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Managing staff time

The dividing line between work and personal time is becoming increasingly blurred. A flexible, self-regulating approach to time management will benefit both employee and employer, argues Simon Norris of software supplier Temperus. Human Resources / Thursday, 7th February 2008

Workplace management software

The world of business software can be mind-boggling – a fact not helped by the proliferation of acronyms and jargon that mean little or nothing to the outsider. Nevertheless, workplace management tools are gaining in popularity. Technology in Business / Friday, 18th January 2008

The Amazon Kindle

It’s the beginning of the end for books as we know them… or is it? The launch of Amazon’s portable reader allows you to wirelessly download books or magazines to ‘an electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper’. Technology in Business / Friday, 7th December 2007

Backing up for a rainy day

Businesses that want to stay profitable have to be prepared for anything. This year’s floods show how much chaos such “acts of God” can wreak, wiping out both physical assets and business-critical data, writes John Coulston, enterprise marketing manager at Dell UK. Technology in Business / Tuesday, 9th October 2007

The Next Big Thing?....SaaS

Both Google and SaaS (Software as a Service) pioneer Salesforce.com continue to be financial successes, so expect to see more and more companies follow suit and begin distributing all sorts of software to customers over the web, rather than using the traditional route to market of selling it in packages. Technology in Business / Monday, 19th February 2007

Business cards go electronic

The days of scrabbling through a pile of business cards to find one contact could be numbered, with the launch of a software program that sends electronic business cards direct to visitors’ mobile phones. Technology in Business / Thursday, 20th July 2006

Q&A: Expanding into the USA

We are a financial software company and are presently expanding into the USA.  How do we go about finding quality resellers for our product? Business Expansion / Monday, 10th April 2006

Q&A: Choosing software for e-commerce websites

What should I look for when choosing software to build my ecommerce website? Technology in Business / Wednesday, 18th January 2006

Microsoft on-demand?

Bill Gates has announced that Microsoft is launching a series of internet-based software in order to compete with the new wave of on-demand software providers. But has this come too late? Technology in Business / Tuesday, 3rd January 2006

ASP: Death of the disc

Software upgrades are the bane of businesses everywhere, but now on-demand alternatives look set to change the way we work forever. GrowthBusiness investigates the growing trend for ASP. Technology in Business / Monday, 8th August 2005

Biometrics in business

Though once the stuff of science fiction, identifying an individual through biological characteristics such as fingerprint and retinal patterns is gradually becoming a business reality. Technology in Business / Monday, 20th June 2005

Selling overseas

Sunderland-based computer software specialist Techtonik has seen its sales burgeon from £750,000 to £30 million. Business Expansion / Thursday, 1st April 2004

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