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A surprise conversation with Larry Ellison

Late last evening I received an invitation to attend Oracle's Collaborate08 conference in Denver. I had to decline, living some 5,144 miles away from this year's venue and, being a blogger, barely have two red cents to rub together. Imagine my surprise when I got a return call from Oracle's...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Annuity, Larry Ellison, Larry, Qu, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Papertape Calculator (zip)

A full function calculator that includes a virtual paper tape that records all entries and operations made on the calculator. Instead of re-doing an entire operation to check one's work, the user need only review the contents of the papertape. The papertape also simplifies complex calculations since more than one...

Tags: Annuity, Calculation, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2007-12-10

FinKit (dmg)

FinKit provides 50 financial calculations assets capitalized cost, classic, and MACRS depreciation; bonds bond book value, duration, price and yield, zero-coupon bond price, and yield; term date, date series, year fraction, time between dates; interest between dates, compound interest factors; probability, pure endowment, whole life annuity, temporary life annuity, whole...

Tags: Payment, Bond, Annuity, FinKit, Investment, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2007-12-03

Microsoft & Synnex: ER Breadth Annuity Renewal Training

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to grow revenue potential and build stable year-over-year recurring revenue streams. The training is a drill down into the Open & Software Assurance program, as well as how to use the Annuity tools and how to place Annuity orders.

Tags: Annuity, Synnex, Microsoft Corp., Training, Investment, Finance

Webcasts 2007-10-17

Financial Advisor (exe)

An extensive and easy-to-use collection of financial tools and calculators aimed at both home and professional users. Features include: mortgage analysis, retirement analysis, personal budgeting, investment, savings and annuity calculations, future and residual value calculations, planning for your children's education, interest rate conversions, inflation calculations. It even includes a lottery...

Tags: Financial, Annuity, Interest Rate, Calculation, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2007-09-13

Online Document Management Increases Efficiency and Improves Customer Service

Hargreaves Lansdown is a leading U.K. actuary company that calculates insurance and annuity premiums, reserves, and dividends for its clients. Hargreaves Lansdown realized it needed to implement an effective document management strategy. To manage the company's core information of client names, addresses, and products and information on portfolio management, Hargreaves...

Tags: Customer Service, Annuity, Hargreaves Lansdown, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Case studies

Microsoft & Ingram Micro: ER Breadth Annuity Renewal Training

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to grow the revenue potential and build stable year-over-year recurring revenue streams. The training is a drill down into the Open & Software Assurance program, as well as how to use the Annuity tools and how to place Annuity orders.

Tags: Annuity, Microsoft Corp., Training, Ingram Micro Inc., Investment, Finance

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy name

Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy nameJust what is "Equipt"?This name certainly does not contain any hint as to why someone would want it. Product names should be at least somewhat related to the purpose of the product.I also dont like software subscriptions. It seems that they are simply another way...

Tags: Microsoft Equipt, Microsoft Corp., lousy name, good deal, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Time to blow up the software industry

Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Financial Services Firm Scales Fast-Growing Hedging Application on Low-Cost Cluster

Milliman, a global financial consulting firm, needed to expand the use of its highly successful variable annuity hedging model. The company deployed Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition on 150 servers - expected to grow to 250 by the end of 2008 - to reduce operating system licensing costs, retain...

Tags: Financial Service, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Linux, Operating Systems, Investment, Servers, Software, Finance, Hardware

Case studies 2008-05-14

VMware targets long-term deals; pursues lock-in strategy

VMware's first quarter results got the company out of Wall Street's penalty box and highlighted how the virtualization leader is trying to sign customers up to long-term licensing deals to fend off a potential pricing pressure from rivals such as Citrix and Microsoft. VMware after the closing...

Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Customer, Agreement, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-23

IBM's alternate universe: Big Blue sees great 2008

Thus far 2008--all two weeks of it--hasn't been a pretty for the tech industry. Worries about the economy prevail. And even companies that had relatively good things to say like Intel get clobbered. It's ugly out there--unless you're IBM. IBM's earnings results for the fourth quarter Thursday...

Tags: Software, Revenue, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-18

Steve Jobs' performance: The big takeaways

Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave his latest performance to the faithful and a few items stood out. He was in good form as usual, and his friends from Google, including CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin, as well as Chad Hurley and Steve Chen YouTube founders, were in the...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Performance, Idea, Apple MacBook, Engadget, Apple Inc., Video, Pricing Strategy, Apple TV, Time Capsule, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-15

Dell hopes to generate 'product lust' following mixed earnings bag

Dell reported third quarter earnings of $766 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $15.6 billion amid strong demand for notebooks. CEO Michael Dell said the PC maker is hoping to generate "product lust" with better designs to grow. According to Thomson Financial, analysts were expecting...

Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Earnings, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Negotiation tips for CIOs

How can CIOs avoid giving away the store when negotiating with technology vendors? This is an important issue, and becoming more so as product and service providers seek your annuity dollars, whether in the form of expensive software support and maintenance contracts or long-term offshore labor contracts. ...

Tags: CIO, Negotiation, MindTools, Free Trade, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Oracle's Charles Phillips: Fusion on track and SaaS for all

In a meeting with Enterprise Irregulars after his keynote at OpenWorld, Oracle President Charles Phillips discussed the future of Fusion, software-as-a-service SaaS, his notion of "acquired innovation" and other topics. Fusion is Oracle's next-generation suite of applications, built from the ground up on SOA principles. He was...

Tags: Application, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Fusion, Multitenancy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Web Services, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Office and Vista: Can't we give Microsoft some props?

Microsoft posts its best fiscal first quarter in years and Wall Street cheers. But the angst goes on. Derrick Shields at SeekingAlpha asks how can Microsoft stay competitive. The common refrain: The days of Office and Vista are numbered. We've heard this before--repeatedly for a decade. Wake...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Matt, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-26

The ERP devil's triangle

According to recent research, almost half of all software development projects are challenged: they run over-budget, miss deadlines, and so on. With this in mind, I read Larry Dignan's blog post, "ERP on a budget: Is it possible?" with great interest. Larry is ZDNet's Executive Editor, and he presents several...

Tags: Success, ERP, Consulting, Larry, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-10-09

The $100 server nightmare

The $100 server nightmareAcceptable CostI think this is Anton's refrain but MS prices are low enough that once a enterprising deal is negotiated no one worries about them.It's not a coincidence that Red Hat prices are so similar.All software licensing is a nightmare ...We got a new CIO 3 years...

Tags: Servers, server, server nightmare, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

Is conventional software built on bubble economics?

OK, I'll get back to some more serious points in a moment, but I couldn't help commenting on a jaw-dropping statement from SaaS blogger Bob Warfield. It comes in the middle of an interview with Concur CEO Steve Singh, just after Singh compares his own company's performance — since switching...

Tags: Software, Transition, Software-as-a-service, Extensity, On-demand, Corollary, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-09-26