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"User-centric" starts with the social, not the commercial

I'm on a bit of a tear today, but it is because I just got over a week of Percodan-induced drooling after I had some surgery on my aging shoulder. I don't know if it is just that I am coherent for the first time since last Friday or that...

Tags: Bank, Intermediary, Money, Financial Services, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2007-10-11

DAS Rechtsbijstand Implements Service-Oriented Architecture to Speed Service Delivery

DAS Rechtsbijstand DAS is the leading legal insurance company in the Netherlands. The company wanted to use ICT to enable value-chain integration between consumer, intermediary and DAS, thus improving service and market position and replace manual process flows to reduce inaccuracies, speed processes, lower costs, and increase revenue. The challenge...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Intermediary, SOA, Information And Communication Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management

Case studies 2007-10-01

Accenture bulks up tech consulting

Accenture bulks up tech consultingThis statement should read the other way around..."But the short version seems to be that IT's inability to work with business has been just wonderful for consultants"Should beBut the short version seems to be that business inability to work with IT has been just wonderful for...

Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, Accenture Ltd., business folk, intermediary, IT-staff

Discussion threads 2007-06-18

Web Services Security With WebSphere Application Server V6 - Part 1: Introduction to Security Architectures

This paper provides an introduction to some simple Web services security architectures. Subsequent papers in this series will provide step-by-step instructions on how to implement these architectures using IBM products, as well as further advice on selecting tokens. The purpose of the diagrams in this paper is to convey the...

Tags: Web, IBM WebSphere, Web Services Security, Intermediary, Architecture, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM Corp., Web Services, Security, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-04-19

Apache Synapse: 'intermediary' or 'bus'?

In recent times, there has been an abundance of contention and confusion within the industry over the exact purpose and benefits of enterprise service buses, or ESBs. Some say its a quick on ramp to SOA, others say its a distraction. A big problem is the proliferation of ESBs from...

Tags: Synapse, Enterprise Service Bus

Blog posts 2005-09-02

Additional Resources

VUWER 1.3 (Mac)

VUWER (pronounced like "viewer") is an Applescript application designed to remotely track your MacBook or MacBook Pro or any other Apple computer in the event that it is lost or stolen. VUWER is not foolproof, but it is reasonably secure, easy to implement, and costs nothing but a little time...

Tags: Freeware, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, AppleScript, Laptop Computer, Tim Holman, VUWER 1.3, Notebooks, Scripting Languages, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Cap and trade controversial in Australia

This is what happened:An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored.The new Inquisition: dare to raise your voice against the enviro-whackos and they get all angry.CEC FAILs againCEC claims: [i]"An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored."[/i]He wasn't censored for disagreeing with the global...

Tags: theory, CEC, global warming, Cap-and-Trade, carbon dioxide, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

VPN Link Test 1.1.1 (Windows)

Chimera 'VPNLinkTest' is a program designed specifically for corporate environments who have site-to-site VPN links from a central hub site out to remote branch spoke sites. It provides a quick and easy way to test whether a VPN link is active and the response of the intermediary devices in its...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Chimera Computing, Help Desk, VPNs, Call Centers, Network Security, Networking, Telecommunications, Security, It Operations

Software downloads 2009-09-30

VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee

Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...

Tags: Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, UNIX, Operating systems, KVM, VMFS-3, vSphere, VMware Inc., RHEL 5.4, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Alleged TJX hacker spun a wide web of cybercrime

Albert Gonzalez, 28, was the alleged ringleader of a cybercrime enterprise that swiped at least 170 million credit and debit card numbers in recent years. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that Gonzalez, already awaiting trial for the TJX data breach, along with two others were...

Tags: Web, Point-of-sale, Antivirus, Debit Card, Malware, Hacker, Debit Card Number, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Financial Services, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Should doctors go on strike?

Should doctors go on strike?Big government is the cause... of crazy medical expense. We need less regulation so there's less room for the insurance company and lawyer manipulation that jacks the medical cost. Obama's more government involvement is the wrong solution.No, life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessare fundamental human...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Medical Care, Obama, Big Government, health care, medical care, HIPPA

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

How about a Microsoft Security Essentials for servers?

How about a Microsoft Security Essentials for servers?Leave that for the 3rd party providersMS is already treading on anti-trust thin ice with the release of this for the client. By not stepping into the enterprise market, MS allows all the current AV providers to charge for their enterprise features. So...

Tags: Servers, X-WINDOWS, server, Microsoft Corp., security, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Audio Format Switch 2.0 (Windows)

Audio Format Switch provides an easy and completed way to convert to most of the popular audio formats. With Audio Format Switch users can batch convert music to 6 major audio formats: Wave, MP3, MP4, AAC, WMA, Ogg Vorbis. Allmost all important audio formats are accepted as conversion input: audio...

Tags: Audio, Microsoft Windows, Pianosoft, Audio Format Switch, Audio Format, AAC Mp4 Audio Format

Software downloads 2009-06-22

Typo'd Google domains in Top 10 malware exploit sites

Misspelled versions of two popular Google services are among the Top 10 sites hosting exploits for use in drive-by malware download attacks. On the heels of two massive drive-by attacks -- ten of thousands of hijacked sites launching attacks via the browser -- Google released a list...

Tags: Google Inc., Domain, Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Are social networks the next-gen commerce, CRM hubs?

The era of social commerce is on its way in the next two years and social networks are likely to become more powerful than corporate Web sites and customer relationship management software, according to a Forrester report.  The report, penned by Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang, examines five...

Tags: Facebook, Brand, Network, CRM, Facebook Connect, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-27

How would you change HIPAA data protection rule

How would you change HIPAA data protection ruleGood pointsI think the first point is addressed in these proposals, which give companies an affirmative duty to confirm security breaches. The second is also a good point. Index points are important. HIPPAFunny part is that, at least when I worked in Health...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Regulatory compliance, Social Security, data protection, HIPPA, health care, patient, HIPAA

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Firefox.Next: Namoroka due in early 2010

Even as the Firefox team struggles to get beta 4 out the door, the team is already talking about the next version beyond Firefox 3.5. The next gen, code named "Namoroka," is expected to be named Firefox 3.6 and will be released in 2010. It will offer advancements...

Tags: Web, Team, Mozilla Firefox, Performance, Web Application, Web Browsers, Team Management, Performance Management, Internet, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Liontrust Asset Management Grows Business in Europe and U.S. With Consistent Intermediary Service

Liontrust Asset Management wanted to secure business growth and profitability by providing client intermediaries with a reliable online business interface and ensure fund managers have a robust platform to manage various types of client portfolios. The challenge was to enable flexible and fast application development in line with changing business...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Europe, Downtime, Business, Liontrust Asset Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2009-03-01

Payments Business 3S Approach

Payment is the life-blood of any economy. The primary objective of any payment system is to enable the circulation of funds. Without a robust infrastructure enabling smooth flow of funds, financial institutions can rarely assume the role of a financial intermediary in the economy. Payment systems have encountered many challenges...

Tags: Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance

White papers 2009-01-19

Actual ODBC Driver for Access 1.9 (Mac)

With the ODBC driver for Access, you can connect to Microsoft Access databases and import data directly into an Excel spreadsheet or a FileMaker database. There is no need for an intermediary Windows PC - this driver reads data from the database file itself. The driver supports Access 97 or...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Access, SQL, ODBC Driver, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-01-05