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- NetSuite reveals Salesforce.com's Achilles heel
- NetSuite reveals Salesforce.com's Achilles heelSalesforce Connector for SAP R/3 – Great ProductSalesforce launched “Salesforce Connector” in July. I have reviewed its features on the Salesforce official website. It sounds good and gives support to back-office by providing customer data. This integration of Salesforce and SAP R/3 is a great...
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., Achilles heel, NetSuite Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-27
- JetBlue fiasco: A database could have made a difference
- JetBlue fiasco: A database could have made a differenceThey were probably using an access database...and it fell over with all of the updates.Glad to know they're a MS Shop. I'll never fly them.Scary to think that they are running an airline on MS software. And proud of it.Guess...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, Achilles Heel, database, JetBlue Airways Corp., fiasco
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- NetSuite reveals Salesforce.com's Achilles heel
- Just prior to a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit panel on software as a service that includes the three bigger upstart players--Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com; Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite; Greg Gianforte, CEO of RightNow Technologies--NetSuite send out a press release touting Salesforce.com defections to NetSuite. The...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
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- The Microsoft middle ground
- The Microsoft middle groundYes, but the current perceived credit crunchshould get rid of a lot of the "me-too" fat from the system.Only the genuine knowledgeable IT lovers will be left ....Price vs TCOYour piece fails to mention the well-documented costs of owning MS-based desktops and servers. The delta in...
- Tags: Printers, Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, lock-in, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- I say crapware; you say 'performance enhancer'
- I say crapware; you say 'performance enhancer'agreedall trialware should be treated as crapware.OneCare offered as TRIAL is crapware.OneCare offered as TRIAL is crapware.I want the full version or nothing. Trial is useless.Anyway I don't like OneCare because it's a security suite. I would like a simple antivirus only programohgreat.One problem...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OneCare, performance enhancer, software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., laptop computer, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook again
- Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook againApple on the MoveApple continues to impress both in unit sales and marketshare gains. It has taken Steve Jobs awhile to make significant inroads into PC marketshare, but you are now witnessing the fruits of his perseverance. If Apple only had a development...
- Tags: Development tools, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Guest post: An ode to the humble spreadsheet
- Guest blog: Bob Warfield has founded three startups, run R&D at Borland, developed software for Callidus and Oracle and created tools for Rational/Pure Atria. He currently works for SaaS customer service company Helpstream. He is responsible for Quattro Pro, the Borland spreadsheet, and is the inventor of the notebook tabs...
- Tags: Spreadsheet, Productivity, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel
- Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...
- Tags: Servers, server, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Costing Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- MacPhobia vs. PCPhobia
- MacPhobia vs. PCPhobiaThe other common problem I see here at workare the result of ifrared mice in many cases. A simple test to try would be to just attach a wired usb mouse into the unit and use it for a while.If the cursor ceases to jump, you have found...
- Tags: Desktops, Linux, Apple Macintosh, PCPhobia, MacPhobia, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Homeopathic Company Safeguards System, Heals Network Security From the Inside Out
- Heel USA is a multimillion-dollar company that was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1979 by Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg, MD, who originally founded Heel in Baden-Baden, Germany in 1936. With a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to accommodate, Heel needed a solid network solution that could safeguard its confidential data and information,...
- Tags: Network, Network Security, Dell Server, Networking, Servers, Security, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-06-06
- The Regional Coordination Programs of RIVM Improves Monitoring Processes and Ensures Data Security
- The Regional Coordination Programs RCP wanted to develop a solution that accelerates and optimizes the transfer of dossiers between different regions of the organization and guarantee the security of child dossiers and child data by storing in a central database. The challenge was to provide employees in the various regions...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Monitoring, Dossier, Data Security, Storage, Databases, Security, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?
- How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?What's wrong with walking to workAlthough I accept that "nobody wants to sit in the dark" the notion that "nobody wants to walk to work" is ridiculous.It is the car addiction of countries like USA that has led...
- Tags: Self-Interest, Oil Prices, oil
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?
- Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?Familiar or not, it's still XP.That will be a huge achillies heel for MS. XP runs well on modest desktops and notebooks. Not fast, but well. Take the EEE, it can run XP, however, it is slower, and as you stated, the...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, EEE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Xandros
- Discussion threads 2008-05-11
- Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices
- Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices$5.00/gal!The Arabs will not stop until we are paying $5! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comMake Them Sick; Then Sell Them The MedicineIt seems suspicious that a "texas oilman" who has control of oil, and therefore is a beneficiary of high oil prices would want...
- Tags: Gas Prices, oil, environmentalist
- Discussion threads 2008-04-27
- Ubuntu: I'm extremely impatient
- Ubuntu: I'm extremely impatientFor the certificate problems, try this:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/Download Firefox 2, and for the repo problems just pick a mirror to use, if only for next day or two.Lots of other people want it at the same timeand you're throwing a wobbly. Perhaps you should go to as many distro's...
- Tags: Web browsers, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Edelman on Sustainability Reporting: Call in the PR Pros
- It's a conundrum every company faces when thinking about sustainability reporting - who reads this stuff anyway and do these reports actually assure anyone of anything? Sustainability reporting methodologies have grown up, for better or for worse, to ape financial reporting, replete with their own standards of assurance audit and...
- Tags: Sustainability, Public Relations, Standards, Financial Reporting Methodology, Edelman, Assurance Standard, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Google for enterprise: my $500 bet
- Robert Scoble believes that Google is making a run for the enterprise and that over the next five years will grab at least some share of that market, specifically in email. He might be right but I'm willing to bet $500 that he's wrong. This is what I see...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Robert, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- A closer look at the HTC Shift from Sprint
- I've been using an HTC Shift from Sprint for over a week now and as you can see in the more than 140 photos and screenshots found in my image gallery and quick and dirty post yesterday I have had a chance to try out most all aspects of the...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Microsoft Windows Vista, Sprint Communications, HTC Shift, SnapVUE 1.8, A/C Adapter Brick, Origami Central Application, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Lexmark X7550
- The $200 Lexmark x7550 is a misfortunate victim of the all-in-one Achilles heel: In combining several features into one unit, the whole ends up sacrificing functionality on each of the individual parts. The printer quality is trumped by even the most entry-level inkjets, the fax machine is mediocre because of...
- Tags: Printers, Document management, Fax, Wi-Fi, Lexmark International Inc., x7550, Lexmark X7550, printer
- Product reviews 2008-03-18
- Microsoft vs. the EC, round 236
- Microsoft vs. the EC, round 236Missing point, JohnEspecially since this was all about documentation, you might have mentioned that forcing Microsoft to actually generate external documentation (instead of "the source [u]is[/u] the documentation") will also benefit the Company, however much it grated on the egos involved.Price charged for IP.For clarity,...
- Tags: Public relations, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
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