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SAB vs. IEED

SAB vs. IEEDApples and OrangesFor IEED you're treating IT as a part of product design while in SAB it plays the more normal role of a support function to the business.IEED basically has "shadow IT" that just happens to have nothing shadowing it (or nothing to put in its shadow,...

Tags: Strategy, IT IS, IEED, SAB

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

SAB vs. IEED

Although both sample companies discussed so far, IEED and SAB, are start-ups there's a critically important difference between what we know of their IT requirements. That difference amounts to this: with IEED we know what we have to do, but don't know how to do it; while, with SAB, we...

Tags: Investment, Paul Murphy, IEED, SAB

Blog posts 2007-09-12

CAD/CIM and the SAB software selection

This is a guest column by frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht. It's part of the SAB software discussion and represents exactly what I'd hoped to spawn with this whole imaginary company business: an interesting dialogue. That said, here's Erik: Innovative information technology can be a critical means for...

Tags: Software, Core Competency, Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, Product, Manufacturing, SAB, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-09-06

Additional Resources

California governor: Silicon Valley should go to Germany

After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...

Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Bebo CEO Michael Birch Unplugged: Facebook apps now run on Bebo, OpenSocial support next

I'm in San Francisco this week making the rounds and, as luck would have it this was not part of our original plan, Bebo.com was running a launch event while we happened to be here in the city. The event took place at the Metreon right in the heart...

Tags: Bebo, Facebook, Google OpenSocial, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-12

CAD/CIM and the SAB software selection

CAD/CIM and the SAB software selectionSun RaysIf Sun Rays offer good OpenGL performance then I don't see why they couldn't be used. A lot of CAD/CAM work is all Unix based anyway, and sticking a Unix workstation of every desk is expensive. Also, some of the software may...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., SAB Software

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

Consulting objectivity

Suppose your company wanted to hire a consultant to advise on appropriate computing infrastructure strategies for the next five years. Suppose further that you're down to two choices distinguished mainly by their answers to the question: are you biased toward one technology over its competitors?One says that he isn't: that...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Paul Murphy, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., right software, first reaction, software, consulting

Blog posts 2007-08-30

Embedded experience as primary software determinant

Since the hypothetical Solid American Brass SAB is a start-up, the people there don't have the communal memory characteristic of larger, older, organizations. Instead, the key players have to rely on personal experience with other companies; and while that works well for many issues, particularly those involving finance and manufacturing,...

Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Asset management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Strategy, Enterprise software, Erik Engbrecht, software, Paul Murphy, Solid American Brass

Blog posts 2007-08-29

SAT Import for Rhino 1.0 (Windows)

SAT Import for Rhino is an ACIS SAT file import plug-in for Rhinoceros�® 3.0 and 4.0. This plug-in gives Rhino the ability to import 3d solid models from SAT files. Rhino has the ability to export solid geometry to ACIS SAT files. However it cannot import geometry from SAT files....

Tags: Geometry, 3D, Microsoft Windows, File, Modeling, SYCODE, Rhino 1.0, ACIS File Formats, Standard ACIS Text File, Research & Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2007-06-14