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From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureShibboleth?Here's the dictionary definition:1. a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons. 2. a slogan; catchword. 3. a common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth. A report, providing...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mgmt, packaged application, job, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how'

The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...

Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-28

Cost and Time of Implementing Packaged Applications Reduced by a Third

Before 2001, several proprietary applications, developed in-house, mainly based on VAX/VMS, were used for running the Kiabi business. However international expansion, as well as improvements in the responsiveness to ever-changing customer requirements, led to several supply chain innovations. These enable Kiabi to offer a better fashion mix with ideal supply-demand...

Tags: Supply Chain, Sun Microsystems Inc., Packaged Application, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2006-08-30

The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications

Imperative reading: this report from Forrester, "The Financial Impact of Packaged Applications," sponsored by IBM, discusses Forrester's ROI-based methodology for evaluating costs, benefits, and risks of deploying and maintaining ERP, SCM, and CRM applications. It can also be used as a predictive tool.

Tags: Financial, Packaged Application, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software

White papers 2006-07-11

Forget about implementation, focus on results

I'm often asked, what's the big deal with software as a service SaaS? If all you're doing is hosting the application instead of installing it locally, it's just an alternative delivery mechanism. So why do people talk as though it's a whole new category of software? ...

Tags: delivery mechanism, software, packaged application

Blog posts 2006-06-20

Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2: Integrating Packaged Applications Data

Warehouse Builder is Oracle's tool to easily integrate this data, and in the meantime infuse data quality checks, compliance monitoring and metadata management into the integration process. The connectors for eBusiness Suite and PeopleSoft are new, the connector for SAP is greatly enhanced for this release. The paper gives an...

Tags: Data Quality, Oracle Corp., Packaged Application, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-06-01

Additional Resources

ZippyRippy 1.0.4 (Mac)

ZippyRippy is a new program developed with one goal in mind, ripping DVD media for use on personal devices. ZippyRippy is set apart by the idea that DVD conversion should be automatic without the need to endlessly tweak controls. If a DVD with a valid VIDEO_TS folder is detected when...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zippy Software, ZippyRippy, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-11-06

JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment 1.1.1 (Mac)

Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container that implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages specifications. Like other deployment JumpBoxes, the JumpBox for Tomcat makes it easy to deploy a web application (specifically a java-based web application). Notable features of this JumpBox include: Flexible deployment options: Applications...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Application, Backup, Apache Tomcat, JumpBox, Application Servers, Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-03

JumpBox for LAMP Deployment 1.1.13 (Mac)

The JumpBox for LAMP Deployment is a great utility system that allows you to easily deploy applications where a tailored JumpBox may not exist. It contains MySQL plus PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python along with PHPMyAdmin to help you manage the database. Using the JumpBox for LAMP Deployment you can...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Ruby, JumpBox, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Servers, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Management, Human Resources, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-02

JumpBox for the MySQL Relational Database 1.1.11 (Mac)

MySQL is probably the most widely used relational databases around. It's used as an integral component in many JumpBoxes and is also useful to have available in an easy to use standalone version. This JumpBox includes MySQL 5 along with PHPMyAdmin setup and ready to run. It's a great tool...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MySQL, Benefit, JumpBox, Databases, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Open Source, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-30

JumpBox for the Movable Type Blogging System 1.1.12 (Mac)

Movable Type is Six Apart's flagship blog software product, launched in 2001. Today, this robust social publishing platform powers the websites and blogs of many of the world's largest media companies, Fortune 100 businesses, small and medium sized businesses, and power bloggers. Movable Type is a fully integrated, scalable, proven...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Blog, Movable Type, JumpBox, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Servers, Internet, Management, Human Resources, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-29

JumpBox for the Joomla! CMS 1.1.14 (Mac)

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System CMS that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. It's one of the most popular Open Source applications around and the JumpBox for Joomla is a huge time saver. It captures the experience of a skilled IT admin in a...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Content Management System, JumpBox, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Content Management, Servers, Management, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-29

JumpBox for LAPP Deployment 1.1.5 (Mac)

The JumpBox for LAPP Deployment is a great utility system that allows you to easily deploy applications where a tailored JumpBox may not exist. It contains PostgreSQL plus PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python along with phpPgAdmin to help you manage the database. Using the JumpBox for LAPP Deployment you can...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Ruby, JumpBox, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Servers, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Management, Human Resources, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-29

JumpBox for the PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System 1.1.5 (Mac)

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that's been under active development for over 15 years. An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL boasts sophisticated features such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control MVCC, point in time recovery, tablespaces, asynchronous replication, nested transactions savepoints, online/hot backups, a sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Server, PostgreSQL, JumpBox, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Candelair 1.0.1 (Mac)

Candelair is an alternative driver for the built-in IR receiver as found in many Mac�®s today. It provides a clean, global fix for Apple�® Remote issues many users are experiencing with third party applications under Snow Leopard releases 10.6 and 10.6.1. It's based on Remote Buddy's driver and comes...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Driver, IOSPIRIT, Candelair, Desktops, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-26

RIM BlackBerry Storm 2 (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:BlackBerry Storm 2Let's be honest. Research in Motion's first foray in the world of the touch-screen smartphones wasn't exactly a smashing success. The RIM BlackBerry Storm was riddled with bugs and performance issues, which were resolved with subsequent software updates, but still, the damage had been done. However, there...

Tags: Handhelds, Keyboards, Smart phones, Verizon Wireless, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Storm 2, RIM BlackBerry Storm 2, Storm 2, BlackBerry Storm

Product reviews 2009-10-15

Oracle OpenWorld: Getting down to business

Unfaithful Application VisionOracle has punted on delivering integration as a product:IF you consider the definition of integration to be 'supplied as a buyable product and supported by the vendor.' Oracle's definition seems to be integration the same way that Facebook and YouTube are integrated-at the surface only and then 'pushing'...

Tags: Oracle Corp., integration

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Microsoft hints at second low-cost Office option

Looks like they figured out that the price people are willing to pay for MSOffice is going to be falling like a rock. Can you say "pennies on the dollar"??$0 is about rightfor all the headaches MS has caused the world.M$ still has to drop the price a lotin order...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

JumpBox for PMwiki Wiki Software 1.1.9 (Windows)

PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an Edit link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website, using basic editing rules. PmWiki is a clean...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, JumpBox, PmWiki, Wiki, Benefits, Online Communications, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-10-12

JumpBox for the PMwiki wiki system 1.1.9 (Mac)

PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an "Edit" link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website, using basic editing rules. PmWiki is a clean...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Benefit, JumpBox, PMwiki, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-08