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- Sears Canada: Assortment & Store Space Optimization
- Sears Canada is the largest full-line department store in the country. Sears Canada was pressed to continue delivering significant revenue and earnings growth. The company had a strong core application architecture, but had been saddled with legacy systems that were increasingly difficult to maintain, inflexible in supporting data reporting needs,...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Optimization, Accenture Ltd., Sears Canada, Hardware Upgrade, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Marketing, Sales
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- Accenture Case Study: Sears Canada
- Sears Canada is a leading player in the Canadian retail industry. Sears Canada knew that a major U.S. retailer was preparing a major expansion into Canada and they wanted to ensure that their cost structure would allow them to compete and win in their changing retail environment. Challenges facing Sears...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Accenture Ltd., Supplier, Sears Canada, Channel Management, EDI, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Sears Canada Racks Up Sales, Floor Space and Higher Service Levels With StorageTek Virtual Solutions
- Sears Canada (Toronto: SCC.TO) enjoys a significant retailing presence through 165 department, furniture and appliance stores. In time, the company's 30 percent annual data growth began to tax its infrastructure. The Sears Canada IT group selected StorageTek's FlexLine Shared Virtual Array SVA disk system (V960) with 236 gigabytes of capacity...
- Tags: Disk, Sears Roebuck & Co., Sun Microsystems Inc., StorageTek, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Sales Strategy, Telephony, Taxes, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Sales, Networking, Financial Planning, Finance
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- Printronix Solution Improved Bar Code Scan Rate by 48 Percent in Sears' Distribution Center
- Sears needed an integrated total solution to meet its retail distribution bar-code labeling needs. In conjunction, Sears needed a proven solution to recommend to its vendor community. Although Sears achieves high levels of compliance with its vendors, the company seeks new ways continually to improve efficiency in its vendor-retailer supply...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Printronix, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Printers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals
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- Enterprise GIS Improves Product Repair Services and Home Delivery
- Sears, the largest repair service provider in the United States, needed to increase the efficiency of a fleet of more than 10,000 mobile workers. The business of supporting a mobile workforce requires good management, and Sears knew that Geographic Information System GIS technology was the answer to routing, a geographic...
- Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., GIS, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Software, Human Resources
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- Sears begins public trial of 2-D bar code technology
- Sears has become the first U.S. retailer to begin a public trial of 2-D bar code, according to eWeek. Other top-tier U.S. retailers that are seriously evaluating the technology includes Best Buy, Gap, and Target. In the United States, there are multiple vendors driving this technology....
- Tags: Phone, Sears Roebuck & Co., 2D, Bar Code, Server, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- NutriGenie Omega Rx Zone Diet (zip)
- NutriGenie's latest zone diet software is the perfect complement to Barry Sears' Omega Rx Zone, as well as Mastering the Zone, Zone Food Blocks, and the Top 100 Zone Foods. In fact, NutriGenie Omega Rx Zone Diet Software significantly enhances the Omega Rx Zone diet as prescribed by Sears. NutriGenie...
- Tags: Food, NutriGenie Omega Rx, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2005-05-31
- Government of Canada Google Gadget (gg)
- Introducing the Government of Canada and ebay.ca search bar gadget. Access information on Canada, its government, and federal programs and services in english or french. Got a beef, contact your local MP through email directly. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Search Bar, Google Inc., Government Of Canada, Sidebar Gadgets, Government
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- Geek Trivia: One tall order
- AntennasThe proper plural form for antenna, as used in yor article, is "antennas." Antennae are zoological.CN TowerForget about the CN tower in Toronto Canada?CN tower is not a buildingWikipedia's answer to the CN Tower question."From a technical perspective, however, it is not considered a building by the Council on Tall...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, slprice, CN Tower, Sears Tower, Sears Roebuck & Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Choice Hotels Canada Makes Room for Customer Loyalty
- Choice Hotels Canada is the largest hotel chain in Canada with more than 270 properties open or under development. Choice Hotels Canada needed a tool to standardize and verify the contact information for close to 200,000 people in its loyalty program. The company chose DataFlux solutions running in real-time to...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Canada, Choice Hotels Canada
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- Amazon Canada Search (gadget)
- Amazon Canada Search is a simple and stylish gadget that will allow you to search the Amazon Canada Web site from the desktop or Vista Sidebar. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Gadget, Amazon Canada Search, Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web Technology, Desktops, Internet, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-12-14
- Travelocity Canada (gg)
- Introducing the Travelocity Canada and Amazon Search bar, Travelocity Canada is the webs most popular online travel agency, Book travel for less with specials on All Inclusive Vacations, airfares, hotels, cruises, and car rentals. Travelocity gives it's the best possible price by comparing prices automatically for it's users. This version...
- Tags: Travelocity, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-07-09
- ebaY Canada Search Gadget (gadget)
- Besides looking great, ebaY Canada Search Gadget allows you to search ebaY Canada directly and easily from within Windows Vista sidebar. It's been optimized with the end user and speed in mind for the world's most popular auction site. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: eBay Inc., Gadget, Bob, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-06
- Allstate Canada Upgrades Its Desktop for a More Stable and Secure IT Environment
- For the past 50 years, the Allstate Insurance Company of Canada has provided Canadians with home, auto, and personal insurance. In late 2002, Allstate Canada decided to upgrade its aging IT infrastructure to assist its large and geographically dispersed workforce. With a goal of improving software performance, stability, and network...
- Tags: IT Environment, Desktop, Information Technology, Allstate Corp., Microsoft Corp., Allstate Canada, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
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- Bell Canada Signs Seven-Year, Contract With Large Canadian Financial Institution for a Fully Outsourced Internet Protocol-Based Contact Centre Solution
- Bell Canada is Canada's national leader in communications with 28 million customer connections across the country. To provide the integration of multiple channels providing customers with an improved and consistent call experience, and to provide location flexibility and extendibility by leveraging the existing IP network infrastructure allowing agents' the ability...
- Tags: Financial, Outsource, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Bell Canada, Outsourcing, Network Technology, Networking, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
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- Canada Screensaver (zip)
- Canada is the world's second largest country by total area, and shares land borders with the United States. The population density, 3.5 inhabitants per square kilometer (9.1/sq mi), is among the lowest in the world.
- Tags: Density
- Software downloads 2008-01-29
- Printronix Solution Improved Bar Code Quality, Saved Sara Lee Intimate Apparel a Quarter Million Dollars in Fees
- Improving the quality of its bar code printing to 100 percent verification was of great importance to Sara Lee Intimate Apparel. With its employees visually validating the bar codes on its 36,000 shipments a day, labels that were smudged or otherwise unreadable often were overlooked. Sears, one of its largest...
- Tags: Bar Code, Printronix, Sara Lee Corp., Retail
- Case studies
- Neoware Systems Case Study: Air Canada
- Previously, Air Canada relied on an aging technology infrastructure based on multiple communication standards and limited green-screen terminals that were not upgradeable. Air Canada has standardized on Neoware thin client appliances at its passenger, cargo and operational facilities, as well as reservation centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The...
- Tags: Deployment, Thin Client, Air Canada, Neoware Systems, Thin Client Appliance, Thin Clients, Hardware
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- Dell Revs Up Automotive Sales at Ford
- Ford Motor Company of Canada is one automotive company that is on the leading edge of DMS deployment. The i-Connect team planned to eliminate old hardware and supply each dealership with a minimum of one new desktop and server. Ford Canada sent a request for quote RFQ to hardware companies...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dealership, Sales, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, Desktops, Hardware
- Case studies
- New preloaded Linux computers for sale now at Sears and Wal-Mart
- The success of the $199 Everex gOS-based desktop at Wal-Mart has spurred two more releases of low-end, Linux-based computers at two retail giants. Wal-Mart's follow-up to the Everex is the $399 gOS-based Cloudbook laptop -- sporting Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News, Google Maps, YouTube, Firefox, Skype, Facebook and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Sears Roebuck & Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Everex, Linux Computer, Computer, Mirus/Linspire, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Modems, UNIX, Productivity, OpenOffice, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Components, Office Suites, Selena Frye
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
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