...In today’s society everything is done with technology. In fact many people can’t live without their cell phones or their computers. The world is really moving fast with technology and what it can do with us. In the business world technology is taking over all the aspects that used to have traditional values. For example, some of the values were face to face communication with each other and doing everything by paper. Even way back in the early 1990’s communication took weeks or months to get transported between different businesses. This is why it is a very good thing to use the new technology to keep businesses moving faster and continuing to make the business grow and expand. This would make for potential more jobs for people. One thing that has been made available to the business world in the past few years has been the use of instant messaging, which would make communications for businesses move faster weather it’s going out or going in. this would be a really good asset for many communications between businesses. There are many new ideas in the world, which have been introduced in the business world. These new ideas involved technology. Technology is a fast moving concept that keeps evolving. These new ideas have a very huge impact in the business world. There isn’t a day that goes by when people don’t use technology. In today’s society every single persons has a cell phone or a device that is similar to a laptop. Technology can be used to socialize over...
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...Business Machines, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" (for its official corporate color) was incorporated in the State of New York on June 16, 1911, is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. Now, the chairman and CEO of IBM Company is Samuel J Palmisano. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM has been well known as one of the world's largest computer companies and systems integrators. With over 388,000 employees worldwide, IBM is one of the largest and most profitable information technology employers in the world. IBM holds more patents than any other U.S. based Technology Company and has eight research laboratories worldwide. The company has scientists, engineers, consultants, and sales professionals in over 170 countries. IBM employees have earned Five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science. IBM competitors IBM's main competitors are Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) and Dell (DELL) but each of these companies has a different focus area. Dell makes most of its money on PC and server hardware, while Hewlett-Packard is more diversified as the leader in PCs and Imaging & Printing as well as offering IT services. Since IBM relies heavily on its Software and Services segment, it...
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...network and other utilities are managed by reputed companies which ensures a high quality to the customers. This has enabled Bharti to convert its fixed costs involved with capital expenditure to the variable cost on the rate of usage. This Indian Telecom giant with a limited expertise on technology has managed services with Nokia Siemens Networks and IBM which has improved its technological prowess and decreased its excess workforce. The core competencies of Airtel have been market planning ,branding and identifying customer needs. The net result of this endeavor is that the company can offer mobile telecom service at one of the lowest rates in the world enjoying an compounded annual growth rate of 120% in sales revenues and around 300% in net profits between the year 2003-10. The rise of managed services In the recent past,the line between core and non-core competencies has blurred. The main reasons behind this paradigm shift are competency needs ,financial pressures, operational efficiencies and the change in the telecom business environment. Thus came the era of managed services where a firm took over the traditional network operations from the operator so that the operator can concentrate on its core competencies .Managed services cover various functions like planning, designing ,operating and optimizing a network. The field of managed services include CRM, billing, network consolidation and IT systems .Companies like IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co.,...
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... ABSTRACT Internet and Commerce relation is an interesting topic especially for researchers in the marketing field. It is a new way of marketing a product/service globally to the targeted market around the world. This paper introduces a new approach concerning Internet marketing in electronic commerce; showing how advertisers need this innovation to be successful. This also relieves marketing managers for more value added tasks such as marketing plans for better development of the company. Keywords - Internet marketing, innovation, E-commerce 1-INTRODUCTION Internet marketing (IM) is also known as digital marketing, web marketing, online marketing, or e-marketing. As the name states, it is the advertising of products or services over the Internet. However, it also implies marketing through the wireless media and through e-mail. Electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) systems are also categorized under Internet marketing. IM can be creative, as well as, technical through its design, development, advertising, and sales over the Internet. This paper is a secondary research regarding how E-commerce gradually forms part of our daily lives. It concerns different aspect of advertising in terms of electronic commerce. 2. THE...
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...Benchmarking in HR/ HR Balanced Scorecard /SEM SAP AG HCM EMEA - public - Agenda Benchmarking Balanced Scorecard © SAP AG 2002, The HR Balanced Scorecard, Dr. Martina Schuh, Page 2 Agenda Benchmarking Balanced Scorecard © SAP AG 2002, The HR Balanced Scorecard, Dr. Martina Schuh, Page 3 Benchmarking – Definition Benchmarking is the comparison of similar processes across organizations, companies and industries to identify best practices and develop improvement plans and actions (Score Research) [ Learn from the best by enterprise comparison!!! ] [ Learn from each other by enterprise comparison!!! ] © SAP AG 2002, The HR Balanced Scorecard, Dr. Martina Schuh, Page 4 Integration with Benchmark Provider: Data Flow Payroll Benchmark Provider SEM Measure Catalog (HR Measures) Administration 0100010101 1011001010 1101001010 1010100011 1010100101 1011010101 1001010101 XML Time Management HR Benchmarks Business Content Benchmarks from Provider 0100010101 1011001010 1101001010 1010100011 1010100101 1011010101 1001010101 XML Developments BW Rel. 3.0 HR InfoCube for external Benchmarking © SAP AG 2002, The HR Balanced Scorecard, Dr. Martina Schuh, Page 5 Measures: Data Flow SAP SEM Objective/Measure Actual Plan B.mark Develop key skills Strategic skills available 17 26 25,5 Employee retention 73 70 68 Improve corporate culture Employee satisfaction 9,1 8,5 9,0 Measure Builder Measure definition Balanced Scorecard MEASURES are defined from a purely business point...
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...Netherlands in 1978. BAAN's ERP market share is roughly 5% (Stein 1997), and 1998 revenues were roughly $750 million (Bylinsky 1999). BAAN has approximately 3,000 clients in 5,000 sites world-wide. BAAN was thrust into the national ERP software spotlight when they won the Boeing ERP engagement in 1994. The founders recently left BAAN, in part because of irregularities in financial reporting that led to inflated sales figures (Maremont and Rose 1998). Oracle (www.oracle.com) Oracle is the second-largest supplier of software in the world. However, they are perhaps best known for their database system, not their ERP applications. Oracle was founded in 1977 in the United States. Oracle's applications were developed for the U.S. market in 1989 and for the international market in 1993. In 1997, Oracle announced that they were going to market to specific industries tries (Greenberg 1997a) and improve the international characteristics of their software (Greenberg 1997b). In 1997, Oracle's market share was reportedly 10% of the ERP market (see Herrera 1999), and 1998 ERP revenues were $2.4 billion (Bylinsky 1999). Oracle reportedly can accommodate over 1,000 users (Keeling 1996). Oracle has been criticized for being a database company and not an applications company. However, as noted by Kersnar and May (1999, p. 44), "Oracle's prowess in the database business makes its offering particularly attractive to firms that rely heavily on their own databases...
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... resources providing platform for specific IS applications • Investment in hardware, software, services (consulting, education, training) • Foundation for serving customers, working with vendors, managing business process • Set of physical devices and software required to operate enterprise • Set of firmwide services o Computing platforms providing computing services (e.g desktop computer, laptop) o Telecommunications services o Data management services (+analyzing) o Application software services (ERP, CRM, SCM, KMS) o Physical facilities management services o IT management (plan infrastr. Coordinate with BU), standards (policies), education (training) , research and development services (future investments) • “Service platform” perspective more accurate view of value of investments Evolution of IT Infrastructure • General-‐purpose mainframe & minicomputer era: 1959 to present o 1958 IBM first mainframes introduced (centralized) – support thousands online remote terminals ...
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...analysis, understanding, and evaluation of the system development and evolution processes. Systems are created to solve problems. Early systems development often took place in a rather chaotic and haphazard manner, relying entirely on the skills and experience of the individual people members performing the work. The history of systems development has a different fundamental change agent, a different factor which may be thought of as driving the history, of stimulating long-run changes. All system development efforts engage in some combination of the below tasks, System conceptualization, System requirements and benefits analysis, Project adoption and project scoping, System design, Specification of software requirements, Architectural design, Detailed design, Unit development, Software integration and testing, System integration and testing, Installation at site, Site testing and acceptance, Training and documentation, Implementation and Maintenance. System Development in the 1950s In this period will be that there was any form of systems prior to the advent of the computer. Organizations predated the computer by several years. Such Organizations were concerned with the design of major business processes using work measurement and...
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...nations are complicated...nowhere is this complexity more apparent than in consideration of communication processes.” (Miller 2009) Miller highlights the impact of globalisation in her latest offering, suggesting changes in global demographics, diversification and technological advances have attributed to such major changes within the area of organisational communication. The emergence of web2.0 which was coined in 1999 by DiNucci was launched into the business jargon by Tim O Reilly in 2004. he term is describe new way in which software developers and end-users started to utilize the World Wide Weparticipatory and collaborative fashion.” The traditional online services were affected by the burst of the dot.com bubble in the early 2000’sthe enhancement of the newer Web 2.0 services saw a new era in computer mediated communication. The move from the traditional social software’s of email, IM etc was primarily due to the development and use of software such as RSS, to enhance speed at which information is exchanged increased the demand for tools to exchange information. The growth and the increasing use of wikis, blogs, tagging etc has developed the way business communicates on a daily basis. This all brings new challenges to management and challenges their ability to adapt to the new...
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...leading global IT services company offering various services in Application Development & Maintenance (ADM), Engineering and R&D Services, Enterprise Application Services (EAS), Enterprise Transformation Services, Infrastructure Management Services (IMS)and BPO. HCLT delivers solutions across banking, insurance, retail and consumer, aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, telecom and life sciences sectors. Its well-established infrastructure management practice, combined with recent acquisition of Axon, provides significant cross-selling opportunity, which could help HCLT win some of the large size deals. At CMP, the stock is trading at 15.5x FY12E and 12.3x FY13E earnings. We recommend a buy with a price target of `587 i.e (15x FY13e Adj. EPS of `36.62 + value of investments per share of ` 37.5). KEY HIGHLIGHTS ■ HCLT grew faster than Industry: Indian IT exports grew at a 5-year CAGR of 23% from $18bn in FY2005 to $50bn in FY2010. HCLT revenues grew at a 5-year CAGR of 29% from $764mn in FY2005 to $2705mn in FY2010. ■ Axon acquisition adds value: Prior to the acquisition of Axon in 2008, about 11% of HCLT’s revenue came from EAS. With the acquisition of Axon, HCLT’s revenues from enterprise solutions increased to more than 20%. ■ Gaining market share in ADM & IMS space: HCLT’s performance has been particularly strong in deals with bundled ADM and IMS. With the rising traction in restructure/renewal of global outsourcing deals in ADM and IMS, we expect the company’s deal...
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...crucial. Traffic surrounding Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., has become so congested that Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire nearly missed a 9 a.m. speech at the company's main campus one recent morning. Roads leading to the software maker simply weren't designed to handle the 35,000 commuters who report for work there each day. The gridlock that greeted Gregoire was just the latest reminder that Microsoft needs to tackle its commuter crisis—and quick. So Microsoft (MSFT) has embarked on a program aimed at getting more employees to work from home and other off-site locales, joining the growing ranks of companies to catch the virtual-workplace wave. About 14% of the U.S. workforce gets its job done at a home office more than two days per week, says Charlie Grantham, executive producer of consulting firm Work Design Collaborative. That's up from 11% in 2004, and is set to grow to 17% by 2009 (see BW Online, 03/12/07, "Telecommuting Now and Forever"). Pros and Cons Benefits of letting employees work from outside the office include keeping cars off the road, helping a company to bolster its green bona fides. But the practice can also foster employee retention, boost worker productivity, and slash real estate costs. At IBM (IBM), about 42% of the company's 330,000 employees work on the road,...
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...and not computerized .While using those file base databases many errors occurred and there were many Disadvantages. Nowadays Databases are computerized. What is a Database Management System? (DBMS) DBMS is a Software Designed to assist in maintaining and utilizing a database. References Wikipedia. (2015) Database [Online] June 2005. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database [Accessed: 19th June 2015] Evolution of Database Management System In earlier time computers mainly...
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...document is the copyrighted product of Charles River Systems, Inc. and constitutes confidential and proprietary information of Charles River Systems, Inc. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Charles River Systems, Inc. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. The software referred to in this document is furnished under a license and may be used only in accordance with the terms of such a license. The products and companies mentioned herein are for the purpose of identification or example. They may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Adobe® Acrobat® Distiller® and Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Axys® is a registered trademark of Advent Software, Inc. Bloomberg® is a registered trademark of Bloomberg L.P. Citrix® is a registered trademark of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. TNS related marks, logos, and product names are trademarks of Transaction Network Services, Inc. FIX is a public-domain specification owned and maintained by FIX...
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...KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTapplied Research projectDatabase TrendssUBMITTED BYAndrew HoPatrick TchissamboFlavio baptista | | | PROFESSOR TAHEREH DANESHI | Summary page Our project is about database trends. We started the project by identifying aims and goals such as understanding what database is.We calculated in detail and understood and researched on database understood database used by ORACLE. INTRODUCTION The definition of a database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. In order for a database to be truly functional, it must not only store large amounts of records well, but be accessed easily. In addition, new information and changes should also be fairly easy to input. In order to have a highly efficient database system, you need to incorporate a program that manages the queries and information stored on the system. This is usually referred to as DBMS or a Database Management System. Besides these features, all databases that are created should be built with high data integrity and the ability to recover data if hardware fails. (What is a Database?, 2010) AIM The aim of the study is many folded such as, understanding database, go in detail and understand and research on database, understand the technology used by ORACLE, derive conclusions on the development in the field of database. LIMITATIONS This study is descriptive in nature and the research is done on published secondary materials. Logical...
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...field of plastic injection molding and many other products. As with any successful company, your company is growing. With growth comes growing pains. In this proposal you will find a lot of detail that our team has provided to you about these key items. Let me start with the requirements for the system. Business requirements * Changing system needs from manual tracking to the digital tracking system our team has provided. * Digital tracking incorporated into your shipping department, receiving, and manufacturing. * Full system communications upgrade to include mobile and internet marketing sales. The system upgrade that we are proposing will increase productivity at an exponential rate. Being able to track your productivity digitally at your work or at home will give your company a distinct advantage of real-time marketing strategies and reports. This is important information you need to make those last minute informed decisions without fear of making the mistakes based on erroneous information. Internet and Mobile Access * Suggestions (CMS) Content Management System * Online ordering * E-Commerce Executive Summary With this system you will be able to communicate with a great deal more people and be able to push your products online which will boost your sales. With online ordering it will cut the cost of hiring employees for phone orders, and give your company a way to have people from all over the world access to your products. Here is our...
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