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Five ways to destroy a software implementation

Five ways to destroy a software implementationTwo More to AddOur personal favorites to add to your list include:1. I'll know it when I see it.2. It needs to look and feel just like my current software.Both are fasr tracks to failure, wasted time, and a lot of wasted...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, customization, software implementation, software

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

Five ways to destroy a software implementation

Liam Durbin, CIO of GE Fanuc Automation, writes in CIO magazine about five common scenarios that can cause software implementations to fail:1. Just replace the homegrown system with a packageâ€"no need to involve the functional teams.Saying “no” to customization is bitter medicine for your business partners. They will make contorted...

Tags: Software, Leader, Software Implementation, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-13

Implementing or Upgrading SAP Solutions? - Don't Forget the Data: Addressing the Challenges and Risks of Data Migration

Research has shown that software implementations are put at risk when data migration is not thoroughly considered and planned. According to recent research, more than 80 percent of software implementation projects fail or overrun their budgets and schedules. Of the projects that are overrun, half exceed timescales by 75 percent...

Tags: SAP AG, Data Migration, Migration, Software Implementation

White papers 2007-05-03

Mac-N-Trax 1.4 (Mac)

With our easy to use software you can create a "throttle" for each of your engines and control them as easily as using the mouse, keyboard or even a Griffin Powermate. Maybe you prefer to run multiple units or consists? No problem. Creating and breaking apart consists doesn't get much...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Software Implementation, Wabbit Wanch Design, Keyboards, Mice, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Peripherals, Management

Software downloads 2005-12-13

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10 ways to evaluate your IT management software

Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-05

You'll be far better off in a future without enterprise software

As per usual...you give no concrete examples only ethereal ideas that go nowhere. You talk about services as though it is something other than software. Everything you propose goes back to the fact that you still have to have infrastructure and software before you can even get started. You use...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, SOA, software, hardware, enterprise software

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Splendid City Sports Scheduler 6.7.3 (Mac)

Splendid City Team Sports Scheduler, and Sports Scheduling Software System is useful for people who organize team sports or game events. Use it to manage and publish sports schedules of any size and complexity. Automatically create high quality double or single elimination tournament brackets, round-robin league schedules, swiss round tournaments,...

Tags: Web, Team, Apple Macintosh, City Sports Inc., Web Site, Niagara Software, User Experience, Time Management, Web Site Development, Team Management, Games, Web Technology, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-31

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

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

R for Mac OS X 2.10.0 (Mac)

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Language, Graphics, R, S Language, R. R, Team Management, UNIX, Apple Mac OS X, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-10-26

So about this SIF thing

Difficulties in implementationLong before I retired from being a computer coordinator for our district, SIF was in the news.The reality for my district was changing Student Information Management software three times in 10 years (and a fourth since '06 when I retired). In each case, the transfer of data from...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, SIF

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Managing Change is the Biggest Challenge for Enterprise 2.0 & Social MediaGreat post Paul- and agreed that congrats are in order. What is often missed in deploying new technologies or old standards is the degree to which it changes how people do their job, what their daily life looks like-...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Leadership, Enterprise software, Dion, Managing Change, Enterprise 2.0, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history.   So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0.  I'm...

Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-20

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...

Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Verizon Droid ad attacks iPhone on features

I'm really interested in this phone. I hear it won't drop 30% of its callsThe ad is pure genius and truly highlights how terrible the iPhone is. The iPhone also has the dubious distinction of being the only modern cell phone to drop 30% of its calls, as admitted by...

Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

YouTube Video Grabber 1.5 (Windows)

YouTube Video Grabber is a software tool you can use to save your favorite online videos to your computer in wide range of different video formats. So you can make a hard copy of those videos, transfer them on other computer without Internet access, upload them on your mobile phone,...

Tags: YouTube Video, YouTube Inc., Online Video, Microsoft Windows, Video, Plug-in, YouTube Video Grabber, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-18

Mono-mania: It's risky business

M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...

Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Mono-mania: It's risky business

The Open Source Mono project is controversial because it is a re-implementation of Microsoft's .NET technology. It's time for Miguel De Icaza's Mono implementation -- and applications that use it -- to be moved into the "risky" category, until the patent situation is deemed truly safe to use by default...

Tags: .Net, Open Source, Development Tools, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI's and Channel Partners

Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP. I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Firm, Channel Partner, Business Services, Strategy, Supply Chain, Product Development, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-14

HP's Touchsmart: A PC, maybe, but cooler as a TV

Very well thought out box.I suspect HP has a hit. They have a really nice design on that thing.Screen which easily swivels is very importantIf PC manufacturers want people to increasingly use these devices' touch features, I believe that it is very, very important that they allow users to...

Tags: Desktops, PC, HP TouchSmart, Hewlett-Packard Co., TV

Discussion threads 2009-10-13