Data management.KnowNow Inc., a provider of Publish-Subscribe technology for the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , addresses the important problem of tracking corporate data contained in Microsoft[R] Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software Online spreadsheets
KnowNow says its Publish-Subscribe technology improves the visibility of critical business information by publishing updates instantly to browsers, spreadsheets, desktop applications and mobile devices. This allows organizations to become more agile and better able to react to business demands. With KnowNow's Internet-based technology Refers to the communications infrastructure of the Internet, which is based on the IP protocol. IP is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. It may also refer to voice over IP (VoIP), which uses the Internet to make telephone calls. See VoIP, IP and TCP/IP. , corporations can share spreadsheet spreadsheet Computer software that allows the user to enter columns and rows of numbers in a ledgerlike format. Any cell of the ledger may contain either data or a formula that describes the value that should be inserted therein based on the values in other cells. data in real time. This enables collaborative workgroups in departments such as finance and sales to share spreadsheet data without the typical error-prone method of email and cut-and-paste. With a KnowNow-enabled spreadsheet, cells can be defined as either publish or subscribe; as new data is entered into a cell, data is immediately available to all subscribers to that cell. Finance teams can now simultaneously share and track financial results associated with customers, vendors, employees, partners and others across the Internet. Implications for financial roll-ups and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance include automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. , detailed audit trails for spreadsheets and other personal productivity tools. Unlike the complex system integration required for implementing real-time capabilities into back-end financial systems, the KnowNow solution can be deployed on top of existing corporate systems, enduser applications and Internet-based architectures, the company says. Using KnowNow, companies like Fujitsu PC have improved the connection to their resellers by automating sales and distribution information through shared data in spreadsheets. Before, Fujitsu sent and received each spreadsheet manually, and each person wasted 20-plus hours per month cutting and pasting--and still had information that was out of date and error-prone. Using KnowNow, Fujitsu has lowered costs and improved visibility into its distribution chain. Web: www.knownow.com/sox2 |
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