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Patch Tuesday heads-up: 9 bulletins, 5 critical

Patch Tuesday heads-up: 9 bulletins, 5 criticalI'm sorry, don't you mean..."Microsoft Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities?"RE: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 9 bulletins, 5 criticalI am sure that all these patches, after all the patches last month, the month before, etc. are for XP only.We have been assured repeatedly on this forum that...

Tags: Operating systems, Construction, Patches, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Patch Tuesday heads-up, heads-up, Patch Tuesday, critical vulnerability, OSX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, window, Microsoft Corp., patch management

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

ERP forms flow: coexistense for the short term?

ERP forms flow: coexistense for the short term?What is your question/position?I know that Apollo Consulting in San Francisco TRAINS buyers/users of SAP Business One to edit/create/update forms and documents. That is part of the payment these companies make including research and identification. It certainly is NOT...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Microsoft Windows, Apollo Consulting, Windows Folk, IT Staff, ERP

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Healthcare Provider Replaces Vignette to Simplify Information Sharing, Cut Costs

Intermountain Healthcare of Salt Lake City, Utah, provides a broad range of healthcare services to residents of Utah and southeastern Idaho, through its network of 21 hospitals and 100 clinics. To encourage more information sharing among its far-flung staff and reduce IT costs, Intermountain moved its intranet from Vignette software...

Tags: Information Technology, Vignette Corp., Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Utah, Intranet, IT Staff, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Records Management, Benefits, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-04-01

Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?

Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?HealthcareBut, be careful about not acquiring excessive debt while getting the education. The more I think I about it, as long as there's money, accountancy.So, competitive advantage, driven by innovation and not price or service or proximity, has never been more...

Tags: Strategy, Benefits, Personal finance, BLS, information technology, smart major, IS COMPUTER, IT Staff, recession, IT People, offshoring

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Ice Cream Maker Puts the Freeze on Server Sprawl, Saves More Than $500,000

In Le Mars, Iowa, Wells' Dairy produces ice cream and frozen desserts under the BLUE BUNNY brand. As the company faces a challenging market, the IT department aims to provide cost-effective services and promote business continuity and agility. It turned to virtualization, but its original solution from Microsoft couldn't virtualize...

Tags: Information Technology, Wells, IT Staff, Server Consolidation, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Case studies 2009-03-01

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

The Unix culture is that of the graduate student in a research function, not that of the bureaucrat in a data processing role. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Open Source, IT Staff, UNIX, Mainframes, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Construction Firm Improves Productivity, Capability With New Server Solution

Lee Company provides mechanical and maintenance services to businesses and homeowners across the United States. Eager to upgrade its technology to add new capabilities, Lee implemented Windows Essential Business Server 2008. The company can now deploy business-enhancing applications and streamline technology management. IT staff are more productive and remote workers...

Tags: Information Technology, Server, Microsoft Corp., Capability, IT Staff, Construction, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2008-10-01

Construction Firm Increases Productivity With New Server Solution

Lee Company provides mechanical and maintenance services to businesses and homeowners across the United States. Eager to upgrade its technology to add new capabilities, Lee implemented Windows Essential Business Server 2008 on Dell PowerEdge servers. The company can now deploy business-enhancing applications and streamline technology management. IT staff are more...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., IT Staff, Servers, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2008-10-01

Using ITIL to Drive Business Innovation

While Information Technology has become increasingly essential to continuing business operations, IT environments have simultaneously increased in both size and complexity. Individual hardware and software solutions to specific problems have, over time, created heterogeneous environments that require tremendous effort to manage. IT staff are resistant to changes, fearing unforeseen consequences....

Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, ITIL, Creative Enterprise Solutions, IT Staff, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-05-07

New ways emerge to head off datacenter problems while improving IT operations

Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Integrien. Complexity in today's IT systems makes previous error prevention approaches for operators inefficient and costly. IT staffs are expensive to retain, and are increasingly hard to find. There is also insufficient information about what’s going on in the context of an...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Problem, Operator, IT Staff, IT Executive, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Engineering Firm Improves Branch-Office Backup Consistency With New Solution

Grontmij is a European engineering consulting firm based in the Netherlands, with 130 branch offices, more than 7,000 employees, and 15,000 projects each year. The firm wanted to strengthen the protection of its branch-office data, which was backed up nightly to tape media by local operators. However, approximately 20 percent...

Tags: Grontmij, IT Staff, Backups

Case studies 2007-11-13

Shipping Company Halves Data Backup Time, Lowers Costs, Boosts Dependability

Mediterranean Shipping Company MSC USA is a subsidiary of a Geneva, Switzerland - based shipping company that operates 352 container vessels worldwide. The 10-person MSC USA IT infrastructure staff manages the data, computers, and network for 1,200 staff in 26 U.S. offices, and there is never enough time in their...

Tags: Shipping Company, Data Backup, IT Staff, Backups

Case studies 2007-11-01

Russian Conglomerate Handles Deluge of Spam While Automating E-Mail Management

One of the largest privately held organizations in Russia, SOK Group encompasses more than 40 companies. It had a highly complex IT infrastructure and was using many manual processes to monitor traffic on its e-mail servers and to deploy new domains. The company decided to upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, E-mail Management, Microsoft Corp., IT Staff, E-mail Servers, Groupware, E-mail, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Management

Case studies 2007-10-04

63% of financial companies and 62% of government organizations plan to hire IT staff

According to Gartner, 63% of companies in the financial services industry plan to add IT staff over the next 12 months. The runner-up is the government sector, with 62% of US public, nonprofit organizations planning to grow their tech headcount.

Tags: IT Staff

Blog posts 2005-07-26

Additional Resources

Gantt Chart for Workgroup 2.4 (Windows)

The Gantt Chart for Workgroup is a modern and extremely easy-in-use project plan system with the additional capability to share data over the network. This system allows you to specify complex tasks sequences - a task or multiple tasks can be required to be completed before other tasks can be...

Tags: Gantt Chart, Microsoft Windows, OrgBusiness Software

Software downloads 2009-11-06

AbusePipe 2.3.1 (Windows)

AbusePipe identifies who is sending spam based on the information in emailed complaints.AbusePipe analyses abuse complaint emails (typically sent by irate users to abuse@yourISP.com) and determines which of your customers is sending spam also known as unsolicited commercial email or UCE. It automatically generates reports showing which customers have violated...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, DataMystic, AbusePipe, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Calling all innovators: Google hangs "Help Wanted" sign

Google hangs help Google provides no conduit for unsolicited ideas. It is arrogance - that one can get away with whilst the web is young. ZDNet should try asking why, rathering than pandering...Perhaps if their staff were given 15 minutes a week of free time to ponder on what is...

Tags: Benefits, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

rTools Reporting Software for Sage Accpac ERP 4.1 (Windows)

rTools is a Microsoft Excel based reporting software for Sage ACCPAC ERP like none other. rTools reports on Accpac Modules: General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Receivable, Inventory Control, Purchase Order, Order Entry and Project & Job Costing. All reports are completely auto-generated using powerful, automatic layout and formatting. As you...

Tags: Report, Reporting Software, Microsoft Windows, Kode101, rTools, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-02