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Going Beyond Spreadsheets: How Visual Modeling Can Enhance Decision Analysis

Traditional spreadsheet technology has peaked as the most effect method of data analysis. This paper outlines how the next advancement in the speed and quality of decision making comes with the creation of fully interactive and visually compelling models that provide greater insight into data.

Tags: Decision Analysis, Business Objects, Spreadsheet, Modeling, Spreadsheet Technology, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-03-03

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Demand this from software vendors

I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?

I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Desktop Linux, Computer, Super-Casual Web Surfer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Apple iTunes 9

Photo gallery:Apple iTunes 9As one of the most popular programs for managing music and video content on a personal computer, Apple's iTunes software has become an indispensable part of our digital life. Version 9 of iTunes brings a handful of enhancements to Apple's ubiquitous media software, including an improved storefront,...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, iTunes LP

Product reviews 2009-09-25

Creating a unified model for enterprise mashups

Maturing mashup marketThis announcement represents an important step forward for enterprise mashups and is another proof point that the market is maturing. It seems to me that OMA and EMML are formalising a style of mashup defined - in the words of the OMA site - as something that...

Tags: Collaboration, Tools & Techniques, EMML, mashup, enterprise mashup

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Microsoft Office Web Apps go to testers: Ten things to know

A TECH PREVIEW with broken bits...Is not a tech preview, its a marketing ploy. Sorry but I ahve to take MS to task on this entire roll out of Office. Its becoming quite clear to testers myself included that MS has a lot of features/functions that are up...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Web application, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Finally, technology is about people

I thought we had the technology for a while?"Thirty years later, we?ve finally reached a point where such systems can be democratized, and instead of that information being expensively collated for the benefit of a privileged handful of top executives"We reached that point a long time ago. I guess this...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

Google seeks OEMs for Chrome browser; Sony signs on

RE: Google seeks OEMs for Chrome browser; Sony signs onThis is the worst possible combination ever. You have both companies who are known privacy rights violators combining forces to strip your PC of any confidential data you might have. Sony is going to love putting rootkits on the PC,...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Chrome, Google Inc., Web browser, operating system, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

How desktop virtualization will end IT client hardware maintenance (and kill off Best Buy's Geek Squad)

Blah, ha ha ha haOh yeah, I can just see my son playing Garry's Mod on a virtual desktop. Blah, ha, ha, ha.... Yeah, right.Oh, oh, and I can just see virtualizing several thousand clients, all churning their spreadsheets, personal databases, e-mail, web browsers, compilers, graphics programs.There's a reason...

Tags: Rootkits, PRODUCTIVITY, Virtualization, Desktops, Best Buy Co. Inc., Geek Squad, rootkit, desktop virtualization, computer, desktop, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

How desktop virtualization will end IT client hardware maintenance (and kill off Best Buy's Geek Squad)

In one fell swoop, John Whaley might end IT client hardware maintenance. And he might kill off the Geek Squad, too. Whaley, the chief technical officer of desktop virtualization company MokaFive, says desktop virtualization is becoming more widely adopted in...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Information Technology, Environment, Server, MokaFive, JW, Management Cost, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Slick tools...now will they work?

It's late at night, the week before school starts and I'm finally getting around to one of my more important projects for the summer. Best laid plans of mice and men, right? I'm talking about a full rebuild of the 5 servers at our high school. I'm...

Tags: CSV File, Tool, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Google, Microsoft and Zoho

The Battle for the Desktop and Beyond Microsoft is in the news lately with its Office 2010 announcements. It contains, no surprise, a number of tidbits to make more of the application suite more cloud friendly and less costly. Implicit in this strategy...

Tags: Google Inc., Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Software Purchase, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Management, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Cycle Counter 5.0.1 (Windows)

Cycle counters intuitive menu system means anyone can start to use the system as soon as it is installed. Once set up, Cycle counter can be used with a barcode scanner and laptop to complete your cycle count in a fraction of the time that a paper based systems uses....

Tags: Auditing, Microsoft Windows, Spreadsheet, Barcode, Data Byte Software, Productivity, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-07-09

News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm

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. Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Social Search, Palm Inc., Text Messaging, Corporate Communications, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Branding, Marketing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-18

New Zune entertainment services on tap for June?

New Zune entertainment services on tap for June?That's a pretty lame timetable if you ask meSeems that MS is living in a vacuum where they think they can release a "me too" product with features that their competitors have a long time ago. The Zune v1.0 and WinMo 6.5 are...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing research, Microsoft Zune, New Zune, Microsoft Corp., New Zune entertainment service, WinMo, entertainment service, entertainment

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K through 5

Despite constant brushfires and spending too much time on scheduling and database issues, I've been giving a lot of thought to a comprehensive, K-12 technology curriculum. With such a unified approach to teaching and integrating technology in our classes, teachers at each level would be able to expect certain...

Tags: Student, Teacher, Computer, Productivity, Internet, Transportation, IPO, Financial Services, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?

The last week has seen a lot of speculation about the future of Sun's open source projects now that the company has been absorbed by Oracle. Most of the fallout from Oracle's latest acquisition falls outside my realm of expertise or even interest. Some of my university readers...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Research: Thumbs-up for IT's attention to energy efficiency, thumbs-down for lifecycle management

Don't mean to bring you down, but since more of you are likely to be reading about environmental issues today, it being Earth Day and all, I figured I would share some statistics from a new Sustainable Computing Assessment benchmark that has been created by Redemtech. The...

Tags: Asset, Energy Efficiency, Lifecycle Management, Information Technology, Green IT, Redemtech, Asset Management, Patches, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Culture, measurement and managed expectations critical for social business success

* Jennifer Leggio is at RSA Conference Guest editorial by Peter Kim Leading up to SXSW and Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, I thought a lot about the latest thinking in social media to prepare for panels at both events. ...

Tags: Social Media, IT Pro, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant

In partnership with security analyst Rich Mogull right, Microsoft is set to roll out a new research project to help businesses compute the total cost of the patch-management cycle, from testing and distributing a fix to user deployment of the patch. According to this Dennis Fisher report...

Tags: Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Patches, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-04-15