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Improving an Integral Part of the Lab: Vacuum

PowerDry vacuum pumps; a solution for applications producing condensation Where gases with high moisture content must be evacuated during vacuum drying operations, condensate may collect in the vacuum pump head. Consequently, the pump may not perform properly and may take more time to evacuate the designated volume. New, PowerDry...

Innovative Health Strategies near Milwaukee set to profit from Medicare expansion

Terri Bernacchi knows how to survive. The Milwaukee-area entrepreneur "bootstrapped" So now that IHS has begun to thrive, it is well positioned to help its pharmaceutical industry customers survive the massive new demands that...

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...

Determinants of RNA Integrity and Purity

RNA quality is a critical determinant for the success of many downstream applications, including microarray analysis. For this reason, if you are planning microarray analysis experiments, it is important to fully consider the factors that affect the quality of your RNA. <P...

Integration of the LEADseeker Multimodality Imaging System with automated plate loading and incubation using Overlord Instrument software

n The LEADseeker™ Multimodality Imaging System is a CCD-based optical imaging instrument that efficiently detects and quantitates light from a range of radiometric, luminescence, and fluorescence assays. Throughput of over 100 plates per hou...

Strategies to Identify and Confirm Phase I Metabolites of Glyburide Using the 4000 Q TRAP System

In this application note, several different metabolite identification approaches are evaluated for their merits. A comprehensive examination of four Information Dependent Acquisition (IDA) survey modes was performed to illustrate data quality and types of metabolites found. A significant number of metabolites were found with each mode of operat...

Rapamycin Optimized in 100 Liter Fermentor Using BioCommand Control Strategys

Researchers in New Brunswick Scientific's in-house labs have developed a unique controlstrategy to achieve high antibiotic expression levels in a pilot-scale fermentation process ofStreptomyces hygroscopicus. Using the BioFlo 6000 fermentor's on-line controller withtouchscreen interface augmented by the powerful supervisory capabilities of AFSBioCo...

Technology and mergers: Getting the strategic applications

The current dilemma...

Fire your CIO? If he's not implementing strategy, show him the door

, and the like, combined with the standard fare of maintaining IT operations faced by CIOs in other industries....

GE acquisition may boost "early" healthcare strategy

GE and Ab...

TrafficCast integrates new information source

, which provides real-time traffic data aggregation and analysis to traditional and interactive media, fleet management firms,...

Tommy Thompson's Iowa strategy isn't far-fetched

Thompson, who was last elected governor of Wisconsin in 1998 and who resigned as U.S. Health and Human Ser...

Doyle announces $80M renewable energy strategy

Doyle said the money - which includes tax credits, low-interest loans, and grants that would come from business development fund allotments and the sale of...

Going for the "Big Score" or hedging your bets: Two economic development strategies

announced his state would spend $300 million to convince a major biomedical institute to open a center in Or...

CATI venture part of new tech-transfer strategy

The joint venture model is seen by CATI as the next big wave in acq...

NSF grants bolster integrative graduate study at UW-Madison

The NSF grants, coupled with matching institutional funds, will provide...

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...

Mediasite integrates with Blackboard

With the Mediasite "building block," a Blackboard user can watch video o...

Johnson Controls buys stake in health-care tech integration firm

, in Boca Raton, makes a connectivity suite for health-care organizations. Its products will h...

On track with the FDA -- But what about your coverage and reimbursement strategy?

"Coverage" is whether there will be payment by an insurer for the product. "Reimbursement" is how much payment there will be if there is coverage. Unlike...

Education conference focusing on importance of integrating technology

Conference that runs through Friday; as the technologies involved in distance education have expanded, so have the fields involved. In addition to K-12 and higher education instructo...

Big Pharma already has a generic strategy, but needs new direction

that Big Pharma "will be forced into generic-drug strategy," and suggests that this will be a good thing. But Big Pharma already has a generic drug strategy for traditional pharmaceuticals. This strategy has not been particularly good for anyone...

Successful Wisconsin VC sets sights on data integration and mass storage

Trevor D'Souza finds treasures in decidedly unromantic spots like little beige offices and IT industry conferences. A managing director at Milwaukee-based private equity firm And though Mason Wells typically devotes its IT venture capital to unknown startups with huge growth potential, D'Souza likes to beat th...

Pharmas will be forced into generic-drug strategy

With 45 million Americans not having any kind of medical health insurance in the United States and the doors to cheaper medici...

TeraMedica offers system integration tool for hospitals

Paul Markham, vice president of marketing for TeraMedica, got the idea for developi...

Wisconsin crisis hotline gets Web-based integration

, of Austin, Texas, has sold the state software that will let it create a database of the systems callers and programs and link services toget...

MATC faces demand for less paper and more integration

The good news for David Wallace is that 95 percent of his customers want more of what he has to offer. The challenge is to make sure his organization is ready...

Camtronics to integrate medical records at cardiology center

Hartland, Wis. -- The system will store about two years worth of study results, which clinicians will be able to access fro...

Strategy and technology

Strategy and technology combine into one of the most volatile mixtures available to modern business. After numerous singed eyebrows or much worse, weve learned that randomly throwing matches at that combination is not a good idea. Unfortunately, many organizations seem to have translated that lesson into the belief that there is no useful combination of strategy and technology. Handle the busines...

Entrepreneurs Conference to focus on strategies, tools and culture

MILWAUKEE Turning big ideas into even bigger businesses is the theme of the second-annual to be held June 1-2 in Milwaukee, conference organizers announced Wednesday. The event is designed to encourage and foster entrepreneurial growth in Wiscon...

UW Medical Foundation Integrates Medical Records

Madison Wis - The is initiating a program to enable complete integration of the Medical Foundation's clinical data and to improve the reliability of the organization's electronic healthcare transactions. The foundation has choosen QDX...

WTN Interview: Carl Gulbrandsen
WARFs Investment and Portfolio Strategy

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Sales Strategies for the High-Tech Entrepreneur

MILWAUKEE - Ask any successful entrepreneur what the #1 priority for a small business is and you will get one answer: SALES. Despite this, sales force structure and management remains probably the most neglected discipline in business school curricula today. What They Dont Teach You (in B-school) was the subtitle for an event held by the K...

Spend Money to Make Money and Dump Obsolete Tech Strategies

Layoffs in manufacturing are still going on in the Midwest at places like the Maytag plant in Galesburg, Ill., which was featured on an NBC news story on Monday. There are many experts giving opinions about why these jobs are disappearing. The consensus is that many jobs are going overseas for cheaper wages and most stop there with their strategic analysis. That is usually a good place...

Institute Helps Industries Enhance Business Strategies

MADISON, WI- From online customer service to remote diagnostics, the World Wide Web and all it offers can equip businesses with tools that enhance production, sales, customer satisfaction and, as a result, profits. It has created the world of e-commerce, or e-business, where companies use Internet-enabled technologies to exc...

GameBased Learning Strategies

MADISON-WI. - The Wisconsin Technology Network recently interviewed Kurt Squire, Ph.D , a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher about his work in games and education, and how the principles behind learning a game can be used in academics. Kurt Squire, Ph.D., was recently hired at the University of Wisconsin-Madiso...

Software Enables Suppler Customer Data Integration

Milwaukee,WI-- a provider of supply chain execution (SCE) solutions have announced two new products that improve supplier compliance and inbound productivity by providing ASN and labeling capabilities via the Internet. CatalystConnect Supplier Link and CatalystConnect SL are part of an open-architecture based s...

My View - State Government Needs Integrity To Build Investor Confidence

I applaud Senator Ted Kanavas for his desire to align best business practices to state government. I was also pleasantly surprised to see the senator refer to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbox) in his recent WTN exclusive interview. Lets look at this concept a little closer. President Bush signed Sarbox into law on July 30, 2002 in the wake of corporate accounting scandals, most notably Enro...