Framework for Innovation and Research
FIRM basically establish to bridge a gap between the academics and businesses to produce national and global impact in the domain of practice, theory and policy. FIRM has received:£2.63m grant from the UK Research Councils’ Digital Economy Programme, Jan 2010 – June 2013 and £439k grant from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) Jan 2010 – Dec 2011.
Link: http://www.salford.ac.uk/MediaCityUK/research-and-innovation/research-projects/firm
Adobe system uses IBM Power and virtualization to manage an evolving business model.
Will Kelly shows us the basics of using Adobe Connect Mobile for iOS to access web conferences from your iPhone. With the new Adobe Connect Mobile for iOS app, you can reliably attend and host adobe web conference using the iphone. Please visit the link for details description about the steps or how to set it up.
Here is the link:-http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smartphones/web-conferencing-with-adobe-connect-mobile-for-ios/5710?tag=content;siu-container
Bharti Airtel, the Sixth largest telecom company by market capitalization in India. And Largest privates sector telecom operator with strong presence in mobile communication. The business challenge for the firm is to adopting a business driven framework for integration allowing to implement and deliver new services rapidly. And need to find solution so that the customer relationship can be strengthen that leads to increase in Profit. So they had an agreement with IBM for 10 years and now IBM will transform its processes and take on the management of its IT infrastructure. Enabling a more seamless customer experience, higher customer satisfaction and more profitable growth.
The key Benefits is ability to process 1.5 million new customers per month and outsourcing will enable Bharti Airtel to focus resources on growing the business.
Here is the Link: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/cio/ads/outsourcing/assets/pdf/bharti_airtel_case_study.pdf
The University of Salford has launched an innovation and research space named Adobe Research Hotel at media city UK to 
encourage the student’s imagination, free thinking, collaboration, co-creation, encouraging them to think in a progressive manner and innovate their unique ideas. And all it is powered by latest and best technologies firm like Adobe, HP, BT and NVIDIA which are also the main leading partners of University of Salford, media city.
Also, I would like to talk about the Adobe who has an agreement or contract with University of Salford with global, creative software company which provide huge benefits to students and as well as to company and minimising the gap between the researchers and students. So at same platform, it is a big opportunity to work with Adobe Software development team and also providing company access to undergraduate, postgraduate and academic staff and expertise.
Cloud Computing Technology tutorial explained very well. and this video is for those who doesnt know about the cloud computing. watch it to know more about cloud computing.
This case study is very useful, illustrates the challenges and how the business agility can be improved. TeleChoice, is an info communications firm which deals on IT infrastructure, networking, products and services. The business Situation is like, employees were limited by the size of email inboxes, lacking reliable, centralized file sharing and lost files claimed a large portion of IT Staff time. So, the main focus of Company is they needed an upgrade.
Microsoft Office 365, plays an important role in solving the company needs an put an end to the time consuming requests. Every employee provided with additional inbox capacity of about 25GB with centralized file sharing that is safe and reliable; in addition, document can be backed up and easily coverable. Furthermore, new virtual collaboration tool have made it faster and easier for employees to reach each other through instant chat and conferencing.
In my opinion, I feel that an organisation has to be updated with the latest and effective technology to deliver the best result to their customers and make a good reputation in the market.
This case study is very useful and shows the impact of LinkedIn Recommendation Ads. HP’s social media team accelerated and work-hard to show their capabilities and launched their ‘Company Page’, to target the business professional and collaborated with LinkedIn because LinkedIn #1 resource for career-minded professionals and targeted to the specific people by their designation such as seniority, industry, job function and geography. The result was Marvellous, in just two week they received 2000 product recommendations, following to 20,000 new followers on Company page, in addition, 500,000 viral updates about the HP products and services.
Overall, the result was fascinating, and shows the impact of ads on social networks and how fast it can achieved the result, if targeted the audience or people in effective manner.
Link:http://marketing.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/LinkedIn_HPCaseStudy2011.pdf
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