Novell Confirms Hedge Fund’s $2 Billion Buyout Offer
[03-MAR-10] Unsolicited proposal from Elliott Associates L.P., holder of 8.5 percent of Novell stock.
IBM Opens Up Mid-Market Sales Opportunities for Authorized Software Resellers
[27-JAN-10] Vendor will pass more leads, adds new certification and boost training for qualified partners.
Verio
[26-JAN-10] Web developers, MSPs, and ISVs who want to maintain full control over customer relationships and qualify for substantial discounts on hosting plans and servers are well-suited for Verio’s partner program.
Sun Microsystems
[26-JAN-10] Application providers, direct marketers, registered resellers, service providers, systems integrators, and value-added resellers are eligible to enroll in the Sun Partner Advantage Program.
Data Domain
[10-JAN-10] Designed for resellers, software integrators, and companies that offer hardware or software solutions, the Data Domain Channel Partner Program can help company owners expand their business and boost profits.
Corel
[04-JAN-10] By enrolling in the Corel Partner Program, owners of small, medium, and large businesses can get the support and tools necessary to sell, implement, and integrate effective software solutions.
Citrix-Business Fitness
[11-DEC-09] This specialist consultancy provides advice to Australian firms and businesses, offering ideas about benchmarking, best practices, process improvement, and document management. Obviously, selling customers on Business Fitness’s products and services is essential to the company’s success. The company relied on sales methods like in-person seminars, but at $4,000 each, this traditional approach was quite costly. Because of the limits of this sales method, Business Fitness began looking for a Web-based marketing tool that would be less expensive and would allow them to connect with more potential clients more frequently.
IBM-Onyx Pharmaceuticals
[11-DEC-09] Forecasting, budgeting, and planning are crucial to daily operations at Onyx Pharmaceuticals. The company used Microsoft Excel for some time for budgeting tasks, but eventually realized that its use as a budgeting application had been exhausted. Onyx needed to find a replacement application that was flexible, would reduce the company’s reliance on spreadsheets, and would encourage all members of the company to play a role in financial planning.
Xerox-Variable Image Printing
[11-DEC-09] Variable Image Printing (VIP) is a successful printing company with two locations in southern California. The main challenge that Variable Image Printing was facing was that their clients' demands were changing. VIP's customers wanted shorter runs, faster turnaround times, and different versions of jobs. The company’s current facilities and equipment were inadequate to meet these demands.
Autodesk-Brown Bag Films
[28-NOV-09] Based in Dublin, Ireland, Brown Bag Films is an animation studio that has been producing award-winning series and short movies since 1994.
A couple of years ago, family entertainment company Chorion approached Brown Bag Films to discuss developing an animated series based on Ian Falconer’s Olivia books. These beloved children’s stories follow the adventures of a mischievous but lovable pig. When they were asked to work on the project, Brown Bag realized they had several challenges. First, they had to convince the books’ author that they could translate his characters to the small screen. They also had to find a way to produce the series in 3D.
Autodesk-Autoliv
[28-NOV-09] Founded in 1956, Autoliv is a supplier of seat belts and airbags with $6.5 billion in sales. This Swedish corporation sells its products to automotive companies throughout the world.
To keep costs low, however, it was important for engineers to eliminate errors as early as possible in the design process. Ideally, engineers hope to predict possible errors and prevent them from occurring in the first place. Autoliv engineers needed a solution that would work well with other software packages and help them achieve these goals.
Aladdin Knowledge Systems-WetStone Technologies
[28-NOV-09] Established in 1997, WetStone Technologies, Inc. has made it their mission to advance digital investigation technologies and training.
When WetStone began seeing their products and software being sold on eBay and other Internet auction sites, they realized that effective copy protection was essential in terms of protecting their intellectual property and maintaining their revenue. WetStone started looking for a solution that would help them protect themselves against software piracy.
Autodesk-Sight Entertainment
[06-NOV-09] Located in Santa Monica, California, Sight Entertainment specializes in creating high-end visual effects for the entertainment industry. After a single demonstration of Autodesk Smoke, Sight Entertainment knew that the software would be part of its future growth. Sight was thoroughly impressed by the editing and compositing capabilities of this advanced program.
Juniper Unwraps New Software, Silicon, Systems and Partners
[02-NOV-09] Networking vendor opens Junos OS API’s to developers
Pillar Data Systems-Plaxo
[12-OCT-09] Headquartered in California, Plaxo, Inc. helps its over five million members stay connected with family and friends. Not surprisingly, data storage is a major concern for this ever-growing company. When their initial 3-TB of data grew to over 75-TB in just a few months, the company began searching for a high performance system that could scale rapidly to meet their increasing data storage needs.
TriActive-Newsweek
[11-OCT-09] Highly popular and extremely successful, Newsweek is one of the largest weekly news magazines in the country in terms of circulation and ad revenue, second only to Time. To produce its magazine, Newsweek relies on hundreds of desktops, laptops, and servers located at news bureaus and offices throughout the world.
The challenge the company was facing was that it had outgrown its existing systems management tools. A solution that would meet the organization’s current needs and accommodate future growth was required.
Trend Micro-Follett Corporation
[30-SEP-09] The Follett Corporation, based in Illinois, has been in business for more than a century. Currently, they generate billions in revenue each year, selling a variety of educational products to universities, libraries, and schools.
The challenge the company was facing was that their existing security software was consuming an excessive amount of the wide area network’s total bandwidth. This led to a difficulty in processing credit card transactions – many were not going through.
TriActive-Wellborn Cabinet
[30-SEP-09] Wellborn Cabinet, located in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, specializes in manufacturing high quality cabinetry for kitchens and bathrooms. Wellborn’s IT staff supports numerous traveling sales people and 400 end users spread across five locations. Because the company’s system is so widespread and asset management tracking and software distribution had to be done manually, keeping the company’s LAN and mobile assets up to date was difficult.
HP’s Pursues $120 Billion Global Enterprise Printing Market
[24-SEP-09] Vendor adds new business unit for managed print services, renames EDS
Business Objects-American Electric Power
[21-SEP-09] American Electric Power is an Ohio-based company that provides electricity to millions of customers and generates billions in revenue each year.
Because the utility's business intelligence needs were becoming more complex, a decision was made to upgrade to BusinessObjects XI Release 2 software because of its advanced Web-based reporting, integration, visualization, and end-user capabilities.
