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- Forrester Strategies for Assessing IT Business Satisfaction
- If you aren't assessing customer satisfaction you are overlooking a potential goldmine. This valuable data is crucial to creating a successful IT strategy. But where do you start? This new Forrester Research white paper explores the importance of assessing IT business satisfaction. It includes best practices...
- Tags: Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Business Satisfaction, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-10-29
- B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
- In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...
- Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Future ERP
- Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
- Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications
- Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing new data center projects. Their decisions are often based on the appropriate "tier level" of the IT facility. The tier level is determined by an industry standard classification system for infrastructure performance. A four-tier system rates a...
- Tags: Data Center, STC Associates, Tier Level, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-10-01
- Methodologies & Tools For Web Application Security Assessment
- Web application security assessments are a crucial phase in the development life-cycle of any web application. The process of assessing a web application should be handled using the same approach as any other testing (e.g., Unit testing, Quality Assurance, etc.). A well-documented methodology should be followed carefully, and in...
- Tags: Web, Web Application, Web Application Security Assessment, Cloud Computing
- White papers 2009-09-03
- Inching closer to the perfect e-reader for students
- Give it away, just like Cell PhonesIf Sony,Amazon,Plastic Logic, IREX, etc... want people to start reading content on eReader devices, they need to start giving them away for free... with a service contract, much like the cellphone industry.Most people already understand these types of contracts and will feel like they...
- Tags: E-books, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Note-taking, e-reader, perfect e-reader, eReader
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Security Scanning Tools Overview: An Introduction to the Tools
- This white paper describes features of the Open Source Vulnerability Assessment tools that are provided on line by HackerTarget.com. Vulnerability Analysis is an important part of the security process; it allows one to quickly gauge the current security posture of Internet facing server or web site. The tests allow one...
- Tags: Tool, Productivity, Security
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Ricoh latest imaging tech company to offer "green office" assessment
- A couple of years ago, when the managed services mantra was particularly sexy, pretty much every printing or imaging peripherals vendor you can name from memory spun out some sort of managed service designed to manage the print lifecycle. Now, of course, the buzz du jour is "green office," and...
- Tags: Ricoh Corp., Imaging, Document Management, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Deploying Windows 7 - Part 3: Understanding MAP 4.0
- This paper on Windows 7 deployment continues by examining the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Tool version 4.0. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit MAP, allows organizations to assess their current IT infrastructure hardware and software in order to determine what Microsoft technologies can help them meet their business needs. MAP...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., TechGenix, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2009-07-17
- Deploying Windows 7 - Part 4: Using MAP 4.0
- This paper says about how to perform a Windows 7 Readiness assessment using MAP 4.0. Before one uses MAP to assess the readiness of desktop computers for a migration to Windows 7, one needs to make sure they can be assessed. The great thing about MAP is that it is...
- Tags: Desktop, Agent, TechGenix, Microsoft Windows 7, Real Estate, Microsoft Windows, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2009-07-14
- Worried about your printing habits? You're not alone.
- A new Lexmark survey entitled "State of Printing" finds that more than three-quarters of the 10,000 respondents feel guilty about printing wasted pagesâ€"regardless of whether they're printing those pages at home or in their office. Women were slightly more likely to feel "guilty": Almost 79 percent of them felt this...
- Tags: Cartridge, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- ThoughtManager for Education 2.78 (Mobile)
- ThoughtManager for Education is powerful outliner tool and educational database that allows teachers, professors, & students to create and organize the many ideas, lessons, tasks, problems, solutions, and assessment data found in education. Use ThoughtManager to: Manage classroom tasks, homework records, behavior logs, parent phone calls, etc. Create and organize...
- Tags: Education, Mobile, Outline, Template Feature, Time Management, Quality, Collaboration, Groupware, Productivity, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- Open Standards and Cloud Computing KDD-2009 Panel Report
- A panel on open standards and cloud computing addressed emerging trends for data mining applications in science and industry. This paper summarizes the answers from a distinguished group of thought leaders representing key software vendors in the data mining industry. Supporting open standards and the Predictive Model Markup Language PMML...
- Tags: Open Standard, Industry, Predictive Analytics, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Cloud Computing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Categorizing the SaaS Vendors
- Categorizing the SaaS VendorsLine between these categoriesNice article, thanks. But do you think there is a clear line separating these categories ? Where would you put companies like Oracle where leader keeps flip-flopping on his comments on SaaS ? :-)RE: Categorizing the SaaS VendorsWhat a great succinct analysis of exactly...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, SaaS company
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- One week with my Palm Pre-cious reveals the good and bad
- One week with my Palm Pre-cious reveals the good and badWaiting for the apple haters to jump on pre...like they did to the iphone.I've read a lot of Pre reviews and everyone agrees; useless keyboard, no auto correction or completion, inconsistent interface, and poor battery life.The apple haters jumped all...
- Tags: Keyboards, Engineering, Pre, Apple iPhone, Palm Pre-cious, Palm Inc., battery, apple hater, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- An Efficient Method for Service Level Agreement Assessment
- On-line end-to-end Service Level Agreement SLA monitoring is of key importance nowadays. For this purpose, recent researches have focused on measuring when possible, or estimating most of the times network Quality of Service QoS and performance parameters. Up to now, all the proposed solutions have the drawback of requiring a...
- Tags: SLA, Service Level Agreement Monitoring, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2009-06-04
- The Benefits of Risk Assessment for Projects, Portfolios, and Businesses
- Assessing risk at the project, portfolio, and business levels helps understand risk, make better decisions, negotiate fair contracts, create risk mitigation scenarios, and improve teamwork. This white paper shows how risk assessments lead to accurate plans that are less likely to lead to budget overruns or delays. Primavera Risk Analysis...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, Contingency, Benefit, Primavera Risk Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Successfully Managing Contract Risk by Forming Win-Win Relationships
- This white paper identifies some of the risks involved with contract project work and explains how a formal risk assessment can help alleviate those risks. As a result of risk analysis, strong collaborative relationships can be formed with contractors, and projects can be completed on time and on budget. Oracle's...
- Tags: Risk, Oracle Corp., Analytics, Risk Analysis, Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis, Strategy, Financial Planning, Security, Management, Finance
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
- Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousingTeradata v ExadataRegarding Exadata disk scanning capability, I'd like to offer a reference to a Winter Corporation assessment of Exadata. In the report there is clear coverage of the topic of table scanning:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/announcing-a-wintercorp-paper-about-oracle-exadata-storage-server/I'd also like to point out one small nit about...
- Tags: Business intelligence, Storage, Databases, Exadata, Teradata, data warehouse
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
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