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Enterprise Application Integration

02/25	SAP Unveils Business Intelligence Toolset for Casual Users, Small Busi.. SAP is announcing its SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand software, offering analytics an..
02/14	How Google Book Search Will Serve Users if Approved The Department of Justice dealt Google's Book Search agreement with authors and publi..
02/12	SAP Executive Shakeup Puts Focus on Building Midmarket Business The latest executive promotions and departures show that SAP is bringing younger exec..
02/12	Apple in the Enterprise Bobs to the Surface at Macworld The growth of employee choice when selecting a work laptop is bringing Apple MacBooks..
02/11	Microsoft Office for Mac Will Include Updated Tools, Web Apps Microsoft announced that the upcoming Office for Mac 2011 will emulate many of the fe..
02/11	25 Technologies that Changed the Decade From virtualization to Linux to the iPhone, eWEEK Labs names the products and technol..
02/10	Why to Make Business Process Management Your Valentine This Valentine'.. Valentine's Day is fast approaching. This year, lucky business process management exp..
02/09	Apple Releases Aperture 3, With GPS and Face-Finding Features Apple announced the release of Aperture 3, the latest version of its photograph-editi..
02/09	SAP Intends to Restore Market Trust Under New Management Regime SAP's new management team will have the task of getting the company growing again and..
02/07	SAP CEO Apotheker Resigns in Wake of Poor 2009 Earnings Report SAP CEO Leo Apotheker resigned on Feb. 7 after he and the SAP Supervisory Board reach..
02/03	IBM to Buy Initiate Systems IBM has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, ..
02/03	SAP's 12Sprints Collaboration Platform Could Challenge Google Wave SAP Feb. 2 launched to public beta 12Sprints, a collaboration environment geared to h..
02/01	How to Use Web Content Translation to Maximize ROI Google recently put Web content translation onto the map by offering Web users the ab..
02/01	SAP Offers 12Sprints As Enterprise Alternative to Google Wave Against the backdrop of real-time collaboration platforms such as Google Wave and IBM..
01/29	How to Upgrade Software While Retaining Customizations Today, the customized, siloed nature of technology supporting different lines of busi..

Information Technology

09/06	More Management and Careers News View more Management and Careers news and analysis from Computerworld.com
09/05	Mark Hurd may take job at Oracle, report says When Mark Hurd resigned unexpectedly from Hewlett-Packard last month he found an outs..
09/03	HP buys 3Par, Apple rolls out new gear Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now ..
09/03	Real-life IT tales and lessons learned Techies share their most noteworthy IT experiences in InfoWorld's Off the Record blog
09/02	SAS rolls out predictive analytics for business users SAS Institute on Thursday announced a new toolset aimed at giving business users the ..
09/02	Google, AOL renew long-term partnership Google and AOL have renewed a long-term partnership that gives AOL Web properties acc..
09/02	Cisco buys wireless smart grid company Cisco said it will acquire Arch Rock Corp., a privately held developer of IP-based wi..
09/01	Apple TV has gone streaming
09/01	iTunes 10 gets social with Ping
09/01	Apple unveils revamped iPod Touch
09/01	The new touch-screen iPod Nano
09/01	Apple iOS updates coming soon
09/01	Buttons are back on new iPod Shuffle
08/02	Do teenagers hate Facebook?
07/30	Did the Web kill journalism, and will the iPad bring it back?

Financial Management

09/03	LOCAL BUSINESSMAN JOINS NATIONAL FIRM TO HELP SMALL AND MID-MARKET BUS.. OVERLAND PARK, Kansas -- September 3, 2010 -- Local business owners can now leverage ..
09/03	Retirement Planning and Financial Expert, Brian Fricke, Discusses Curr.. Orlando, Fla. September 3, 2010 Brian Fricke, CFP founder of Financial Management Con..
09/03	WP gets honorary mayor Woodland Park City Manager David Buttery had some relatively good news to present at ..
09/03	Free seminars in Baldwin County GULF SHORES, Ala, — Rick Zapata, Regional Extension Agent for Consumer Science and Pe..
09/03	AOFM sells $700m of June 2016 bonds The Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) has sold $700 million of Treasur..
09/03	Sinosteel may face management audit Sinosteel, the country's largest iron ore trader, said Thursday that its financial ma..
09/02	Yonkers’ financial management practices put city at risk, says state c.. ALBANY - Officials from the City of Yonkers have very few options available to deal w..
09/02	AOFM sells $1.9bln in treasury notes The Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) has sold $1.9 billion in Treasur..
08/31	Government embarks on public financial management reforms Accra, Aug. 31, GNA - Government has embarked on rigorous public financial management..
08/30	Matrix Absence Management Uses Intacct's Cloud Financial Management Sy.. SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - 08/30/10) - Intacct, the leader in cloud financial manage..

Customer Relationship Management

Enterprise Resource Planning

09/03	More ERP News View more ERP news and analysis from Computerworld.com
08/31	Gas distributor says its SAP project expected to succeed SAP customer Airgas said Tuesday that its "highly customized" implementation of the v..
08/26	Rumored SAP-Red Hat merger unlikely, analysts say Rumors swirled once again this week regarding a possible takeover of Red Hat, this ti..
08/24	Marin County to rip and replace ailing SAP system Officials in Marin County, Calif., decided to replace the county's ailing SAP ERP (en..
08/20	Is ERP Ready for Corporate Social Responsibility? We are entering an era where corporate social responsibility (CSR) is of central conc..
08/17	Fusion Apps questions Oracle should answer Oracle appears set to deliver more information than ever before about its long-awaite..
08/12	ERP woes delay wheel maker's financial results Problems with a recently installed ERP system have partly forced automotive wheel mak..

Enterprise Asset Management

09/03	Beijing Power Information Technology Research Center To Manage Electri.. Beijing Power Information Technology Research Center, based in Beijing, China, has se..
09/03	Digital explosion Now is the time to remove ‘revamp IT system’ from your ‘to do’ list. Right? Wrong. In..
09/03	Emirates NBD expands regional services, becomes first UAE bank to offe.. Dubai, September 3, 2010: Emirates NBD Emirates NBD , a leading bank in the region, a..
09/03	McKinney hires new Chief Information Officer McKinney Interim City Manager Rick Chaffin announced today the hiring of Chris Chianc..
09/03	Asia Stocks Advance for a Third Day on U.S. Home, Retail Sales Asian stocks rose, led by technology companies, after U.S. reports showed an unexpect..
09/02	BGC Partners Trades Fully Electronic Euro Interest Rate Swaps LONDON----BGC Partners, Inc. , a leading global intermediary to the wholesale financi..
09/02	ASME-ITI Issues Risk Analysis Standard for Natural and Man-Made Hazard.. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and ASME-Innovative Technologies Institu..
09/02	Welcome to the Stock Bazaar The flash crash in May has prompted a manhunt for a bad actor or actors at work. The ..
09/02	Playing the China boom It happens every weekday: A group of ladies gathers at the cavernous, badly lit stock..
09/02	Sun River Energy, Inc. Announces Senior Management Addition Sun River Energy, Inc. . Â Sun River Energy, Inc. entered into a three year employmen..
09/02	Offshore Provider SMOE Pte Ltd. Becomes the 400th Intergraph® SmartPla.. Offshore provider SMOE Pte Ltd., headquartered in Singapore, has become the 400th Int..
09/02	The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. Announces Earnings for the Nine Months Ende.. NEW YORK----The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. , a non-diversified, closed-end management inv..
09/02	Nine Malaysian firms on Forbes’ ‘best under a billion’ list KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 — Nine Malaysian companies have made it to Forbes magazine’s ran..
09/01	Higher frequency RFID and RTLS-enabled asset management system revenue.. This year, roughly 37 million higher-frequency RFID and RTLS-enabled asset tracking a..
09/01	As One To Implement Catalyst With The HallStar Company As One Technologies, Inc., the Minnetonka-based company specializing in event-driven ..

Network Management

09/06	Zyrion pushes unified management platform Try as you might to eliminate unauthorized changes on your network, chances are you h..
09/02	Hosted service promises to protect corporate documents on smartphones Confidela's WatchDox is adding support for mobile platforms, starting with Android 2...
08/31	The role of IT in strengthening the modern corporate enterprise IT in the modern enterprise has evolved from a back-office component to a core operat..
08/27	Where to turn for low-cost help desk management When the big guns of service management software are too pricey for your budget and d..
08/24	Survey highlights wish list for communication systems ShoreTel announced the results of a recent survey that identifies the latest communic..
08/24	Embotics moves well beyond VM life-cycle management As enterprises become more strategic with their virtualization strategies, looking to..
08/23	Top 5 network management investments The proliferation of virtualization technologies is putting pressure on IT teams to s..
08/18	Zenprise extends security controls to employee-owned iPhones, other de.. Can you manage and secure an employee-owned mobile device that's accessing your corpo..
08/17	AccelOps provides winning diagnostics for healthcare provider With the license on his CA Spectrum eHealth performance management software reaching ..
08/13	Seeking integrated network management nirvana The ability to provision, manage and secure wired and wireless LANs as a single entit..

Communications

09/03	Learn To Profit From eBay - Sponsored Link Ad - Free Video Reveals The Number One Secret To Making Money On eBay
09/03	SWC Technology Partners Enhances Enterprise Communications Capabilitie.. , an award-winning IT solutions provider to midsize businesses, has strengthened its ..
09/03	Cisco acquisition continues its smart grid spree Following quickly on a wireless mesh product launch, the vendor buys up another wirel..
09/03	Alliance for Digital Equality Statement on Federal Communications Comm.. Julius H. Hollis, Chairman of the Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE), issued the fol..
09/03	SWC Technology Partners Enhances Enterprise Communications Capabilitie.. , an award-winning IT solutions provider to midsize businesses, has strengthened its ..
09/03	Alliance for Digital Equality Statement on Federal Communications Comm.. Extract not available.
09/03	FCC Delays Broadband Reclassification Decision The Federal Communications Commission will not consider a controversial plan to recla..
09/03	UCLA scientists craft 300GHz graphene transistor IEEE Spectrum reports scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, have..
09/03	N. America Weekly: Cisco’s smart grid acquisition Plus the week’s largest round of at least $50M goes to stealthy nuclear fusion techno..
09/03	Cisco Systems to buy S.F. smart-grid software maker Arch Rock (San Jose Mercury News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Cisco ..
09/03	Cisco to acquire Arch Rock (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- <p>Networking company Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO) anno..
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09/03	Sunflower Broadband Named 2010 ‘System of the Year' by Communications .. Lawrence, KS-based Sunflower Broadband is the 2010 recipient of Communications Techno..
09/03	Lindsay Broadband Intros MoCA Series of Entry Filter Lindsay Broadband, a manufacturer of RF distribution products for the CATV and wired ..
09/03	EchoStar Chooses Broadcom Chip for Sling HD DVR The Broadcom BCM7400 satellite set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution has ..

Manufacturing

05/20	The Next Detroit Rising in Motown's ruins: a generation of entrepreneurs who want to make new kinds o..
05/19	Obama's Fuel Fantasy If the new gas mileage rules can be met, and that is far from certain, cars will be ..
05/19	Taiwan Not A Bull's Eye For China Automakers Taiwan's advanced auto parts suppliers won't be easy takeover targets for China's ma..
05/18	Emissions Overhaul President Obama's expected tightening of vehicle emissions standards isn't likely to..
05/18	Killing Car Dealers, Killing Detroit Why shutting so many auto dealers will hurt GM and Chrysler.

Sales & Marketing

08/17	Growth Lessons 2010 Don't let fears of a double-dip recession paralyze you. Calculate, plan, commit and g..
08/05	Meet The Fastest Growing Company Ever Andrew Mason figured out how to inject hysteria into the process of bargain hunting o..
07/27	Nine Wacky Yet Effective Local TV Ads These spots really do drive business. And they're affordable, too.
07/27	Twelve Nasty Work-From-Home Scams Does the offer of making a mint in your pajamas sound too good to be true? It surely ..
07/15	Ten Fun And Affordable Ways To Entertain Clients No tee time required.
06/25	Why We Can't Stop Shopping A photo essay of marketplaces around the globe, and what retailers (and hungry custom..
06/03	One Man's Quest To Foil Hackers Identity fraud costs $54 billion a year. Robert Carr aims to alleviate some of that p..
05/07	Twenty Ways You're Getting Ripped Off Think you're not getting a fair shake? Here's how bad it really is.
05/03	How To Unmask A Liar Telltale signs that you're getting taken.
04/15	The New Kings Of New York Nightlife Recession didn't deter Michael Hirtenstein, Eugene Remm and Mark Birnbaum from buildi..
04/15	The Most Profitable Small Businesses Based on 300,000 companies, most with annual sales under $10 million. One takeaway: S..

Financial Services

09/01	Amaya Gaming Group retains Jasmin-Dumais Financial Communications Inc... Amaya Gaming Group Inc. , a pioneer in the field of electronic devices and software f..
09/01	Get Paid Now Want to charge up your cash flow? Invoice and collect online. Here's how.
08/24	Financial Illiteracy Is Killing Us Our kids know next to nothing about money---and we are all paying for it.
08/19	What It Takes To Run A Sound Commercial Bank Joe DePaolo has a good recipe for building a bank fast: Find great bankers and pay th..
08/09	Primoris Services Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2010 Financial .. Q2 2010 Financial Highlights
08/02	The Most Connected Capitalists These entrepreneurs, financiers and advisors have the street cred to jumpstart our ai..
08/02	Hunting For A Gold-Plated Venture Capitalist? Stop! Serial entrepreneurs should expand their horizons--and their returns.
07/14	The Fastest Corporate Downfalls Investors are working up an appetite for initial public offerings. Here are 10 big IP..
07/06	The 12 Best Sources Of Business Financing Precious capital remains hard to find for small businesses. Here are the most likely ..
06/30	Seven Ways Financial Reform Will Haunt Small Biz Bad news: Looks like the capital crunch will continue.
06/29	What It Takes To Be Best In Class Financial benchmarks for 25 of the biggest industries. How does your company stack up..
06/23	The Dumbest Financial Laws Of All Time Think the new financial reform bill is suspect? Try these legislative gaffes.
05/19	Fifteen Uncommonly Clever Economic Indicators Stock prices only tell you so much. For deeper insight follow the Champagne, taxi far..

Seminars

09/06	Research Areas in Distance Education: A Delphi Study This study had three purposes: Firstly, to develop a categorization of research area..
09/06	Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs The purpose of this study was to examine how the mode of instructional delivery, cam..
09/06	Online Learner Authentication: Verifying the Identity of Online Users This paper addresses how one university has partnered with a corporation to work on ..
09/06	An Exploratory Study into the Efficacy of Learning Objects Learning objects have quickly become a widely accepted approach to instructional tec..
09/06	Assessing the relationship of student-instructor and student-student i.. This study shows the importance of interaction to student learning within Web-based ..
09/06	Appellate Court Overturns Blackboard Patent; Blackboard To Press On Blackboard's patent on learning management system technologies has been overturned b..
09/06	Mergers could save NY $133M What would happen if the number of school districts in Chautauqua County were reduce..
09/06	Top-Ten IT Issues, 2009 How have the events of the past year affected the IT issues of top concern to techno..
09/06	7 Things You Should Know About Microblogging Microblogging is the practice of posting small pieces of digital contentâwhich cou..
09/06	How IBM Plans to Win Jeopardy! IBM's Watson will showcase the latest tricks in natural-language processing.Read the..

09/03	CNA Announces Risk Control Webinars on Employment Risks CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CNA's Risk Control unit has created a series of employment ..
09/01	New Rise Investments Now Offers Free Live Weekly Webinars: New Study R.. Whether Americans are behind on saving for their retirement or want to grow their wea..
08/30	Webinars On New Federal Penalties In $100 / Day / Patient On Insurers,.. On August 24, 2010, IRS, DOL & HHS Released New Federal External Review Laws Imposing..
08/25	The XBRL Factor and Beginner’s Guide to SEO for Press Releases to be F.. NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--XBRL and SEO for Press Releases will be featured in Busine..
08/24	Online Broker TradeKing Takes Investors Back to School with Robust Sch.. Online Broker TradeKing Takes Investors Back to School with Robust Schedule of Septem..
08/19	MED3OOO Offers Free Webinars to Help Navigate the Final Meaningful Use.. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, MED3OOO announced they will be holding a s..
08/17	BB&T Payment Solutions kicks off series of free, convenient webinars f.. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BB&T Payment Solutions kicks o..
08/17	Plex Online Demo Available for General Manufacturers and Metalforming .. Plex Systems, Inc., provider of the No. 1 rated ERP software for manufacturers (http:..
08/17	Plex Online Demo Available for General Manufacturers and Metalforming .. Events Offer Industry-Specific Scenarios and Q&A Follow-Up Opportunities
08/17	Plex Online Demo Available for General Manufacturers and Metalforming .. AUBURN HILLS, MI--(Marketwire - 08/17/10) - Plex Systems, Inc., provider of the No. 1..
08/17	New Protections for Out-of-Network Providers Under New Federal Health .. New Webinars, Seminars & Certification Classes Were Announced By ERISAclaim.com On Ne..
08/12	First Annual 1080 Group, LLC and Quantum Leap Marketing “How to Promot.. Survey shows upsurge in organizational use of webinars and virtual communication plat..
08/10	Advantec Launches Health Reform OnDemand Webinars Series for Employers TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Advantec, an innovative provider of HR, Payroll ..
08/10	Advantec Launches Health Reform OnDemand Webinars Series for Employers Advantec, an innovative provider of HR, Payroll and Benefits services to small and mi..
08/09	Free Webinars: Court Watch - UnitedHealthcare Provider ERISA Class Act.. Free Webinars On United Healthcare Proivers ERISA Class Action Counterclaims On July ..

International

09/04	Bharathidasan University launches Centre for Knowledge Repository TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University on Friday strengthened its recognition as a top-ran..
09/04	Giving Back News In Brief Kiwanis club assists school
09/03	Labor Day: No holiday for the jobless Labor Day: No holiday for the jobless
09/03	India poised to be focus country at Bogota Fair For the first time, India will be the focus country when it participates with the big..
09/03	Research and Markets: Indonesia Information Technology Report Q3 2010 DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/rese..
09/03	Notification of Change of control in Formula System (1985) Ltd OR-YEUDA, Israel, September 3, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Formula Systems (1985) ..
09/03	HiSoft to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences BEIJING, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- HiSoft Technology International Limit..
09/03	Notification of Change of control in Formula System (1985) Ltd YEUDA, Israel, September 3, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Formula Systems Ltd. , a l..
09/02	Electronic Recyclers International Introduces North America to Groundb.. FRESNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation..
09/02	Diversified Information Technologies Acquires Commercial Data Processi.. SCRANTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Document and information management services company ..
09/02	Diversified Information Technologies Acquires Commercial Data Processi.. SCRANTON, Pa.----Diversified Information Technologies Inc. , a leading provider of do..
09/02	International consortium publishes third-generation map of human genet.. An international consortium today published a third-generation map of human genetic v..
09/02	U.S. Air Force Awards Harris Corporation $18 Million Contract for AMRA.. Harris Corporation , an international communications and information technology compa..
09/02	China Information Technology Signs Contract Valued at $15 Million for .. China Information Technology, Inc. , a leading total solutions provider of Geographic..
09/02	Harris Corporation Unveils The GR-100 Wireless Location System To Trac.. Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology compan..