, Customer Management, Business Functions, Office Suites |
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Web Conferencing for Better Collaboration and Reduced Travel | 2009-10-01 | Citrix Online |
| "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I might remember. Involve me and I'll understand." Hear Robert P. Mahowald, IDC research
Tags: Components, Components, IT Budgeting, Office Suites |
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GlaxoSmithKline Leads the Way With Microsoft Online Services | 2009-10-01 | Microsoft |
| GlaxoSmithKline (NYE: GSK) is a pharmaceutical industry leader: supplying a quarter of the world's vaccines, spending over $13 million each day to research new medicines, and providing many of the world's leading prescription medicines and consumer healthcare products. It is estimated that GlaxoSmithKline makes up seven percent of the world's pharmaceutical market, and it is one of the few companies committed to researching vaccines for the World Health Organization's three priority diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Yet, an internal strategic review of their IT systems outlined a need to take a new approach to collaboration, support growing markets, and address costs. Illustrating its industry leadership, GlaxoSmithKline found its solution in pioneering Microsoft Online Services solutions.
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Top Australasian ICT Company Leverages Microsoft Business Intelligence Tool for Performance | 2009-10-01 | Microsoft |
| Gen-i New Zealand needed to implement a solution that enabled its Professional Services group to effectively monitor and measure performance, and to allow the early identification of any business performance issues requiring resolution. The solution had to be usable across all organisational levels of the business, and management needed to able to identify current and predicted trends for proactive business planning. Gen-i leveraged Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft PerformancePoint Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to implement a business intelligence platform that increased efficiency and reduced cost through improved flexibility, visualisation, automation and secure distribution.
Tags: Data Tools, Office Suites |
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Japanese School Gives Teachers Flexibility, Enhanced Security With New Framework | 2009-10-01 | Microsoft |
| The Makuhari International School, located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, is a school designed to give children a flexible and creative learning environment. Because the school views technology as being critical to its overall mission, it sought to find a new solution that would give instructors more flexibility and improve administrative efficiency. In April 2009, the school implemented technological elements of the Microsoft Learning Gateway framework, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Makuhari International School can now give its instructors more flexible teaching capabilities and enhanced security. The school also has technology that it can build on to further enhance its learning capabilities.
Tags: Security Administration, Office Suites |
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Consortium Develops New Accessible Multimedia Tool for the Print Disabled | 2009-10-01 | Microsoft |
| The DAISY Consortium develops and promotes DAISY (the Digital Accessible Information System), the world's most widely used assistive reading technology for the print disabled. The consortium wanted a solution that could recreate and hopefully exceed the experience of a sighted reader for readers with print disabilities, while enabling content providers to create documents without having to be specialists in the publishing standards for the print disabled. In 2008, the DAISY Consortium released the Save as DAISY add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007. Using Open XML Formats, Save as DAISY enables users to easily convert Word documents into multimedia publications for the print disabled that are compatible with existing tools and standards.
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