The world witnessed history in the making as Canada had won the Gold medal standings with 14 Gold medals.  After the beginning of the Olympics on February 1st, Canada had only won 1 gold in a span of 10 days.  People knew that Canada would carry a few medals to the podium, but the athletes [...]

Companies have historically taken a functional approach to customer relationship management (CRM), to address immediate business pains. Challenged to manage its sales pipeline and forecasts, for example, an organization’s sales department might implement a sales force automation (SFA) application. The same company’s support department, however, might select a call center application from a different vendor to better manage incoming calls and [...]

When running a small business you are faced with new challenges every day, but the biggest challenge you’re facing now may be the state of the economy. During economic downturns, there are often external factors beyond your control that can impact your bottom line. That’s why it’s critical to optimize what you can control: the [...]

Imagine standing at the end of a runway and watching airplanes take off. Envision a pilot out for a weekend flight cruising over your head in a single engine propeller-driven aircraft. The pilot flies low over your head as the plane climbs slowly to control airspeed for a weekend “neighborhood” cruise. Then a Cessna Citation [...]

What exactly is Green IT? Virtualization is one main focus of Green IT because it can significantly reduce a data center’s energy consumption and carbon footprint by consolidating server workloads from multiple servers that have relatively low levels of utilization on to servers with much higher levels of utilization. But SAP thinks that Green IT [...]

Last time we compiled our must-have Firefox extensions, it was two years (and one browser version) ago. Our new list keeps some, tosses others, and remains our go-to, Grandmaster list of the best Firefox add-ons

With a plan to significantly increase Barton Marlow’s competitive position and profitability in the construction industry, the company is scrapping its outmoded business software legacy system and implementing SAP Business All-in-One solutions from SAP AG.  With the SAP(R) Business All-in-One for Engineering, Construction & Operations (SAP Business All-in-One for EC&O) solution from SAP channel partner, [...]

Innovative and creepy twist to the USB comes from a Finn who found that a faux finger functioned fully as a removable storage device.

Business Intelligence (BI) is a sound investment for any IT manager to make, especially during an economic downturn. With budgets becoming tighter and demands from executives to see immediate results from IT implementations increasing, this paper outlines the benefits an organization can expect to see from a BI solution and its impact on a company.

When a report of a possible explosive device on the roof of a city parking garage came in to the Lakeland, Florida, Police Department, public safety officials there sprang into action. Social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are mostly used by those who want to keep their friends and families informed about their lives [...]