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IBM Helps Organizations Address Growing Mobile Computing Opportunity

By Guest PostNovember 9, 2012Technologyandroid, apple, blackberry devices, byod, cmos, data, global organizations, growing market, ibm, ios 6, it industry, manfred metz, Microsoft, mobile computing, operating system, phil buckellew, revenue, software, strategy, windows, windows 8

New software and services enable businesses to create and enhance mobile strategies

ARMONK, N.Y. – 09 Nov 2012: IBM today unveiled a suite of new software and services that enables global organizations to build a comprehensive mobile computing strategy – from securing and managing devices, to creating mobile applications and analyzing data. These new offerings are part of a move by IBM to capitalize on the growing market opportunity for mobile that is expected to drive $130B in revenue for the IT industry by 2015, according to a recent study.[i]

As organizations increasingly view mobile computing as the next platform to conduct business, the market is evolving beyond just the device. Business leaders including the chief information officers (CIOs) and increasingly chief marketing officers (CMOs) of global organizations such as airlines, retailers, governments and healthcare providers are among the businesses turning to IBM to ensure mobile services and solutions are readily available to constituents and in full compliance with IT strategies. They need solutions that can be applied across any mobile environment and device — whether a laptop, smartphone or tablet — and can provide an underlying IT infrastructure that is always available, secure, effectively manages data, and integrates both front and back-end systems. (more…)

Employees at ‘Green’ Companies are Significantly more Productive, Study Finds

By Guest PostSeptember 11, 2012Economy, Environmentambrose hotel, beneficial effect, bottom line, certification, company, conventional firm, eco label, economic performance, employee, Environment, environmental commitment, environmental impact, environmentalism, fair trade, firm, france, green certification, green companies, green practice, interpersonal relationship, investor, iso 14001, labor productivity, magali delmas, mechanism, organic, paris dauphine, patagonia, productivity, proxy, revenue, sanja pekovic, santa monica, sustainability, ucla, united states, university, virtuous circle

Bucking the idea that environmentalism hurts economic performance, a new UCLA-led study has found that companies that voluntarily adopt international “green” practices and standards have employees who are 16 percent more productive than the average.

Professor Magali Delmas, an environmental economist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and Sanja Pekovic from France’s University Paris–Dauphine are the first to study how a firm’s environmental commitment affects its productivity.

Their findings are published online Sept. 10 in the Journal of Organizational Behavior. (more…)

Uncollected Internet Sales Taxes Cost Missouri $468 Million Annually, MU Study Shows

By Guest PostMay 1, 2012Economy, TechnologyAmazon, brad fischer, business, california, congress, david valentine, e-commerce, internet, internet transaction, lobby, missouri, missouri legislator, online retailer, revenue, roy blunt, sales, sales tax, supreme court, university of missouri, us sales, wal-mart

MU researchers recommend legislative action to help local economy, state revenue

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Internet, or e-commerce, sales have increased over the past two decades, comprising nearly 17 percent of the total U.S. sales in 2009. However, many states, including Missouri, have no effective means of collecting taxes on those sales. Researchers at the University of Missouri Truman School of Public Affairs found that the state lost approximately $468 million annually in sales tax revenue during the past decade.

Federal law and U.S. Supreme Court rulings only allow states to levy sales taxes on a business with a physical presence in the state. For example, Amazon.com does not charge sales tax in Missouri because it is physically located in California. However, Wal-Mart charges sales tax, since it has stores in Missouri. In the study, researchers analyzed historical data on e-commerce activity and estimated that the state will miss out on $1.4 billion in potential revenue from 2011 to 2014. (more…)

Cincinnati Zoo Adds 50,000 New Visits, Drives New Revenue With IBM Business Analytics

By Guest PostJanuary 11, 2011Technologybeer hut, bird, brightstar partners, cincinnati zoo, ibm, ibm business analytics, john lucas, polar bear, processes to make key decisions, revenue, software, zoo, zoo projects

ARMONK, N.Y. & CINCINNATI, Ohio – 11 Jan 2011: IBM today announced that the Cincinnati Zoo is using IBM business analytics software to drive new revenue, improve member visits and integrate all ticketing, retail, and food sales operations. The zoo projects a $350,000 increase in revenue in the first year, and an additional 50,000 in new visits per year using the IBM analytics solution.

More than 1.2 million people a year visit Cincinnati Zoo’s exhibits, which feature over 500 animal and 3,000 plant species. The Zoo was also rated the No. 1 attraction locally and one of the top zoos in the nation by Zagat Survey. (more…)

UNESCO World Heritage Sites Threatened by Tourism

By Guest PostNovember 25, 2010Culturearchitectural monuments, chinese government, christina cameron, cultural, cultural and historical heritage, machu picchu, magnificent landscape, mount danxia, natural sites, old quebec, peru, peruvian government, post-war era, reddish sandstone, revenue, tourism, unesco world heritage program, world heritage sites

Machu Picchu Temple of the Sun (also named "the watch tower"). The stones of its dry-stone walls built by the Incas can move slightly and resettle without the walls collapsing. Image credit: Fabricio Guzmán. Source: Wikipedia

The UNESCO World Heritage program aims to protect cultural and natural sites considered important to the common heritage of humanity. However, many of these sites are now threatened by excessive tourism, according to Christina Cameron, professor at the Université de Montréal School of Architecture and holder of the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage.

A case in point is Machu Picchu in Peru. “This site should receive no more than 2,000 visitors per day, but it currently welcomes twice as many,” says Cameron, who sounded the alarm while speaking as a panelist at a celebration commemorating 25 years of Old Québec being such a site.

“The UNESCO World Heritage convention was established in a spirit of solidarity and international cooperation in order to share best practices for conservation,” says Cameron. “It was the post-war era and people were seeking for a way to bring together members of the international community. Tourism was never an objective of the convention. In fact, these sites were meant to be protected from it.” (more…)

Yahoo! Reports Third Quartar 2010 Results

By Guest PostOctober 19, 2010Technologyincome, operations, revenue, third quarter, Yahoo, year

*Owned and Operated Display Advertising Grows 17% Year Over Year* *Company Continues Strong Operating Income and Margin Expansion* SUNNYVALE, California, October 19, 2010 – Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. Revenue was $1,601 million for the third quarter of 2010, a two percent increase from the third […]

IBM Reports 2010 Third-Quarter Results

By Guest PostOctober 18, 2010Technologyamerica, bric countries, business analytics, diluted earnings, growth markets, ibm, information management, intellectual property, lotus, microelectronics, middleware products, oem revenues, rational products, revenue, samuel j. palmisano, software, system x, tivoli, websphere

ARMONK, N.Y. – 18 Oct 2010:

Diluted earnings per share of $2.82, up 18 percent;
31 consecutive quarters of EPS growth, 13 of last 15 at double digits;
Full-year 2010 EPS expectations raised to at least $11.40;
Net income of $3.6 billion, up 12 percent;
Net margin of 14.8 percent, up 1.1 points;
Revenue of $24.3 billion, up 3 percent as reported, 4 percent adjusting for currency;
Growth markets revenue up 16 percent, 13 percent adjusting for currency;
BRIC countries revenue up 29 percent, 26 percent adjusting for currency;
Business analytics revenue up 14 percent;
Systems and Technology revenue up 10 percent, 11 percent adjusting for currency;
System z mainframe revenue up 15 percent; MIPS up 54 percent;
Software revenue excluding divested PLM operations, up 4 percent, 6 percent adjusting for currency; up 1 percent including divested PLM operations;
Services revenue up 2 percent, as reported and adjusting for currency;
Services backlog of $134 billion, up $5 billion quarter to quarter, down $2 billion adjusting for currency, and flat year over year. (more…)

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