TechRepublic Resources
- Beware of vendor lock-in upfront, or be prepared to pay later
- We're basically all capitalists here, so we know how the system is supposed to work. As a vendor, you want to find a customer to buy your products. As a customer, you want to find a vendor who will fill your needs. Ideally, vendors and customers come together, money changes...
- Tags: Vendor, Customer, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- A European Company Sought to Strengthen Its Relationship With an Existing IT Services vendor in India, and Wanted a Second Opinion
- The client is a European company sourcing IT services from a vendor in India. To strengthen the relationship they wanted to buy equity in the vendor. Second opinion sought from an unbiased source based on ground research. ValueNotes research found the vendor highly competent and well regarded. Also found that...
- Tags: European Company, Information Technology, Vendor, Client, It Services, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
- Case studies
- vendor Master Chaos: Are Material Procure-to-Pay Risks Lurking?
- With Sarbanes-Oxley 404 attestations in full swing, auditors are scrutinizing controls related to the master vendor file. Does a serious material weakness lurk in your vendor master processes? This webcast will show you best practice internal controls for your master vendor files. You will also learn also how business process...
- Tags: Control, Imaging, Vendor, Document Management, Business Process Automation, Sarbanes-Oxley, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting
- Webcasts
- 10 things you should know about creating an effective RFP
- Purchasing and implementing a new hardware or software system can be daunting, often involving multi-year project lives and multi-million dollar costs. If you think about it, the same issues arise in efforts such as internal systems development projects. In the latter cases, a correct understanding of requirements is crucial to...
- Tags: RFP, Vendor, Calvin Sun
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Compare IP PBX systems from leading vendors like Cisco, Nortel and Avaya
- This Comparison Guide features the leading PBX systems from established vendors like Siemens, Cisco, Avaya and Nortel as well as cutting edge systems form new vendors like Shoretel and Fonality. The Enterprise IP PBX market is rapidly changing to keep pace with the rapid technological and business...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Vendor, IP, PBX, Cisco Systems Inc., Avaya Inc., VoIP-News, Telephony, VOIP, Operational Planning, Networking, Telecommunications, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-02-12
- Sanity check: 10 trends that will transform IT over the next five years
- Gartner pours out a lot of opinions and predictions. While I regularly disagree with many of those opinions, I believe that Gartner is one of the best analyst firms in the business at organizing and clearly articulating its views. A recent example of that is Gartner's list of its top...
- Tags: Software, Sourcing, Home Depot Inc., Apple Macintosh, Open Source, Information Technology, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Supplier, Apple Inc., Enterprise Data Center, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Security news roundup: November 5
- Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which covers a local escalation of priviledge in Symantec Antivirus for Mac, vulnerabilities discovered in ACDSee, and a vulnerability found in IPSwitch e-mail client - which comes bundled with the IPSwitch IMail Server for Windows. Local escalation of...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Symantec AntiVirus, Ipswitch Inc., Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Security, Viruses And Worms, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Contract Life-Cycle Management Attracts New Entrants
- CIOs and their business partners are increasingly looking for Contract Life-cycle Management (CLM) solutions for all of their businesses' contracts, even if they deploy them in stages for buy-side contracts first and later for sell-side contracts. The result? A fast-growing (21% CAGR from 2003 to 2008), fragmented (with at least...
- Tags: Contract Lifecycle Management, Oracle Corp., Vendor
- White papers 2007-08-10
- Making the Case for Oracle Database on Windows
- Read this Ovum Summit paper to see why one of the best-kept secrets in the IT industry is the depth of support Oracle offers to customers deploying its databases on Microsoft Windows platforms. Despite its highly visible support of Linux, Oracle was the first of the major database vendors to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Vendor, Oracle Database, Microsoft Windows, Smb/Sme, Operating Systems, Databases, Storage, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Why there's no such thing as a trusted brand
- In my last post, "Rootkit redux: Sony doesn't learn from history," I discussed the problem of a vendor whose software isn't only poorly secured but actually unsecure by design. Similarly, on August 7, Eve Lee questioned whether new Adobe Acrobat features represented an attempt to provide its customers convenience and...
- Tags: Security, Brand, Financial, Vendor, Brand Loyalty, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- The ForresterWave: Midmarket CRM Suites, Q1 2007
- Forrester evaluated leading midmarket Customer Relationship Management (CRM) suites vendors across approximately 490 criteria and found that RightNow Technologies, Oracle, salesforce.com, and Microsoft lead the category. Vendors' offerings in this evaluation range from highly packaged solutions like Maximizer Software's Maximizer Enterprise and FrontRange Solutions' GoldMine Corporate Edition, that are suitable...
- Tags: Vendor, Onyx Software, CRM, Forrester Research Inc., Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software
- White papers 2007-02-21
- Use this simple process for package or vendor selection
- Here's a process to help your vendor selection process go easier. The vendor selection process can be fraught with complications if you're not prepared. The following process can be used in most any selection process -- package, vendor, hardware, etc. It's fairly high-level and will require...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Supply chain management (SCM), vendor selection, Project Management Newsletter, Vendor
- Technical articles 2007-04-23
- A Demand-Driven Approach to vendor Managed Inventory
- Manufacturers, or vendors, and their customers continue to adopt Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) programs to improve supply chain performance through collaboration achieved by consolidating forecasting and replenishment responsibility upstream with vendors. VMI works because vendors gain a better understanding of end-consumer demand and can fulfill this demand with a degree...
- Tags: Vendor, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Retail, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-09-01
- The Forrester Wave Report: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2006
- Excerpt from the Forrester Wave™ Report: "Cape Clear retains its leading position in Forrester's latest review of the standalone ESB market. The vendor is one of the pioneers in the enterprise service bus (ESB) category and continues to be among the leaders in technology innovation and strategic vision in this...
- Tags: Cape Clear Software, Vendor, Forrester Research Inc., Enterprise Service Bus, Middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services
- White papers 2006-06-30
- Business VoIP - Myths Exposed and a Checklist for vendors
- This paper looks at how Business VoIP should be deployed, its key benefits, and the questions you should ask any vendor before signing on the dotted line to ensure that you make the best choice for your business.
- Tags: Vendor, Telephony, VOIP, Benefits, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources
- White papers 2006-05-15
- Leveraging vendor Testing Within User Validations
- This paper is intended to give the potential User of Configurable Software Products supplied by Prime Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a recommended course for reducing their internal validation testing burden by leveraging PTI Product Validation testing. User Companies (Users) can reduce their testing burden for implementing and validating a Configurable Software...
- Tags: Vendor, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2005-11-12
- BMC Paves the Service Desk Road Map: CMDB at the Heart of Integration Strategy
- In the face of shifting customer priorities, BMC has increased its focus in IT Service Management (ITSM). The vendor has begun to execute on its Atrium strategy, tying tools together over a common Configuration Management Database (CMDB), service model, integrated reporting tools, and a unified interface. BMC is not alone...
- Tags: Service Desk, Strategy, BMC Software Inc., Service Management, Information Technology, CMDB, Vendor, Integration, Service Level Management, It Services, It Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2005-10-11
- vendor (exe)
- Vendor is designed for resellers of printers and copy machines. Vendor gives you a quick overview of the actual situation of your client with less information in advance. The extensive Data Base provides you the prices of hardware and accessoires. The calculation module is able to make a forward and...
- Tags: Vendor, Price, Data Base, Calculation Module, Capital Structures, Copiers, Printers, Finance, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2005-08-01
- CBR Most Influential 10
- There are many ways of slicing and dicing the technology industry into the winners and losers; the companies that should definitely be on a particular request for proposal, and those that should perhaps best be avoided. The CBR 10, for the most part, does not claim to use a strict,...
- Tags: Vendor, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Sales, Management
- White papers 2005-07-28
- Windows Security Challenge: Allowing vendors in to Mission Critical Systems for Remote Maintenance and Administration
- This paper looks at what companies are currently doing to let their vendors into their network, which is use modems, or remote access programs with no way to audit or log what is going on. They also are using solutions that make it extremely difficult for the vendors or outsiders...
- Tags: CrossTec Corp., Windows Security, Administration, Vendor, Mission-critical System, Modems, Remote Access, Microsoft Windows, Security, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2005-04-11
