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How Hella KG Reduced Its Purchase Order Processing Costs By 50 Percent
White Papers This SAP Customer Success Story describes the ambitious BBP implementation project that was completed in less than three months and explains how it's enabled the Lippstadt, Germany-based company to reduce its purchase order processing costs by half.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
It's Not Easy Being Green
Leader To encourage uptake of the Share-A-Sweet scheme, Choccolard has generously decided to give those customers who agree to share a bar with a friend a 50 percent discount off the purchase price of every delicious Chump Bar.
[November 8, 2006, 14:56]
Oracle Needs Deeper Pockets Yet For PeopleSoft Bid
News This results in PeopleSoft issuing a flood of new shares, diluting the stake of a hostile suitor such as Oracle and making it prohibitively expensive to purchase the extra shares needed to regain that 20 percent stake, he said.
[June 19, 2003, 9:19]
Yahoo Chief To Be Paid $1 Salary
News For the next three years, Semel also will be eligible to receive an annual bonus of up to 1 million shares and the option to purchase 6 million shares at an exercise price of US$31.59 each as a retention incentive, under management compensation...
[June 5, 2006, 10:00]
Customer Care - Talk Is Good
News "We've seen usage of live chat double in the past 12 months and we've discovered that online customers who engage in a live chat were more likely to make a purchase than those who didn't," says Rich Atlas, director of direct mail and e-commerce...
[July 30, 2002, 13:41]
Goodwill Industries Of Central Indiana Is Growing While Cutting Costs
White Papers Along with 23 other Goodwills, they opted to purchase Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains. This solution has assisted in increasing revenue by approximately 50 percent and in increasing the number of employees by 30 percent, all while...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Prescribing A Symantec Solution Restores Email Health And Saves Over $850,000 A Year
White Papers Faced with the need to purchase 15 Microsoft Exchange servers annually to accommodate burgeoning growth in email, Cedars-Sinai deployed Symantec Enterprise Vault software. The combined enterprise messaging management solution is producing tangible...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Startup Spotlight: Donate With Free2give
News In return for building the site and drawing in traffic, the listed retailers will pay up to 15 percent commission to Free2give for every purchase that is made on their site. He is however confident that more than five percent of online shoppers...
[October 9, 2000, 10:27]
Six Types Of UK Shopper Online - Report
News Cautious Shoppers, which represent 20 percent to the UK market, always prefer to view goods before purchase and will hardly ever buy at an online auction. The Bargain Hunter, 16 percent of UK online shoppers, won't spend over £50 per purchase, don...
[October 12, 1999, 14:39]
Consumers Snub Smaller Music Sites
News Only 16 percent of those surveyed had visited MP3.com to purchase music. Forty percent of online music shoppers said that satisfactory customer service was essential for them to purchase music online.
[November 11, 1999, 17:07]
AOL Edges By 2Q Expectations
News Including a pre-tax gain of $111m from an investment in Sandpiper Networks, a $30m charge for buying Gateway.net's subscribers, and a $5m expense related to the purchase of Tegic Communciations, AOL earned $271m, or 10 cents per share.
[January 20, 2000, 9:07]
Microsoft's Subscription-like Charges Cost More
News Nearly three-quarters of businesses -- 72 percent -- refused to sign up for the programme. Sixty percent of businesses that signed up for the Licensing 6 programme have seen increases in the fees they pay Microsoft for its software, according to a...
[March 21, 2003, 9:41]
EMC Readies Midrange NAS Technology
News We can't confirm or deny if [the CrosStor purchase] is related to that launch," said Paul Ross, EMC's manager of Enterprise Storage Networking product marketing. EMC just wiped out 90 percent of the competition in this space because a lot of...
[November 13, 2000, 16:11]
Portal Woes Kick In
News s $5.04bn purchase of Broadcast.com and its $2.87bn acquisition of GeoCities, for example, both used the pooling method. The company's troubles go beyond accounting tweaks, coming after it slashed 8 percent of its staff.
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
Showing How Much You Care - Online
News Traffic to online dating sites has increased nearly 50 percent since Valentine's Day 2000, according to a new survey by Jupiter Media Metrix, but men still outnumber women on most sites. Men comprise 58.3 percent of the audience of dating sites...
[February 14, 2001, 9:35]
Acer Cuts BenQ's Cord
News Since then, BenQ has diversified into the mobile phone business, through its purchase of Siemens Mobile in October last year, and — worse from Acer's point of view — into the PC business. Acer's shareholding in BenQ currently represents around 7...
[April 18, 2006, 16:50]
Webvan Bags HomeGrocer
News The merger will be accounted for as a purchase transaction. Webvan anticipates that margins will improve by 50 percent with HomeGrocer in the fold. In addition, revenue growth will accelerate by 50 percent over 2001 projections.
[June 26, 2000, 15:11]
Could Dell Services Push Get Too Pushy?
News On many contracts, Dell's portion of the services work results in the company hauling down about 30 percent of the revenue in that area, with the rest going to its partners. But by increasing the proportion of services it handles, Dell hopes to...
[November 25, 2002, 12:06]
Gates Looks Beyond IE 5 Release
News He cited statistics showing that while Internet users today use the Web for everything from playing games (an activity engaged in by 29 percent of the 163 million Web users worldwide) to shopping (done by 10 percent of all Web users), the largest...
[March 19, 1999, 9:05]
Nvidia Girds For Graphics Chip Battle
News NVidia enjoys similarly high market share among PC makers and in the reseller channel's so-called white box PCs, where it claims 50 percent and 40 percent share, respectively. The graphics chipmaker, which on Friday announced its intent to purchase...
[December 19, 2000, 8:45]
