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SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how': The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...; Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-04-28
The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications: Imperative reading: this report from Forrester, "The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications," sponsored by IBM, discusses Forrester's ROI-based methodology for evaluating costs, benefits, and risks of deploying and maintaining ERP, SCM, and CRM applications. It can also be used as a predictive tool.; Tags: Financial, Packaged Application, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software; White papers 2006-07-11
Forget about implementation, focus on results: I'm often asked, what's the big deal with software as a service SaaS? If all you're doing is hosting the application instead of installing it locally, it's just an alternative delivery mechanism. So why do people talk as though it's a whole new category of software? ...; Tags: delivery mechanism, software, packaged application; Blog posts 2006-06-20
Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2: Integrating Packaged Applications Data: Warehouse Builder is Oracle's tool to easily integrate this data, and in the meantime infuse data quality checks, compliance monitoring and metadata management into the integration process. The connectors for eBusiness Suite and PeopleSoft are new, the connector for SAP is greatly enhanced for this release. The paper gives an...; Tags: Data Quality, Oracle Corp., Packaged Application, Warehouse Builder, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-06-01
SOA - Unlocking Packaged Apps Data With a Business Service Registry: A Service-Oriented Architecture SOA offers many benefits-notably, a dramatic reduction in the cost of maintaining rapidly-changing IT systems, acceleration of the development process through reuse, improved asset utilization and reduced redundancy, to name just a few. This paper discusses technology designed to address this issue. It then explain how combining...; Tags: Registry, Packaged Application, SOA, Systinet Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-06-01

Unlocking Mission Critical Data in Packaged Applications With a SOA Business Service Registry and EII Platform: In this webcast, you will learn how combining an Enterprise Information Integration platform containing pre-built views of packaged application data with a standards-based Business Service Registry to provide a single thread of visibility and control of all SOA interoperability activities provides companies with a powerful method of leveraging their mission...; Tags: Registry, Packaged Application, SOA, Systinet Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts

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McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker": Updated 05/16/2008 2:00 p.m. CST: I officially have my first customer for the "Nate McFeters Safe" certification and Jeremiah Grossman and I have signed up another member for Scanless PCI, as noted security researcher Russ McRee has purchased our certifications, see http://holisticinfosec.blogspot.com. God is good and created YouTube for laughs...; Tags: Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform: Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Web...; Tags: Web, Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Web Alive, Channel Management, Telecommunications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated): It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Minitablet PC, Intel Corp., Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Ready for the iProd?: I felt certain this was an April Fool's joke, but apparently there's a real patent application behind it. (Picture from New Scientist.) Call it the iProd. The idea is you load it with answers to health-related questions, which the device uses to create a...; Tags: Monitor, Health Care, Monitors & Displays, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Web 2.0 and the end of advertising: The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...; Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Facebook flap: Google's side: Amid the Facebook move to block Google's Friend Connect, the search giant has responded. As expected, Google had a few issues with Facebook's privacy assessment of Google Friend Connect. There's a lot of debate on Techmeme about the issue and it's a big one as all of...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Google Friend Connect, User Privacy, Third Party App, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature: There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...; Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-15
BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking: Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards: The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Patent reform dead for 2008: The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...; Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Commercialising the Semantic Web: Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...; Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices: I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Strata 3D CX (dmg): Have you ever wished that there was a 3D application that was as easy to use as Photoshop and had the precision of Illustrator. Strata 3D CX is the answer to your design needs with the ability to link to Photoshop files, import Illustrator art, and create photo-real images and...; Tags: 3D, Adobe PhotoShop, Animation, Strata, Strata 3D CX; Software downloads 2008-05-15
PhotoRecovery for Digital Media (dmg): PhotoRecovery for Mac OSX is an easy to use application and is compatible with Memory Sticks, SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Floppy Disks and most other forms of digital media. Simply insert your digital media into the reader, and run PhotoRecovery on the media, and then save the pictures off to another location....; Tags: Digital Media, Memory, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; Software downloads 2008-05-15