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Victoria University of Wellington Empowers Budget Holders With IBM Cognos
For more than a century, the Victoria University of Wellington (Victoria) has developed a tradition of strong international links in teaching, research and programmes of national significance and international quality. It needed to an easier way to manage budget preparation throughout multiple faculties, schools, institutes and centres of research in an intranet environment. It deployed an integrated IBM Cognos solution that provides a total package for performance management.
264 days ago by IBMDeveloping and Fostering an Agile Organization
Business agility is one of the key differentiators in today's market  indeed, a company's future-centricity may soon become the sole differentiator as markets and customers adopt new ways of doing business. Constant change is essential to business success, and it begins with people. Business and HR leaders must work to overcome employees' natural change-aversion and instill a culture of change from the grass roots up. Change initiatives require engagement and motivation, and this is built on alignment and leadership  alignment from top to bottom ensures that employees have a line of sight from their own work processes to the overall success of the company, and leadership ties every change to the company's broader vision and to each individual's personal growth. HR is an essential part of this process: HR leaders are the company's guide to the people issues that make the difference between stagnation and a truly agile business organization.
290 days ago by SkillSoftCoca-Cola Enterprises Tackles Competition With Microsoft Online Services
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is the world's largest marketer, producer, and distributor of non-alcoholic beverages, which they deliver with the industry's most effective marketplace execution. CCE's increasing competition was resulting in declining revenues. This required company executives to launch a new strategic direction, mandating a platform to communicate and engage with all employees. Microsoft deployed a hosted worldwide intranet, messaging and collaboration tools which are accessible to all employees from any device, enabling employees to boost productivity and time with customers.
294 days ago by MicrosoftSecure Messaging: Key to the Business Enabled Network
With the Internet having achieved a state of utility for businesses and individuals alike, innovative forms of communications and business opportunities are proliferating between users, partners and customers. It is within this dynamic environment that labor over how best to balance the constructive use and protection of sensitive data, not only over the Internet but across corporate intranets and extranets as well. For security to protect and support the realization of benefits from open community commerce, users must not be confronted with complex demands or hindrances to their corporate mission. Applications must seamlessly facilitate trust and integrity amongst constituents and their transactions. Security must be transparent and pervasive to deliver such an obvious benefit.
329 days ago by ComodoThe Nature Conservancy Opens Up Information to User Communities, Speeding Search and Cutting IT Costs, With the Google Search Appliance
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), now a million members strong, works around the world to protect and preserve ecologically important lands and waters. TNC manages an extensive intranet to help employees conduct research, consolidate organization-wide communications, and run the organization with utmost efficiency. Visitors to the public website and employees using the intranet couldn't reliably get the results they needed when they used search. TNC deployed Google Search Appliance; units immediately began reliably indexing pages and returning relevant results.
370 days ago by GoogleContiTrade Gains Competitive Edge Through Effective Campaign Management
The Continental Group wanted to optimize international business management through detailed analysis of commercial development and personalize customer contact through effective customer relationship management tools. The challenge was to achieve fail-safe systems and, as a result, high availability. The Continental Group worked with Oracle Consulting to implement an Oracle-based technology infrastructure to upgrade the existing pan-European intranet and data warehouse, and facilitate the most accurate possible business analysis of the branch offices and achieved easy access to the central system via Oracle Portal.
386 days ago by OracleGlobal Intranet and Business Application Portal
The client had multiple critical business processes that were being performed using Microsoft Word and Excel Templates. All of this information was being shared and discussed using internal emails and documents were stored on the employees local machine. There was no way to track progress, completion or approval. Converge Point was hired to create a global intranet that formed the foundation to facilitating business collaboration between employees across the client's different office locations.
445 days ago byPBS and the Google Search Appliance
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a 34-year-old private nonprofit media enterprise, owned and operated by 349 U.S. public television stations. As with any site providing information that can change frequently, search is increasingly important to PBS. But budget constraints and earlier decisions had led the organization to rely on a freeware search application that was no longer up to the task of supporting millions of users. Using Google Search Appliance, PBS no longer worried about operating system compatibility to run the search engine, and software updates are included in the license.
445 days ago by GoogleXerox and the Google Search Appliance
Generating $16 billion in revenue in 2002, Xerox Corporation is the global leader in the document management business. The Group intranet contains thousands of PDF and HTML files and a smaller number of Microsoft Office documents, all hosted on one Solaris server running Apache. It had a very small budget to work with, and needed to find an inexpensive solution that didn't require a lot of effort. The low cost and easy deployment the Google Search Appliance offers won Smith over. They purchased the GB-1001, which can crawl up to 150,000 documents. Also, it required no additional resources to deploy.
445 days ago by GoogleThe National Park Service and the Google Search Appliance
A bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior, The National Park Service (NPS) has protected America's parks and monuments since 1916. Federal government's proprietary search tool, FirstGov, was not delivering complete or accurate results, which meant the NPS was hearing from frustrated users. NPS deployed Google Search Appliance which has to learn from what people are searching for in order to develop new content areas. Also, it was implemented Google search on its intranet site as well.
445 days ago by Google
