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DataAdapter 1.1 (Windows)

DataAdapter is a powerful data transformation tool for end users and software developers. This tool can be used as stand alone application with a very intuitive GUI for designing and executing transformations along with being used as a developer component or command line tool. Developers can embed the powerful PumpEngine...

Tags: Developer, Oracle Corp., Transformation, Microsoft Windows, Tool, National Risk Services, DataAdapter, Productivity, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-08-05

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A modest proposal to transform health care

Not warehouses, service stationsSorry but in a warehouse the stored items sit and wait for resale. They don't think and they don't become ambulatory. I think the better analogy the one you mentioned: car repair shops. The longer cars sit on the lift the less efficient the operation....

Tags: Financial Planning, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

Apple to smokers: butt out or void your warranty

Well here it is...http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0446.htmlI have seen tar filled electronicsIt gets nasty. You open them up, and they can be full of tar and all this brown/black gunk. You can get a nicotine high just by touching the parts.As for second hand smoke risk, thats kind of unfounded. Is that gunk...

Tags: Apple Inc., cigarette, joint, Cannabis, tar, smoker, computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market

Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs

One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...

Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-13

News to know: Apple; AT&T; Google Books; Palm Pixi; Verizon; Best Buy-Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Live blog from Apple's "It's only Rock n Roll" event Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Linux, Digital Music, Digital Media, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2009-09-10

U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room

we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Highways, broadband, broadband over power line, U.S. national broadband strategy, U.S. National

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single package

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single packageWhy Adrian...apparently you aren't a glassy-eyed Apple fanboi Anytime you post anything even mildly critical of Windows, Bing, or anything MS the usual suspects come out in force and try to paint you as a rapid...

Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, cellphone industry, Apple iPhone, cell phone, handset, single package

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Lipids by FPPalm.com 1.01 (Mobile)

This quick and easy guide to screening for, interpreting, and managing high cholesterol is based on the just-released (May 2001) recommendations of the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program NCEP Expert Panel on the Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults Adult Treatment Panel III....

Tags: Mobile, Recommendation, MeisterMed, Engineering, Palm OS, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Internet Radio agreement: Good enough for now

Hollywood and Silicon Valley have reached an agreement on Internet radio - an experimental payment structure that is far from perfect but much better than the alternative rate system that threatened to put Web-based streaming sites out of business. The agreement creates a tiered-system for the radio...

Tags: Revenue, Internet Radio, Agreement, Webcaster, SoundExchange, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-07

National Offender Management Service Delivers Training Rapidly, Effectively, and Efficiently

National Offender Management Service NOMS coordinates its operations through a network of regional offices throughout England and Wales that are responsible for overseeing the management of services delivered by a range of local providers. Her Majesty's Prison Service HMPS, which NOMS supports, needs to train approximately 95% of its staff...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Training, Offender Management Service, National Offender Management Service, Prison-NOMIS, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Workforce Management, Web Browsers, Financial Services, Strategy, Training And Certification, Management, Finance, Human Resources, Internet

Case studies 2009-07-01

Washington: Together, we can tackle cybersecurity

Following a 60-day review of cybersecurity in the United States, the White House today released details of a short-term action plan, which includes the appointment of a "cybersecurity policy official" - a cybersecurity czar, if you will. PDF of full report In a nutshell, the report concluded...

Tags: Agency, Cybersecurity, Federal Government, Government, Vertical Industries, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-29

GOP to go with McCain plan

GOP to go with McCain planMcCain was defeated, not his health care planWhile it's become commonplace for pundits to treat electoral defeat as the equivalent of personal repudiation and the rejection of everything the candidate stands for, that is not and never has been the case. If it were,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

HIPAA remains the EMR deterrent

HIPAA remains the EMR deterrentFirst off.. its no longer called EMR.. its called EHR.. and oh the holesHIPAA is not the reason EHR is not being adopted quicker. Its money. Many of the software EHRs already have built in encryption for communication(no external devices needed!) and secondly HIPAA,...

Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Insurance, HIPAA, goverment, eHR, EMR

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem

One of the highlights of last June's Enterprise 2.0 conference was Don Burke and Sean Dennehy of the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA describing how their 'Intellipedia' wikis were transforming the agency into a more collaborative organization: that presentation is embedded above. Ten...

Tags: Fax Machine, CIA, Network, IBM Corp., Intellipedia, Fax, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-16

When Health Care Law, Health Insurance Companies & Customers Don't Mix

My wife and I get our health insurance from Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield, here in Virginia. Because my wife is a cancer survivor our insurance rates are exorbitant. Last year, we had a $500.00 deductible each and were paying more than $1600 a month for coverage that at...

Tags: Health Insurance, Insurance Company, Customer, Health Care, Insurance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Westminster Dashboard for Child Protection Reduces Monitoring Time to Seconds

Westminster City Council has a national reputation in the United Kingdom for innovation in delivering services to a diverse community in central London. Its Children's Services Department wanted to improve performance monitoring by, and collaboration between, its social workers - ensuring the protection of children at risk. Following a successful...

Tags: Monitoring, Microsoft Corp., Worker, Corporate Performance Management, Westminster City Council, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-03-01

Intermatic Brightens Employees Workdays by Igniting Application Performance With Juniper Networks Powerful Solution Set

Intermatic wanted to upgrade its IT infrastructure that could scale to meet its business needs, could reliably support business critical applications, and optimize application performance across multiple national and international locations. And, it needed to protect the network from intrusions and mitigate risk from external threats. Intermatic deployed J2300 and...

Tags: Performance, Juniper Networks Inc., Intermatic, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking

Case studies 2009-02-01

The silver bullet of preventive care

The silver bullet of preventive careRethink it."It is chronic conditions, like diabetes, that are driving up your health insurance rates. Better compliance reduces those costs."No. It is poor personal choices and lifestyles, along with legal climate, that are ramping up costs! I'm not just surmising on this: ...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Insurance, health care, Max Baucus, preventive care, personal choice

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

MI6 searching for the next generation

Whilst walking the streets of London, with half a baguette in one hand and a coffee in the other, I am no more than 10 feet away from someone who tells people you're no more than 10 feet away from a rat. I call them civil servants personally, wandering around...

Tags: Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-05