Financial Modeling
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Switch from oil to silicon
Insight perspective Smaller firms that still see technology as a cost ripe for pruning are making a big mistake. Now's the time they should be swapping their dependency on oil for a focus on silicon, says analyst.
Tags: Small And Medium Business, Quocirca, Business Process, Internet Connection, Silicon, software, food, Web 2.0, revenue, Internet
Facing 'new world of work,' Microsoft locks up Office
Insight As government gets strict on how companies manage data, Microsoft looks at ways to make Word, other files more secure.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Cisco unveils global blueprint for cities
News Its "Intelligent Urbanization" pilot aims to help Indian city, Bengaluru, use the network to integrate city management to bring economic growth and better quality of life.
Tags: Networking, Government, City, Security, Cisco Systems Inc., IP network, globalization, Bengaluru, Indian City, network
IBM teams up with universities on cloud project
News The company joins forces with Carnegie Mellon, Qatar and Texas A&M universities to develop one of the first cloud computing platforms in the Middle East.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Software, Programming languages, IBM Corp., University, biology, Cloud Computing, Apache Hadoop, financial modeling
IBM to unveil Opteron workstation
News Big Blue on Tuesday will take the wraps off the IntelliStation A Pro, the latest computer to use AMD's 64-bit capable chip.
IBM unveils Opteron workstation
News Big Blue takes the wraps off the IntelliStation A Pro, the latest computer to use AMD's 64-bit capable chip.
IBM to use dual-core Opteron
News Big Blue will use AMD's chip in a high-performance server but isn't yet planning a general-purpose Opteron system.
Tags: Processors
A look at the open source OW2 Consortium
Blogs During the OSCAMP event in Beijing, I had a chance to talk to Cedric Thomas, the CEO of OW2 open source organization. He...
As Yahoo's Bartz eyes new CFO, Microsoft isn't worried
News Yahoo's chief financial officer got a pink slip two weeks ago, say sources, but Microsoft isn't concerned that move will slow down efforts to engage Yahoo in a search deal.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., CFO, M&A, Yahoo! Inc., treasurer, finance team, financial
Internet2's next steps
Insight An experimental network targeted at long-distance collaboration will be getting even quicker with a hybrid optical packet infrastructure.
Operational and financial segments make business plans work
Insight Several guidelines for the last two aspects of your business guidelines: operational plans and financial forecasts.
Select and prioritize projects with a business case
Insight Every company needs to compare projects and determine hierarchy. A business case document provides this level of information and is quicker and much easier to prepare than a formal project definition.
Juggling cost and return in development
Management How should an application development manager balance between project spending and return of investment?
Tags: IT budgeting, IT project management
Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture
News Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. For now we'll see who can deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers first.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Web services, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Web service, Jeffrey Lindsay
Creating business plans gets easier with the right tool
Insight Good financial planning and oversight start with a business plan. But not every client has the budget for heavy-duty commercial programs for plan development. Here's a free software tool to quickly put business plans together.
