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Leading French Retailer Chooses Red Hat for Critical Sales and Customer Service System

Lapeyre, a leading manufacturer and distributor of home improvement products in Europe, relies on enterprise Linux to run Cameleon, the graphic application package used to design living spaces for their customers. When the latest versions of Cameleon were being developed, Lapeyre needed to migrate to the Oracle9i environment. To support...

Tags: Customer Service, Red Hat Inc., Sales, Home Improvement, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies

How SAP Is Delivering Home Improvements for the Loft Shop

Based in Littlehampton in Sussex, The Loft Shop is a small group of companies specialising in the distribution of building products for use in lofts and loft conversions. The company needed a software product that provides visibility through all the business processes and ultimately provides good business intelligence to make...

Tags: Loft, SAP AG, Home Improvement, Investment, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Operational Planning, Finance, Management, Marketing, Business Operations

Case studies

WebSeeker (exe)

In a single search, you can combine the knowledge base of several Internet search engines pinpointing the exact information you need with WebSeeker. Whether you're looking for travel information, sport scores, news, books, scrapbooking items, music, home improvement tips, cars, clip art, software, genealogy, etc. WebSeeker makes searching the Web...

Tags: Home Improvement, Search

Software downloads 2007-02-11

Home Improvement Project (zip)

This tool will enable expert contractors calculate quick project bids and homeowners to get a clear understand of project cost make up. This tool is part of HomeInitiative.com - World's Largest Marketplace for home professionals. What eBay has done to transform the auction concept for purchases of products, HomeInitiative.com is...

Tags: Homeowner, Home Improvement, Productivity

Software downloads 2006-11-09

Home Improvement Project in Los Angeles

Home Improvement Project in Los Angeleshttp://www.homeimprovementlosangeles.com

Tags: movers2u@..., Home Improvement Project

Discussion threads 2007-01-01

Additional Resources

Home Repair book?

I am not essentially a do-it-yourself kind of guy when it comes to repairing/fixing stuff at home. Well I never got much opportunity living in an apartment :-) Watching, with my wife, lots of programs on DIYNetwork & HGTV has kindled some interest.So I browsed the shelves in the local...

Tags: onbliss

Discussion threads 2007-04-02

Bauhaus Builds Better Data Storage With IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Bauhaus is a pan-European retailer of tools and materials for home improvement, operating 190 stores in 11 European countries. Home improvement retailer Bauhaus was outgrowing its data storage and backup solution; the potential for loss of data and the lack of disaster recovery options posed a significant business risk. The...

Tags: Data Storage, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Corp., Bauhaus, Disaster Recovery, Retail, Backups, Storage Management, Data Management, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2006-06-01

MSF Process Template for CMMI Process Improvement (exe)

Choose the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement process for projects with longer life cycles and that require a record of decisions made. Choose MSF for CMMI Process Improvement over MSF for Agile Software Development, if your organization is undertaking a broad quality assurance and process improvement initiative or your team...

Tags: Process Improvement, Software Development, Quality, Business Operations, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-09-04

CMMi for Software Development Projects: Initiating a Process Improvement Program

Continuous Process Improvement is the underlying principle behind most modern quality and process standards. In order to stay competitive in a global economy, organizations must systematically strive to improve their processes through sustained and disciplined efforts. This paper presents the fundamental steps leading to process improvement and suggests some practical...

Tags: Software, Continuous Process Improvement, Software Development, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2004-04-30

Process Improvement in ERP Implementations

If executive leadership does not establish process improvement as a clear goal, many of the benefits listed in any preliminary cost/benefit analysis are likely to never be fully realized. Without knowing it, many organizations limit the value they can extract out of a software solution before they ever get started,...

Tags: ERP, Process Improvement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Quality, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-09-20

All Mortgage Needs (exe)

Find mortgage banks, mortgage refinance services, home equity loans, and home improvement loan services near your area. Find best mortgage brokers and get free morgage quotes. Only best and established businesses. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Database, Equity, Mortgages, Financial Services, Investment, Finance, Capital Structures

Software downloads 2008-06-23

Why does process improvement fail?

It's clear, both anecdotally and objectively, that process improvement efforts have failed far more often than they have succeeded. This blog talks about why this is true. by Mark Lefcowitz

Tags: Rule, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Mark Lefcowitz

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Enhancing the Success of Your Business With the Microsoft Accelerator for Process Improvement

Process improvement methodologies such as the lean manufacturing, the Capability Maturity Model and Six Sigma optimize people, processes and technology. Using these methodologies, businesses can operate more efficiently and effectively. The Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Process Improvement is designed specifically for organizations utilizing process improvement methodologies and techniques. This...

Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

Webcasts

Symantec Case Study: The Home Depot

Founded in 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia, The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement retailer, with over 1,300 stores in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. With a new store opening every 43 hours, The Home Depot needed an enterprise management system to rapidly and reliably roll out...

Tags: Home Depot Inc., Symantec Corp., Microsoft Windows 2000, Retail, Microsoft Windows, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies

Super Home Suite (EXE)

Punch Software Super Home Suite makes it easy to design interior and exterior home improvement projects or entire homes in Photorealistic 3D with vivid colors and textures. Created by professionals, Punch Super Home Suite lets you draft and frame while calculating and modeling cost and square footage targets to avoid...

Tags: Punch Super Home Suite, Research & Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2004-09-15

EnhanceMovie (exe)

EnhanceMovie is a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use video quality improvement tool. Using EnhanceMovie, you can solve many common problems: noisy and interlacing video, insufficient brightness and/or contrast, blurred image and others by applying video filters, such as: Denoise, Deinterlace, Brightness, Auto Contrast, Sharpen and more. Or you can make home videos...

Tags: MOVAVI, video, home video, MPEG, GUI, tool, movie

Software downloads 2006-10-09

Home Audiometer (zip)

Home Audiometer gives a very good indication if there is a hearing problem or not and how severe it might be and is much more accurate than other 'Do-it-yourself' tests with a CD or no means of calibration. Due to the nature of the calibration any home test cannot be...

Tags: Calibration, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2007-05-10

The Value of Project Management: Getting Executive Buy-in

RESEARCH HAS SHOWN that getting executive buy-in in implementing project management improvement initiatives is vital to ensuring an organization's success. Why do organizations implement project management improvement initiatives? Who makes the decisions to implement them? How are improvement initiatives sold to senior management? How do organization's determine whether or not...

Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2004-08-25

V1 Home (exe)

V1 Home is a desktop video application designed specifically for sports analysis. Grab your camcorder and record your golf swing, tennis swing, martial arts form, or other sports motion, then use V1 Home's tools to see what needs improvement. Our software supports both analog and digital video capture using the...

Tags: Video Capture, Video, V1 Home, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2004-04-09

MSF for CMMI Process Improvement (EXE)

MSF for CMMI Process Improvement includes the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement process guidance, which is a highly iterative, adaptive planning, agile software development process which meets the requirements for the Software Engineering Institutes SEI Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI level 3. Version 4.1 provides new guidance for the Database...

Tags: Guidance, Microsoft Corp., Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Storage, Databases, Software/Web Development, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2007-09-04