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10 CRM mistakes and how you can avoid making them

Posted November 27, 2012 - 11:15 am

What you need to know to get the most out of your CRM software or service with a minimum of hassle.
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Infor teams up with VMWare for virtualized ERP

Posted November 27, 2012 - 9:22 am

Infor has teamed up with VMWare to help customers of its Infor10 LN ERP (enterprise resource planning) software run on VMWare's latest virtualization technology, opening a door to private cloud deployments and potentially lower infrastructure costs.
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BrandPost: HANA: The core of an integrated data strategy

Posted November 27, 2012 - 9:00 am

SAP HANA delivers core SQL access to relational data, and includes a native text search engine for unstructured and semi-structured data.
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Google, Facebook - and now Twitter - go to Washington

Posted November 26, 2012 - 12:50 pm

Tech companies spend millions each year to lobbying for (and against) issues that can affect their business; how much do they spend and what issues do they spend it on?
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Switching to Linux saves Munich over €11 million

Posted November 26, 2012 - 12:20 pm

By switching from Windows to LiMux, its own Linux distribution, the German city of Munich has saved over €11 million ($14.3 million) to date compared to the costs of a similar migration to a more modern Microsoft-based IT infrastructure.
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How to leave your job the right way

Posted November 26, 2012 - 10:27 am

Who hasn't wanted to throw up their hands and just walk out of the office? Don't do it. Learn the proper etiquette for leaving your job and ensure that your career and reputation remain intact after you leave your current position.
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How to adjust the page zoom in Word 2010

Posted November 24, 2012 - 8:45 am

Recently my wife came to me, laptop in hand, wanting to know why some Word documents looked different than others.
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Some AWS partnerships -- like with Oracle and Microsoft -- are just about to get awkward

Posted November 20, 2012 - 8:26 pm

Enterprise software vendors like Oracle and Microsoft have made sure their apps can run on AWS, but they're likely to become less friendly with Amazon once their own competitive IaaS services come into their own.
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German city dumps OpenOffice and switches to Microsoft

Posted November 20, 2012 - 1:42 pm

A majority of the city council in Freiburg, Germany, has voted in favor of ditching the open source suite OpenOffice to return to Microsoft Office after severe problems and complaints from employees.
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BrandPost: Reduce risk in real-time

Posted November 20, 2012 - 9:00 am

Deloitte Development LLC's "Reference Architecture for Risk" helps organizations build value by taking a risk intelligent approach to managing financial, technology and business risks.
Take Microsoft Office 2013 for a 60-day test drive

Posted November 19, 2012 - 4:50 pm

Microsoft Office 2013 shipped to manufacturers late last month, but you won't be able to get your small-business hands on it until sometime in the first half of 2013.
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German city says OpenOffice shortcomings are forcing it back to Microsoft

Posted November 16, 2012 - 1:09 pm

The city council in Freiburg, Germany, is planning to ditch an open source office suite and go back to using Microsoft Office.
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SAP certifies Business Suite for production use on Amazon Web Services

Posted November 16, 2012 - 12:48 pm

SAP Business Suite customers can now run the software in production form on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced this week during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid.
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Salesforce.com's complexity brings CIOs, partners together

Posted November 15, 2012 - 4:06 pm

As Salesforce.com's SaaS offerings become more sophisticated, configuration and deployment gets more complex. In response, enterprises are increasingly turning to partners for implementation help.
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Air Force scraps massive ERP project after racking up $1 billion in costs

Posted November 14, 2012 - 5:37 pm

The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap a major ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project after spending $1 billion, concluding that finishing it would cost far too much more money for too little gain.
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SAP goes big on Windows 8 with six new apps

Posted November 14, 2012 - 2:26 pm

SAP announced strong support for the Windows 8 platform this week, including six upcoming mobile apps that focus on business training, recruiting and sales
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Social CRM offers big rewards if you're persistent

Posted November 13, 2012 - 10:21 pm

Putting the 'social' in your social CRM strategy means aggregating more information about your customers and prospects. A new generation of tools is being developed to make this happen.
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Could TypeScript be the future of JavaScript?

Posted November 13, 2012 - 12:00 pm

JavaScript, it's no longer the avoidable nuisance it once was. The flexibility of of the language and its ubiquity on the client side have brought it front and center for modern web developers. The creation of popular JavaScript frameworks, such as jQuery, MooTools, YUI, Dojo, GWT to name a few, have eased much of the pain when it comes to coding, but most of the shortcomings of the language are still inherent.
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SAP promises '360-degree' view of customer with HANA-powered CRM platform

Posted November 13, 2012 - 8:56 am

SAP is tying the HANA in-memory database to its CRM (customer relationship management) software and other applications, creating a package that will "allow organizations to revolutionize the way they engage with their customers," the company announced Tuesday during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid.
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SAP responds to Workday's challenge with Financials OnDemand

Posted November 13, 2012 - 4:18 am

SAP is hoping to fend off increasing competition from cloud rivals like Workday with a new application, Financials OnDemand, that was unveiled Tuesday during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid.
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Samba swings both ways

Posted November 12, 2012 - 10:20 pm

Samba, the tool that makes it possible to mount Unix directories on Windows systems also works the other way -- allowing you to mount Windows shares on Unix. With an extra package and a few changes in the syntax, you can choose to share files on either platform with the other.
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Microsoft likely to leash iOS Office apps to Office 365, say analysts

Posted November 12, 2012 - 9:53 pm

Microsoft will probably tie Office apps for the iPhone and iPad to its Office 365 'rental' subscription plans to prevent the mobile apps from cannibalizing sales and to skirt the 'Apple tax,' analysts said today.
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Quicken 2013 vs. Mint: Is Intuit's free service better than its flagship software?

Posted November 9, 2012 - 3:56 pm

When it comes to using your computer to manage your money, Intuit's Quicken lineup was pretty much the only game in town—until the upstart cloud service Mint.com came along in 2006. Mint can do almost anything Quicken can do, but it's free and you don't need to install any software.
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Manufacturer sues IBM over SAP project 'disaster'

Posted November 9, 2012 - 2:57 pm

IBM has been slapped with a multimillion dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges that IBM lied about the suitability of a SAP-based software package it sells in order to win Avantor's business.
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As Windows gets safer, old vulnerabilities still have bite

Posted November 8, 2012 - 8:49 pm

Microsoft Windows is safer- and harder to exploit than ever before. Despite the improvements in OS security, however, security experts tell ITworld that it's the old wounds that hurt the most, as organizations continue to fall to cyber attacks that exploit vulnerabilities discovered - and patched - years earlier. Why?
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