Brainstorm Magazine

1. Real-time all the time
(October 2008/UpFront)

... growth opportunity is greater in sales beyond tickets,” Offutt says. Location-based services will enhance both social media and travel information. Imagine being able to visually “walk alongside” someone ...

2. Passionate about printing
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... the systems. However, creativity on the sales side is essential as we have to listen to each client’s particular challenges and create appropriate solutions.” Burger concludes: “We are not ivory towers, ...

3. Eggs in one basket
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... forms the core of the Fairacres’ back office infrastructure, and offers sales analysis, planning sheets and reporting tools that can be exported, on top of its accounting software, tied together with operations ...

4. CIVETS are the new BRIC
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... its cash from traditional sales (R28 billion for the last reporting period) to acquire stakes in online firms. A recent acquisition was 28 percent of Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies (DST). Meanwhile, ...

5. The cloud is more than just hot air
(October 2008/Features)

... “We definitely have enough bandwidth to run applications like salesforce.com,” says Accenture’s Thompson. “But if you’re going to move lots of digital content, you need to make arrangements with your telco. ...

6. MTN and government: a partnership
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... definition experience in the transport, security, healthcare, finance and other key sectors of the economy, MTN Business is well positioned to work with the government towards value-enhancing sales solutions. ...

7. Cornastone: Enterprise Technology Services deserve a sound foundation
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... transformation, monitoring and after-sales service of that environment.” And of course, since the very nature of government is that it must reach all the people, therefore service points located throughout ...

8. Cleaning up the e-waste
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... centre created more than 20 jobs and has generated over $15 000 (R127 443) in three revenue streams: sales of recovered and refurbished components and equipment, sales of recovered secondary raw materials, ...

9. Move from an efficient to effective government
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... proactive as opposed to reactive. In the same vein that sales people receive alerts when targets are falling behind, so government departments and agencies can receive alerts to notify them when a potential ...

10. Telkom enables modernisation of justice
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

...  Executive: Government Sales Telkom SA Ltd Tel: 012 680 7172 Fax: 012 680 7415 Email: GovernmentS@telkom.co.za URL: www.telkom.co.za  ...

11. Doing the country proud
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

...  URL: www.match-ag.com Nonku Dlamini Executive: Government Sales Telkom SA Ltd Tel: 012 680 7172 Fax: 012 680 7415 Email: GovernS@telkom.co.za Website: www.telkom.co.za PICTURE ...

12. Giving legs to "legal aid for all"
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... to spot, for instance, over-utilisation of circuits and the need to provision more bandwidth.” The answer to all problems John Croone, Telkom corporate account specialist, Government Sales, adds that ...

13. Linking great minds
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... Godfrey Ntoele, Telkom’s Group Executive for National Sales and Marketing Operations, says: “We are pleased to count the CSIR as one of our most valued customers, alongside the likes of Absa, the IEC and ...

14. A partner of choice to government
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... in Citrix, HP, Microsoft, Novell, Mitel and Sun, as well as sales professionals, consultants and business solution certified individuals – a significant force ensuring that Eclipse is considered one of ...

15. The network of choice for government
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... functions such as ICT in the hands of market-leading specialists. Many contenders TELKOM GOVERNMENT SALES – VISION AND MISSION The Vision of ...

16. Telkom's defend and grow strategy
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

...  Executive: Government Sales Telkom SA Ltd Tel: 012 680 7172 Fax: 012 680 7415 Email: GovernS@telkom.co.za Website: www.telkom.co.za  ...

17. Web-Enablement Cheat Sheet
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

... yours. Ensure proper central control over internal and external sites, for consistency, deploying content management tools to drive value and increase Web sales revenue. Deploy a packaged e-commerce ...

18. Think Outside the Hype
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

... because, despite acting big, it employed a mere four developers – in India. The entire show was being run on a $99 per month phone system and $150 software that allowed the sales staff (read CEO) to demonstrate ...

19. Going the Whole Hog
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

... administration. The CRM software offers features such as advanced pricing, SFA, order management, customer self-service and mobile sales. Financial management offerings include accounts payable/ receivable, ...

20. Get SaaSy: Software as a Service
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

...  To date, probably the most famous business-oriented SaaS has been Salesforce.com, which has enjoyed phenomenal success (indeed CRM-related software seems to be the most popular SaaS application with ...