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What Are Your Devices Telling YOU? How to Leverage Your Intelligent Systems to Improve Customer Service and Increase Sales
This white paper demonstrates why many organizations are turning to intelligent systems and embedded devices to help strengthen the relationships with their customers. Read now to find out how embedded systems can help you better serve your customers, attract new clients and increase revenue.
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Intelligent Systems - Connecting Data, Devices and People
Read this paper to learn how two recent megatrends in enterprise IT, the explosion of "big data" and the "consumerization of IT", are creating a need to enable intelligent connections between business applications, back-end processing, data capture, and the other technologies that today's businesses rely on to remain competitive.
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Smarter Business Requires Intelligent Systems - Leading companies are embracing and gaining benefit
Businesses that want to stay ahead of the curve know the key to staying ahead is making faster, smarter decisions. Most companies turn to BI to support decision-making, but savvy enterprises are taking it one step further with intelligent systems. Read on to learn what an intelligent system is, the unique benefits it offers, and more.
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How embedded systems can become intelligent systems, unlock hidden data, and transform your distributed solutions
Embedded systems can improve process efficiencies, but if your IT infrastructure is dispersed adoption alone isn't enough. In order to obtain the benefits of embedded systems, the various devices need a way to communicate. Read on to learn about a centralized platform designed to simplify embedded systems and data integration.
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The Sweet Smell of Success: Data and Insight at the Point of Sale
To help deliver a personalized shopping experience, Douglas, the largest cosmetics and fragrance retailer in Europe, relies on its store point-of-sale systems running Windows Embedded. In mid-2008, Douglas migrated to Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. Read this brief case study overview to learn how Douglas has benefited from the migration.
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A Production-Line System in Six Months, With Room to Expand - Case Study
Read this case study to learn what operating system and development tools Teraoka Seiko employed to create an intelligent production-line system that has helped increase productivity and control production costs by integratinig weight and unit-price information with a device that automates the printing and attaching of label to bento boxed lunches
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The Gear That Propels Ford SYNC - Case Study
To meet growing consumer demands for in-vehicle connectivity to GPS systems, MP3 music players, and mobile phones, the Ford Motor Co. needed a cost-effective, efficient way to enable the required inter-system integration. Read this brief case study overview to discover the embedded systems integration platform that helped Ford achieve its goals.
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POS System Fits Popular Retailer’s Needs for Real-time Visibility of Sales, Inventory Data Across the Business - Case Study
Read this brief case study overview to learn how Nakajima USA, replaced its outdated, ineffective point of sale (POS) terminals with an intelligent new POS solution that has given the company faster, more secure credit transactions and a clearer picture of inventory levels across all of its stores.
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One Trusted Platform Helps Build the ‘Factory of the Future’ - Case Study
Rockwell Automation is a global leader in industrial automation solutions that creates innovative devices to make the information-based factory of the future a reality today. For Rockwell, the embedded systems platform it chose as a foundation for its solutions has proven crucial to its success. Read this brief case study overview to learn more.
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Improving Data Collection and Delivery Helps Medical Researchers Extend Intelligence, Increase Confidence - Case Study
As the number of devices and specialists at GE Healthcare multiplied, medical professionals found themselves questioning the accuracy of the data collected in its centralized systems. Check out this brief case study overview to learn how the creation of a new generation of recording systems helped GE Healthcare overcome this challenge.
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Healthcare Provider Creates Secure, Streamlined Platform for Recording Medical Records - Case Study
Read to learn how Hillcrest Health Systems created a virtualized network that consolidated its databases and invested in new flash-memory devices that allow remote access to healthcare applications and enhanced connectivity with the clinic's database.
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Setting New Standards for Intelligent Patient Care in Hannover - Case Study
Read this case study to learn about the Hannover Medical School's deployment of new smart devices with a touch screen interface, passive cooling system, and more. Learn how the devices were built using one embedded platform so they're compatible with the school's existing software.
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Data on Tap: Liquor Board’s New POS System Lets Information Flow - Case Study
Read this case study to learn how the Montgomery County Department of Liquor chose one retail management system which has provided the department with significant reductions in staff and management hours spent reconciling errors and drastically improved its customer experience.
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Meet the Demands of the Modern Enterprise with Next-Gen Telephony
Legacy telephony systems simply don't fulfill the needs of the modern enterprise. This whitepaper describes the collaboration, productivity, and cost-saving benefits you can enjoy by leveraging a single, comprehensive enterprise communication solution in your organization.
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Enjoy UC with the Applications You Know and Love
Uncover the many features and functions of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 that will help your users stay connected and enjoy seamless, efficient collaboration regardless of their physical location.
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The True Economic Impact of Unified Communications
This Forrester Total Economic Impact study provides an in-depth look at how Microsoft Lync Server 2010 can help your organization increase collaboration and communications while reaping numerous cost-saving opportunities
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Results Are In: Lync Capabilities Evaluation
This evaluation of Microsoft Lync 2010, an enterprise-grade unified communications (UC) platform, explores why the latest product affords Microsoft what it needs to compete and win in the battle for the enterprise UC market share. Read now to learn how Lync fared when tested in-depth on multiple factors.
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Mobile Application Development Center
Visit this exclusive resource center to find valuable tools for your Windows 8 mobile development initiative, including an "App Builder Virtual Summit" that provides expert seminars on everything from game development to app monetization through advertisements to making the move from iOS and Android.
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Eguide: How to Handle Legacy Apps in a Windows 8 Migration
This expert guide explores how to handle legacy applications when migrating to Windows 8. Read on to learn how to avoid the uncertainty and compatibility issues that these applications can cause.
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Resources for iOS developers (Windows Store apps)
If you can develop for iOS but would like to get started with Windows 8, visit this resource center to get tips on how to build Windows Store apps using a variety of programming languages, and get the tools you need to successfully migrate from iOS to Windows 8 apps.
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Eguide: Assembling a Windows 8 Migration Toolbox
This expert guide from SearchEnterpriseDesktop.com examines the tools available to help your business migrate to Windows 8 quickly and efficiently. Read on to learn how to perform tasks such as upgrading existing machines to Windows 8 and moving a user's settings to a new machine with the OS.
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Resources for Android developers (Windows Store apps)
If you're an Android developer looking to get started creating apps for Windows 8, look no further than this resource center made just for you. You'll get tools on how to build Windows Store apps using a variety of programming languages, including blog posts, coding road maps, and much more.
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Getting Started: Learn to build Windows Store apps
In this guide, discover all the fundamentals you need to get your first Windows app off the ground. Read on to explore everything from planning, selling, and packaging apps, to coding in XAML to HTML5 to C++, to concepts and architectures.
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Windows 8 Product Guide for Developers
In this white paper, discover the essentials behind Windows 8 development. Read on for more information on the broad reach of the Windows Store, versatile input methods, cloud connection, and more.
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The Busy Manager's View of Android Mobile Development
In this white paper, discover how Android development is affecting project managers and application lifecycle management best practices. Explore how your IT group can prepare now for changes to come in the near future and how Android and Java development compare and contrast, among other insights and analysis.