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Silo 2.1.1 (Windows)

Silo 2 is a focused 3D modeling application with the ability to effortlessly switch between organically sculpting high-polygon models and precisely controlling hard-edged surfaces. It can be used for anything from creating 3D characters for video games and movies to quickly exploring 3D architectural ideas. Silo is being used at...

Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, Silo, Nevercenter, Silo 2

Software downloads 2008-09-03

Additional Resources

Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale

We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...

Tags: Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Small And Medium Business Need, European Enterprise 2.0 Scene, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-14

Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA

Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Using social software to reinvent the customer relationship

What IS Enterprise Web 2.0?[of course there IS no such thing, and if there is it is the crumpled Frankenstein that it suggests it is]"While Enterprise 2.0 tools, primarily aimed at collaboration, are certainly part of this story, they often don?t help companies enjoy the full range of possibilities when...

Tags: Web 2.0, Collaboration, Customer relationship management (CRM), Product marketing, social software, Social CRM

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-10

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

News to know: Apple WWDC, iPhone, Macs; Palm Pre; Google Apps; Facebook

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. Apple coverage: Ed Burnette: WWDC 2009 live Jason D. O'Grady: WWDC 09: the announcements (Updated 10x)...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Is SOA governance also its own silo?

Is SOA governance also its own silo?SOA is hardWhy else would it be considered "elite" and something that "average" programmers would have a problem with? As for silos, they form because (J-type) humans need to control hierarchies and create patterns. Architects are P-types and embrace change. This juxtaposition between the...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, cloud computing, SOA, silo, SOA governance

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

'SOA is Dead' debate lives on and on

I didn't see the brilliant analyst Anne Thomas Manes at either of this week's IBM IMPACT or Software AG's SOA Summit events, but boy, was she there in spirit. The topic still on everybody's minds and lips at both events was Anne's pronouncement at the beginning of the year that...

Tags: SOA, Kevin, Cramm, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Seven stages of SOA maturity: from silos to services

Many of you who have visited this site over the years may have noticed somewhat of a bias toward small-scale SOA as the best way to get things rolling within the enterprise -- particularly if there is resistance or benign neglect on the part of management to new ways of...

Tags: Business Process, SOA, Service, Chris Harding, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-29

America's greenest town?

It's hard to get past the coincidental. This town is named GREENSburg, Kansas. Is this fate set in motion more than a century ago? Serendipity? Some hidden screenwriter have a hand in all this? Greensburg was just another shrinking town surrounded by ever-larger,...

Tags: Kansas, Town, Tornado, NEW Greensburg, Food & Beverage, Web Site Development, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-19

Collaboration Return-On-Investment

"Competition has its place in the marketplace or against last year's performance -- perhaps even against another office or individual where there is no particular interdependence, no need to cooperate. But cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Environment, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Using Web 2.0 to reinvent your business for the economic downturn

Using Web 2.0 to reinvent your business for the economic downturnAn easier way to start the ball rollingI agree with your article in general Dion, but there is much you say that will be scary to people looking for comfort in these troubled times.A top to tail integrated approach to...

Tags: Using Web 2.0, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

'Leading with Kindness'

There is an interesting book and associated US public television series I'm intrigued by entitled 'Leading with Kindness: How good people consistently get better results' The two authors are William F. Baker, Ph.D., (Chief Executive Officer of Educational Broadcasting Corp...

Tags: Team, Doll, Gore, Team Management, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-10

IBM's Legacy World

I attended a regional 'Lotus Collaboration Summit' yesterday - a very helpful road show style event IBM put on to help flesh out the state of the Lotus universe and give partners a chance to demo their products to the customers in attendance. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-22

BI Crystal Ball â€" Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think

Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...

Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You

To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

eBooks: The first step of a long change

After polling all of you about the right price for an eBook device and the kinds of documents you are buying, as well as doing a lot of research over the last couple months, it's clear that the eBooks market is growing. It's also clear that there are huge hurdles...

Tags: Device, Amazon Kindle, BeBooks, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-21

Lacie USB Speakers

In January of 2007, designer Neil Poulton teamed up with LaCie to design a set of FireWire PC speakers. The drawback is the speakers use up a precious FireWire port. In an attempt to fix the problem, LaCie created the $60 LaCie USB Speakers. The new version keeps the same...

Tags: speaker, LaCie, Lacie USB, LaCie USB Speakers, USB

Product reviews 2008-09-17

Next Generation Cost Effective IT Infrastructure

The continued aftershocks from the financial liquidity crisis which started in August 2007 continue to be felt this weekend, with venerable institution Lehman Brothers descending into insolvency, Merrill Lynch being absorbed into Bank of America and AIG seeking to raise cash. This is clearly a very...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Tool, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-14