We also believe we can sign contracts with very large customers who will also provide referrals.
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Large customers include Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, CA, which hosts top racing events such as NASCAR and IndyCar.
"NCR does have very large customers, no question about it, " says IBM's Kolar.
Years ago I went to meet with several large customers to see how our products were performing for them.
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The mandates prematurely accelerated RFID into the mainstream, wrote Gaughan, and suppliers are complying in order to keep their relationships with large customers.
The computing portion of our business was also lower than our expectations as we saw reduced purchases by multiple large customers in this sector.
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It's even less likely that cash-strapped airlines (several of which are fighting for their very survival) will retrofit their planes with wider seats to accommodate large customers.
Today's deal gives Cisco broader reach into the very small office and consumer markets, while Linksys gets access to Cisco's large customers and its greater distribution and financial resources.
But he also concedes that the number was below the 30%-ish range in the fourth quarter, as a couple of large customers opted to pay over time rather than upfront.
While Dell maintains the CTO model for our enterprise and large customers, there are definitely efficiencies and cost-savings to be realized in our factories with the shift in the consumer market.
And while the company is initially targeting the technology at large customers, he contends there is an opportunity to deliver the same technology via a service in the cloud for smaller businesses.
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The biggest computer-aided engineering software firms, Ansys, Dassault Systemes and LMS International, a Siemens subsidiary, have enjoyed double-digit revenue growth in recent years as large customers snap up their pricey suites of simulation and material analysis software.
Only 1% of the amateur power is connected to the grid now, but Portland General Electric in Oregon has hooked up 21 large customers with 43 megawatts of generating power that can be turned on electronically and supplied to the grid.
Similarly profound changes, Sikka said, are beginning to ripple through the IT operations of some large customers who are embracing this sense of renewal and simplicity within which cloud computing is not the destination but rather an essential part of the journey.
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And since Oracle software runs on a variety of platforms, it is well positioned at a time when many large customers are "rightsizing"--that is, attempting to find the most productive mix of mainframes, minicomputers, workstations, PCs and servers on which to run the company.
Only 1% of the amateur power is connected to the grid now, but Portland General Electric (nyse: POR - news - people ) in Oregon has hooked up 21 large customers with 43 megawatts of generating power that can be turned on electronically and supplied to the grid.
Lower than anticipated revenue from large Brazilian customers, as well as political and economic uncertainty in Venezuela.
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We sell primarily customer relationship management software and technologies to small, medium and a few large sized customers.
Four years later, RainStor launched a commercial product and has gone on to snag more than 100 large enterprise customers.
Of greatest interest to large corporate customers is the Alliance Support program, which is aimed at customers running mission-critical Microsoft applications.
For example, one of our large utilities customers has been able to cut their IT budget by more than 20 percent in two years.
He rose within the ranks of SAP, a company that looms large in customers and influence globally, but is a foreigner in Silicon Valley.
It's a tall order for a company accustomed to hundreds of large retail customers to juggle thousands of individual addresses, credit-card numbers and requests for gift-wrapping.
Like all advanced Drobo innovations, this new data protection feature is fully automated, so all users can enjoy the data safety benefits traditionally reserved for large enterprise customers, and previously unattainable in this price category.
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This experience showed Reichheld that his earlier work had focused too much on the entire range of customers, from the most satisfied to the least, with a large body of customers falling into the undifferentiated middle.
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The company now boasts a workforce of some 27, 000 strong and more than 300 large, global customers.
Altera said the revenue outlook has deteriorated across all major vertical markets, including both large and small customers.
TPG's network and also allows, but does not mandate, discounts for large-volume customers.
The company has received calls from a large number of customers reporting problems such as overflowing sewers and drains.
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