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The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...

Tags: Solution, BPO, Outsourcing Company, Customer, BPO Deal, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-05

ERP sales are falling: here's one reason

I'm on a small project that is typical of many: "I have a modest sized business but our complexities are no different to the Big Boys. Help." So off we trot so see if there's a solution that comes vaguely close to an 80% fit. As a 'day job sometimes'...

Tags: Solution, Oracle Corp., ERP, Microsoft Corp., ERP Sale, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Outsourcing, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-04

RCC Donations 1.0v1 (Mac)

RCC Donations is a FREE FileMaker Pro 10 template made from your friends at Richard Carlton Consulting Inc. that allows for the straightforward tracking of donations right out of the box. The solution was designed with the FM Starting Point user interface, another one of RCC's templates, and was created...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Solution, RCC Donations, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Software downloads 2009-06-09

RCC Donations 1.0 (Windows)

RCC Donations is a free FileMaker Pro 10 template made from your friends at Richard Carlton Consulting that allows for the straightforward tracking of donations right out of the box. The solution was designed with the FM Starting Point user interface, another one of RCC's templates, and was created after...

Tags: Solution, RCC Donations, Outsourcing, Microsoft Windows, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-08

Expanding Opportunities With Customized, Integrated, Online Business Solutions

Since 1997, Enter SystemSolutions of Turku, Finland, has been providing a full range of IT hosting and consultancy services for businesses throughout the country. Instead of taking on the burden of supporting an internal applications infrastructure, many companies are turning to outsourced solutions and support. But companies do not need...

Tags: Solution, Outsource, Microsoft Corp., Outsourcing, Collaboration, Groupware, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-06-01

HP's SaaS PPM solution

A Relevant and Robust Offering for today's IT organizations I had a chance to speak with Marc Olesen â€" VP SaaS for HP Software and Solutions recently. We discussed HP’s offerings in the Project Portfolio Management PPM and IT Management spaces. Background: HP’s software...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management Buyer, Project Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Oracle, Primavera and competitors in the PPM space

Primavera competitors see problems with the Oracle acquisition of Primavera. The biggest issues concern the path Oracle may take to deliver its vision of an "Enterprise" Project Portfolio Management solution. See what Primavera prospects should do now to protect themselves. by Brian Sommer

Tags: Oracle Corp., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer, Solution, J.D. Edwards & Co., Primavera

Blog posts 2008-10-19

Danish Manufacturing Company Drives Growth With Project Management Solution

Danfoss produce electronic components for various hi-tech industries and relies heavily on EPM software for business critical projects. The team needed a management solution to help team members prioritise and order projects, control financial issues for projects and also give ins9ight into time management for ongoing projects. They chose to...

Tags: Solution, Microsoft Corp., Time Management, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Manufacturing, Strategy, Productivity, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Case studies 2007-06-01

WebCentral Case Study: ER & Associates

ER & Associates is an expanding management services company delivering quality consulting and recruitment solutions to both the public and private sectors. The company needed a solution that would allow it to more efficiently manage the communication between its staff in Sydney, its client, the client's end users, and the...

Tags: Solution, WebCentral, Outsourcing, Productivity, Collaboration, Groupware, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Enterprise Software, Software

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Additional Resources

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

PG Real Estate Solution OCT.2009 (Windows)

PG Real Estate--a turnkey solution to build a Real Estate Web Site. Highly flexible, it is a perfect solution for Powerful Real Estate Portal (property lease, rent and sale marketplace), Independent Realtors or Real Estate Agencies. The script has a flexible structure allowing you to manage your site via site...

Tags: Payment, Administrator, Microsoft Windows, Pilot, Operational Accounting, Real Estate, Finance, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-22

mySQL starring as Peter Pan

the solution is simple...Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQL and the deal will sail through.That would work, but...I don't know if Oracle is willing to commit to that. Instead they're doing the old National Lampoon "buy this magazine or we'll shoot this dog" trick, laying off 10% of Sun's...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you

wow bravo again encore bravowhat what a introduction ... Come on Doug bring some more .... If this is the type of blog that you are planing ill by hook like a addict .... give us more dammit .Goverment should nationalize the infrastructure...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

"Most, if not all" Sidekick data recovered

Well this is going to be interesting...So they had a catastrophic screw up and it looks like they worked their tales off to get it fixed.So that got a big black eye but at the same time it looks like they got it fixed. Whoever fixed this just got...

Tags: Backups, backup

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Yahoo pays its 'technical debt' with IT overhaul

Yahoo had a lot of "technical debt"---systems that most companies would call legacy infrastructure---and has it just about paid off. Sam Pullara, chief technologist at Yahoo, walked developers through its infrastructure changes over the last three years. The talk could have come from any enterprise that finds...

Tags: Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Sam Pullara, HBase, YQL, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Mindjet takes on Cisco with Catalyst

Mindjet has released a new product called Catalyst that hopes to take the notion of the whiteboard into the digital realm but with a lot more bells and whistles. In doing so they are making a direct play against the like of Cisco's WebEx with aggressive...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration, Dennis Howlett, Enterprise Software, Groupware, Mindjet, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-06

PGP Desktop Home 10.0 (Mac)

PGP Desktop provides individuals a simple, easy-to-use desktop encryption solution to automatically protect confidential communications and digitally stored information with an integrated solution based on strong, broadly accepted security technology. PGP Desktop incorporates PGP Universal technology to provide automatic encryption, decryption, digital signatures, verification, and recipient key lookup, making it...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PGP Corp., PGP Desktop, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-04

Israeli firm claims patent on URL shortcuts

At least get the right patent document!The issued patent is Number 7,596,609. You linked us to the pre-grant publication of the divisional which was filed late last year and won't be issued for probably a few more.RE: Israeli firm claims patent on URL shortcutslol, good luck enforcing it..RE: Israeli...

Tags: patent, URL shortcut

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Windows Unattended Installation 2.5 (Windows)

If you work as a system administrator in an organization and maintain a lot of computers, you are sure to have come across the situation when you had to buy a consignment of computers and install all kinds of software on each of them. The direct consequence of such a...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Unattended Installation Systems, MultiSet, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-01