New Technology, How to make the most of it in your Business! by Justin Woolich
Technology is continually advancing allowing us to run our businesses better faster and cheaper than ever before. Quite often technology can be daunting to say the least. Technology is such a huge and diverse area. The following guidelines will help you take advantage of the latest advancements. ... Technology should be viewed as a business tool like any other and should be able to justify its cost with quantifiable results and a return on the investment to your business. ... It can also be useful to invest in the services of specialized Technology Consultants who will be able to guide you...

Groupware: Avoid the Ad Hoc Shuffle by Joe Miller
Groupware Efforts are continually made to manage the unavoidable ad hoc business process, but ad hoc processes do not necessarily mean a pile of messy, shuffled documents, at least not anymore. Groupware is software which tracks and manages the ad hoc business collaboration. ... Familiarity Another concern businesses may have in incorporating new technology is whether or not the new technology is compatible with current technology. ... When searching for the document management and collaboration technology for your business, remember that document management will most often require...

The Era of Information Technology by Steven Cancel
Around one hundred and fifty years ago, businesses ran their day to day operations completely different from what businesses of the modern era do to run their day to day operations. People back then worked under candle light doing math calculations on paper, the old fashion way, before... These days, the name "Information Technology" has managed to encompass many aspects of computer technologies invented in the past couple decades. ... The corporate world was only made possible by the communication information technology has put in place between both computer software and hardware.

Collaboration Software: Index of Collaboration Software Technologies by Joe Miller
Collaboration Software Collaboration Software, also known as group collaboration software or groupware, is software which allows cooperation on a business document between multiple parties on multiple computers. Collaboration software also allows the integration and merging of document changes... This type of collaboration software also manages the ad hoc processes of business collaboration, assisting businesses even when the workload and deadlines create a hectic and disorganized schedule. ... Merging documents is often synonymous with sifting through document chaos, but collaboration...

Mapping Software: Putting Data Visualization on the Map by Joe Miller
Mapping Software Improves Data Visualization From the outset, it is important to clarify exactly what mapping software is and what it has to do with data visualization. If you are looking for driving directions for your next road trip, this is not the article for you. ... .NET Even WWW networks using TCP/IP network protocols using .net technology can interface with mapping software to bring .net charts, .net graphs, and .net maps to life both within the business and among clientele. ... The diversity of mapping software lies in its interfacing with common business and educational...

Standardization of Technologies by Lance Winslow
Many complain about the merging of companies and technologies like Microsoft buying a stake in Apple or a merging of phone companies and their mobile technologies and customers. Well that of course is the evolution of corporate growth. There are rule makers and rule breakers and innovation and... If you look at Beta and VHS in hindsight, although Beta was a better technology, consumers and citizens win in the end thru the standardization. ... Competition is good too, combining them and letting the strongest survive is applying evolutionary theory to business.

Can Group Collaboration Software Meet Business Needs? by Joe Miller
According to a survey conducted by InfoTrends/CAP Ventures entitled “Content-Centric Collaboration,” 51 percent of businesspeople utilizing technology such as Microsoft Office and e-mail collaborate almost daily as a part of their business operations and need group collaboration software to... This stat is not surprising because technology can be very valuable in improving business operations. ... This means that you do not have to add any new technology to your computer in order to use the software.

CRM 101: Customer Relationship Management for Beginners by Scottie Hawksworth
Customer Relationship Management, abbreviated “CRM,” is the term for a business strategy that is designed to improve customer service. CRM is also designed to increase customer satisfaction and gain new customers, thus increasing a business’ revenue. ... Conclusion For any business, successful Customer Relationship Management navigation is becoming increasingly important in today’s competitive business world. ... Once a business finds what a customer wants through a CRM method, the business can then provide the customer exactly what he or she desires.

Can Voice Recognition Technologies Make Transcription Services Redundant? by John Travers
Many businesses need to convert recorded voice to text and have long been looking for ways to do it quickly and inexpensively. Transcribing medical dictation is a prime example. Some years ago, when voice recognition software became commercially available, most people expected that the solution... Voice-to-text technology has been a big let down so far. ... Current voice recognition technology is just not capable of filtering out such irrelevant sounds or words. ... In other words, voice recognition software works reasonably well under ideal, laboratory conditions, but not in a typical...

Groupware: What Works the Way Businesses Do? by Joe Miller
Groupware The internet is full of 1.5 million to 7 million indexed pages of groupware packages available on the market today. Every business needs groupware to control, manage, or track documents. Groupware is similar to other systems that enable document management, often using a centralized... Digital Thread Technology Groupware with Digital Thread Technology strings a digital thread through each draft of a document as it changes hands, even through email. ... Tracking In an ad hoc business environment, tracking your document versions can be a chaos.