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Enhancing System Architecture Through Improved Interfaces and Quality Control Systems

Schlumberger Oilfield Services provides virtually every type of exploration and production service required during the life of an oil and gas reservoir. Schlumberger Oilfield Services is implementing SAP R/3 worldwide. When upgrading its SAP system, Schlumberger Oilfield Services looked to EMC Documentum Consulting for collaboration on the architectural design of...

Tags: Schlumberger Ltd., System Architecture, Quality Control, EMC Corp., Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Storage, Hardware

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Global Project Management Paves the Way to New Product Synergies and Increased Value for Customers

Schlumberger Oilfield Services provides virtually every type of exploration and production service required during the life of an oil and gas reservoir. Schlumberger has operations in over 100 countries and has over 64,000 employees. Schlumberger Oilfield Services is implementing SAP R/3 worldwide. EMC Documentum Consulting has helped Schlumberger Oilfield Services...

Tags: Schlumberger Ltd., EMC Corp., Schlumberger Oilfield Services, Project Management, Storage, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Hardware, Management

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Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management

The movement is to expand SOA governance, but perhaps more importantly, expand governance in general across more of what IT touches. Rules, roles, business context, policy, development-to-deployment lifecycles, operational efficiency, projects and services -- all need to be brought into a contextual whole. Not by a common product set, but...

Tags: Business Process, Registry, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Service Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Systinet Corp., HP SOA Systinet 3.0, HP Software, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem

Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Small And Medium Enterprise, Web Application, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright, Pricing, Smb/Sme, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-06

WSO2 eases enterprise data availability for SOA access, consumption

In its initial release, the application supports access to data stored in relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL and IBM DB2, as well as the comma-separated values CSV file format, and Excel spreadsheets. It allows users to authenticate, encrypt and sign services using the WS-Security and HTTP security standards. In...

Tags: Data Service, Web, Database Administrator, Enterprise Data, Web Service, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-10-06

SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing

SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Discovering Venice with a CINeSPACE device

There are many existing services to help you to discover a city you don't know, but the EU-funded CINeSPACE project is quite unique. It combines GIS and semantic technology to provide you with an intuitive and interactive way to discover the cultural heritage of a city. The CINeSPACE project combines...

Tags: Image, GIS, GPS, Handhelds, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Welcome to the Data Cloud ?

‘The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...

Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?

Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft as well as others, but the larger question is...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed

On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come -- the move is another symbolic nail in Vista's coffin....

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IT Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-10-06

The cloud finally comes to education

Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...

Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-06

News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple

 Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-06

IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx

IBM will announce Monday that it is launching a beta of "Bluehouse," a social networking and collaboration service designed to link businesses with various partners. The move, part of a broader effort to define IBM's cloud computing strategy, will put it in direct competition with Cisco's collaboration...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Beta, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-05

Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom

After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...

Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-04

Churchill Club podcast: From Cell Phones to Software & Services: One-on-One with Nokia's CEO

Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes, sat down with Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo to discuss the mobile market. Kallasvuo has led the company for the past two years, but has held a variety of positions in his 28-year Nokia career, including heading its North American unit in the late...

Tags: Software, Phone, Nokia Corp., Cell Phone, Kallasvuo, Smart Phones, Podcasts, Cellular Phones, Professional Development, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Career, masaokad

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Vudu offers new format to stream 1080p HD movies to its BX100 player

As I mentioned in my post yesterday about Netflix, one of the obstacles video-streaming services are going to have to overcome is the quality of the files they're sending to big HDTVs. Apple has recently introduced 720p HD files on iTunes to download to its Apple TV device, but lesser-known...

Tags: Video, Movies, 1080p, Vudu, HDX, Pogue, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies

New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform's CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times' Executive Editor John Solomon, there's an interesting story to tell of...

Tags: Story, Editorial Staff, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-03

HP to jump into smartphones. Why?

Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Zune services on Win Mobile = 'Pink'

CEO Steve Ballmer reiterated this week that Microsoft has decided against building its own Zune phone. (Chairman Bill Gates said the same thing back in January 2008, for those keeping score at home.) Ballmer also noted this week that Microsoft is looking to bring Zune software/services to Windows Mobile. This...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Pink, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-03