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ITIL in Practice in German-Speaking Countries

Continuous change in business performance raises the pressure on IT to change at the same speed. In this paper the authors address the issue of implementing IT Governance especially the ITIL framework into the organizational context by introducing a decision support framework. The basic research framework is the IT Governance...

Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Decision Support, University Of Innsbruck, Research Framework, Data Mining, ITIL, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, It Services, Management

White papers 2008-04-28

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Desktop Sales Office 9 9.21 (Windows)

Sales professionals and sales teams sell smarter and win more by mastering contacts, deals, campaigns, appointments, and tasks within a framework built from the ground up for selling: Desktop Sales Office. Plan and prepare by crafting your messages, scripted talking points, and anticipated results, then target prospects and create demand...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows, Software On Sailboats, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2009-11-25

Copenhagen countdown

Will he or won't he? To go, or not to go? That is the question. Some MSM outlets say Obama will skip Copenhagen. Yet political leaders in the U.S. and abroad are urging him to attend. The international climate change...

Tags: Copenhagen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Testers to get Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 this week; final by March 2010

Side-by-side installationYou said "Also unlike its predecessors, .Net 4 can be installed side-by-side with the previously released .Net 3.5"Notwithstanding the fact that .Net 4's predecessors actually was .Net 3.5, haven't all previous versions of .Net featured side-by-side installation?translations....[i]Microsoft is touting .Net 4 as being 81 percent smaller than its predecessors,...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive-by malware downloads

is this a part of - framework assistantI am using Firefox 3.5.3 and it has".net framework assistant 1.0" disabled,claiming that is not compatible with thisversion of the browser.what makes this different from the ?Windows Presentation Foundation"that was not disabled until i did it my self ?is one or both the...

Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Linux Distro, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Google Chrome, plug-in, malware, Google Inc., security, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

OsiriX 3.6.1 (Mac)

OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...) and confocal microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format). It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime. It is fully compliant with the...

Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, Medical Imaging, Imaging, Image Processing, OsiriX, OsiriX 3.6.1, 3D Viewer, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-09-24

QuiX New (Mobile)

Mobile Questionnaire Management System The QuiX questionnaire management system is based on the MobiAccess tmframework. Using QuiX significantly reduces information gathering and evaluation turnaround time. Electronic data recording ensures quick and error free data entry that results in more efficient survey processing compared to paper based methods. Mobile questionnaire management...

Tags: Mobile, Survey, QuiX, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Framework to Improve Mobile Robot's Navigation Using Wireless Sensor Modules

As on-going research, this paper presents a framework to improve wireless mobile robot's navigational accuracy in diverse indoor environments where the signals are affected by various types of interference including electromagnetic, multi-path, and fading and scattering. In particular, indoor construction environments pose unique challenges to accurate wireless navigation due to...

Tags: UWB, Mobile, Sensor, Wireless, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ultrawideband (UWB), Robots, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2009-09-02

Strategic Thinking before Operational Actions: The Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem

Three posts about 'failure' in the 'Enterprise 2.0' space in the last few days from Sameer Patel ('Five ways to avoid Enterprise 2.0 failure' guest blogging on Michael Krigmans' 'IT Failure blog here on ZD Net), Dion Hinchcliffe (14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail) and now Dennis Howlett (Enterprise...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Strategic Thinking, Dennis, Morten Hansen, Morten, Superstructure, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-27

VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere

While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...

Tags: Solution, Data Center, Open Source, PaaS, Vision, Supplier, VMware Inc., Tool, SpringSource, Spring Framework, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Framework for a Context-Aware Mobile e-Health Service Discovery Infrastructure for Rural/Suburban Healthcare

This paper presents the research in the design and implementation of a framework for cost cutting electronic healthcare delivery services for rural/suburban communities. This is achieved through the development of a semantic web services framework that would be deployed to provide wireless mobile healthcare delivery services and health management services...

Tags: Aware, Health Care, E-health, Semantic Web, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Internet, Human Resources

White papers 2009-08-12

Password-reset flaw haunts WordPress admins

Open source and PHP at its worstI cannot fathom the design decisions that went into PHP. Maybe that's because there weren't any. That "language" I use that term in the broadest sense here is accident upon accident, quirk upon quirk, patch upon patch. PHP is a complete mess without a...

Tags: Scripting languages, PHP, Wordpress

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Implementing a Planning Model for Information Security Management

This paper is part of a major research on developing a framework and methodology for information security management. Over the years, the focus of information security evolved from physical security of computer centers to securing information technology systems and networks, to securing business information systems. With the Internet, computers can...

Tags: Information Security, Information Security Management, Security

White papers 2009-08-09

A Good Year for Security Collaboration

Guest Editorial by  George Stathakopoulos It seems like just yesterday when I was at Black Hat.  Now as I get ready to fly to Las Vegas again, I look forward to seeing a lot of security researchers, hearing their latest exploits and how they fared over the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Conficker Working Group, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Enterprise architecture heads north: report from Open Group

John Meyer of The Open Group sent some detailed dispatches from the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Thanks to John for a great job summarizing many of the key insights coming from the conference -- some highlights from day one are summarized below:...

Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Architect, Electronic Arts Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Mac users suffer Safari 4 woes

Mac users suffer Safari 4 woesNo Mac issues hereIt works well.Now on Windows, Safari is a PIG - memory, CPU, etc.Works great on my MacNo issues to report here. Nice and fast. The new UI changes here and there take a little getting used to. Overall, I'm very satisfied.RE: Mac...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Web browsers, Safari 4, Apple Safari, Safari 4 woe, Mac-user, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

America's #1 global warmer

America's #1 global warmerThe Biggest Global CoolerBack in the late 1970's, Hansen was also the father of the Global Cooling scare. Nobody seems to want to talk about how he was wrong back then too.Science of Fear = Government FundingWhat else needs to be said? Even a third grader...

Tags: Hansen

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Got some opinions about smart grid technology? U.S. Commerce Department seeks feedback

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, part of the U.S. Commerce Department of Commerce, has published a lengthy report detailing its notions about what should be included in the U.S. smart grid. Here's a quick excerpt from the summary: "The greatest benefit from the smart...

Tags: Innovation, Grid Computing, Diversity, U.S. Department Of Commerce, Grid, Standards, NIST, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-22

News to know: Morro reviewed; RIM; Intel; Windows 7

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. Ed Bott: How good is Microsoft's free antivirus software? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Security Essentials: What wannabe testers need...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Cloud Computing, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-19

MeVisLab 2.0 (Mac)

MeVisLab is a visual programming and rapid prototyping platform for image processing research and development with a focus on medical imaging. MeVisLab provides a flexible and simple handling of visualization and image processing algorithms by modular visual programming. No programming knowledge is required to set up image processing...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Medical Imaging, Image Processing, Programming, MeVis Research GmbH, MeVisLab

Software downloads 2009-06-15