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BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking: Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Pet Shop Hop (exe): The joys of animal companionship can now be yours to share! For decades your family business has offered pretty fish, cuddly kittens, furry rabbits, adorable puppies, and feathered friends to customers from the neighborhood. Times are changing though, and now MegaPet Superstore is threatening to put you out of business!...; Tags: Shop, Business, PlayFirst, Times; Software downloads 2008-05-14
Are SOA-related business concerns outside the IT 'comfort zone'?: Those folks at Burton Group really know how to rattle our cages. A few weeks back, Anne Thomas Manes declared that she has yet to see any solid SOA success stories, and reportedly is still looking for one. When the subject of SOA business value came up,...; Tags: Information Technology, Business, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Analyst: why even the best SOAs are 'stalling': "It has become clear to me that SOA is not working in most organizations." -Anne Thomas Manes Many SOAs are 'stunningly beautiful infrastructures,' but have yet to deliver value When Anne talks, people listen. That's why this line in her latest blog...; Tags: Business, SOA, Anne, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-03-16
Profit Tiger Professional (zip): Whether you are a real estate investor that rehabs or owner finances, you will be able to run your entire business on this one of a kind software package that will grow with your business. You now can utilize the power of this software package to grow your business into...; Tags: Business, Profit Tiger Systems, Real Estate, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Management; Software downloads 2008-03-14

Eliot Spitzer's software nightmare: New York State's governor, Eliot Spitzer, got caught in a prostitution probe largely because of financial reporting rules emphasized in the post 9/11 era. As described by Larry Dignan: [W]hat really snared Spitzer was a money laundering investigation that was flagged ...; Tags: Software, Bank, Financial, Business, Money, Eliot Spitzer, New York State, Launderer, Malefactor, Financial Services, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-03-11
Combating the Increasing Cost of Email: Businesses usually adopt a commonsense approach when it comes to spending the IT budget with cost being a major influencer in purchasing decisions. However, when it comes to choosing a mail server, many businesses seem to pay less attention to the costs and, as a result, end up spending far...; Tags: Collaboration, Business, E-mail, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2008-03-05
The Role of a Rules Architect: Transform business Requirements Into IT Realizations: The business rules architect plays a crucial role designing business rules models that are well organized and intuitive for both technical and business stakeholders to understand. This paper discusses the importance of the role and uses the business rules development life cycle to describe the responsibilities of the rules architect...; Tags: Role, Information Technology, Business, Strategy, Management; White papers 2008-03-04
Niche Appointments (02): More and more businesses and organizations are realizing the benefits of computerizing their appointment management process with Niche Appointments. Businesses who purchase Niche Appointments used to use a traditional appointment book and tell us that computerizing this part of the business has benefited them in a number of cost saving...; Tags: Revenue, Business, Niche Technologies, Operational Accounting, Finance; Software downloads 2008-02-21
IBM on Corporate Social Responsibility: Collaboration, Integration and NGO Foot Soldiers: Corporate responsibility at IBM is a class act so high expectations then when the IBM Institute for Business Value this week came out with a piece on CSR: Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility. Dazzling stuff but one or two clangers as well. IBM...; Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Collaboration, Revolution, Business, IBM Corp., Integration, NGO, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar; Blog posts 2008-02-16
TechRepublic SolutionSeries: VoIP In A Small business Environment: Big businesses are deploying Voice Over IP to use the power of the Internet to bring down costs and improve communications to vendors, customers, and traveling employees. Just because you're in a smaller business, it doesn't mean that you have to be left behind by this emerging technology. ...; Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Business, Small Business, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking; Download resources 2008-02-15
IT2020: The New Performance Management Paradigm: How is business? This question is quickly becoming the only relevant metric for IT performance. IT performance management used to be the exclusive domain of system administrators who focused solely on IT stability, with little or no understanding of business impact. Businesses are now realising that the performance and availability...; Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Business, ASG Software Solutions, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2008-02-15
20% of business to rely on Webmail by 2012: By 2012, business use of Web-based mail will jump to 20%, says Gartner. by AM; Tags: Business, Channel Management, Marketing, AM; Blog posts 2008-02-13
Simdesk DesktopConnects (6): Simdesk gives your business the freedom to stay focused on what really matters - growing your business, not your IT cost. Access to all your files, e-mail, calendars and printers anywhere your business takes you. All with no hardware to buy or maintain. Only $12.95 per user/per month Your Simdesk...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Business, Microsoft Office, Databases, Viruses And Worms, Security, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-01-18
Microsoft shake-up: The e-mails on President Raikes' depature: We know what Microsoft told press and analysts about yesterday's announcement by Microsoft Business Development MBD President Jeff Raikes that he'll be passing the torch, come September, to former Juniper Networks Chief Operating Officer Stephen Elop. But what did Raikes and CEO Steve Ballmer tell Microsoft's near-80,000 employees about the...; Tags: Jeff Raikes, Business, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Business Development, Jeff, Stephen, Microsoft Business Solutions, Leadership, Professional Development, E-mail, Business Structures, Management, Career, Online Communications, Finance, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-01-11
SOA as 'My Cloud': In previous posts, I speculated whether SOA often functions as 'internal Software as a Service.' Here's an interesting role for SOA: Create your own 'compute cloud' John deVadoss, director of architecture strategy at Microsoft, has an even better phrase for the phenomenon: 'My Cloud.'...; Tags: Information Technology, Business, Supplier, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Channel Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Marketing, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-01-10
The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007: Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace that began as a trickle in 2006. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, end-user mashups, and even prediction markets saw their largest entry yet into businesses...; Tags: Web, Mobile, Platform, Idea, Business, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2007-12-27
Affiliate Masters (exe): This is a 193-page, top quality, free e-book on affiliate marketing and starting an online business from scratch. It goes over building a Web site, keyword research, promoting affiliate programs using affiliate marketing techniques, building a list, creating a business around your niche... in other words building an online business...; Tags: Business, E-books, Marketing Research, Productivity, Web Site Development, Personal Technology, Marketing, Internet; Software downloads 2007-12-26
Think and Grow Rich (zip): Free ebook by Napoleon Hill on how to succeed in business and what it takes to survive in business. The text of Think and Grow Rich is founded on Hill's earlier work, The Law of Success, the result of more than twenty years of research based on Hill's close association...; Tags: Business, E-books, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2007-12-04
The Bureau of Labor Insurance Creates a Robust Labor Protection and Service Network: Established 57 years ago, Taiwan's labor insurance service now covers a record-breaking 8.79 million people. To cope with increasingly complex business content and fast-growing data volumes, the BLI is changing the architecture of its IT systems. The business is moving from a closed mainframe environment to an open Unix platform....; Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Business, Grid Computing, Insurance, Financial Planning, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, It service Management, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies 2007-12-01