The other would be a pure-play domain services company, offering end-to-end registry services.
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This month, Expedia announced a partnership with Thomas Cook India to provide end-to-end visa services to its customers in the country.
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Nokia Siemens Networks will target end-to-end mobile network infrastructure and services, with a particular emphasis on mobile broadband.
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In this region, most homes are well above water and many businesses--in everything from agriculture and energy to manufacturing and high-end business services--remain on solid footing.
"I think the people that think mark-to-market accounting is the end-all and be-all have never tried to run a financial services company, " says Sarah Moore, chief financial officer of Alabama-based Colonial Bank.
If a city were to try to go it alone, it would have to make huge investments in back-end systems to provide all of these services, to run the fiber directly to the homes, and in-home devices.
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The remainder of sales was derived from its distribution segment, which is comprised of 19 company-owned and 22 joint venture distributors that services and supplies its products to end-users in North America and numerous global markets, including Australia, Europe, the Middle East, India, China, Africa, Brazil and Japan.
But some other areas on our list are benefiting from a hitherto unnoted shift of high-end services to lower-cost and often lower-density regions.
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Its end-to-end platform includes advanced software and network technology, services and systems integration, content security, managed home solutions, and next-gen home devices that deliver rich user experiences.
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There were an estimated 150, 000 subscribers to paid music-download services at the end of 2001, according to IDC, with the number expected to rise to 10 million by 2005.
On Oct. 1 it began the process of transitioning to the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) that will replace a single end-to-end contractor with a bevy of new suppliers providing unbundled services.
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The company has a suite of software-related security solutions, including end-point and networking products and services that are focused on helping to ensure Internet-connected devices and networks are protected from malicious content, phony requests and unsecured transactions and communications.
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Public safety is unified in its quest for this additional spectrum and as the network begins to take shape, it will be working with the commercial network operators to share some services, back-end systems, and other assets in order to maximize the network while minimizing its costs.
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Most have chosen to provide back-end scheduling services that the client company deploys on its site.
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Why buy servers and hire people to run back-end services when you can simply outsource the whole operation and pay as you go?
APIs are the vehicle that connects a product or service to these massive new communities, allowing developers and end-users to find innovative ways to incorporate your features and services into new social and mobile applications.
They are offering higher-end services, like data and unlimited plans, in addition to the pay-as-you-go options.
EnerNOC provides demand response services, energy efficiency and energy procurement services to end-users in the commercial, institutional and industrial sectors.
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Michael Dell, 47, is betting that his company will be able to evolve into a more diversified seller of technology services, business software and high-end computers without having to pander to the stock market's fixation on whether earnings are growing from one quarter to the next.
We deliver enormous customer value through end-to-end solutions that are scalable, secure and easy to manage, and Enterprise Solutions and Services now account for 50 percent of our gross margins.
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The Corporate Market segment operates an ICT services and offering end-to-end solutions in infrastructure and network-related.
Dell uses a mix of its own 7, 000 service employees and others under contract, leaving the high-end consulting to the likes of EDS. "Break-fix has been derided as Tinkertoy services, but there's a lot of money to be made there, " says Rollins.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
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Their businesses need scalable infrastructure to develop and host the back-end services for their apps.
People of all walks of life reached out for mobiles, even if some mobile businesses started by selling services to high-end customers.
Storing data in the cloud is becoming hugely popular not just for consumers who use it to keep photographs and other personal data safe but for businesses which are increasingly using cloud services to offer back-end processing power.
Sarbanes-Oxley put an end to selling legal expertise alongside accountants' other services to listed companies.
All the firms offer services from high-end businesses like IT consulting to low-end management of servers and business process outsourcing.
Among the latest Wall Street trends that Jake notes is likely to end poorly for small investors: cross-selling of banking and brokerage services by the likes of Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
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