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- Virtual Iron secures another $20 million financing
- Virtual Iron Software, one of the main competitors to VMware in the enterprise server virtualization field, has secured $20 million in new venture equity financing. The funding "will be used to accelerate product development and expand global sales, marketing and distribution efforts." According to its press release:...
- Tags: Financing, VMware Inc., Virtual Iron, Virtualization, Financial Accounting, Product Development, Investment, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Finance, Research & Development, Business Operations, Storage, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- SAP on your iPhone
- SAP says that its new sales-force automation product, due to be launched this month, will be compatible with Apple's iPhone. Bob Stutz, an SAP senior vice president, noted that "The iPhone has become such a popular thing. Everybody wants the ease of use of the iPhone." ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Product Development, Tools & Techniques, Handhelds, Sales, Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- IBM earmarks $1.5 billion for security in 2008
- IBM has detailed its plans to spend $1.5 billion on security product development in 2008, reflecting an intensifying focus in this area. This figure it independent from what IBM is spending on acquisitions, such as when it acquired Internet Security Systems Inc. for $1.3 billion and Watchfire Corp. for...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Product Development, Security, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Adobe demonstrates amazing 3D camera technology
- Adobe recently demonstrated a prototype lens that -- coupled with software algorithms -- can make 3D photography possible. What is amazing is that the technology can let users alter images in 3D, essentially changing the position from which the photo was taken in the image itself. To...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., 3D, Imaging, Image, Camera, Document Management, Product Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Research & Development, Business Operations, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Palm posts losses in first quarter results
- The U.S. smartphone maker Palm has reported a loss of $841,000 in the quarter ending August of 2007. Faced with recent competition from Apple and Blackberry, sales of the company's smartphones took a beating. A quote from the article at Bloomberg: ...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Smart Phones, Sales Strategy, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Product Development, Sales Force Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Update your product development process to focus resources and maximize efforts
- A product development process should add value, but your existing process could actually be hindering your developers and costing you money. See how revising your process can help focus your resources and efforts.Product development processes add value to development efforts, but they can also reduce value. A useful process won’t...
- Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, William T. Kelly, product development, product development process, project management
- Technical articles 2002-10-22
- Developing Software Quickly: How to use the Q2 system
- Software developers, driven by the speed and scope of the Internet, have never felt greater pressure to produce. Tim Landgrave outlines his software development protocol to help meet this need for speed. He calls the process Q2: Quality Software Quickly.Before the PC revolution began—when computing resources were expensive and shared—developing...
- Tags: INTERNET, Software development, Product marketing, Development tools, e Advantage, Q 2, product development, PC
- Technical articles 2000-09-07
- If there's no end in sight, how will your project management system succeed?
- There's one feature every project management system must have if it's going to help your organization meet its goals—and that's a method for dealing with tasks that have fallen through the cracks.All too often, we in IT suffer paralysis from analysis—we spend more energy entering our to-do lists in a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Product marketing, Jeff Davis, marketing, project management system, change request, project management, product development, team, customer service
- Technical articles 2000-01-07
- Implementing Volume Activation 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
- Based in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a worldwide leader in software, services, and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Product activation is a new requirement for volume-licensed customers of Microsoft. Microsoft wanted to provide these customers with a tool that would enable them to meet this requirement in a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Product Activation, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Product Development, Productivity, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Internet, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Collaborative Technology Prepares New Zealand Medical Robotics Innovator for Global Growth
- Smart Orthotics Limited is a New Zealand based technology company that has designed and developed a world-first 'Smart' disability aid that enables disabled users to walk by using patented robotic technologies. In order to complete the development of its robotic exoskeleton mobility aid and prepare for release to market, Smart...
- Tags: Robotics, New Zealand, Microsoft Corp., Product Development, Team Management, Robots, Collaboration, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites
- Case studies 2008-07-10
- Embedded System Allows German Company to Save Two Years in Product Development
- Germany-based Raytheon Anschutz, part of the Raytheon Company, is a leading manufacturer of bridge systems and nautical equipment. The company, which develops gyrocompasses for shipping vessels, wanted to launch a new compass - based on the Global Positioning System GPS - to complete its product range. It turned to Microsoft...
- Tags: Raytheon Co., Embedded System, Microsoft Corp., Product Development, Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft Windows, Product Marketing, Handhelds, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Management
- Case studies 2006-10-02
- Manufacturer Speeds Product Development Cycles With Collaborative Voice Solution
- Tektronix is a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products, solutions, and services for the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries. To facilitate collaboration among its global development teams and to reduce costs, Tektronix decided to deploy Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, and Microsoft Exchange Server...
- Tags: Tektronix Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Product Development, E-mail Servers, Groupware, VOIP, Collaboration, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Streamlining Collaborative Product Development
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how to improve the efficiency of the product development process in order to reduce time-to-market and maximize market share. Immedient's Collaborative Product Development CPD Solution provides a collaborative environment with integrated project management tools to support efficient product development across the entire organization,...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Immedient, Product Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
- Webcasts 2008-01-21
- Memory Manufacturer Gains Insight From Technical Experts on New Development Solution
- To increase agility and maintain pace with the industry, Kingston Technology needed to streamline product development processes. Three weeks in Proof-of-Concept Workshops at the Microsoft Technology Center in Taiwan gave company developers valuable hands-on experience with a new approach to service-oriented architecture. The result: the company increased its technical knowledge...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Product Development, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Product Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-05-14
- Finnish Software Company Enhances Product Development With New, Agile Processes
- Finnish company BasWare creates software to automate back-office financial processes. Since its creation in 1985, the company has experienced steady growth in profit. To continue this trend, it must provide flexible, high-quality products to meet customers' future needs. Developing more products and greater code volumes adds to the challenge. The...
- Tags: Software, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Back-office, Product Development, Operational Accounting, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance
- Case studies 2007-05-14
- OpenGraph 8.2 (Mac)
- Vvidget Tools formerly called OpenGraph is a programming framework for making applications which report data in graph, custom map, and textual formats. Vvidget Tools includes the interactive layout application Vvidget Builder and pre-built objects. Vvidget Tools accepts real-time data from any source and serves as an information visualization engine for...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Programming, Eworks, Vvidget Tools, Project Management, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Product Development, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2002-09-03
- solidThinking LT 5.0 (Windows)
- solidThinking LT is the new, low cost, easy to use 3D surface modeler offering "never-seen-before-in-this-class" modeling tools. It is targeted to designers, illustrators, multimedia and internet content creators, but it is also a perfect design collaboration and communication tool. The aggressive pricing makes it possible to deploy solidThinking...
- Tags: Animation, Microsoft Windows, Tool, Modeling, solidThinking LT, Research & Development, Product Development, Productivity, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2002-06-28
- ConferenceRoom 3.5 (Mac)
- ConferenceRoom is the browser-enabled Chat/Conferencing server application for: economical conferences dissolving geographical barriers, customer support without the aggravating wait, sales worldwide without expensive international offices, product development when the team is spread out geographically, distance learning, whenever people need to work together... or when people just want to chat.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, ConferenceRoom, Product Development, E-learning, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Training And Certification, Servers, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Marketing, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-07-12
- Profits Every Month 1.0 (Windows)
- In Profits Every Month, you'll discover... Exactly where to purchase low-cost, high-demand products with reprint rights to sell and keep 100% of every sale. You'll discover a mother lode of fresh products each month and a secret source for obtaining product licenses that are very limited -- less competition =...
- Tags: Product, Microsoft Windows, Portals, Web Technology, Web Site Development, Product Development, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2002-03-11
- Product Designer 2003 SP1 (Windows)
- Product Designer 2003 is a powerful and very easy to use product requirements management application that allows product managers, project managers, development leads, consultants, and IT professionals to improve the way software and hardware requirements are captured. You can manage requirements throughout the product lifecycle PLM or Application Lifecycle ALM...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., ProductFoundry, Product Marketing, Revenue Recognition, Product Development, Microsoft Project, Marketing, Financial Services, Research & Development, Business Operations, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2004-05-20
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