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Although the product has great potential for a wider business market, it will be immediately important in the creative content industry, such as advertising and entertainment, said Cheryl Ball, a program director at Business Research Group in Newton, Mass.
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Users said the software distribution feature of CreativePartner is a boon in an industry where using courier services to send video tapes back and forth is the norm. "It collapses cycle time and decreases the turnaround time" for advertisements, said Fred Smith, CEO of Leap partnership, an advertising agency in Chicago. Smith added that there are three ways to communicate about video--letters about videocassettes, a phone conversation with the client and physically sending the tape. CreativePartner eliminates all of these by sending files over the network and allowing users to annotate them.Faster than flyingNicholas Rudd, chief information Tiffany keys heart key locket at Young & Rubicam, Inc., an advertising agency in New York, said there is definitely a business case to be made for using the product: It saves a lot of travel time.
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The most aggressive proponents of this new technology are in the healthcare, banking/finance and manufacturing sectors, according to the report. Healthcare organizations adopting a "wait-and-see" attitude toward these high-speed networking technologies may prefer to watch the banking/finance and manufacturing industries test the leading edge of networking. Technology specialists said they expect more than 40 percent of the companies in these Tiffany Signature Drop pendant to invest in high-speed network products.
Organizations in these markets have substantial legacy systems and are seeking ways to integrate high-speed networking capabilities with existing infrastructure. But customers across the board have let integrators and other technology specialists know that they want high-speed capabilities integrated with standard product offerings. They also indicate that the prices for high-speed networking products should be comparable with more traditional, lower speed networking equipment.
Realistically, most of the production networks that will employ Bow pendant technologies are still one or two years away from deployment. Today, the network and systems integrators, VARs, consultants and distributors are effectively shaping the nascent market for high-speed networking products. These technologists on the front lines are identifying which technologies are robust enough to merit deployment today, and yet will endure the vagaries of the inevitable market turmoil that can be expected to mark the next few years. Systems integrators responding to the survey stated that they are most comfortable with the technology provided by 3Com, SynOptics, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.
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