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posted in September 2009
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Comment: What's the holdup? - cbrown - 9/30/2009
Enterprises Gain From Finance, Ops Integration
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
9/30/2009   Post a comment
Closer coupling of sales operations and planning (SO&P) and financial departments improves inventory control and revenues
Companies Face Up to 'M-Commerce' Shift
Mary E. Shacklett  
9/29/2009   21 comments
Retailers can't just move their e-commerce programs to the mobile front. This is a brand-new channel with distinct requirements
Taking Google Maps Inside Buildings
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
9/24/2009   Post a comment
A new package offers a view of the interiors of shopping malls and convention centers. It's a start
Comment: Re: What is the risk? - tsaleem - 9/23/2009
WPP's Sorrels: Flat Is the New Up
Todd Watson  
9/22/2009   Post a comment
WPP's Martin Sorrels sat down with The Wall Street Journal recently and answered some questions about the state of the advertising and marketing industry
Comment: Re: What is the risk? - tsaleem - 9/22/2009
Comment: What is the risk? - hounhosp - 9/21/2009
Comment: Re: wow! - Xuefei Peng - 9/21/2009
Comment: wow! - Mashka - 9/21/2009
Chinese Challenged by Personal Online Businesses
Xuefei (Michael) Peng  
9/21/2009   22 comments
While the prices are right and the consumers have the cash, individuals selling their wares online in China are failing 70% of the time. Why?
IP-Enabling Your Enterprise: Is It Worth It?
Editor's Blog  
9/9/2009   2 comments
Which 'things' in your organization are worth giving an IP address of their own?
Comment: graceful exit - Chris Poley - 9/2/2009
eBay's $2 Billion Offloading of Skype: Embarrassing
Editor's Blog  
9/1/2009   7 comments
Personally, I'm embarrassed for eBay management and consider Skype's founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis geniuses




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Charlotte Erdmann
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
Jeff Kaplan
Jeff Kaplan   6/17/2013   4 comments
It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Mary E. Shacklett
Energy consumption is a primary contributor to global warming. At the end of 2012, 40 percent of energy consumption in the US came from commercial and residential buildings.
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John Kennedy
How Big-Data Is Changing Marketing

6|13|13   |   1:07   |   1 comment


Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   10 comments


Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
Paul J. Fleuranges
Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

5|6|13   |   3:51   |   1 comment


New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future

4|23|13   |   2:29   |   20 comments


A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet

4|15|13   |   2:59   |   10 comments


Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.
Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

4|11|13   |   2:07   |   3 comments


The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits

3|21|13   |   2:22   |   37 comments


ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”
Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

3|20|13   |   2:16   |   No comments


While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

3|19|13   |   3:35   |   No comments


Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

3|18|13   |   1:15   |   No comments


Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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Todd Watson   6/18/2013   Post a comment
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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