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performancesoft Case Study: Canadian Army - Dept. of National Defence, Ottawa, Canada

The Army, a key component of the Canadian Forces is a symbol of pride and national identity, representing Canada's cultural, linguistic and regional diversity in over 3,000 communities across the nation. The Army looked for a software solution that would handle its organizational complexity, while offering an interface that was...

Tags: Performancesoft, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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performancesoft Case Study: County of San Diego

In late 1999, the County of San Diego County embarked on a journey to install an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system. To assist the County of San Diego with their performance management implementation, the County engaged the services of Computer Sciences Corporation CSC. During the software selection process, CSC assisted...

Tags: Computer Sciences Corp., San Diego, Performancesoft, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

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performancesoft Case Study: Florida Dept. of Transportation, Tallahasee, Florida

With more than seven thousand employees statewide and a multi-billion dollar budget, the Florida Department of Transportation FDOT is committed to maintaining the delicate balance between progress and preservation. Prior to selecting pbviews, the leading Performance Management software solution from performancesoft, FDOT went through an intense RFP process with several...

Tags: Performancesoft, Transportation, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Additional Resources

Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business?

In a recent interview, Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich noted that there's "a lot of discussion within Microsoft" about whether the company that makes Windows should also make PC hardware. It's a theme that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touched on as well in a memo that was leaked to...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Bluestripe to tackle application management in virtual environments

Today marks the launch of Bluestripe, a Research Triangle Park, NC startup focused on application service management in virtualized data centers. The founders, former execs from Wily and IBM/Tivoli, maintain that most virtual servers deployed today support "non critical" applications such as file and print servers because...

Tags: Application, Virtual Server, Application Management, Virtual Environment, Tier, FactFinder, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Data Centers, Ip storage, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-09-08

IBM reworks storage strategy

IBM is making a major push to upgrade the computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to breath under mountainous piles of data. SAN JOSE, California--IBM is making a major push on Monday to upgrade computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to manage mountainous...

Tags: Strategy, Data, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware, Reuters, IBM, EMC, data storage, data centers

News items 2008-09-08

Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February that...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Commercial development strategies

For large scale, commercial, software development the right recipe starts with a Unix development and testing environment - even if you plan to sell mainly on Windows. The reason for that is simple: business success is more about how you build your sales than it is about how you build...

Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Sun Solaris, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0

As I'm clearing my desk to prepare for Citrix's event this week, I thought it would be good to post about Fortisphere's recent move. Fortisphere, a Kusnetzky Group Client, recently launched version 2 of its Virtual Essentials. Virtual Essentials is a tool that provides agentless, policy-based mangement of virtual machines....

Tags: Virtual Machine, Fortisphere, Virtual Essentials, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions

Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way. Even Microsoft is shaking in their boots, 10 years ago people would have laughed that off as mpossible. The fact that Google has risen...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Browser Landscape Google, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Iceberg: cuts code, evolves your enterprise

This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the perspective of how Iceberg this benefits student, check the post over at iGeneration. Some bits are the same and used in both entries; ain't easy posting the same thing for different audiences. A few weeks ago...

Tags: Web, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SharePoint, Client, Web Site, Workflow, Iceberg, Collaboration, Groupware, Web Site Development, Storage, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Internet, Hardware, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-07

What's up, what's down on our warming planet?

Glaciers are down, the ocean is up. Here are some details: Europe is losing its Alpine snowmass. Glaciers in Europe have lost 25% of their snowmass since 1980. It's more than agony for skiers. Huge sections of rock and rubble are leaving...

Tags: Meter, Glacier, Business Ethics, Government, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-06

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With DiggingThere are better ways to monetize and support great news writersThe problem, as I see it, is that News hasn't really found its "business voice" in the internet. Sure, news is powerful and one of the main things people do online. And,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, public relations, media

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOA

Over the summer the enterprise IT blogosphere was swept up in a conversation around the concepts that many are calling Web-Oriented Architecture, or WOA. A different way to think about service-oriented architecture, WOA extolls a different but related set of technologies, in particular how to apply them in specific ways...

Tags: Web, Business, SOA, Organization, WOA, WOA Story, REST, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Video: Adobe unveils 'Project Genesis'

At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthias Zeller, product manager at Adobe, demonstrates a prototype of the enterprise desktop client called "Project Genesis." The new software allows business users to create custom workspaces by combining and sharing applications, video, Web sites, and office documents. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft lab

Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft labLabs are a great concept but hard to move into the business...Innovation is important for long term competitiveness and the "labs" concept is a good one for providing a dedicated R&D capability. However, I've seen far too many companies including Microsoft have...

Tags: Microsoft Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?

What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?That explains it....The client was invisible to the user as a cost-saver, rather the cost savings were apparent to the video distributor. So, how does the client app make itself valuable? Joost had several interesting features besides this P2P media capability, but it also...

Tags: Joost, desktop client, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Possible AMD Q4/08 desktop processor roadmap surfaces

Possible AMD Q4/08 desktop processor roadmap surfacesUntil AMD can develop a product...that will perform as well as Intel's offering their roadmap doesn't really matter. They will be struggling in the market day after day. They can only keep market share by pricing wars with Intel. This will prevent them from...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., roadmap surface, AMD Q4/08, Intel Corp., processor, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-05