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Venezuela And India Appeal OOXML Ratification
News Venezuela and India have appealed against the official ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, bringing the total number of protesting countries to four. After the two-month appeal period, we now have four appeals — Brazil...
[June 2, 2008, 13:43]
General Mills Of Venezuela Improves Business Acumen With Help From Database Experts
White Papers In order to maintain its market position in Venezuela, General Mills needs to be strategic in its business acumen, including making highly informed decisions. To do so, managers need access to precise, complete, and up-to-date information on the...
[November 6, 2007, 0:00]
Venezuela Opts For Linux
News Venezuela is expected to save millions of dollars on Microsoft licence fees by migrating to Linux. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said this week that the country's public administration will switch to open source software over the next two years...
[December 31, 2004, 11:15]
Banesco Integrates Multiple Systems With Middleware Technology, Boosting Efficiencies And Driving Sales
White Papers With US$5.5 billion in assets, Banesco is one of Venezuela's top commercial banks. In recent years, Banesco has pursued a range of strategic initiatives designed to strengthen customer relationships, increase business productivity, and boost...
[November 6, 2007, 0:00]
Financial Services Company Improves Profitability With Enterprise Project Management
White Papers Banesco Banco Universal, one of the largest banking institutions in Venezuela, relies on a sophisticated project management methodology and close strategic review by the board of directors to guide the company to reach its business goals.
[November 6, 2007, 0:00]
Radio Caracas Television Speeds Development, Lowers Costs, And Ensures Regulatory Compliance By Using IBM Rational Software
White Papers Founded in 1953, RCTV (Radio Caracas TeleVision) was the first commercial television station in the Venezuela. RCTV used a labor-intensive process to manage real-time scheduling, commercials, programming, and promotions.
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
US Immigration System: Bordering On The Ridiculous
Blog Comment I am American and my wife is from Venezuela.so I am very familiar with the racial profiling that occurs when crossing US Borders. US immigration has been a concern of mine for quite some time. This country is far from being the "land of the free".
[March 2, 2007, 22:24]
Banco De Drogas Antineoplasicas (BADAN): Reliable Financial Reporting Enables Non-Profit Expansion
White Papers BADAN wanted to make antineoplastic medication (used to inhibit or prevent the development of tumors) more affordable for communities in Venezuela, but it realized that its IT systems and manual financial reporting processes were holding it back.
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Making 800,000 Email Messages Per Month Safe And Spam-Free With Symantec
White Papers Radio Caracas TeleVision (RCTV), one of the mainstays of broadcast media in Venezuela, was battling with viruses, spam, and spyware contained in the 800,000 or more email messages it receives each month.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
South American Bank Switches To Linux
News Venezuela's Banco Mercantil has become one of the world's first major financial institutions to port its back-end infrastructure to Linux, the open source operating operating system that is built by volunteer programmers around the world...
[May 3, 2001, 16:06]
OOXML Clears ISO Voting
Blog Comment The Venezuela national body behaviour is very unusual and in ISO terms almost unheared of. To change from an approval vote to an disapproval vote after a BRM which solved a lot of issues is almost unheared of.
[March 30, 2008, 14:56]
Case Study: Pirelli
White Papers Pirelli's Tyre Sector has 22 factories and 20,000 employees in Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Turkey, The United States and Venezuela. Pirelli has a marketing network covering over 120 countries around the world.
[December 12, 2005, 23:00]
Florida Law Firm Ensures Its Data Is Available, Even If A Hurricane Strikes
White Papers Ruden McClosky is one of Florida's largest and most prominent law firms, providing a full range of legal services and business solutions across 10 Florida offices and one office in Venezuela. The director of IT decided to set up a secondary data...
[January 4, 2007, 17:43]
OOXML Verdict Sparks Dissent Among ISO Members
News Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela — countries with fast-growing IT markets — had appealed against the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO's) stamp of approval for Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML), an endorsement likely...
[September 2, 2008, 8:31]
Squeezing Out Supply Chain And Logistics Efficiency For Manufacturers
White Papers This webcast will explain how mobility is being used to make a positive impact in manufacturing organizations today, leveraging and maximizing mobility in support of critical manufacturing concerns and processes including supply chain and...
[February 6, 2005, 23:00]
Castrol Brasil Ltda. Outsources Support For Users And Improves Service
White Papers Castrol Brasil Ltda.worked with MPL Corporate Software to centralize all procurement, sales, fixed assets, payables, accounting, taxes and instruction processes, enabling Castrol Brasil Ltda.to process more than 100 bills a day as well as provided...
[October 11, 2008, 0:00]
ISO Says No To OOXML Appeals
Blog Appeals by South Africa, Brazil, India and Venezuela against the formal ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format have been shown the door. That's it, game over. OOXML is now an ISO standard - or at least it will be when it...
[August 16, 2008, 14:15]
Microsoft's IM And Hotmail Show Sporadic Failures
Talkback Caracas, Venezuela June 3, 2005 Unable to enter any of my hotmail adresses for over a week now.
[June 4, 2005, 3:29]
Venezuelan Cosmetics Maker Cuts Costs, Empowers Employees With Integrated System
White Papers Drocosca, a family-owned company based in Caracas, Venezuela, produces and markets the Valmy brand of cosmetics. The company had three poorly integrated business information systems forcing sales, production, planning, and financial department...
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
ISO Rejects National Bodies' Appeals Against OOXML
News The appeals were made by South Africa, Brazil, India and Venezuela, and generally centred on perceived improprieties in the Office Open XML (OOXML) voting process, along with unresolved technical issues.
[August 18, 2008, 14:18]
