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- p2msp 2009.1.3 (Windows)
- Now available, the 2009 version of p2msp - the PRINCE2 add-in for Microsoft project. P2msp is the only PRINCE2 toolkit that automates Product Based Planning along with Risk and Issue Management, all inside Microsoft Project, giving Project Managers a superbly easy-to-use and fully integrated PRINCE2 Project Planning & Management environment....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Structured Project Management Solutions, P2msp, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-09-16
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- Two new tomes offer tips to guide your Green IT strategy
- Believe it or not, I have a stack of 10 business books on my desk right now, begging to be read and reviewed. Two are pertinent for the loyal Green IT folks in the GreenTech Pastures, so I felt it appropriate to mention them as a scan some of the...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Shouldn’t services firms have their own ERP?
- I caught up this week with Morris Panner, CEO of OpenAir now part of NetSuite. One aspect of our wide-ranging conversation concerned the continuing evolution of businesses, the economy, etc. towards a greater services orientation. Drawing on that, we discussed how services firms need their own version of ERP. ...
- Tags: Staffing, ERP, Services Firm, Service Firm, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Strategic Thinking before Operational Actions: The Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem
- Three posts about 'failure' in the 'Enterprise 2.0' space in the last few days from Sameer Patel ('Five ways to avoid Enterprise 2.0 failure' guest blogging on Michael Krigmans' 'IT Failure blog here on ZD Net), Dion Hinchcliffe (14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail) and now Dennis Howlett (Enterprise...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Strategic Thinking, Dennis, Morten Hansen, Morten, Superstructure, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- The great certification debate
- Last year at SAP TechEd, Vinnie Mirchandani, Mike Krigsman and I spent an entertaining 15 minutes verbally abusing challenging Zia Yusef, who runs SAP's ecosystem of developers, SIs and partners. The thrust of our argument was that SAP's inability to control its ecosystem means that projects often run over time...
- Tags: Certification, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- PPM & IT Management â€" is now finally the time?
- Best Practice in IT Management - Has PPM's time come? PPM Project Portfolio Management software products have been around several years now. They are used by IT departments, project teams, program managers and others to both manage projects but also to constantly monitor and adjust one’s project...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, PPM, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market
-  Earlier today, Oracle outlined its strategy regarding the recently acquired BEA portfolio. If I hadn't known it was supposed to be a customer and partner webinar, I'd have thought we were listening to a more detailed re-run of the latest earnings call with Charles Philips talking...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Defragging identity, disclosures and vendor relationship management
- In the afternoon session at the Defrag conference, some old friends took the stage to defrag some things. Dick Hardt is well known for his Identity 2.0 presentation on the state of digital identity. He is the CEO and founder of Sxip Identity, which focuses on Internet-scale identity and...
- Tags: Data, Identity, Tool, Productivity, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Radar Networks weaves semantic Twine
- Radar Networks has finally taken the wraps of its stealthy semantic Web platform. I met with company CEO Nova Spivack earlier this week to get the lowdown on Twine, the first application of the company’s technology. “Twine is a new service for knowledge networking, sharing, organizing and...
- Tags: Web, Social Search, Network, Knowledge, Vision, Radar, Information, User, Web Page, Radar Networks, Twine, BlueOrganizer, Powerset, Semantic Web, RDF, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Manufacturing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise
- For well over a year now we've seen reports and announcements from a major industry analyst firms and others tracking the movement of Web 2.0 ideas into the enterprise. Gartner, Forrester, McKinsey, and many others have all weighed in on the trends or made recommendations, sometimes cautious and sometimes...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Complexity, Product, Tagging, Business, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Syndication, User Experience, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
- While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...
- Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- vManage 1.0.0.4 (Windows)
- vManage allows you to organize and manage the testing process by providing tools that aid in bug tracking, test and requirements management. A web based interface lets you share testing information among team members who are integrated via Verisium's testing solutions. With vManage, you can create projects that correlate tests,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Requirement, vManage, Verisium vManage, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2007-01-24
- Oxfam GB CIO: Simon Jennings - Transcript
- Dan Farber:Simon, thanks for joining me.Simon Jennings:It’s a pleasure Dan.Dan Farber:Now, Simon, you’re the CIO of Oxfam Great Britain which is part of Oxfam international. Could you explain the scope of your responsibilities as well as how Oxfam GB fits into the international organization?Simon Jennings:First thing to understand is that...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Oxfam GB CIO: Simon Jennings - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Simon, thanks for joining me. Simon Jennings: It’s a pleasure Dan. Dan Farber: Now, Simon, you’re the CIO of Oxfam Great Britain which is part of Oxfam international. Could you explain the scope of your responsibilities as well as...
- Tags: Innovation, Revenue, Product, Mobility, Satellite, Organization, Office, Oxfam, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Blogs, wikis, and Web 2.0 as the next application platform
- My previous post discussed how IBM is planning to use Web 2.0 software like wikis as a foundation upon which to build so-called situational software. These are instant applications which can be assembled just-in-time and not created from scratch from the rich pallette of services and feeds...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Wiki
- Blog posts 2006-06-20
- Google Calendar - further progress on Google's Web Office suite
- Tonight Google unveiled its web-based Calendar application, called Google Calendar (not CL2 as it was labeled initially). TechCrunch has a review of the product and Mike Arrington called it "fast, slick and stable". There's also a tour of Calendar available here and Dave Winer took some early screenshots. My...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- Rx for Linux: Part 5 - Executive support
- Rx for Linux: Part 5 - Executive supportUh, IT departments will love ya today.Not... ;-)Sorry, but I must pick nits now[i]"the right way to run Unix is to get it set up right, and then leave it alone until something changes - but that's not the right way to run...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Intel x86, server, x86 Solari
- Discussion threads 2005-10-21
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