| CACI wins printer contract
CACI International Inc. said Monday it won a contract worth up to $30 million from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to help the agency consolidate its 4,000 printers into a centralized system. Under the one-year contract with four one-year options, the Arlington government contractor will provide the Pentagon with what is called enterprise-managed print services. The new system will allow the agency to, among other things, track customer usage. The agency also will have one help desk to respond to customers. The Office of the Secretary of Defense helps the government with policy development, planning, resource management and fiscal and program evaluations. Subcontractors on the contract include Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard and Chantilly-based Comint Systems Corp.
Entrepreneur.com Columnist and Small Business Expert Takes 2007 Stevie Award for Best Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur.com, dedicated to offering business owners hands-on solutions for growing their companies, continues to offer top content from the foremost business experts, including the recently announced 2007 Stevie Award winner for Best Entrepreneur. .
Airlines need to invest in unifying customer information across their systems
According to Patrick Grubbs, Industry Director - Aviation & Hospitality, Oracle Corporation, "Airlines need to invest in unifying customer information across their systems for marketing, reservations, operations, revenue management, and financials. With a unified customer profile airlines can up-sell/cross sell additional travel options and services leading to customer retention, lower costs of customer acquisition, and enhanced marketing that is relevant and useful to the customer." Grubbs spoke to Ritesh Gupta about Oracle's expertise, optimal use of customer data repositories and much more. Excerpts: Considering Oracle's expertise in offering integrated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, what new trends have you witnessed as far as airline and hospitality industry are concerned? Well, first, the most prominent trend is a renewed focus on the customer.
New NT Chief Minister sworn in today
THE new chief minister of the Northern Territory, Paul Henderson, will be sworn in later today. It follows the resignations of both Clare Martin as chief minister and Syd Stirling as deputy this morning with both to remain local members until the next territory election in 2009.Mr Henderson was voted into the top job at a Labor caucus meeting held in Darwin today, with Community Services Minister Marion Scrymgour as his deputy.Mr Henderson, who is currently the education minister, has been the member for Wanguri since 1999 and a senior cabinet minister since Labor took office for the first time in the Northern Territory in 2001.He will be sworn in by the NT Administrator, Tom Pauling QC, at 3pm (CST) today.It was reported almost a year ago that Labor strategists were testing support for Mr Henderson amid mounting tensions between Ms Martin and her Aboriginal ministers.At the time, Ms Martin denied that her leadership was in trouble.Today she said the need for a fresh team and her own struggle with the federal intervention into NT Aboriginal communities had prompted her decision, and had not been pushed from office.The Australian newspaper reported today that the left faction of the NT parliamentary Labor Party had held a meeting in the Darwin offices of Ms Scrymgour late last night about the leadership.Ms Scrymgour sparked divisions in Labor ranks last month when she described the federal government's indigenous intervention to combat child sex abuse as the "black kids' Tampa" and "vicious new McCarthyism".The Tiwi Islander also questioned the motivation and operation of the intervention.Her remarks prompted Labor leader Kevin Rudd - Australia's next prime minister - to say Ms Scrymgour was wrong and that he believed a new approach was needed for Aboriginal affairs.
Patriot Express Loan program is off to a hot start, SBA says
Just five months after launching a loan program to benefit the military community and veterans, officials with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) say the numbers look good. More than 500 small business loans have been awarded to date through the SBA's Patriot Express Loan Initiative nationwide. According to the San Antonio office of the SBA, 14 loans were awarded locally since the program's inception -- totaling $1.428 million. The average loan amount, according to Linda Olinick, spokeswoman with the local SBA office, was $102,050. Correction:An earlier version of this story contained incorrect information regarding the percentage rates on Patriot Express loans. .
Surveys mixed about online shopping at work
Despite having a computer at their fingertips during the holidays, only one out of five office employees said they plan to shop online for gifts at work, according to a recent survey. Temporary accounting staffing firm Accountemps surveyed 539 workers employed in an office environment, and reports that 79 percent of professionals said they will not shop online at work. But the 21 percent who will click away won't just be sneaking peeks during down times. The shoppers say they expect to spend on average 2.7 hours a week ordering gifts. "The holidays place demands on people's time, making it tempting to browse for gifts online while at work," said Max Messmer, chairman of Accountemps. "But visiting shopping Web sites often is against company policy - employees should familiarize themselves with their firm rules on acceptable Internet use during business hours and use good judgment in how they spend their time." However, another survey released Monday paints a very different picture of online holiday shopping at work.
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