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Team@Work 3.1.2 (Windows)

Team@Work is a workflow management system specially designed to serve small and medium-sized companies. It is built on principles of simplicity, efficiency, zero-administration and low cost. Besides its simplicity Team@Work allows to define and manage complex workflows that include parallel branches, variants, alternatives and time-based activities. Workflow schemes are...

Tags: built-In, Microsoft Windows, Messaging, Workflow, Workflow Management, Efficient Software Systems, Team@Work, Workflow Scheme, Runtime Engine, CAD, Instant Messaging, Process Improvement, Groupware, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-05-30

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Deductions 1.1.2 (Mac)

Deductions is educational software designed to help students learn proofs in formal logic. It is intended to be used by instructors and students of college-level logic courses in philosophy, mathematics and computer science. It gives immediate feedback at each stage of a proof, provides hints about how to complete proofs,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Proof, Deduction, Wandering Mango

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans

the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale

We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...

Tags: Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Small And Medium Business Need, European Enterprise 2.0 Scene, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-14

VSuite Ramdisk (Standard Edition) 4.2.4031.1308 (Windows)

Equipped with the most efficient, high speed CPU, RAM, and video graphics card, users will come to expect best performance out of their computers. But the sad truth is, they aren't getting the best deal. Hard disk, which forms another crucial part of computers, still very much lag behind in...

Tags: Hard Drive, Data-processing, Microsoft Windows, RAM, Romex Software, VSuite Ramdisk, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-11

VSuite Ramdisk (Server Edition) 4.2.8031.1308 (Windows)

Equipped with the most efficient, high speed CPU, RAM, and video graphics card, users will come to expect best performance out of their computers. But the sad truth is, they aren't getting the best deal. Hard disk, which forms another crucial part of computers, still very much lag behind in...

Tags: Hard Drive, Server, Microsoft Windows, RAM, Romex Software, VSuite Ramdisk, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-11

TR Dojo: Five reasons why Windows 7 XP Mode will encourage upgrades

In all honesty though . . .In all honesty though - I'm not seeing anything that runs in XP but won't run in Vista/7. The only things that had issues where antiviruses and firewalls - but all of those offered upgrades eventually.It's the UI now more than anything elseI've been...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Windows7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win7, XP Mode, Win 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Wildlife and Environmental Monitoring Using RFID and WSN Technology

Wireless Sensor Networks enable scientists to collect information about the environment with a granularity unseen before, while providing numerous challenges to software designers. Since sensor devices are often powered by small batteries, which take considerable effort to replace, it is of major importance to use energy carefully. The paper presents...

Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, RFID, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-11-06

What should open source do in a car?

Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...

Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Separating core from context brings high returns in legacy application transformation

A widening cost and productivity division exists between older, hand-coded software assets and replacement technologies on newer, more efficient standards-based systems. Somewhere in the mix, there are also core legacy assets distinct from so-called contextal assets. There is legacy wheat and legacy chaff. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Asset, Legacy Application, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Long-term Mozy for Mac review

Sad to read thisI have not found a "cloud" solution to backup either.I tried Backblaze, but the 1 month for the initial backup was not for me. Then, when I UNinstalled it, I was shocked to find a bit of it running on my iMac over 3 months later.The problem...

Tags: Backups, Desktops, backup, Mozy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, online backup

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Tracking efficiency

Array Technologies has been in the solar tracking business for a couple decades. And using GPS systems for solar tracking is nothing new. GPS itself is now an ancient tech dating back to 1993. Hell, it's older than even the public-access Internet. GPS itself is a...

Tags: Panel, Array, GPS, Handhelds, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Psystar Open(Q)

If nothing else, Psystar's OpenQ should serve as a message to Apple that it's long overdue in bringing quad-core CPUs to its mainstream desktops. Because as much as the OpenQ lacks Apple's design polish, this $799, illicitly OS X-based midtower runs circles around Apple's $1,499 24-inch iMac on our benchmarks....

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Processors, Psystar, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc.

Product reviews 2009-10-09

SpyShelter 2.0 (Windows)

The Internet is now a vital part of our personal and business lives. With increasing use of online systems, cybercrime also has grown exponentially. Information-stealing software are produced regularly and are used by thieves to steal personal and business information. One of the most effective ways of stealing information is...

Tags: Keylogger, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Datpol, SpyShelter 2.0, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun

Why?Because any future energy system , even if coal-powered, will make great use of IT, software and digital technologies. As will any affort to convert energy systems to solar, wind, tidal, etc. Even the digital and nano-tech being used in cars now and in future will come from...

Tags: Low Tech, wind farm, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

Accountancy Provider Transforms Customer Service With Business Management Solutions

Inflexible systems at Freelance World hindered its ability to provide an efficient service. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Codify helped the accountancy provider deploy Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 business management software, with interfaces built using Microsoft Silverlight. Employees now spend less time processing invoices and focus...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Customer Service, Business Management, Accountancy, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management

Case studies 2009-10-01

Staying on legacy systems ends up costing IT more

Sorry, but ....This sounds like the car commercials targeting struggling consumbers to "take advantage of great deals" to prop up the sagging sales at the expense of overburdened buyers.Yes, there are cost savings but at a greater price than the actual savings.I may save $100 a month on gas but...

Tags: Hardware upgrade, information technology, legacy system

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion

I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Shouldn’t services firms have their own ERP?

I caught up this week with Morris Panner, CEO of OpenAir now part of NetSuite. One aspect of our wide-ranging conversation concerned the continuing evolution of businesses, the economy, etc. towards a greater services orientation. Drawing on that, we discussed how services firms need their own version of ERP. ...

Tags: Staffing, ERP, Services Firm, Service Firm, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-25

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