You are here: silicon.com > Resources > White Papers > IT Management > IT Budgeting > Outsourcing

Outsourcing White Papers

ChannelOnline Adds Business to OfficeMax’s Bottom Line

Overview Challenge: OfficeMax wanted to leverage their local presence for sales, customer support and distribution and enhance its Web presence in the technology business. OfficeMax’s management team also wanted to better track margins. Solution: With ChannelOnline, OfficeMax customers can place orders via the Web – which has increased sales with customers that prefer to shop this way. OfficeMax benefits from improved quoting, full customer quote & order history at a glance, side by side product comparisons, and much more.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	CNET Channel	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2005	Downloads	18
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Outsourcing, Sales - Marketing

Did you find this white paper useful?

The Electronic B@zaar: Part 5 - eConstructing the Enterprise

History provides many examples of how the economy has shifted. As we transformed agriculture, so we transformed mining, drilling for oil, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and so on. ** eConstructing the Enterprise **

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Webvan reaches the end of the road

Online grocer Webvan has closed its doors for business and is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection confirming speculation this week that it was shutting up shop. The California-based firm has stopped taking orders in all its markets, with...

Channel:
WebWatch

Those were the days: The Acorn Electron

One person who did make it to an Electron-stocked shop that year is reader KK Richer. The Electrons and the network proved so popular that not only did they win Interflora awards in 1989 and 1990 but our reader estimates 1,000 of the units were...

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

The Bloor Perspective: IBM and PwC, Vodafone churn and stress costs

Being a pure-play services organisation means PwC relies on partners to be able to offer the one-stop shop companies such as IBM can offer. Carly's eye was eventually caught by Compaq and the rest, as they say, is history.

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Apple versus Apple - settlement in site?

According to a recent court decision quoting the 1991 settlement agreement, the Beatles were given the right to use the Apple name wherever their songs were involved and on "any current or future creative works whose principal content is music".

Re:Viewing 2005: CIO quotes of the year

IT personnel are anything but underpaid when compared with other employees and we have a long history of working 'as required' to ensure that projects are delivered or problems are dealt with. Frank Coyle, IT director, John Menzies Distribution, in...

Channel:
IT Director
Tags:
cio quotes,
cios

Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria

In the past several years, server virtualisation technology has moved quickly and firmly into the IT mainstream. Of the many approaches to system virtualisation available in the market today, VMware's hypervisor architecture has gained the greatest market acceptance. This paper examines the architectural issues, solution support, and enterprise readiness required when deploying such a virtualisation solution.

Publisher:
EMC

Getting Started with Master Data Management

Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it is needed, and explores methodologies for implementing master data management.

Publisher:
DataFlux

Optimising Storage with Global File Virtualisation

This white paper will provide an overview on how Rainfinity Global File Virtualisation virtualises unstructured data environments and moves data -including active, open files-without disruption to users or applications. Rainfinity is the only enterprise-class file virtualisation solution, and delivers complete NAS optimisation across geterogeneous environments, such as NAS, CAS, and file servers.

Publisher:
EMC

Also on silicon.com

Site Navigation:

Outsourcing White Papers

ChannelOnline Adds Business to OfficeMax’s Bottom Line

Quick Sitemap Links:

About Us

Search

Blogs

Verticals

Advertising Features

CNET Networks in Europe

CNET Networks in the United States

CNET Networks in Asia Pacific