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- Will business users get onboard with the Verizon Droid? [podcast]
- The Verizon Droid launches Nov. 6 amid a lot of hype and anticipation. It's also being aimed at business users. We discuss how it measures up. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Business User, Podcasts, Internet, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Ad Hoc Reporting: Self-Service, Personalized Reporting for Any Business User
- This paper explains why ad hoc reporting has become a critical component of the BI environment and how easy it is to make this type of analysis possible for the everyday business user. The paper also describes ad hoc reporting in more detail and its benefits. It provides a case...
- Tags: Advertisement, Business User, LogiXML, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-08-10
- The Scarlet V: What's a Vista business user to do?
- Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing and is obviously the operating system that Microsoft and its partners will be pushing for the next two-plus years. If you're one of those business users who is in the midst of deploying Vista, what should you do? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Business User, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Microsoft to push IE 8 to more business users in August
- Microsoft will start pushing Internet Explorer IE 8 to business users via Windows Server Update Services WSUS on August 25, according to a June 29 posting on the IE Blog. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Business User, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Poll: Is Windows 7's ship date immaterial to you?
- When I saw a Microsoft Windows exec quoted this week as saying that Microsoft still is unwilling to go on record saying Win 7 will be ready in time for holiday 2009, I was more than a little incredulous. Hasn't the "we're protecting you for your own good" campaign gone...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Business User, Mike Nash, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Why Agile development matters [podcast]
- Lengthy IT projects are more prone to fail than shorter ones. Agile development can help reduce these failures. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Developer, Information Technology, Business User, Agile, Lengthy IT Project, Agile Development, OutSystems, End-user Engagement, Podcasts, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Analogy: WOA treats symptoms, but SOA the cure for IT complexity
- "There is a very specific disease of Enterprise IT that SOA cures. It cures chronic ESSD, or Enterprise Software Stupidity Disease." Leave it to Miko Matsumura Software AG to come up with a clever analogy for all things service-oriented. Miko has been following the WOA-SOA brouhaha I...
- Tags: Patient, Information Technology, SOA, Business User, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- A Manager#$#s Guide to User Acceptance Testing
- For most businesses and organisations, if IT stops, the business stops. Whenever a company turns on a new production line, opens a new retail store, launches a new product or provides a new service, there is invariably a new or modified IT system behind it. Going live is the culmination...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business User, IRM Training, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-03-26
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- Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?
- Not even hybrid apps?Right, got it. You hate everybody who doesn't buy your religion, which doesn't even allow for hybrid applications."I ask why I?d entrust sensitive data to a user with a laptop."You're right, companies can't even trust their own employees. Heck, let's send everybody home and dissolve the whole...
- Tags: Desktops, desktop, Google Inc., bad cloud, Desktop Application
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- iPhone - is it a good tool for traveling business people?
- yes- hmmmm....You're right Dan. Droid? Then you can have google navigation and we'll be able to find a better restaurant in NYC than the worlds busiest Korean :p Maybe those nice people @ 451 will buy you one ;)Thanks for the thoughtOne issue with the current Android V2 phones is...
- Tags: Smart phones, calendar issue, tool, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Michael Dell sticks to Windows 7 big bang theory
- too old?"Windows XP is 8 years old"So What? If it ain't broke don't fix it!Windows 2000 is ten years old and still does almost everything I need. Everyone around me runs XP or newer, yet I have far fewer problems.What is good for the computer industry is not...
- Tags: Operating systems, theory, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed
- You guys have been asking...You guys have been asking for a Mac tablet for years already, while we have been able to get tablet PCs for many years now, in many different form factors and from many different vendors.Yet when you close your world off by relying solely on Apple,...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., vaporware
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall
- Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup
- To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, operating system, John Gruber, Linux, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise
- In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...
- Tags: Facebook, America Online Inc., Shop Logic, Business World, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage
- The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download
- Microsoft still firmly planted in the LAST century.NTLinux Kernel speaks?Hmmm, I'd fear for the future of Linux if this is what comes out of it. You'd think the "many eyes" would have caught such silly logic in the kernel years ago...and looking ready to dominate this oneas well.Google is...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, public beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Office suites, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise
- Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?
- Typical MicrosoftThis is normal business practice for MS. Partner up with someone, take what they need, then discard them.Ask anyone from RealNetworks how their partnership went.It's about search.Wow, it looks like the volume of search users use the search engine that delivers better results.Google search is better than Bing...
- Tags: E-mail, SEARCH, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Office 2010 Beta 2: More than just a bunch of pretty icons
- Of course its better, they stole ideas fromOf course 2010 is better, they stole (oops, innovated) most of the new ideas from Office MVPs that built add ins to previous versions. (There is a very silent revolt going on in the MVP ranks over it and many long term...
- Tags: Numbering, Microsoft Office, Office MVP, ribbon, Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
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