Moulin Des Carruades Pauillac 1976

always greener

Sembra da una ricerca recente che un cittadino virtuale di Second Life, consumi più energia elettrica di un bambino reale del Third World.

The energy consumption of information technology have grown in recent years, in an exponential manner and that is why large companies in the industry are proposing solutions to reduce energy consumption and costs.

Recently Google and Intel have formed a consortium called Climate Savers Computing Initiative ( http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/ ) , which aims by 2010 to build PC with an energy efficiency 90% more than today. This would lead to a reduction of CO2 production by about 54 million tonnes l'anno che tradotto in termini economici porterebbe ad un risparmio di circa 5,5 miliardi di dollari l'anno.

Il programma di Climate Savers non è però rivolto solo al mondo delle imprese, infatti uno degli obiettivi che si pone è quello di promuovere delle campagne educative per gli utenti domestici, così da arrivare ad una riduzione del 50% dei consumi casalinghi entro il 2010.

Un'altra azienda che ha investito molto nella ricerca dei "green pc" è la Fujitsu Siemens che, in tema di sensibilità ambientale, ha sviluppato da anni uno specifico progetto aziendale (vedi la fabbrica all'avanguardia di Ausburg in Germania).

In recent days, the Fujitsu Siemens has introduced two models of personal computers on the line 'express' that can reduce energy consumption by up to 50% on the computer used to date.

This is possible thanks to the use of processor resources are really necessary and the fact that the display turns off after 10 minutes of inactivity, the hard disk after 15, 20 minutes after the system goes into standby mode and after an hour is enabled for maximum energy savings.

I believe that these initiatives have not only benefit the environment but will also be ways to reduce business costs that will allocate these savings evolution of information systems.

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BI A useful tool for the control of

We talk for a few years of Business Intelligence, but the introduction of this useful tool for corporate control has not yet been extended, as it should, to all SMEs who believe in the technological evolution.

We start from the definition: Business Intelligence is the set of processes to collect and analyze information on the business.

The purpose therefore of Business Intelligence is to provide decision support and allow the monitoring of company performance.

That said, I think we can share each company, large or small, should take into account that a significant evolution of its management is to develop a Business Intelligence project.

In the past, BI projects were not implemented by the SME market because the products were geared to large companies with high costs of purchase and maintenance. But today there are very successful BI products that are appropriate both as a cost but also in training for medium and small enterprises.

With regard to BI projects, I have recently documented the program distributed by Zucchetti InfoBusiness http://www.zucchetti.it which I think is a viable solution for all SMEs wishing to develop a draft analysis enterprise data, creating a standard reporting of business information.

I have put some attention on this product because it contains, in my experience, ease of use that does not limit the potential to develop dynamic reports and graphs can also be used in Excel or published on the intranet.

However, I point out that the conditions for obtaining a good result from a Business Intelligence project are not only to identify a suitable product to their business needs, but must also be considered factors related to consulting and implementation of the instrument must be supported by specialist suppliers.

I hope it's growing attention of companies to analyze business data, as a lever for growth and competitiveness, through the use of management that evolved along with business intelligence software can provide exceptional results.