• What is Your Software Vendor’s Core Competency?

    How many of you have purchased software to help manage CPE or other assets from a vendor whose expertise was not software? Although the price may seem right at first, chances are it will cost you far more in the long run simply because writing and maintaining software is not their core competency. Knowing what [...]

  • Why the Future of Cable Operations is Service

    I try to keep up with the cable industry as much as possible especially when changes start affecting cable warehouse management. From what I can tell, over the last year or so technology changes, social attitudes, content wars and net neutrality issues have begun to shift and possibly forever alter cable warehouse management. Although some [...]

  • EIS Expiring User Accounts

    Security Enhancement for Inactive Users The last update to EIS brought many security enhancements to the system, including the ability to set a preset number of days a user has been inactive.  Once this number of days of inactivity has been reached, the user account id will be marked as “Inactive” and will be unable [...]

  • Is CPE Repair a Thing of the Past?

    It is not difficult to be overwhelmed by all the new technology being developed. After all, advances in cable and telecommunication technology have made content available in living room game consoles, smartphones, tablets and personal computers. The rapidly changing technology is bound to force cable MSOs to fundamentally alter their business operations models when it [...]

  • Relevant EAM CMMS, Cable, and Lodging News for 12-23-2011

    Each week Mintek will bring you selected links to stories about EAM & CMMS systems, as well as news for our two largest industries Cable and Lodging. EAM CMMS News In this section we will include articles from around the web (including ours) that will focus on asset, document and maintenance management, as well as, [...]