TechRepublic Resources
- Improving Customer Service With Real-Time Mobile Transportation Solutions
- This webcast outlines the benefits of moving from a static business model to a dynamic, real-time business model and its effect on operational excellence. The webcast examines how to optimize mobile technology solutions to successfully transition logistics operations, how real-time route management increases visibility and productivity and can improve customer...
- Tags: Customer Service, Webcast, Mobile, Logistics, Business Model, Supply Chain, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing
- Webcasts
- Working With Sun StorageTek Products to Transform Its business model for the New Century
- Physicians Mutual, headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is one of the 20th century's great success stories, and the company is determined to continue its success moving forward. That's why, at the dawn of the current century, Physicians Mutual launched a major business transformation initiative to develop a customer-focused business model and...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Century, Business Model, StorageTek, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- Being Model Based/Model Managed - A Management Perspective
- This white paper explains the role of business model in an industry. The business model is the business community's functional requirement blueprint. It is also an effective communication aide used to articulate business functional (process & data) requirements to the Information Technology community. The business model is the guide to...
- Tags: Business Model, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- A Simple Approach to business modelling
- Creating business models that are easy to understand are invaluable tools for understanding the inner workings of the organization, its functions, its role players and the business entities it uses, creates and consumes. It is a critical foundation for the system models that describe the supporting software architecture and allows...
- Tags: Business Model, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers
- Agent Performance Management on a Shoestring: How Hosted and Open Source Applications Can Give You the Latest Technology for Less
- Hosted applications such as CRM, ACD and Quality Monitoring are the fastest-growing segment of the software market, projected to reach 30%-50% of software sales in just a few years. New business models and open source technology can make technologies such as Speech Analytics, VOIP Recording, Performance Metrics, and E-Learning not...
- Tags: Agent, Business Model, VoiceLog LLC., Sales Strategy, Open Source, Strategy, Sales, Management
- Webcasts
- Send an SMS, get the answer
- Any Question Answered (AQA) is a service whereby users text a question for a fee of about 2 pounds and receive the answer -- no searching and no hassles. An excerpt from TechNewsWorld: AQA's novel approach to mobile search got its start after founder and Chief...
- Tags: Business Model, SMS, Question, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Radiohead knows more than Microsoft about security
- Music fans, recording artists, journalists, the RIAA, and digital rights activists have at least one thing in common right now. I'm speaking of the intense interests some people from each group have in the outcome of Radiohead's recent experiment in business models for musicians, of course. ...
- Tags: Software, Security, Recording Industry, RIAA, Business Model, Microsoft Corp., Radiohead, Strategy, Management, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2007-11-17
- YouTube introduces video fingerprinting to mixed reactions
- What's your reaction to video fingerprinting?Paul asks, "Do you think video fingerprinting will mostly eliminate the problem of copyright infringement on YouTube?" What are your thoughts about video fingerprinting?Interesting idea!I don't think that the issue of copyright infringement can be addressed by one entity. Bob Tur wants the onus...
- Tags: Corporate communications, YouTube Inc., Paul, business model, Sonja Thompson, video, You-Tube, Bob Tur
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- Social Optimality of Alternative business models
- The purpose of this paper is to introduce some basic terminology of consumer theory and methods for analyzing social optimality. These are then applied to study the social optimality of the main business models in Wireless LAN (WLAN) Hotspot market these days. The paper has the ambitious target to give...
- Tags: Helsinki University, WLAN, Business Model, Wireless LANs, LANs, Strategy, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Management
- White papers 2006-10-23
- Media Hub as a Service-Oriented Approach to Building Business Flexibility in the Media and Entertainment Industries
- New technologies and delivery channels are causing a shift in advertising placement, and are enabling new business models that bring partners and competitors closer together. Organizations must support new business models in an efficient and flexible way in order to remain competitive in nowadays markets and to take advantage of...
- Tags: Media, Business Flexibility, Business Model, Entertainment, IBM Corp., IBM Media Hub, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Another strike against DRM: Amazon weighs in for better digital downloads
- What business model will replace DRM?TechRepublic blogger John Bartley claims that Amazon.com's DRM-free music store, which will launch later this year, "is a very welcome move by a major industry player, which foretells the death of DRM and the move to a new business model -- perhaps something like Canada's...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Strategy, Sonja Thompson, digital-rights management, business model, Amazon.com Inc., music
- Discussion threads 2007-05-17
- Information Security in an Increasingly Collaborative World
- A new business model is emerging that is also introducing new threats and security requirements for chief information officers and chief information security officers in a wide spectrum of industries. In this new model, businesses collaborate over the Internet with employees, customers, suppliers, and other business partners in a way...
- Tags: Information Security, Symantec Corp., Business Model, Security
- White papers 2006-05-08
- The Increasing Role of Service Level Agreements in B2B Systems
- Service Orientated Architectures (SOA) will support a dynamic market in commodity services and enable business to drive down costs and respond faster and flexibly to changing markets. Virtualisation delivers similar benefits for the management of resources. If viable business models for the combination of these two technologies can be found,...
- Tags: SLA, Virtualization, Business Model, B2B, BT Group Plc., Provider Consumer Relationship, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-02-17
- Municipal Wi-Fi Networks: The Goals, Practices, and Policy Implications of the U.S. Case
- This paper explores three broad questions about municipal Wi-Fi networks in the U.S.: why are cities getting involved, how do they go about deploying these networks, and what policy issues does this new trend raise? To explain municipal involvement, the paper points out that cities have both the means to...
- Tags: University Of Southern California, Network, Municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Network, Business Model, Networking
- White papers 2005-11-22
- Revolutionary Army of the Infant Blog
- Revolutionary Army of the Infant Blogblog rootThe Infant Blog ArisesHere is where the why and the wherefor come into the forefront of the scene and the unseen. It rises, it arises, and the light it dazzles is shining for some to see.and you think I'm strange..."Vowels" -- Arthur Rimbaud A...
- Tags: Blogging, Web browsers, vaspersthegrate, business model, external Website, blog, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2006-03-09
- Open Source is like a box of chocolates...
- bad linkthe link you supplied for jitterbit is bad. here's a link to the application site:http://www.jitterbit.com/There are many excellent quality open source projectsThese days it isn't difficult to find very high quality software from the open source world. I like this business model where the software is free and you...
- Tags: jlwallen@..., Vtiger, open source, networking, linux, it management, software, business model
- Discussion threads 2006-12-02
- How GPL fits in with the future of antitrust regulation
- small error"[i]They only are precluded from charging for making derivative works.[/i]"That's not strictly accurate. They're precluded from charging (more than distribution costs) for access to the source code when a binary has already been dist
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, apotheon, GNU/Linux, GPL, business model
- Discussion threads 2006-11-27
- IBM CIO insights: Finding the new route to competitive advantage
- Facing rising competition and increasing pressure to contain costs, today's CEOs are demanding much more from their IT departments. According to IBM's Global CEO Study 2006, they are looking to their CIOs for insights and solutions to help drive innovation and reinvent outdated business models. This is more than just...
- Tags: business model, CEO, CIO, competitive advantage, IBM Corp., information technology, innovation, leader
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Business Process Modeling and Simulation With UML Part I: Defining a UML Transaction Model That Maps to RUP business models
- Business modeling is an important activity in software development: For software to be useful, it must directly support the business. Once a sound business model is developed, it is possible to explore different business improvement options such as eliminating redundant tasks, and automating repetitive and mundane tasks or those prone...
- Tags: RUP, Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Business Model, IBM Corp., Business Modeling, UML, Programming Languages, Strategy, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2004-02-09
- Red Hat scoops up JBoss
- An acquisition for the open-source business modelLinux distributor Red Hat signed an agreement to buy open-source company JBoss for at least $350 million, a move that expands Red Hat's product line and adds to its growth potential.Do you think this acquisition validates the open-source business model?yes and no.It proves that...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., open source, linux, java, news, red hat, acquisition, jboss, Sonja Thompson, programming, business model, Mandriva
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
