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- The maintenance renewal landscape
- A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...
- Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Maintenance Fee, Maintenance Revenue, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy
- Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...
- Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Dutch University Wins Excellence Award for Innovative Software in the Classroom
- Avans Hogeschool University of Applied Science Avans teaches courses that equip students with the skills necessary to succeed in the world of work. The university puts a high value on "learning by doing," illustrated by its use of business software, which helps the 20,000 Avans university students acquire the skills...
- Tags: Student, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Management, Software
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1
- We're heading into the forecasting homestretch now. You've seen what I'm thinking 'sup for 2009 with this post, this post, and this post. Now we move onto the final one or two or three (we'll see how long I can go writing each one before I get tired or sick...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Vision, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sales, CRM, SDN, BPX, Marketing Functionality, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Coding Slave: 'Software is expensive'
- Coding Slave: 'Software is expensive'Less obvious answerSome enterprise software isn't estimated at all. 1) Bigwig in one department or company meets with bigwig in another department or company, neither of which knows much about developing software.2) They negotiate on what the software should do and when it should be...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Sales strategy, SOFTWARE IS, Coding Slave, software
- Discussion threads 2008-12-04
- When the going gets tough, will the tough go to Web 2.0?
- A few months back, in a post over at the FastForward Enterprise 2.0 site, I pondered if new, on-demand technologies would change the dynamics of economic downturns. The post garnered some interesting reactions, and it's still extremely timely, so I thought I'd share it with readers here as well: ...
- Tags: Web, Economic Downturn, Recession, Worker, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media
- Over the last few months I've been listening with growing alarm at the claims made for enterprise 2.0 and social media. Or rather the lack of claims coupled to an incredible amount of posturing. What concerns me greatly is that in the mad rush to all things X2.0, we seem...
- Tags: DNA, Network, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, CXO, Social Networking, Biotechnology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Three trend analysis techniques
- There are three types of trend analysis that I have used in the past to predict the future: geographic, temporal, and intuitive. I describe these three in the introduction to my Seven Trends in Networking and Security pitch. (coming to your neighborhood soon!) They caught the ear of a...
- Tags: Technique, Gartner Inc., Analysis, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Bill Gates seeks patent for ad-rebate program
- I don't write a lot about Microsoft patent applications, as they're often so vague that guessing their true intent is an effort in futility. But when it's Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' name on the application, things get a little more interesting.Gates and a Microsoft researcher applied for a patent in...
- Tags: Advertisement, Patent, Search Engine, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Patent Application, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Daylight Savings Time change: Tips for Microsoft users
- Its almost exactly one month until Daylight Savings Time DST changes take effect in the U.S. and a growing number of other countries. The week of February 12, Microsoft will start pushing out to Windows users updates that they will need in order to keep their computer system clocks running...
- Tags: App Compatibility, Corporate strategy, Daylight Savings Time, Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Office, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Windows client, Windows server
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- If calculators=Chuck E. Cheese employee, then computers=?
- A recent post of mine Revenge of the calculators seemed to ring true with quite a few readers. I think that most math teachers would agree wholeheartedly that an overreliance on calculators has done an awful lot of damage to students computational skills. Most would also agree that...
- Tags: calculator, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Is Yahoo a technology company?
- Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is being skewered for allegedly not having “deep technical knowledge.”In “Yahoo vs. Google: Why Panama is the wrong destination” I compare Yahoo and Google’s corporate histories and business models, rebuking a Wired story (“How Yahoo Terry Semel blew it”) assertion that it has “empirical evidence” proving...
- Tags: Advertising, Google, Yahoo, Enterprise, Google Software Applications, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Microsoft tries to lure 'mom and pop' companies
- Microsoft tries to lure 'mom and pop' companiesBSOD belongs to the pastits now green, from what I heard, innit?Dude, do you have any idea how STUPIDyour baseless ranting appears to EVERYONE?Wait until these people see how much LOST productivity they......experience with MICROSUCKS products. And wait until they have to tell...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, BSOD, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-10-30
- Does every organization need a Web 2.0 strategy?
- I read with interest this morning Gartner's new 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle which they released earlier today. Of course, I wasn't too terribly surprised to find that Web 2.0 figured prominently at the top of the list. Released yearly, the list identifies and analyzes...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
- Swimsuit design needs supercomputing
- These days, most competitive swimmers wear some type of body suit to reduce high skin-friction drag from water. And makers of swimwear are already busy working on new models for the Olympics 2008. According to Textile & Apparel, one of them, Speedo, is even using a supercomputer to refine its...
- Tags: CFD, Silicon Graphics Inc., Speedo Goes
- Blog posts 2006-07-09
- Can blogging replace journalism?
- I used to work as a software engineer 25 years ago so I have some idea of what that job is like. But I sometimes wonder if bloggers, many of whom are software engineers, know much about how journalists do their jobs.Let me tell you a bit about my job...
- Tags: news story, IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Ray Lane visits the Gillmor Gang
- Ray Lane was the guest on this week's Gillmor Gang, hosted by the Steve "I Plodius" Gillmor and joined by myself, Doc Searls, Dana Gardner and Mike Vizard. Lane, who served as president and COO of Oracle before become a VC with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talked about Web...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Ray Lane
- Blog posts 2005-10-15
- Nick Carr on the amorality of Web 2.0
- Worth reading: Nick Carr ruminates on the millenialist rhetoric around Web 2.0--which he says represents participation, collectivism, virtual communities and amateurism --and the potential hegemony of the amateur, which is exemplified by Wikipedia in his view. Nicks says, "The promoters of Web 2.0 venerate the amateur and distrust the professional....
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2005-10-05
- Gates outlines new 'Dynamics'
- As the trial over the services of former Microsoft executive Kai Fu Lee proceeds in Seattle, Bill Gates was at the Microsoft Conference Center on campus talking about what he termed a coming revolution for mid-size companies. It's really an evolution, as I wrote about yesterday in my post about...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Dynamics, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-07
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