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Breakfast meetings make long lunches toast A OnePoll survey in the UK has revealed that morning breakfast meetings have replaced traditional lunchtime meetings as the businessperson’s preferred get-together timeslot. The survey found that 67 percent of polled workers valued breakfast meetings over lunchtime ones for the generally positive outcomes they generated, with the majority commenting that they felt much more alert in the morning. Additionally, 60 percent of those polled said that morning meetings were becoming more commonplace in the wake of the recession, as bosses try all they can in order to extract more productivity from their staff. The poll also surveyed workers on their breakfast habits in general and found that 79 percent regularly eat breakfast during the working week, claiming that in doing so they felt more alert and productive at work. More than half of those surveyed said they were more likely to arrange an early morning meeting, and a quarter admitted they have cancelled an afternoon meeting because of fears over their own levels of concentration and fatigue. Additional revelations from the 3000 workers polled in the OnePoll study include 42 percent of employees who regularly attend meetings over breakfast, 36 percent who believe it is easier to track someone down before 11am and one in 20 admitting to holding job interviews over breakfast.
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or over 10 years, Infratects has built a solid reputation in delivering consulting services in the Enterprise Performance Management market. Delivering and implementing tailormade Infrastructure designs to fulfill today’s requirements and ensuring each environment that is delivered can be maintained and supported with the skills available at our customers. For the technical implementation of their EPM environment, ING chose Infratects. “On one hand they know Oracle Hyperion software inside out; on the other they have deep technical infrastructure knowledge. They have specialised in a niche and are very good at it. Above all they have many large corporations as customers and are capable of working at our level. We have completed many projects with Infratects, always to complete satisfaction. It was therefore clear who our implementation partner would be,” said ING’s EPM Project Manager. With increased business requirements for high availability, fast close and reporting capabilities, combined with new software releases, the requirement for specialist EPM skills gets more and more demanding. Infratects has therefore seen an increased request for outsourcing the support and management aspects of its environments and for full outsourcing (hosting) over the last two years. Established with one goal in mind, Infratects always invests in talented IT architects with slightly different capabilities who are capable of designing, implementing and managing any IT infrastructure. Through understanding the technical and business requirements, Infratects continues to deliver tailor-made solutions for each customer. Delivering a hosted EPM environment needs insight into not only the IT Infrastructure or the applications used; it requires an understanding of the client and their processes. “We set Infratects a challenge; Deliver a fully functioning hosted Hyperion environment with our applications migrated into it within two weeks. They were able to achieve this with significant performance improvements as a bonus,” remarked the CIO of the Minerals and Metals Group. Please visit www.infratects.com for more information.
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