Benefits

Sensenbrenner and USPTO Director highlight benefits of technology transfer

Hartland, Wis. At a meeting Monday highlighting university-business partnerships in Wisconsin, , a medical imaging company based in Hartland, Wis., demonstrated its latest tool for assessing cardiovascular health to John Dudas, acting under secretary of commerce for the <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/" target=...

Nebraska bank benefits from Fiservs integrated solutions

Brookfield, Wis. A Midwestern community bank can now remove the guesswork out of customer profitability analyses, based on the integration of two technologies from two separate divisions of Wisconsin-based Fiserv. , located in Laurel, Nebraska, can now view financial relationship data from any of its desktops and ident...

Siemens health services president calls IT benefits unassailable

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Miszewski touts benefits of IT integration

The man governor Jim Doyle hired to manage the State of Wisconsin's information technology consolidation gave a progress report Thursday on the troubled project, now the subject of a state audit, during a "Consolidation for Optimization" program at the Concourse Hotel. <div cl...

State criticized over BadgerNet 2 execution; some doubt benefits

Critics of the state's plan to replace its decade-old video and data network, BadgerNet, were surprised to hear on Tuesday that a contract with an SBC-headed alliance had already been signed. The Wisconsin BadgerNet Access Alliance, a group of companies including SBC, Verizon, Norlight, CenturyTel and local telcos, has been contracted to build...

U.S. manufacturing benefits if utilities can assist them with energy efficiency efforts

As is so often the case with any form of legislation, each individual law represents a compromise built around a coalition of diverse forces. In the case of energy and electricity, one needs to look no further than the way most states reward regulated utilities for providing electricity. Each utility is allowed to make a return on its fixed-cost investments, for each unit of electricity sold, whi...

Former Oracle VP reveals thoughts on benefits of IT

Madison, Wis. -- George Roberts, former executive vice president of and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus, spoke about how businesses can streamline operations using new technology and how information technology companies can become profitable last Wednesday. His speech was a part of <a href=" http://mslive.sonicfoundry...

Real-Time Data Warehouse Benefits Healthcare Providers

Hospital administrators and clinicians can reduce medial errors, improve patient safety and run a more efficient healthcare organization by using data warehouses to automate the costly processes of data collection, organization and analysis. Less than 5 percent of healthcare organizations research outcome and process improvement strategies, despite the dramatic cost reductions, revenue...