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Can anti-offshoring legislation really help?

As a result of our government's attempts to keep nature from running its course, I have a new motto: The bigger they regulate, the harder they fall. I was reminded by this InfoWorld story that it isn't just the Federal government that's trying to use legislation to keep a lid...

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Blog posts 2005-12-05

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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Mass Insight had been running an outdated server platform on an underpowered server that was too strained to handle the high demands of its workforce.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

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

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

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

5 ways to prevent IT failure

Rather than acknowledge their own management shortcomings, project participants often blame technology for failed IT projects. This denial commonly arises when an organization's culture uses blame, and the corresponding implicit threat of job loss, as a political weapon. Denial aside, most failures arise from poor management...

Tags: Information Technology, Failure, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-24

iCenter? Wishing, not predicting

iCenter? Wishing, not predictingAsteriskAsterisk, of course, with a little bit of intestinal fortitude can be configured for the home and I might add, I have it configured for my IT consultancy to have my Nokia N95 SIP-cable cell phone answer as a remote extension from 'anywhere'. No cellphone plan minutes...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Apple Inc., computer

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

UK warned of China, India software threat

UK warned of China, India software threatHistory repeatsAs minicomputers pushed the mainframe vendors up-market, then workstations pushed minis up-market, then micros pushed workstations up-market, then lightweight mobile pushed micros up-market ...What happens to those up-market vendors of yesteryear? Well, IBM is still shipping mainframes, although they look a lot...

Tags: Mainframes, Workstations, software threat, workstation, mainframe, software

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

HP to take out EDS: does it make sense?

We've heard these rumors before but this time it seems HP is in serious hunting mode with EDS as the target. Larry Dignan offers his take on the rationale behind the story. Fellow Irregular Vinnie Mirchandani adds to the debate suggesting both pluses and minuses: HP could use a...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Carrier-Class Softswitch Enables Service Provider to Deliver Advanced Hosted IP Communications

iHub needed to find a platform that could not only provide the right hosted IP telephony services for iHub's customers, but also give iHub the tools to tap into the wider market by reselling the service through a channel of distributors and resellers. The company deployed Nortel for its solution...

Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., IP, Carrier-Class Softswitch, Network Technology, Networking

Case studies 2008-05-12

Intelligent search with Attivio

  As much as people talk about information relevance in search, it's not much good unless tied to an activity. Attivio is seeking to solve this problem with its Active Intelligence Engine. Rather than restricting itself to one or a small number of data types, Attivio is...

Tags: Data, Attivio, Content Management, Real Estate, Search, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Business Operations, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Sweden's HL Display Picks Expand Networks for Server Centralisation and Faster WAN

HL Display's partner, IT consultancy XLENT, operates the firm's network and handles the distribution of programmes. However, many of the smaller offices lack IT technicians, which have caused problems with handling local servers. Each part of the group has a back-up server but all email has been routed via the...

Tags: Expand Networks Inc., WAN, HL Display, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-04-30

Engineering Firm Leads the Way in Egypt With Messaging Infrastructure Upgrade

Dar Al-Handasah, an engineering and architecture consultancy based in Egypt, wanted to improve its communication and collaboration system to match growth in the business. Its engineers and architectures depend heavily on e-mail messaging in their daily work with computer-aided design documents, project information, drafting, and calculations. The firm upgraded its...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, CAD, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-04-21

Consultancy Deploys Productivity-Enhancing CRM Solution to Gain Competitive Advantage

As an executive-search consultancy, Lure Executive Services seeks to deliver high value. Employees interview client companies to learn about their businesses and goals. They also network to identify, interview, and place quality employees. Interviewing and networking generate large amounts of data, which was stored using manually-intensive systems. After an extensive...

Tags: Competitive Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Consultancy, Networking, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2008-04-15

Agency Chooses New Technology to Drive Up Tourism and Strengthen Customer Relations

The goal of South African Tourism's global employees is to increase tourism to the nation to help enhance the nation's economy. This global presence created a unique challenge: collaboration between offices across time zones. Managers had little visibility into what employees were doing. Lacking this basic knowledge, decision makers had...

Tags: Agency, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

Case studies 2008-04-14