Some people swear that Apps are the future of the world and will become the major source of information including interaction with businesses and business systems. Others swear that browser based activity offers more options and a better environment for most businesses and that Apps are a passing fashion. Does this debate really matter? It [...]
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Apps or Browser? Do you have a choice? Does it matter?
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Are you ready?
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Why is Disaster Recovery important to Rental companies? Disasters present an opportunity for rental companies to assist the survivors quickly and efficiently with reconstruction efforts. Most small and even mid-sized companies assume that they’ll be able to resume operations by simply calling their staff in, and having them get to work. What happens when your [...]
Construction companies approach rental from a different perspective…
Monday 14 March 2011
…to traditional equipment rental companies. Even though internal rental businesses still may be working within a competitive environment forced to keep rates in line with prevailing market rates, sub-rent equipment from the market and provide all the services that an equipment rental company must provide, they must also work much more closely with the demands [...]
What is Application Modernization all about
Monday 14 March 2011
…and why should you care? View from the Edge This blog is an open discussion of what it takes to design, build, integrate and manage the world’s best business applications using Progress OpenEdge. Posted by Colleen Smith on the Progress OpenEdge website Click here to read this blog
Top 5 Signs your Business Applications are in Need of a Facelift
Thursday 10 March 2011
View from the Edge This blog is an open discussion of what it takes to design, build, integrate and manage the world’s best business applications using Progress OpenEdge. Posted by Colleen Smith on the Progress OpenEdge website Click here to read this blog
Emerging from a Perfect Storm with rentalresult
Monday 21 February 2011
Most companies have had to lay people off Cut back on hours as well as any spending. Day-to-day business processes have been streamlined down so that you can do more with less. Now that the economy is on somewhat of an upswing, how will you be able to do even more with less? The upswing [...]
Increase your profits
Tuesday 15 February 2011
Five ways to automate your way to a bigger bottom line The equipment rental industry, like many others, deals with a lot of complex, labor and information intensive business processes. Today’s technologies create opportunities to reduce the amount of effort and increase accuracy for many different processes. This article explores five different ways you can [...]
If your equipment could talk…
Monday 7 February 2011
Telematics in the Rental Industry If your equipment could talk, what would it tell you, what would you actually hear, and what would you do about it? Enter telematics and rental management system integration. Telematics is the technology that combines communication and information to monitor and report on machines like construction equipment and vehicles. It [...]
rentalresult’s SOA lets you rewrite the rules
Thursday 20 January 2011
Service Oriented Architecture How many times have you heard, “We cannot do that because ‘System X’ doesn’t work that way”? Or “That will take 3-6 months to develop because we have to completely redesign the program”. If these are statements you are used to hearing from your software provider, then most likely your system has [...]
