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- Automated Patent Portfolio Management: From Potential to Profit
- Companies are increasingly under attack by entities with no business model other than earning revenues and profits from patent litigation. At the same time, there has been an explosion of published technological data in patents and in general technical databases. In such circumstances, patents can be issued without an adequate...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Patent, R&D, Research & Development, Litigation, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Finance
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- Does the Structure of Auditing Encourage Aggressive Accounting?
- If management wants to pump up earnings for a particular period, it's easy to slow research and development expenses, defer repair and maintenance or even time purchases so bills are incurred a bit later. Who can judge the way management runs its business? Achieving precision in a company's numbers is...
- Tags: Accounting, R&D, Auditing, SAS Institute, Research & Development, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Business Operations, Finance
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- Cisco IP+Optical Networking Solution Selected for GrangeNet Project to Build Australia's Largest R&D Network
- Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, has been selected as the networking equipment provider for the GrangeNet project, to create Australia's largest Research & Development network. GrangeNet GRid and Next GEneration Network has been awarded a A$14 million, 3-year grant by the Federal Government to develop...
- Tags: R&D, Network, Australia, Cisco Systems Inc., Research & Development, Networking, Business Operations
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- Dynamic Systems Initiative Overview: Leveraging Knowledge Across the IT Life Cycle
- The Dynamic Systems Initiative is a commitment from Microsoft and its partners to deliver self-managing dynamic systems which enable Information Technology IT teams to capture and use knowledge to design more manageable systems and automate ongoing operations, resulting in reduced costs and more time to focus on what is most...
- Tags: R&D, Knowledge, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Dynamic Systems Initiative, Research & Development, Virtualization, Business Structures, Strategy, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Management
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- Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology Promotes Innovation With R&D Platform
- In July 2004, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government launched an initiative to encourage and enhance scientific and technological innovation in the city. As part of this initiative, the government developed and implemented the Shanghai R&D Public Service Platform. The platform, developed using Oracle 10g technology and running on Red Hat...
- Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., R&D, Shanghai, Leadership, Government, Research & Development, Linux, Strategy, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Business Operations, Software
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- How to Achieve High Performance through Superior Research & Development
- This paper presents results of a survey conducted by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit to determine how large enterprises within the aerospace, telecommunications, tech manufacturing, and software development industries are spending their R&D budgets.
- Tags: Software/Web Development, Business Operations, Software Development, aerospace, Research & Development, High-performance, Accenture Ltd., R&D, manufacturing, software, survey, telecommunications
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- Office Business Application for Ideation Speeds Profitable Ideas to Market
- Ampacet is a specialty chemical manufacturer with 17 manufacturing sites on four continents and four Research and Development (R&D) facilities across the globe. To increase its development of new, profitable products, while reducing R&D costs, Ampacet needed a streamlined, standardized idea generation process. Ampacet deployed an Office Business Application OBA,...
- Tags: R&D, Business Application, Microsoft Corp., Ampacet, Research & Development, Microsoft Office, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software
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- The Mariner Group Jumps Into Action With Powerful Dundas Technology
- The Mariner Group develops innovative information technology that responds to emergencies, natural disasters and terrorism. The company wanted the customers to have the ability to monitor data all day long and receive updates automatically. By visualizing their workload, the customers are able to understand and respond to situations affecting their...
- Tags: Monitor, R&D, Customer, Mariner Group, Research & Development, Monitors & Displays, Homeland Security, Business Operations, Hardware, Components, Government
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- Global Manufacturer Expects $60 Million of New Revenue From Product Innovation
- Ampacet is a specialty chemical manufacturer and is one of the world's largest masterbatch producers with global Research and Development (R&D) facilities. Each of its five R&D facilities has its own product development process. Because these processes had little or no consistency, there was no accurate way to track projects,...
- Tags: Innovation, Revenue, R&D, Product Innovation, Microsoft Corp., Ampacet, Product Development, Research & Development, Product Marketing, Strategy, Business Operations, Marketing, Management
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- Intel's Silicon R&D Pipeline (Low Bandwidth)
- Silicon technology is the foundation on which Intel's chips and platforms are built. Intel has a silicon R&D pipeline which produces a new process technology every two years, in accordance with Moore's Law. The presenter of this webcast will describe the current 90nm and 65nm process technologies, and the features...
- Tags: Silicon, Bandwidth, R&D, Intel Corp., Silicon Technology, Research & Development, Semiconductors, Business Operations, Hardware
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- Intel's Silicon R&D Pipeline (High Bandwidth)
- Silicon technology is the foundation on which Intel's chips and platforms are built. Intel has a silicon R&D pipeline which produces a new process technology every two years, in accordance with Moore's Law. The presenter of this webcast will describe the current 90nm and 65nm process technologies, and the features...
- Tags: Silicon, Bandwidth, R&D, Intel Corp., Silicon Technology, Research & Development, Semiconductors, Business Operations, Hardware
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- Invest $2000 in Software to Automate R&D Tracking and Earn Back Almost 60% of Your Research Costs!
- The Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Program provides tax incentives to Canadian businesses that conduct SR&ED in Canada. Replicon Inc. beat the odds in a challenging business environment by capitalizing on the Federal SR&ED tax program. Replicon reinvested capital gains of almost $900,000, funding technological breakthroughs that have made...
- Tags: Software, Web, Replicon, R&D, Web Based Timesheet Software, Research & Development, Taxes, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Free Trade, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Management
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- The Engineer Research and Development Center Leverages HP Supercomputer Systems to Help the Department of Defense Support Soldiers in Combat
- U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center ERDC) Major Shared Resource Center MSRC, managed as part of the Department of Defense-wide high performance computing capability provided by the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program HPCMP. They wanted to provide scientists and engineers with immediate access to the best high performance...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., R&D, Supercomputer, High-performance Computing, High-performance, U.S. Department Of Defense, Leadership, Management
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- Implementing a Common Enterprise Repository for R&D Documents
- For any pharmaceutical company, managing the R&D documentation associated with a new drug submission is a monumental task. For Novartis, the hurdle was even greater. Novartis wanted to find a means to combine and manage the resources and knowledge of two previously independent companies into a coherent and accessible knowledge...
- Tags: R&D, Novartis AG, Documentum, Research & Development, Business Operations
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- Electronic Notebooks at Berlex Labs: The Key to Increasing R&D Productivity
- Berlex Laboratories, a subsidiary of Schering AG, is a leading biopharmaceutical company and maker of diagnostic imaging products and specialty medicines. In this webcast, you will learn how Berlex Labs' global R&D organization increased R&D productivity, as well as the value and quality of research, by implementing an electronic R&D...
- Tags: Notebook, R&D, Research & Development, Business Operations
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- International Network Services Case Study: Pharmaceutical Organization
- A top pharmaceutical company required a complete voice and data solution for its new research and development facility. The new solution would need to support all immediate requirements and be scalable in order to meet future needs. INS was chosen to support the client's requirements based on a successful six-year...
- Tags: R&D, Pharmaceutical Company, Research & Development, Networking, Telecommunications, Business Operations
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- Global Telco Pilots Collaborative Knowledge Management to Drive R&D Innovation
- Since its inception 125 years ago, one of the largest telecommunications companies has been contributing to technology innovation and economic development. The company is looking to improve its Research and Development (R&D) processes, develop innovative products and services to meet customer needs, and shorten the time required to get products...
- Tags: Innovation, R&D, Knowledge, Microsoft Corp., Knowledge Management, Research & Development, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Data Management, Management
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- Searching for the Perfect Product
- Schering-Plough is a worldwide pharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and marketing new therapies and treatment programs that can improve people's health and save lives. Schering-Plough Avondale Company have always invested in technology to support their research and development programmes so their choice of IT helpdesk was a critical decision...
- Tags: R&D, Schering-Plough Corp., Research & Development, Help Desk, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Management
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- BEN Drives R&D Portfolio Governance at Delphi Electronics & Safety
- Delphi Electronics & Safety, a subsidiary of Delphi Corporation, supplies vehicle electronics and safety products for mobile applications. The team's core business objective was to marry systems and processes so the organization could manage its business by project and product line. Given this background, the team's major challenges were to...
- Tags: Team, R&D, Borland Delphi, Electronics, Business Engine Corp., Programming Languages, Development Tools, Product Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing
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- An R&D Manager Uses Mindjet MindManager to Increase Team Productivity & Work Quality
- ShawCor is a Fortune 500 energy services company focusing on technology-based products and services for exploration and production, pipeline, and petrochemical and industrial markets worldwide. One of the tasks for the R&D manager for ShawCor Ltd. is to develop new generations of coatings capable of withstanding the increased stresses encountered...
- Tags: Team, R&D, Mindjet, ShawCor, Research & Development, Productivity, Team Management, Business Operations, Management
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