Resources for SMB Decision Makers
From ZDNet
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Final Chance to Learn how Business Leaders are making IT work for them
The importance of effective decision making and aligning business strategy with your daily activities is essential in times of economic crisis, but also during periods of sustained growth and success. Download these free white papers to find out just how other Business Leaders are making IT work for themselves and their organizations.
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2-Layer BPM: Oracle's Unique Strategy Towards Exceptional Agility and Business Process Efficiencies
The importance of effective decision making and aligning business strategy with your daily activities is essential in times of economic crisis, but also during periods of sustained growth and success. Download these free white papers to find out just how other Business Leaders are making IT work for themselves and their organizations.
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Leveraging SMB ERP for an Economic Recovery
Times are tough but better days are sure to follow. In the wake of an historic economic recession and downsizing, small and medium-size businesses must now turn their attention to the eventual economic recovery as well as their own resulting expansions. But how can SMB decision-makers even begin to consider the future when there is so much pressure to just survive in today's dynamic economic environment? Very simply, the answer lies in careful planning and the coordination of many different types of information from many different types of sources. Sounds intimidating, but it really isn't with the right types of strategies and solutions.
From BNET
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2009 Small Business Hiring Guide
This guide can serve as a benchmark for your talent strategy. By executing your unique Talent Supply Chain plan, you will be on your way to not only finding better candidates, but also vastly improving upon your internal company brand, culture, and employee satisfaction.
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SOA Strategy: A Comprehensive Yet Flexible Suite for a Pervasive Architecture
Software-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is on the mind of nearly every business today, especially those that rely heavily on the Web for customer interaction. When SOA is properly implemented, businesses can respond relatively quickly and cost-effectively to changing market conditions and re-use resources in new and innovative ways. That's why it is so critical that the roadmap to SOA be realistic, cost-effective and planned in a way that anticipates both business and organizational opportunities and challenges to come. No single SOA component can fulfill the promise of SOA. Instead, a suite of SOA components must be used to create the ideal, agile business environment that every organization dreams of having.
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Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid
Companies are learning how to run their data centers more efficiently using less hardware, less software and less IT resources. These companies are turning to a new concept called application grid, an infrastructure layer beneath the application layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which those applications run. Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now.
From CNET
Featured Sony VAIO Notebooks
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VAIO® W Notebook PC
MSRP: $499.99 VPCW121AX/T
Screen: 10.1"
Weight: 2.96 lbs
Processor: Intel® Atom™ Processor N280, 1.66GHz
RAM: 1GB
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VAIO® BZ Series Notebook PC
MSRP: $919.99 VGN-BZ570N02
Screen: 15.4"
Weight: 5.8 lbs
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P8700, 2.53GHz
RAM: 2GB
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VAIO® Z Series Notebook PC
MSRP: $1,979.99 VGN-Z899GBB
Screen: 13.1" screen
Weight: 3.30 lbs
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P8800, 2.66GHz
RAM: 4GB