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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives
Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.
Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices
Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.
Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices
This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »November 17, 2008 — IDG News Service —
DeFi Mobile and DoubleU have forged a partnership to market DeFi's mobile-data and voice-connection offerings in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.
DeFi provides a global IP (Internet Protocol) platform for mobile applications and services, while DoubleU provides technology, applications, mobile content and consulting services in the MENA region.
"The power of DeFi in the MENA region has great promise, as millions of people in every country in the region expand their reliance on mobile communication and business services," said Ayman Jomaa, managing partner of DoubleU. "The unique and high-quality services of DeFi Mobile are very attractive, especially the ability of DeFi to lower the amount of money people are spending on their mobile technology while actually improving the quality of their service."
The partnership will initially focus on 15 countries: Egypt, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Syria and the United Arab Emirates.