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ESBStats - Statistical Analysis Software (zip)

Statistical Analysis and Inference Software for Windows covering everything from Average, Mode and Variance through to Hypothesis Analysis, Time Series and Linear Regression. Includes Online Help, Tutorials, Graphs, Summaries, Import/Export, Customisable Interface, Calculator, Live Spell Check, and Install/Uninstall. Version 2.2.0 includes unspecified updates.

Tags: Statistical Analysis, ESB Consultancy, Enterprise Service Bus, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-23

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Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind

By now, you're probably up to your eyeballs in unsettling economic crisis news. The stock markets, tanked. Mondays $700 billion Hail Mary of a bailout plan, dead on arrival though since resuscitated. Real estate value, sunk. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke warned last week that the difficulty households and businesses were...

Tags: Job, Financial, Economist, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals

Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionalslousy US economy means lousy global economyI was having a similar conversation last night at dinner with a fellow architect from India. He was describing how off-shore development shops in India are worried that the economic slow down...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Microsoft Dynamics Goes for the Mid-market (Again)

Microsoft Dynamics Goes for the Mid-market AgainPartner + Vendor lead approach better all roundI think a partner-led (or partner+vendor) approach is much more credible than a vendor-led sale. A partner can talk about cross-platform integration, compatibility and value added services like support and training. Sometimes a vendor could be prejudiced...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Microsoft Dynamics

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

In remembrance of scoundrels past

In remembrance of scoundrels pastSame mess - different scum.I agree. I did some consultancy work for a large brand name in sportswear and was horrified by their IT systems. It had been held in thrall by one man who started his IT career in the 70s and was still going...

Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, information technology, IT System

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

An enterprise balancing act in the cloud

Video of Dr Sukh Grewal talking about GE's 'Support Central' environment at last week's Office 2.0 Conference. There's a solid article in the current Economist magazine about Zoho, which I consider a far more credible enterprise 'software as a service' office suite than Google Docs....

Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, General Electric Co., Information Technology, Environment, Office 2.0, Zoho, Daniel, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval' data practices?

Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval' data practices?All about the dataI can't agree more with Ash. The data is a pivotal piece of an SOA (most IT approaches, really), and is often under-served by SOA initiatives and projects. Data is diverse, duplicated, dispersed, dirty, and...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, elixir, service-Oriented

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Open source and innovation as maintenance models

Open source and innovation as maintenance modelsThroats to chokeExcellent article but you state..."The problem with open source is that no large enterprise is going to bank its business on a model where there isn’t a throat to choke when things go wrong... ...I have seen SugarCRM practices emerge but...

Tags: open source, maintenance model

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Data 7 Embroidery Conversion ActiveX DLL (zip)

By adding the Data 7 Consultancy Embroidery Design Conversion ActiveX DLL to your own software applications you can instantly gain the facility and power to convert and export to over 20 embroidery formats of designs including the Home Style formats. Formats supported are DST, DSB, DSZ, U??, PES, JEF, SEW,...

Tags: Dynamic-link Library, ActiveX, Data 7 Consultancy, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Development Tools, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-08-12

Massachusetts Research Consultancy Rebuilds Its Server System on Microsoft Platform

Mass Insight had been running an outdated server platform on an underpowered server that was too strained to handle the high demands of its workforce. Mass Insight collaborated with partner iCorps Technologies to deploy a new terminal service solution based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. The result is a secure,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Terminal Services, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2008-08-12

The social media corporate identity crisis

The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...

Tags: Brand, Social Media, Twitter, Joel Postman, Popeyes Chicken, Q., Branding, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Software that Makes Your Company More Entrepenuerial

A class of social software is helping companies become more entrepreneurial and none a moment too soon. In a survey of 300 business executives, Interminds LLC, a management consultancy, found that nearly three quarters (71 percent) of business executives indicated that...

Tags: Innovation, Software, Entrepreneurial, Intermind Corp., Business Executive, Entrepreneurship, Branding, Management, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Enterprise Service Busted?

Enterprise Service Busted?ESBsIt really depends on your environment. My company is a medium sized company and we did not have any middleware. For us the ESB made a lot of sense. If you already have middleware, you may not need an ESB. You might be set...

Tags: Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Facebook sues German 'clone'

On Friday, Facebook filed suit in California court against studiVZ, a German social net with a look undeniably close to Facebook's. Facebook accuses studiVZ of copying its interface. "We believe that our success thus far has been directly related to the unique look and feel of both...

Tags: Facebook, studiVZ, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG.  Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer.  AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer.  This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...

Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Progress to buy IONA in another SOA infrastructure vendor mashup

Progress to buy IONA in another SOA infrastructure vendor mashupProgress Know SOA/ESBYou have to remember that Progress where one of the early ESB companys via there Sonic SOftware division (some would suggest they coined the term ESB: http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=CaseStudyMule) and have many different products that play into the SOA Market! Good...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, SOA infrastructure vendor mashup, Molly, Iona Technologies, Enterprise Service Bus

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Zen Internet Offers Successful Home Worker Solution to Peninsula Business Services

Peninsula Business Services Ltd provides Health, Safety, Personnel and Employment Law consultancy to a wide client base across the UK. Peninsula's Internet connectivity was proving too slow and inefficient, taking up valuable business time. Advice workers could not input customer information into the company system until the next day and...

Tags: Zen, Worker, Zen Internet, Peninsula Business Services Ltd.

Case studies 2008-06-13

Sun SOA strategy still doesn't get open source

Sun has a new Software Oriented Architecture SOA strategy for the open source era. Too bad it doesn't get open source. The strategy is based on Java CAPS, acquired with SeeBeyond Technologies in 2005, creating an open source SOA stack based on Open ESB....

Tags: Strategy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-10

What's in a name? For LimeLeap, apparently, a whole lot

What's in a name? For LimeLeap, apparently, a whole lotHolding local discussionsIt's important for a company to pass on their knowledge in an area they're passionate in. It inspires, even if they take a small nugget of information away, it's worth it.We held an interactive talk to promote the use...

Tags: LimeLeap

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Looking at SOA through ESB-colored glasses

Looking at SOA through ESB-colored glassesNot an "SOA project" at all?"...in this company’s case, an ESB-centric viewpoint complicated what could have been a fairly simple integration project."Connecting services isn't normally viewed as an "integration project." So the use of this term casts doubt upon whether or not this was an...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-05-30