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- How can TechRepublic help you decide about products?
- A recent study by Jupiter Research and BuzzLogic has suggested that blogs are more influential in product decisions than friends on social networks. What can a site like TechRepublic, which has a mix of bloggers and social networking, do to help you make better product decisions? by John Sheesley
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Social Networking, Blogging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, John Sheesley, Blogger, Product Decision
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
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- What influences you in making a final product decision?
- If you have to make a purchase and you have two or more items that match specs and pricing how do you decide? Outside influencers can be helpful, but which ones are best?I've put a poll up in Decision Central:http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/decisioncentral/?p=163Pick one from the list and see where you compare to...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, final product decision, product decision, positive review
- Discussion threads 2008-10-24
- Make a better CMS product decision with help from these resources
- Getting that CMS project started can be made much easier when tech leaders have good resources and guides in hand. These online resources, from in-depth, product-decision guides to white papers, will aid the effort.When investigating content management systems, many companies bring in multiple vendors for demos, and then choose a...
- Tags: Content management, Enterprise software, Geoff Choo, CMS Report, content management system
- Technical articles 2002-07-08
- What influences you in making a final product decision?
- When you have a product purchasing decision to make, there are usually dozens of different makes and models to choose from. Trying to sort out the differences isn't always easy to do without taking input from external sources. What things help influence you to make a final purchase decision? by...
- Tags: Purchasing Decision, John Sheesley, Product, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Does notoriety and popularity of a product play a part in our risk manageme
- Many of you are heads-down in your budget process now andsome of you are perhaps at a juncture where you are choosing a new product toupgrade or replace an existing hardware or software system. When choosing to upgrade or replace, there are many thingsto consider: price, functionality, how it fits...
- Tags: attack, Microsoft Corp., software
- Blog posts 2006-04-09
- Buy vs. build: Six steps to making the right decision
- The eternal dilemma facing tech leaders is whether to build a business solution from scratch or mold an off-the-shelf application to needs of the enterprise. Here's what you need to know about both approaches before making this critical project decision.By Dan OliverWhen it comes to implementing a business solution, a...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Operational planning, Quality, Guest Contributor, core business requirement, business requirement, business solution
- Technical articles 2002-04-22
- Decision Support: Financial firm pulls in IM archival tool to meet regulations
- Examine integration issues, hardware requirements, and price before making any decision on archiving solutions.In an effort to meet new federal guidelines relating to electronic communications, many enterprises are on a hunt for tools that will save and track instant messaging IM files. Financial services firms are among the first dealing...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Groupware, tool, Suzanne Thornberry, decision support, financial, IM, messaging, Jordan
- Technical articles 2002-05-14
- What counts in choosing the right CMS
- Most tech leaders think that the big decision involved in implementing a CMS is which vendor product to go with. But as four CMS experts relate, there are many other factors that are much more important than the actual product decision.When most CIOs consider selecting a content management system CMS...
- Tags: Content management, Enterprise software, Geoff Choo, content management system
- Technical articles 2002-05-03
- Survey sheds light on budget and spending plans for product support services
- By Eric RoccoIt is essential for companies offering product support services to understand what drives their customers to spend, as well as the identity of those who make the buying decisions based on these drivers. This document presents the budget and spending intentions of enterprises, relative to their use of...
- Tags: product support service, support services, Gartner  , software, survey
- Technical articles 2003-07-30
- Decision Support: City of Des Moines help desk application grows to serve many needs
- When the City of Des Moines, IA, decided to create a help desk from the foundation up, CIO Michael Armstrong learned quickly the importance of having an IT service management tool."We were simply fighting fires all of the time and we had no structure about how we responded or provided...
- Tags: help desk, David Southgate, Armstrong, decision support, HEAT Service & Support
- Technical articles 2003-10-09
- Try this proven strategy to make your bid decision in government contracting
- The Federal government puts out about $300 billion per year in contracts on over 400,000 contracts. About $180 billion of that is in new contracts awarded on open bid solicitations. About $20 billion is awarded to small- and medium-size businesses, with more than half of that going to “consulting services.”To...
- Tags: bid decision, government, RFP, Tom Watkins, strategy
- Technical articles 2003-04-08
- Decision Support: Preparing for a unified messaging implementation
- A look at some of the decisions a network designer needs to consider before implementing a UM solutionIn my previous article, “Is this the year for unified messaging?”, I reviewed the basics of unified messaging UM and unified communications and outlined a typical UM architecture. I also explained the basic...
- Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, decision support, Ericsson Inc., Rick Freedman, unified messaging
- Technical articles 2001-05-23
- Decision Support: Meeting-facilitation software boosts executive training
- Looks at how the instructors at the National Defense University NDU use Meetingworks to conduct constructive on-line meetings with high-level executives not used to this type of meeting environmentEstablishing effective training for senior-level executives is no easy task at any organization. First of all, their knowledge base is already quite...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Suzanne Thornberry, software, decision support, National Defense University, Meetingworks
- Technical articles 2002-05-06
- EMC AX4: The Decision
- AX4-5iI have 8 of these bad boys and they have been v good so far. Fail over on the SP's is >15seconds which means that as far as VM's are concerned there is no effect on service.RE: EMC AX4: The DecisionThe only negative for me was the current lack of...
- Tags: Serial ATA, Storage, Servers, Storage area networks (SAN), EMC AX4, EMC Corp., LeftHand, RAID 6, RAID
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Peer Product Review
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Peer Product Reviewarticle rootMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 Peer Product Review DiscussionShare your Microsoft Windows Server 2003 experiences with TechRepublic Members here by replying below!an improvement...As I am OS neutral, windows server 2003 is a vast improvement over 2000. Still not as rock solid as Linux, but...
- Tags: TechRepublic's Peer Produ, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Peer Product Review, Microsoft Corp., TechRepublic's Peer Product Review, off-topic, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare, operating system, server
- Discussion threads 2006-02-14
- Haemonetics Corporation Achieves $1.9 Million Cost Savings With Product Lifecycle Management Solutions
- Haemonetics Corporation is the world's leading supplier of blood processing systems. Haemonetics Corporation wanted to replace inefficient, manual paper-based processes and decentralized systems to improve collaboration and enable best-practice integration to improve product development processes and accelerate time to market. The challenge was to reduce operating expenses with fact-based decision...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Oracle Corp., Cost Savings, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Product Development, Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Technology and Policy in Decision Support Systems
- Data warehousing, data marting, online analytical processing OLAP -- these terms dominate discussions of enterprise decision support systems DSS. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear that none of these product categories has a particularly stellar track record for improving the quality or quantity of commercial decisions. This...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Decision-making, Decision Support System, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 1998-01-30
- Choosing and implementing a CMS takes planning--these TechRepublic resources will help
- The accurate and timely transfer of information betweencustomers, investors, vendors, employees, decision makers, and markets is thesingle most vital and fundamental aspect of modern business communication.Managing the dissemination of information to all interested parties requires asignificant strategic investment. For many enterprises, the strategic plan willinclude the publication of information via...
- Tags: content management system, Mark Kaelin, software
- Technical articles 2004-11-24
- Decision Support: Should you upgrade to Citrix MetaFrame XP?
- Makes the case against upgrading to Citrix MetaFrame XP unless your organizations MetaFrame environment is discontinuedCitrix has release MetaFrame XP as the successor to MetaFrame 1.8. In the past, the MetaFrame product has provided solid solutions in various roles for many types of customers. Citrix administrators will attest to the...
- Tags: Citrix MetaFrame, Citrix Systems Inc., decision support, MetaFrame XP, Rick Vanover
- Technical articles 2001-06-13
- Enabling Decision Support and Costing of Product Designs by Using Visual Metaphors
- The Systems Engineering Estimation and Decision Support SEEDS team is part of the Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre AMRC at the University of the West of England Bristol UWE. SEEDS expertise is in working with aerospace organisations to apply techniques in managing, categorising and visualising information to support costing of products...
- Tags: Product Design, Decision Support, Aerospace, Aerospace & Defense, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-09-22
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