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Tracking your performance as an independent IT consultant

October 2, 2012 3:20pm PDT

Tracking your performance as an independent IT consultant article root Fortunately, you don't have to base your pay on your evaluation Your clients will do that for you. The one thing that is...

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Tracking your performance as an independent IT consultant

October 2, 2012 11:38am PDT

Are you meeting your client's expectations and your financial requirements? These are just two of the questions you should answer when tracking your performance.

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Whitepapers

Optimizations for Route Discovery in Asynchronous Duty-Cycling Wireless Networks

October 2, 2012 12:00am PDT

The use of asynchronous duty cycling at the MAC layer affords substantial energy savings in wireless networks. This technique is widely used in sensor networks and other types of wireless networks...

Provided by: Rice Software Consulting

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Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey

September 30, 2012 12:00am PDT

Wireless mesh networking has emerged as a promising technology to meet the challenges of the next generation wireless communication networks for providing flexible, adaptive, and reconfigurable...

Provided by: Tata Consultancy Services Limited

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How IT consultants can deal with language barriers

September 27, 2012 4:49pm PDT

How IT consultants can deal with language barriers article root use of Slangs Apart from all you said, there is a particular sensitive area 'Slangs'. As they are different by regions, countries...

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How IT consultants can deal with language barriers

September 27, 2012 11:48am PDT

Verbal communication can be a challenge when you're working with resources all over the place as an IT consultant, but you can't abandon it entirely. Get pointers for handling this potentially...

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CohesiveFT Adds Bring Your Own Network

September 25, 2012 12:00am PDT

CohesiveFT has introduced the latest version 3.0 of its Software Defined Network (SDN) product VNS3. This extends the capabilities of the company's Cloud Container model, which approaches the...

Provided by: businesscloud9

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Twitter demonstrates troubleshooting capacity in tech crisis

September 21, 2012 1:32pm PDT

Erik Eckel recounts how his IT consultancy used Twitter with great success during a recent tech crises, thanks to the real-time assistance and collaboration with other consultants.

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Be courageous when your client calls in another consultant

September 19, 2012 4:10pm PDT

Be courageous when your client calls in another consultant article root I also wonder... ... how things worked out for the other consultant. Did he handle the client better than I did? Or did...

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Be courageous when your client calls in another consultant

September 19, 2012 3:15pm PDT

Chip Camden reflects on how he will respond if a client brings in another consultant who muddies the working relationship.

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Supporting Distributed Execution of Smartphone Workloads on Loosely Coupled Heterogeneous Processors

September 13, 2012 12:00am PDT

Modern Smartphones are embracing asymmetric, loosely coupled processors that have drastically different performance-power tradeoffs. To exploit such architecture for energy proportionality, both...

Provided by: Rice Software Consulting

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Devise a business plan before becoming an independent consultant

September 12, 2012 11:09am PDT

Devise a business plan before becoming an independent consultant article root Of course The value proposition is only part of your business plan, but it's the most important part IMHO....

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Devise a business plan before becoming an independent consultant

September 12, 2012 10:24am PDT

The first step in becoming an IT consultant is creating a business plan in which you evaluate why a client would use your services. Here's expert advice on this process.

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Defining Big Data

September 12, 2012 12:00am PDT

Big Data is one of the hottest IT terms in the marketplace today. Not only are business teams asking for the benefits of exploiting it, but IT teams are still getting their heads around how Big...

Provided by: Slalom Consulting

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Geo-Distributed Contact Centers With Microsoft Lync

September 6, 2012 12:00am PDT

In today's world, many businesses have operations in multiple locations around the globe. Whether these are the result of acquisitions, international expansion, offshoring, or other factors, they...

Provided by: Clarity Consulting

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How to identify and target a profitable IT consulting niche

September 3, 2012 3:18am PDT

How to identify and target a profitable IT consulting niche article root Expanding the niche identification and two cautions Identifying a niche indeed is valuable for commanding higher rates....

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How to identify and target a profitable IT consulting niche

September 1, 2012 8:36pm PDT

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How to identify and target a profitable IT consulting niche

August 31, 2012 9:10am PDT

Charge more than burger-flipping rates for your IT consulting work by specializing. Read tips on how finding and evaluating a niche market.

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Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri: Turkcell Chooses Virtualization Solution to Meet Increasing Demand for Data Services

August 30, 2012 12:00am PDT

The leading mobile communications provider in Turkey, Turkcell needed to upgrade its infrastructure to accommodate growing data volumes generated by customers using Smartphones and tablet PCs...

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How to win friends and waste money on consultants

August 27, 2012 10:58am PDT

How to win friends and waste money on consultants article root Great post Liked the part "waste money on consultants is to allow adversarial attitudes to fester within" While working on a...

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