Given the current state of the economy, retailers are looking to further diversify their businesses and grow sales by venturing out to other online channels. Launching on a new marketplace, such as eBay, can present challenges for large retailers from both a technical and business standpoint. Historically, eBay’s business model, with the auction-style listings, was
EBay, Amazon and other marketplaces such as Buy.com, Newegg and Sears account for 27% of total online retail sales, and are continuing to grow. Online retailers of all sizes are recognising the profit potential of marketplaces and the benefits of aligning with a software partner; however, these retailers often find themselves wavering between building their
It’s not that project managers lack the skills to manage projects. It is the speed and sheer complexity of the business that is breaking traditional project management processes. Heightened competition, rapid advances in technology, and global economy have organisations operating at a dizzying pace. Fortunately there are some things you can do to successfully manage
Work chaos is the fiend that plagues enterprise teams. It emerges as a result of serious work mismanagement and it can take many forms. The best way to eliminate disconnectedness and chaos is to unify. Unifying, in the correct way, requires that you start to look at the way you do work in a different way. Enterprise Work
Rapid changes in both technology and business mean that IT departments are constantly barraged with new projects – whether it’s a web app or implementing new infrastructure for mobile applications. It’s a challenge just to stay ahead of the curve. To increase productivity while still delivering high quality products and services, IT managers and teams
Industry analysts predicted a massive sea change in the world of project management—a change that is forcing project managers into a greater leadership role and requiring them to work closely with senior executives. With the generous support of AtTask, we reached out to 40 top Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) professionals and asked them the
To increase operating efficiency and business agility, chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers are seeking to simplify their data centers and manage them more easily. Cisco UCS® Director automates end-to-end IT processes across virtualization, server, computing, network, and storage resources to help achieve these business goals.
Cisco UCS™ Manager provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components of the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) across multiple chassis and rack-mount servers and thousands of virtual machines. Cisco UCS Manager manages Cisco UCS as a single entity through an intuitive GUI, a command-line interface (CLI), or an XML API for
In small and midsize organizations, IT staff often wears many hats. This means that the same administrator who provisions the servers for a new environment also has to configure the required networking resources, as well as carve out storage volumes and configure the hypervisor.
The European headquarters of Mazda has chosen to rely on baramundi technology for its Europe-wide client management. Following almost two years with the baramundi solution, Service Desk manager Leonard Williams is very positive about the results: “The baramundi Management Suite has proven to be the right choice. It has met our requirements and has proven its