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University of Pennsylvania Saves $64.1 Million With Oracle E-Business Suite

Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the University of Pennsylvania is one of the world's leading academic institutions and the first university founded in the U.S. As a major research institution with 12 schools and 20 business units, Penn has complex procurement requirements. The university wanted to reduce costs while gaining the...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

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University of Pennsylvania Streamlines Procurement, Saving $7.8 Million

The University of Pennsylvania Penn is a highly-regarded institution of higher learning - from its undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools to its interdisciplinary research and scholarship programs. The university wanted to enable mass supplier content by extending the breadth of the existing Web-based supplier exchange and enhance the value of...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Supplier, Procurement, Channel Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Marketing, Business Operations

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Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: The Online Privacy Issue

Debating online privacy isn't merely a philosophical exercise. Companies collect reams of information about visitors to their websites and about their customers' web-surfing ways. A person may be able to hide his or her visits to offbeat, or off-color, websites from his or her spouse, but can't hide them from...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Online Privacy, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Government, Internet

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Forming Connected Topologies in Bluetooth Adhoc Networks

This paper explores the problem of forming connected topologies, in adhoc networks built on the Bluetooth technology. Providing connectivity, when feasible, is the most basic requirement for any system aimed at allowing devices to communicate with each other. The paper illustrates that this seemingly innocuous goal gives rise to many...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Topology, Connected Corp., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless

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DHARMA: Distributed Home Agent for Robust Mobile Access

Mobile wireless devices have intermittent connectivity, sometimes intentional. This is a problem for conventional Mobile IP, beyond its well-known routing inefficiencies and deployment issues. DHARMA selects a location-optimized instance from a distributed set of home agents to minimize routing overheads; set management and optimization are done using the PlanetLab overlay...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Microsoft Access, Mobile, Agent, Mobile IP, DHARMA, Advertising & Promotion, Real Estate, Networking, Wireless, Marketing, Business Operations

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University of Pennsylvania Speeds Order Transmission With RightFax and Oracle

Founded in 1740, the University of Pennsylvania is America's first university and one of the country's most prestigious institutions of higher education. With a large student body to support and a reputation for administrative excellence, the University of Pennsylvania's Purchasing Services department realized the need to implement an automated document...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Captaris Inc., Fax, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

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The University of Pennsylvania Health System: Projecting a Pioneering Tradition Into an Ambitious Future

The University of Pennsylvania Health System is a leader in medicine for more than 230 years -supporting the healthcare needs of Philadelphia and five counties in the surrounding area. The University needed to replace a network that was already being stretched for bandwidth with one capable of supporting the bandwidth-intensive...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Health Care, University Of Pennsylvania Health System, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

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AntiECN Marking: A Marking Scheme for High Bandwidth Delay Connections

This paper describes a simple scheme that uses feedback from underutilized high capacity links to allow a TCP connection to aggressively increase its sending rate. The feedback is in the form of a single bit in the packet header and is given per packet. The scheme uses aggregate information to...

Tags: Bandwidth, University Of Pennsylvania, TCP, Scheme, Tcp/Ip, Routers & Switches, Networking, Network Technology

White papers 2008-01-01

Out of Stock?: It Might Be Your Employee Payroll - Not Your Supply Chain - That's to Blame

Customers get lower satisfaction from their shopping experience when stores have too few employees and, more importantly, when stores lack employees who are knowledgeable about what's in the store. After analyzing the results of the study, the researchers suggest that a "Modest reallocation of the payroll budget among stores" in...

Tags: Supply Chain, Employee, Researcher, University Of Pennsylvania, Payroll, Operational Accounting, Finance

White papers 2007-04-04

Distributed Uplink Scheduling in CDMA Networks

As mobile devices grow more powerful and diverse in the applications they run, it becomes increasingly desirable to give them some independence in scheduling their transmissions. The latest release of the CDMA2000 1xEV-DO system incorporates a number of mechanisms that afford mobile devices some flexibility in making uplink transmission decisions....

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, CDMA, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2006-12-13

Retail Store Execution: An Empirical Study

This paper describes a methodology by which a retailer can identify action steps that are likely to increase sales and customer satisfaction and demonstrate the methodology using proprietary data from a large retailer with over 500 stores. The paper uses monthly store-level data on a number of operational variables including...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Retail Company, Customer Satisfaction, Retail, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Sales, Marketing

White papers 2006-12-01

Realizing the Benefits of User­-Level Channel Diversity

This paper explores the potential benefits of "user-level" channel diversity solutions that instead of dedicating one channel to each user, let all users distribute their packet transmissions across all channels. The paper identifies that the channel configurations for which channel diversity affords meaningful benefits are fortunately also those where it...

Tags: Channel, University Of Pennsylvania, Benefits, Human Resources

White papers 2005-09-06

Improving Performance Through Channel Diversity in the Presence of Bursty Losses

This paper explores the potential benefits associated with channel or path diversity in improving performance in packet networks. The focus is on schemes that impose no or minimum added complexity, and do not increase the number of packet transmissions. Only long term channel characteristics were assumed known, and the channel...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Performance, Diversity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2005-06-15

Shared Resources for Robust Speech-to-Text Technology

This paper describes ongoing efforts at Linguistic Data Consortium to create shared resources for improved speech-to-text technology. Under the DARPA EARS program, technology providers are charged with creating STT systems whose outputs are substantially richer and much more accurate than is currently possible. These aggressive program goals motivate new approaches...

Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Telecom & Utilities

White papers 2005-03-22

Look to top business schools for executive education

You may already have an MBA and a master's in information science, but if you want the best leadership and management training available, you'll need go to one of the top business schools in the U.S.Many of today’s CIOs and other high-ranking technology executives already have MBAs and advanced degrees...

Tags: Marketing research, Financial accounting, Jennifer Recktenwald, University of Pennsylvania, business school, executive education, leadership, Wharton School, Financial Times

Technical articles 2000-02-23

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Software downloads 2007-08-16

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Software downloads 2007-07-05

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Software downloads 2007-08-27

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Tags: Income, Disability Insurance, Pennsylvania Disability Insurance Software, Operational Accounting, Benefits, Insurance, Finance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

Software downloads 2007-08-27

Adobe Systems Case Study: East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

In Imaging Technology, a required course in the Media Communications & Technology program, students explore advanced imaging techniques and animation. One of the primary means of assessing students' progress in this course is an electronic Portfolio ePortfolio assembled and delivered in a cohesive, digital environment using Adobe Acrobat software and...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Imaging, Student, Document Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

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