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What's New with EQUS:
EQUS CIO Forum
Focuses on Current Economic Climate:
This high level panel will caucus in late October in a series of
sessions moderated by our CEO, Al Nazarelli.
The
central theme will be how current economic woes are expected to
affect IT spending over the next 12 months. With Apple shares
down, AMD facing financial woes and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft
indicating softness expected in consumer and business spending
in the US likely to affect the sector, we would like to hear
directly from CIOs about their spending plans as they create
their strategic plans and budgets for 2009.
Represented in the Forum will be CIOs of Fortune 500 and
mid-size companies across industry verticals. Our findings
are expected to be published and made available for purchase as
part of our EQUS Insights™ series.
EQUS granted
trademark by US Patent & Trademark Office for e361® and
Enterprise 361®
Good news! The USPTO has this month, officially granted these
marks to us to be used to launch our new Customer Insights
portals under the e361® brand. The e361® and Enterprise361®
brands will be marketing aggressively for the offering announced
earlier this year. The offering currently in pilot and
"lighthouse customer" stage has been well received and we look
forward to an exciting general market launch in the coming
months. In addition to the tremendous value in increasing levels
of customer intelligence and saving costs, the program also
provides an unprecedented view across the enterprise on data
that previously has been "siloed". In particular, sales
personnel report great utility in having real time, in-field
access to customer data when they need it the most.
Shawn Fisher joins EQUS Redmond team!
Shawn Fisher has joined EQUS in Seattle as Market Analyst as
part of our Microsoft Account Team. Shawn is a Seattle native
and University of Washington graduate whose previous marketing
experience includes Public Sector and Financial Services analyst
positions.
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Al's Corner:
Green
EQUS
Going Green is not just the province of large companies. Small
and mid-size companies can also do a lot. So says
EQUS Founder & CEO, Al Nazarelli. Several Green initiatives have
been launched at EQUS this year:
1.
"Situational
Telecommuting" policy
for employees enables work at home in situations where they do
not have to meet with clients or other team members, helping
ease traffic emissions and congestion given our offices are
located in the Bay area and San Jose, two of the nation's
highest congestion metropolitan areas. In addition to
environmental impacts, employees report higher satisfaction
and productivity not to mention fuel cost savings. The
telecommuting policy also has the potential for keeping real
estate square footage costs down, a key factor to consider in
future growth planning according to Director of Operations, Lee
Clements.
2.
Aggressive Recycling office programs
in
our offices including minimizing paper and printing. Technology
decisions also take Green initiatives into account according to
IT Manager, Chuck Rogers, who points to the migration to
QuickBooks Online earlier this year. CEO, Al Nazarelli, adds that
using Amazon Kindle to read his four morning papers,
San Jose Mercury News, Seattle Times, Wall St Journal
and New York Times is saving "tons of newsprint" from our
previous practice of in-office delivery of these publications.
With our San Jose office lease up for renewal this year, EQUS
also will use "Greenness" of proposed location sites into
account when making a decision.
3.
Proactively Becoming a Green Supply Chain Partner:
While not officially requested yet, EQUS is proactively seeking
out Green Policies of our clients to preemptively become
compliant with them, as we have done previously with other
policies such as hiring practices and privacy and data security
policies. EQUS also expects to pass these policies along, hiring
suppliers such as focus group facilities on the basis of their
greenness. We are already attracted and favorably disposed to
greener partners and expect to do more of this in the future.
"Minds
are like parachutes- they only function when open"
Thomas Dewar
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