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- Splendid City Sports Scheduler 6.7.3 (Mac)
- Splendid City Team Sports Scheduler, and Sports Scheduling Software System is useful for people who organize team sports or game events. Use it to manage and publish sports schedules of any size and complexity. Automatically create high quality double or single elimination tournament brackets, round-robin league schedules, swiss round tournaments,...
- Tags: Web, Team, Apple Macintosh, City Sports Inc., Web Site, Niagara Software, User Experience, Time Management, Web Site Development, Team Management, Games, Web Technology, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-10-31
- Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design
- Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...
- Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Microsoft’s Project 2010
- The conference announcements so far... I just watched Microsoft executives demonstrate the upcoming Project 2010 product here in Phoenix at the Project Conference 2009. Here are my first blush comments/observations: 1) The product has matured significantly as a PPM solution....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., PPM, Portfolio Management Function, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem
- VMware's purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., SpringSource, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- CRM failures on tap
- CRM failures on tapDifferentiated failuresGlad to see you'll be addressing CRM in your blog, Michael. Between you and Paul G, it looks like the industry is going to get a fair shake.It will be interesting to see how you approach the topic of failures. On the one hand, many sources...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, CRM, CRM failure
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- Sass? We're too busy making ERP work
- Sass? We're too busy making ERP workDevil's TrianglesAs you point out, there is no conflict between Eric's triad of issues that influence project success/failure and my own Devil's Triangle.I think the primary difference is that Eric's issues are project management related, where I try to examine the underlying relationship dynamics...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Sass, PPM, ERP, project management
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Global Logistics Provider Deploys New ERP System in Battlefield Environment
- The Supreme Group - which provides food, fuel, logistics, and other services to military and commercial groups operating in areas of conflict - had an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP application that was intended for a small organization. After exponential growth, Supreme sought a more integrated, extensible ERP solution. It deployed...
- Tags: Food, Environment, Logistics, ERP System, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Supreme Group, Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- IBM & FXA Helping Assure Safety of Vietnam Seafood Exports
- IBM's vision of a smart planet is proving to be an interesting intellectual platform from which to invite all actors to think how best to improve sustainability performance with smart use of IT. Yesterday's announcement hat tip James of a partnerhsip between IBM, FXA Group, the Vietnam Association...
- Tags: Crisis Management, Farm, Food, Food & Beverage, IBM Corp., Ireland, James Farrar, Management, Manufacturing, Meat, Strategy
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- SAP Americas' president, Rob Enslin, on avoiding IT failure [podcast]
- SAP Americas' president, Rob Enslin, on avoiding IT failure [podcast]Old-School?Clearly Rob has been more successful in his career than I, so my opinion may be of questionable value. And clearly his time is critical, so hearing his perspectives was of great value.But there were a lot of clues in his...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, SAP Americas, SAP AG, podcast
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration
- Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of CollaborationThe Real challenge is not in technology ...Ms. Warrior's predictions will almost likely come true. However, while technology can give us capabilities, human beings decide whether or not to actually use technology -- and history is littered with instances of great...
- Tags: Groupware, Collaboration Technology, collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., network
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Lawson Software: Positive first impressions
- I'm currently attending Lawson Software's annual conference, called CUE 09, in San Diego. Since this is my first in-depth exposure to the company, I thought it appropriate to share a few thoughts and comments. Overall, I like the company: the people are nice, they articulate product strategy clearly, and senior management obviously...
- Tags: Lawson Software Inc., Customer Satisfaction, Blogger, Blogging, Product Marketing, Internet, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Balancing IT innovation investment in a recession
- Balancing IT innovation investment in a recessionGreat example of the criticality of PPMGreat post Michael. These decisions are so critical in any economic situation, but they are exponentially more important and potentially problematic in a down economy. This Hackett Group research note and your added insights are music to my...
- Tags: Strategy, recession, Balancing IT innovation investment, information technology, Balancing IT, Hackett Group, innovation investment
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?
- IBM and other players on Monday will launch its Open Cloud Manifesto, a call to make cloud computing "open as all other IT technologies." But the list of companies that didn't sign on to the manifesto is telling. Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce never signed on. Google was on a preliminary...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Standards, Manifesto, IT Industry, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source CultureAh yes, the reason becomes clearThe origins of Balkanization and Gerrymandering of UNIX are few, so it's easy to see how it happens. Here's one for you:You said that UNIX groups tend to be self-managing and projects tend to be ad-hoc and...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, Unix, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- Once more on SCO
- From this blog for January 8 2008: What's worst about [the hate mail I get when ever I comment on SCO] , however, is that the "groklaw effect" has become a significant component in the overall Linux "gestalt" - and just about everything most of that mob has been...
- Tags: Novell Inc., SCO Group Inc., Unix, IBM Corp., Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-21
- Telecommuting will rise to include 43% of US workers by 2016
- It was shocking to me anyway that we already have 34 million Americans working at least occasionally from home today. And that's with broadband to only 56% of US homes. But that's what the data say. And with our Consumer Technographics survey of 61,033 US and Canadian consumers, you can...
- Tags: Worker, Workforce, Telecommuting, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- This is the 40th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (1) Almost everything you really need to know about Unix or Unics as it was first known and the open source movement can be gleaned from...
- Tags: Open Source, Multics, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Five strategies for 2009 IT gold
- Five strategies for 2009 IT goldInfightingQuoting a sentence from each of your 5 points to show that you've assumed a conflict to be resolved for IT's benefit, if not in its favor:If the business side routinely criticizes your IT team, get together and ask them for guidance. Although listening carefully...
- Tags: information technology, strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint
- Moving your infrastructure to Amazon Web Services--or any other cloud platform--sounds like a no-brainer in many respects. You can scale up or down as needed and pay only for the computing and storage you use. The big question, however, is this: How exactly does a company migrate its infrastructure? ...
- Tags: Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Helpstream, EC2, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
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