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The Real Challenges of 3PL WMS Software....

A WMS player that has 3rd Party Logistics functionality is twice as complicated as a WMS solution that only handles private warehousing! A significant amount of software development goes into 3PL billing, which includes owner preferences, owner billing options, multiple contracts, multiple rates, billing variations, and a multitude of bills...

Tags: Billing, 3PL, Industrial Data & Information

White papers 2004-11-01

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Ubicomp 2009 and the fusion of our digital and physical worlds

Recently, I used my newly downloaded Zipcar app on my iPhone to unlock and honk my booked vehicle from several yards away. It was more novel than useful, but a tall tale example of the countless invisible interactions we're having with sensing, inferring, and data transferring machines every day. It's...

Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak

Weak Passwords suckUntil about 4 years ago my organization had no restrictions on passwords. Our students got their birthdays or their phone numbers as passwords and our staff could choose whatever they wanted. Most common staff password was 1234. Well after years of security breaches and administration...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, phishing, password, weak password

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards

On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Standard, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-25

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

Attention big "emitters": Are you ready to start coughing up greenhouse gas data?

The United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA says it's ready to start collecting greenhouse gas emissions from some of the largest facilities across the country that are responsible for contributing up to 85 percent of our contribution to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, the...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Zune HD review roundup: excellent hardware and UI, apps lacking

who makes the hardware?We know M$ subcontracts the hardware.OSS companies should get that hardware, change the label and put Linux on it.This will not only leave Zune behind, but it would defeat the iPod.RE: Zune HD review roundup: excellent hardware and UI, apps lackingwhen you get your zune can you...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Microsoft Zune, PMP, hardware, Zune HD, ZuneHD

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

PowerStar Distribution 1.20 (Windows)

Highly versatile and easy to use, PowerStar was designed for use on most electrical design and analysis applications. Use it for commercial building services, industrial plants, distribution systems, power factor correction. Any project where you need to know voltage, current, kw, kva or kvar on any and all parts of...

Tags: Device, kW, Megasys Software, Plotters, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-14

How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business

What a BS conclusion ...Are you serious or just plain delusional???Using a server is not using cloud computing. In fact, any decent professional company would never even think about anything "cloud" except for basic web hosting.Let me just give you the top two most logical reasons why real companies...

Tags: Games, information technology, game, HTTP, crowdsourcing, Web, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-09-06

Smart grid report from Lexington Institute explores benefits, pitfalls

Chances are you've heard plenty from people like me about the smart grid, which is being funded generously as part of the economic stimulus package. But WHY exactly is the smart grid important? Answering that question is the focus of a new report that was published in August 2009 by...

Tags: Benefit, Electric Vehicle, Grid, Chances, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Hasso Plattner Demos Agile Columnar Database Concepts

The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and automating the planning and tracking of financial transactions from end to end...

Tags: SAP AG, Corporate Communications, Corporate Governance, Storage, Mainframes, Internet, Databases, Servers, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-23

10 reasons why e-readers make sense in the enterprise

PrivacyNice concepts, but once the issue of privacy comes into mind, it is easier to shred paper, then to start tracking device security and do remote wipes, etc if the device is lost. Also I do not think the devices are built with that security in mind.Obviously current hardware...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, e-reader, electronic ink

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31

"Cooling trend" and global warming

"Cooling trend" and global warming"It?s because of money."That's the only true part of this blog.Yes, money explains why this blog is in ZDNet in the first place. Tech geeks need to be indoctrinated with tree hugging stuff as well.I'm not so worried about Global Warming...... than I'm concerned with the...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Sex Positive Socializing Online Arrives

If you're 'textually active' online looking for relationships on social networking and dating sites, finally you have a new option. Despite all the hoopla around the brave new world of Facebook, match.com et al, it's actually the same old industrial scale meat market for most people....

Tags: Facebook, Collaboration, Network, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petard

Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petardAlready in the works...Been in research for going on 4 years.RE: Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petardI wouldn't want to think Chrome browser adoption has been great. Same way, though the idea is a nice one of no frills, kind of web only OS (are...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, UNIX, Web browsers, Moonlight 2.0, Chrome, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud

What do open source and cloud computing have in common? For Navid Safabakhsh, principal at San Francisco and Philadelphia-based interactive web development agency Freshout, it's that both technologies are low-cost, high-yield solutions to help corporations leverage the customer data they collect on the Web. ...

Tags: Web, Service, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Profile of the World's Top Hackers

Data theft and breaches from cybercrime may have cost businesses as much as $1 trillion globally in lost intellectual property and expenditures for repairing damage. And this current economic climate has undoubtedly created more opportunities for hackers, criminals, and industrial espionage firms who are targeting critical infrastructures and systems...

Tags: Lumension Security Inc., Hacker, Hacking, Security

Webcasts 2009-06-29

Four reasons why corporate IT will embrace cloud computing

Four reasons why corporate IT will embrace cloud computingInteresting...Separating data from applications is a very interesting idea. It might go a long way to solving a major problem of data ownership. If data is stored on local machines it is owned by the owners of the servers. So basically the...

Tags: Virtualization, payroll solutions, information technology, Companies like Salesforce.com, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Freeraser 1.0.0.23 (Windows)

Freeraser is a powerful tool for an unrecoverable destruction of digital information. Destroy your secrets for good, for sure, for free. Do not keep sensitive information, destroy it. An ordinary deleting of files isn't enough. Any software recovery tool can restore your deleted items. When you wish to delete any...

Tags: Software, Sensitive Information, Microsoft Windows, Secret, Codyssey, Freeraser, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-04-01