15-03-2012 10:15 (www.abndigital.com) Jeremy Mansfield and his expert guest take a closer look at cutting financial costs. Joining Jeremy in studio is Joe Cimino, Corporate Solutions Director at Financial Fitness Training, and Jim Millar, MD of Financial Fitness Training.
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Tucked away in Ferrymead in what was the Les Mills building is a clever Christchurch software company, creating the systems the rest of us rely on to do our jobs every day.
The company, which has 16 staff members but would like a couple more develops Filemaker databases and software systems, websites and apps.
Digital Fusion virtually measures the inside leg of a business and creates software to fit. It is fully integrated software, which means the systems work with software the company is already using for its accounting system or email.
If, for example, someone emails a business to order products, the software will pick that up and automatically put it into the workflow system, which then helps the business manage and track that order all the way through to production, delivery and payment.
Operations manager Julie McLeod said fully integrated software meant more productivity and efficiency for the customer. Each business uses different software for different things, so Digital Fusion's developers have to customise software.
It is time-consuming to produce, but there is strong demand for it.
"The reason people come to us for custom software is because they want their software to mirror the way they want to do business. It helps them to operate in a different way to their competitors," McLeod said.
Owner Craig Saunders founded the company in 1996 and says most of the company's clients are New Zealand-based, but this year it will target sales in Australia.
"We really want to hit the Australian market hard, because there is a good opportunity there for growth. Because our time is more valuable over there ... we make better money," Saunders said.
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14-03-2012 10:26 Transcript by http://www.newsy.com BY EVAN THOMAS ANCHOR NATHAN BYRNE The physical copy of Encyclopaedia Britannica is being shelved. The venerable reference is going online-only after 244 years in print. The last edition of the encyclopedia was a 129-pound, 32-volume set printed in 2010. The New York Times says Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. is going to focus on its educational offerings and $70 per year subscription-based web encyclopedia. As MSNBC points out, the inevitable change to a digital model isn't likely to dent the company's bottom line all that much. "They were Google, think about it, before there was Google. But then Wikipedia became the research choice almost by default.... These days the book form of Britannica is just one percent of their business." And The Wall Street Journal says — trustworthiness and reliability aside, it's hard to compete with The Free Encyclopedia. "Ultimately its biggest recent challenge has come from the crowd-sourced Wikipedia which neither charges for access nor pays its contributors. That is tough competition for a commercially-run business." In any case, Drew Olanoff at The Next Web says this was only a matter of time. "To be completely honest, these print dinosaurs have been out of style since the Internet was born, which is about fifteen years now. I'm not quite sure what has taken the company so long to realize that it was losing money by continuing to print books, but either way, the time has come to say goodbye." PCWorld quotes ...
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Watertown-Mayer Schools could soon be ditching their traditional teaching methods in favor of, high tech, digital classrooms.
School officials and members of the district's new Innovation Committee have been exploring programs that would would pair each student in the district with a digital device. Such programs, called 1-to-1 programs, would go a long way toward eliminating the traditional textbook, pencil and paper-oriented approach to education.
Such programs can use any number of devices ranging from iPods to iPads and even laptops. Watertown-Mayer Superintendent Dave Marlette said no decision has been made on what device the district might actually pursue, but the district seems to be leaning toward iPads. Representatives of Apple visited the February school board meeting to give a presentation on how iPads can aid student learning and development in a technology driven world, and how 1-to-1 technology can be equally beneficial for teachers and staff.
Marlette said the Innovation Committee - which is made up of administrators, teachers, school board members and parents - is still working out some of the details as far as an official proposal is concerned. However, Marlette said he hopes to have a recommendation to the school board in time for the March 26 meeting, and hopes to have a 1-to-1 program in place for the 2012-13 school year.
"This is going to transform the classroom," Marlette said. We've been doing education the same way for the last 100 years. We bring our kids in, put them in a row, give them a pencil and paper and a book and away we go. Now, our kids go home at night and put their books away and play with their technology. We can't expect them to be excited about a book anymore."
The Innovation Committee formed after successful passage of the school district's operating levy increase in November. The additional funding - $300,000 of which was designated for technology and curriculum upgrades - gave the district the flexibility to explore its options, and Marlette said he feels
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strongly that a 1-to-1 program is the best place to start.
The district looked at models already in place in numerous other districts, mostly in the metro area, with teachers and administrators spending significant time in those districts learning how they have used technology to transform the way they teach students. The district looked most closely Minnetonka's 1-to-1 program that has had success in increasing student achievement and test scores since it was implemented roughly a decade ago.
"As we grapple with performance and accountability, this is just another way of us meeting those goals," Marlette said. "It's not even a question of if anymore, it's a question of when we move into it. It's really exploding."
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