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Surfers Ride the Wave to Success, Use Technology to Double Business in Two Years

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business management

Overview With interest in the traditional Hawaiian sport of stand up paddle surfing on the rise, C4 Waterman needed to upgrade its technology to keep pace with increasing demand for its quality products. The company installed 2007 Microsoft Office Small Business and the Windows Vista operating system, and credits the use of these integrated solutions with helping it stay connected, save time, improve quality of life, and boost business by 200 percent.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	March 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Business Management, Windows Vista

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Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise

Based on our survey of 225 business leaders worldwide, we found that enterprises are operating with bigger blind spots and that they are making important decisions without access to the right information....

Publisher:
IBM

Tags:
diagnostics and analysis

Enterprise mobility: connecting to a world of opportunity

Benefits of enterprise mobility span the business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spectrums. Enterprise mobil-ity can improve an organization's productivity, optimizelogistics operations, enhance customer relationships and streamline supply chain...

Publisher:
IBM

Tags:
access technologies

The business value of Web 2.0 technology.

Publisher:
IBM

Tags:
broadband

HP print solutions and 3M

Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Tags:
multifunction peripherals

Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector

Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where tax receipts are naturally suppressed, provides very serious funding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation...

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Tags:
data mining - analysis

Vista retail release date: 30 January 2007

Following months of speculation, Microsoft has revealed that Vista will be on shelves and pre-installed on new computers on the second-to-last day of January. Through to 15 March next year, consumers and small businesses buying computers loaded...

Brampton Factor: Vista complaints

So it seems we need to suspend belief in the 'greenness' of IT at least until Microsoft issues a new operating system that works on all existing hardware and costs less as an easily installed upgrade than a new OEM deployment.

Vista off-limits, say two US gov agencies

A Nist spokesman said: "We are temporarily not permitting computers with the Vista operating system to be connected to our networks. Windows Vista has been banned by the US Department of Transportation (DoT) and the National Institute of Standards...

Dell U-turns on offering only Vista PCs

It said: "Windows Vista is safer, easier to use, better connected and more entertaining than any operating system we've ever released, and we're encouraged by the positive customer response we've seen to date.

Channel:
Desktops
Tags:
xp,
dell,
vista

Vista - when will business take the plunge?

There is even evidence that some businesses are buying PCs installed with Vista then downgrading to XP to put off making a full upgrade, she added. But by the end of the second quarter, Gartner's Jump predicts the percentage of PCs with Vista pre...

Clock is ticking on Windows XP

These systems are pre-installed with XP Pro, and the customer receives the Vista licence so that they can upgrade to the new OS when they are ready, as well as Restore discs for both operating systems.

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Public Services are under pressure, the challenge is to do more with less. How do you improve citizen satisfaction, increase cost efficiencies and improve service delivery? The power of location intelligence is helping many local authorities and government departments make more informed decisions and derive greater value from current location-based information and data. Read this whitepaper to see how you can take advantage of location intelligence.

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HP print solutions and 3M

the objective for 3M was to optimize office printing infrastructure at 3Mlocations worldwide Reduce total cost and environmental footprint. Some of the business benefits acheived by switching to HP print soultions, More than $3 million in savings in first two years and Per page costs reduced by up to 90 percent.