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- Oracle Role Manager
- Oracle Role Manager solves these challenges by providing a comprehensive feature set for role lifecycle management, business and organizational relationships and resources. Built using scalable J2EE architecture, Oracle Role Manager enables business users to define user access by abstracting resources and entitlements as roles. Organization data in existing applications can...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Role Manager, J2Ee, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2009-06-01
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- How badly are your business applications performing?
- Due for formal release later this week, a study conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Precise at SAP's May 2009 SAPPHIRE reveals some remarkable stats about systems performance and the response times for problem resolution. 695 persons completed the survey. Some key metrics: ...
- Tags: Consultant, Performance, Business Application, SAP AG, Consulting, Performance Issue, Transaction Performance Issue, Performance Management, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- HP Software: Talking strategy; Looking to grow; Gunning for Teradata
- Hewlett-Packard's software unit is tiny relative to the company's overall revenue, but it is being counted on to fuel future growth. The plan: Expand into the data warehouse market occupied by the likes of Teradata, focus on performance and project management and continue to automate data centers. ...
- Tags: Software, Strategy, Teradata, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Software Unit, Data Centers, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- CRM Vendor Thought Leaders - Thinking, Thinking......Hmmm
- Since I was totally disappointed in the performance of the NY Giants about 10 days ago, though happy the Eagles and Ravens had their butts whupped last weekend, I have had little to look forward to this year, (other than today's incredible inauguration of President Obama, which I am...
- Tags: Idea, Leader, CRM, Anthony, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Leadership, Marketing, Software, Management, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe
- Rob Ashe, general manager of IBM's business intelligence and performance management unit, has had a busy year. He sold his company, Cognos, to IBM for $5 billion and has stayed on as a member of IBM's leadership team. Ashe's role day to day hasn't changed too much....
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Software-as-a-service, IBM Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Software As A Service (SaaS), Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Business systems for a faster, flatter world
- One of the biggest problems facing enterprises today is that the world is communicating faster than their IT systems can keep up with. This is particularly obvious in businesses that operate multinationally. Their managers collaborate and communicate daily across timezones and geographies by phone, email and Web conference, but their...
- Tags: On-demand, NetSuite Inc., OneWorld Option, Sales Strategy, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
- After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product†space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008. Although Hyper-V is still in beta and isn't slated to ship...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Disadvantage, Operating System, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, News, VMWare ESX, Hyper-V, Jason Perlow, Virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Picking the right IT: Are some risks worth taking?
- Challenge: pick the right information architecture for a 10 to 15 FTE research foundation. The operating budget runs around two million per year, the mandate is to hand out about one hundred million per year in health care related research grants, the scope is nominally worldwide with preference given to...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Director, Office, George, Paul, Development Officer, Government, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Salesforce to Salesforce, the anti-viral network
- When I heard the details of Salesforce.com's newly announced feature that allows subscribing companies to link data and processes with each other, my first reaction was very favorable. My second reaction â€" when I heard the price â€" was, "How much? You must be kidding." Salesforce to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Network, Organization, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Oracle offers a peek at social apps and Fusion
- Oracle showed how it is bringing a social dimension into its software and offered a peek at Fusion applications this afternoon at Oracle OpenWorld. It demonstrated that Oracle has fully grokked the concepts and technologies of Web 2.0 and that Fusion apps, built on the evolving Fusion Middleware stack,...
- Tags: Application, Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Portals, Business Intelligence, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Marketing, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Office 2.0: The future of applications
- The application as we have known it is being redefined. During the Office 2.0 Conference, a panel of software vendors discussed the future of application and rise of Web-based applications with collaboration at the core. The panelists included Mark Bagley, vice president of technology at British...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Application, Office 2.0, Coghead, OpenSAM, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- CIO Agenda: Driving the Enterprise 2.0 - Transcript
- Dave Margulius: When you think about your customers both internal and external, how fast are their demands changing? You know, if I'd asked you it last year, "What do they want?" Is it significantly different from now and what's the impact on IT? And then kind of corollary to...
- Tags: Laughter, Government, Product, Business, Health Care, Enterprise 2.0, Monopoly Here, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Bell Dials Into Project Success With Advanced Customer Services
- Bell remains Canada's largest communications company because it's been successful at innovating and adapting to change. As part of the IT organization, Adaptive Infrastructure (AI's) role is to accelerate the delivery of new infrastructure projects without compromising quality. To help achieve this goal, Bell's AI team turns to Oracle's Advanced...
- Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Team Management, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Policy-based management may help bridge some pitfalls in SOA's evolution
- I had a nice chat with Rich Seeley at TechTarget this week on SOA and management, and he produced this story. The major theme of the article is that SOA forces a new kind of management, one that's by necessity highly inclusive and crosses the borders of the emerging loosely...
- Tags: Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, datacenters, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, IBM, IT Management, IT Service Management, ITIL, management, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Testing Tools, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- BAMF Automates New Integration Procedures
- The Bundesamt fur Migration und Fluchtlinge BAMFs IT department needed to implement a procedure in which it could integrate a large number of external authorities and course providers - each with its own heterogeneous IT system. To achieve this, BAMF required a flexible, platform-independent system that can also map the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., BAMF, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Strategy, Databases, Software, Management, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-06-01
- Enterprise applications: Pay attention to the user interface
- Enterprise applications are going to increasingly come with Web 2.0 wrappers. And the early innings of the game are under way. While many observers are talking about mashups, lightweight applications and public APIs in the enterprise the real advantage Web...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, General, Search, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Microsoft roping more into Longhorn Server release
- Microsoft roping more into Longhorn Server releasenow it's time to move to a Unix based kernel!:)Running it here, rock solid...We have been running Longhorn Server for ages here. The thing is so powerful, so refined, and so elegant that my MCSEs and I can barely contain ourselves. I have pre-alpha...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating systems, server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Longhorn, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Longhorn, March CTP
- Discussion threads 2007-04-06
- BMC Recovery Manager Plays Key Role in Business Continuity at Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society
- The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society is the nation s largest not-for-profit provider of senior care and services. The Society wanted to support the enterprise business continuity strategy by providing efficient backup that protects vital information and ensures rapid recovery of lost or corrupted data. The Society deployed BMC Recovery...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Business Continuity, Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, It Management, It service Management
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Bringing those dollars home
- Bringing those dollars homeOff-shoring antique COBOL programs...... doesn't work because the programs tend to be idiosyncratic in many ways. Just explaining the accumulated oddities constitutes on-the-job traing. Particularly with the further oddities of the way systems connect.An anecdote: a programmer named internal variables after his favorite high...
- Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Databases, LAMP Stack, Paul, dollars home, Python, Perl, PHP
- Discussion threads 2007-02-15
- And the battle rages on
- And the battle rages on"Education" is certainly a broad topicAs someone who works in a higher education IT, it is a little more apparent to me now that what students, and staff [b]need[/b] heavily depends on the setting.In the last talkback, I questioned someone's claim that Linux was an adequate...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, K-12, desktop, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
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