Executive Summary This paper provides the historical background and financial data of two of the leading information technology (IT) corporations in the United States. Going beyond their humble beginnings to the present, an analysis is made of their current financial performance. This serves to compare and contrast the differing business strategies of the two financial juggernauts. The two companies are direct competitors in the IT market place. Developing cutting edge software that is futuristic
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resellers to sell mass-produced computers. • 1986 Dell unveils the industry's fastest-performing computer, pioneers the industry's first thirty-day money back guarantee, and offers the industry's first onsite service program. • 1996 The company's quiet bid to sell custom-built computers over the Internet quickly becomes a public revolution when the company announces that sales over www.dell.com have exceeded $1 million per day. Dell introduces also its first custom custom-made web links
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Marketing Plan For Health Care Monitoring Tool At Dell Services Amber Littleton MM522- Marketing Management 1. Executive Summary Dell Services offers a web tool for hospitals with Electronic Medical Records that enables them the client to view real time statistic of the interfaces flowing into the EMR and various reporting tools that allows access to the database in a GUI format. Although many Healthcare IT consulting companies have recently tried to implement a Host
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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF DELL AND HP Executive Summary 2 This financial analysis report examines two high profile competitors, Dell and Hewlett Packard (HP), within the computer/technology industry in order to evaluate company performance and financial health. Overall company strategies were reviewed and considered along with the financial analysis to come to a conclusion for recommendation of investment. The reports introduction gives an overview to the computer/technology industry and expands
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Dell Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Texas. Dell managed to enter Singapore market through foreign direct investment and relied on the sales of laptops, printers, and many more. In Singapore PC and laptop are used to assist daily activities supported with abundant Internet access, this makes Singapore a good market for computer and peripheral industry. There are a total of 6 parts in this report. In the beginning of this report, a brief history
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computer industry and one of its major competitors – Dell. The financial analysis of Apple is based on evaluating company and industry data from various sources. A trend analysis was performed using data for the last five years, and presented in Excel charts and tables. Finally, I computed various ratios for Apple, and compared them to industry norms, and to Dell’s. Numerous graphs were created using MS Excel to support the analysis. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY History Apple Computer was formed in April
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Abstract……………………………………………………………………………….....3 Introduction…….…………………………………………………………………….…4 Dell Timeline……………….…………………………………………………………. 5 Mission Statement….……………………………………………………………….….6 Objective……………………………………………………………………………….7 Strategy...........................................................................................................................7 Financial Performance ...……………………………………………………………..13 Dell’s Evaluation……………………………………………………………………..15 Recommendation……………………………………………………………………
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------------------------------------------------- A Case study of Dell supply chain management Liu Xingrui 920514-7482 tml10xlu@student.hig.se Xiao Ziye 920801-6619 tml10zxo@student.hig.se Peng Yunyi 930204-9128 tml10ypg@student.hig.se Liu Siqi 921026-9628 tml10slu@student.hig.se Date Summary Dell’s supply chain is typical paragon among the computer manufacturing industry. The advantage of supply chain lead to a rather strong marketing performance for dell than it ever had been. This
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Abstract Company Overview Michael Dell, who was a student at the University of Texas, decided to establish a computer company with a capital of only $1000. He was following the "direct model" concept where all the products were customized based on the orders and requests of the customers. It is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas but receives nearly half of its revenues from outside the United States. Dell offers produces and markets a wide range of technology products for the consumer, education
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Executive Summary In general, product or brand hierarchy is defined as the process where the products and brands are categorized into elements that are used by the companies for promoting their products and services. Brand and product hierarchy is used by the companies for the purpose of increasing the branding and product relationships with their customers. Depending on the availability of brand elements, the companies categorize their products for representing their brands in the market. Within
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