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- Excel-to-Oracle (exe)
- Excel-to-Oracle is a program to migrate MS Excel data into Oracle database. Each worksheet becomes a table, each row becomes a record and each cell becomes a field. All versions of MS Excel are supported. The program has easy-to-use wizard style interface and works with all versions of Oracle server....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Row, Excel-to-Oracle, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2006-07-19
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- Is the Salesforce.com juggernaut faltering?
- Scanning through Larry Dignan's write up of Salesforce.com's Q2 results I couldn't help but observe the company is signaling a sharp slowdown in sales growth compared with fiscal 2007-8. I wasn't the only one to notice. According to Associated Press, investors were far from impressed by...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Guest editorial by Emma McGrattan In the current economic climate, businesses of every size are looking to reduce their spending wherever possible. Open source software, which has no upfront licensing fees, is one way of achieving significant savings. However, in order to protect their...
- Tags: Software, Security, Open Source, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- ModelSheet: good in theory, needs more work
- Modelsheet is pitched as a product that is supposed to make the development of complex models much easier than the default 'Excel way.' In theory it removes a number of the steps necessary to ensure data accuracy and template integrity. However, there are usability issues that need urgent attention. ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Theory, Spreadsheet, ModelSheet, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Web Browsers, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers
- Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire InStranet, which provides knowledge management software for call centers, and integrate its technology with its existing CRM customer service and support offering. Simply put, Salesforce.com is acquiring traditional enterprise software for $31.5 million and turning it into a service in an effort to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc., Software-as-a-service, Falcione, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?
- IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?PURE BS!Look, I KNOW several people with advanced degrees in the sciences and math. Guess what? They have been laid off and replaced with offshoring and H1-B workers.Tech companies like Intel want to point the finger? Fine, hand them a mirror...We...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Barrett, education, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?
- Intel chairman Craig Barrett, introduced as the company's chief ambassador, delivered the opening keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum this morning, highlighting technological innovation and its impact on the globe - just as you'd expect him to do. But Barrett - with a quick apology for briefly jumping into...
- Tags: Education, Washington, Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Intel Developer Forum, Brian, Telecom & Utilities, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- SEC introduces IDEA
- Earlier today, Christopher Cox, SEC chairman introduced IDEA - Interactive Data and Electronic Applications, an XBRL framework for surfacing information used by investors. In prepared remarks, Cox said: "It will be faster, cheaper, better [than EDGAR.] Better data analysis will have a positive impact on the market as a whole....
- Tags: SEC, Investor, Analysis, IDEA, Cox, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- There's a brewing backlash among software customers as big vendors raise their support and maintenance prices. Dennis Howlett has captured an emerging backlash among SAP customers over an enhanced support and its costs. Oracle is doing the same drill. And Mary Jo Foley detailed a "proactive" support...
- Tags: Software, Software Company, SAP AG, Inflation, Dennis Howlett, Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- A fresh model for software maintenance
- It is clear that the homogeneous application of round sum percentages applied to software maintenance pricing is a dead business model. Nowhere is that more clearly illustrated in the recent kerfuffle over SAP's forced price rise for its maintenance services. SAP has put up a spirited defense but on the...
- Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Excel and Basic Accounting Error
- Excel and Basic Accounting ErrorWe should go back to manual ledgers...VisiCalc was created to eliminate accounting errors. Now the spreadsheet is now being blamed for accounting errors. Perhaps the real problem is GIGO. Garbage in, Garbage out.The real culprit is slick sleaze ball corporate accountants and managers that are trying...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, fun thing, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, big system, accounting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Excel and Basic Accounting Error
- Just how bad are "power users" from both an IT and auditor standpoint? A fiairly good academic study of 3,744 disclosure documents admitting error concludes that only about 8% of companies can do financial statements directly from their financial systems, with the rest massaging the data in spreadsheets - unauditable,...
- Tags: Revenue, Accounting, Restatement, Compliance, Microsoft Excel, Spreadsheet, Operational Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Productivity, Financial Services, Finance, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Office 14: Alpha testing to begin before year-end
- Office 14: Alpha testing to begin before year-endSlowly but surely going 64-bitI heard about the nominations for TAP and I was interested in joining but after reading about the requirements I think I will skip and hold out until the private technical beta. Its good to see Microsoft is moving...
- Tags: Office 07, Microsoft Office, Office 14, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- A walk through the two new student tools for Office 2007
- Late last month I wrote about the five newly released tools designed for students and academics. I was on the phone last week to an old colleague of mine, a professor in his field over at Oxford University, who'd been trying out these two new programs that I wrote about. ...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Microsoft Office 2007, Tool, Creative Commons Add-in, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Building the ecosystem: Citrix and Platform Computing
- David Roussain of Citrix and Peter Dyer of Platform Computing brought me up to speed on how the two companies are working together to provide a highly managable, agile computing environment based upon virtual machines supported by Citrix XenServer and Platform Computing's VM Orchestrator 4.0. ...
- Tags: Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Platform Computing Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Semantic Web, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Europe discussing the business of the Semantic Web at ESTC
- I've written before about the importance of events that move us past introspection and academic debate, and bring the real benefits of semantic technologies to a wider business audience. As the Semantic Web Gang discussed recently, North America has had the excellent Semantic Technology Conference for several years, and this...
- Tags: Europe, Conference, Semantic Web, Research & Development, Benefits, Internet, Business Operations, Human Resources, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Oracle: Our iPhone app has more than 23,000 downloads
- Oracle: Our iPhone app has more than 23,000 downloadsBusiness is going to take some time to developFirst, I suspect that most companies will be watching how Apple matures the iPhone over the next month or so - especially in relation to the dropped calls situation.Then there will be companies working...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, iPhone App, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-16
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