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- MSDN Webcast: Developing Office Business Applications: From Client to SharePoint and Beyond (Level 300)
- Office Business Applications OBAs are a new breed of composite solution that leverages the Microsoft Office platform to integrate line of business systems, such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Microsoft Dynamics, with the Microsoft Office system. This webcast address the why, what, and how in regards to developing and deploying OBAs,...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft SharePoint, Business Application, Microsoft Corp., Office Business Applications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts 2008-01-29
- Office Business Applications Improves Sales Force Productivity, Helps Increase Sales
- Microsoft is the world's largest software company, with 71,000 employees and more than U.S.$44 billion in annual revenues. Microsoft needed to make customer data stored in Seibel customer relationship management and other line-of-business systems easier for salespeople to access and update so that they could spend less time managing information...
- Tags: Sales Force, Business Application, Microsoft Corp., Office Business Applications, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Office, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2007-06-01
- Software 2007: Ballmer touts Office for composite apps
- At the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer paced across the stage explaining Microsofts software + services platform strategy to the crowd of IT execs and software vendors and promoting the business value of Office Business Applications OBAs, which uses Office as a front end for...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, Microsoft, General, ERP, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Microsoft offers $25,000 for best Office-Oracle mash-up
- At next weeks Collaborate 2007 Oracle users group conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft is rolling out a contest to encourage developers to integrate Office 2007 with Oracle applications. The winner of the "O 2 OBA Challenge" gets $25,000 to implement the resulting mash-up. (Microsoft also is convening at...
- Tags: Office 2007, Office, Dynamics ERP, Database, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Dynamics CRM
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Whatever happened to Microsoft LOBi?
- Hold onto your geek party hats. This is one of those confusing Microsoft-roadmap posts full of obscure acronyms that hopefully is worth wading through. LOBi Line of Business Interoperability: A toolkit? A service? Both? Neither? Whatever LOBi is/was, it was supposed to be key to Microsofts quest to make...
- Tags: Dynamics CRM, Dynamics ERP, Office 2007, SharePoint Server, Office, Development tools
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Building Office Business Applications: A New Breed of Business Applications Built on the 2007 Microsoft Office System
- This white paper introduces Office Business Applications OBA, a new breed of easily customizable solutions that address real-world business problems through the 2007 Microsoft Office system. OBA delivers people-centric, collaborative solutions to the enterprise through familiar Microsoft Office servers, clients and tools. This paper discusses today's business environment and identifies...
- Tags: Business Application, Microsoft Corp., Office Business Applications, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software
- White papers 2006-06-01
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- Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
- Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...
- Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1
- The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot!According to the story the 2.1 firmware also contains...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts
- A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gateway stops selling PCs direct
- Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 'Branded community' leads to trademark morass
- After publishing a guest blog on enterprise communities, I received what appeared to be a cross between a sales pitch and cease-and-desist email from a branding business. How is this approach good branding? by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Community, Branding, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- The big winner? Open Office. It swept the awards for top project, top enterprise project, and top project in education. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: SourceForge, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Netflix ups outlook; Customer acquisition costs fall
- Netflix said Friday it ended the second quarter with more than 8.4 million subscribers, up 25 percent from a year ago, and spent less money acquiring those customers. Those two factors added up to better than expected quarterly results and an improved outlook. The company has been...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Acquisition, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost (read "free"). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE, Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.)...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Comprehension, Productivity, Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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