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Tuleu Sweetens Sales in Africa With BusinessWorks Gold

Tuleu Consulting takes orders for sugar cane harvesting equipment from customers in Africa and coordinates shipments from John Deere offices in Germany and the United States. The company faced the challenge of managing thriving export business to West Africa, and maximizing use of e-mail for quotes, orders and confirmation. Tuleu...

Tags: Africa, Sage Software, Tuleu, Tuleu Consulting, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Channel Management, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing

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Matasano ships Web-based firewall manager

The firewall is one of the few security tools that has been proven to be very effective at improving a company's security posture.  However, staying on top of policies  -- and responding to change requests -- while trying to manage multiple firewalls from different vendors can be a never-ending nightmare...

Tags: Web, Network, Matasano Security, Network Firewall, Playbook, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-02

How Linux app install leaves one PC expert befuddled

Adrian, you dumb arse! At least that was my initial reaction when I read his "Linux's dirty little secret" column about his struggles with installing applications onto a Linux distro. It was either the Linux Geek rage originating from the knowing that he didn't Read the Fine...

Tags: Ubuntu, PC, VMware Inc., Tool, Adrian, VMWare Tools, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Productivity, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics

Just following up my post from yesterday about a new consulting service from IBM designed to examine the ethical weight of green technology practices. There's another white paper on the Web site for business process management software vendor Metastorm about the impact that surprise rethinking the way...

Tags: Business Process, Metastorm, Green Technology, Ethics, Operational Planning, Business Ethics, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-01

News to know: Apple patches; Adobe; XP-Vista; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities. David Morgenstern: Apple releases Leopard 10.5.4 update Apple update notice. Robin Harris: Why computers fail Adobe: Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Web, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Patch Management, Apple Inc., IBM Consulting Service, Web 2.0, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-07-01

IBM consulting service begs the question: If your company isn't green, where does it stand on ethics?

IBM consulting service begs the question: If your company isn't green, where does it stand on ethics?IBM Social Responsibility??? HAHAHAIBM not only demurred on increasing salaries to keep up with inflation, but went so far as to cut pay 15% for many under the guise that overtime will make up...

Tags: Business ethics, Outsourcing, IBM Corp., IBM consulting service, IBM consulting, ethics, consulting

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

IBM consulting service begs the question: If your company isn't green, where does it stand on ethics?

IBM has come out and said it: The way a company treats environmental responsibility and green tech issues reflects on its corporate ethics. There, I've said it, too. The company's consulting division has even come out this week with the IBM Corporate Social Responsibility Benchmarking Service...

Tags: Consulting Service, Green Technology, Ethics, IBM Corp., IBM Consulting Service, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-30

WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore

WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al GoreApple's Jonathan Ive helped with robot designApparently Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive helped with the design of the futuristic robot Eve.Fortune magazine:" A call from Stanton to Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple's behind-the-scenes design guru, driving across the San Francisco Bay to...

Tags: Robots, Noah, Wall-E, Stanton, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing

It is not at all uncommon for competitors to arrange a briefing prior to a large, important announcement to present their marketing spin on the announcement. They are, of course, hoping to change the viewpoint of the analyst, journalist, consulting, etc. to their liking and, in the end, produce a...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Announcement, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-27

The view from the trenches...

Taking a pragmatic approach on collaboration 2.0 strategy and tactics, here's an example of some realities from a client side perspective. This post is about what it's like inside a large enterprise running a collaboration system. I've been on both sides of the fence during my career:...

Tags: Software, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Silo, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employees

A data breach resulting from a stolen laptop has leaked sensitive information including Social Security Numbers of approximately 62,000 as reported by Stanford University former and current Standford University employees.  The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a site devoted to the collection of data breach information, reports this number as 72,000, and I'm...

Tags: Sensitive Information, Stanford University, Data, Information, Stanford, Laptop Computer, Kroll, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Microwhatting in the enterprise?

Microblogging applications will eventually roll out in the enterprise. There's tremendous value to be gained from the new communications platform. Guest post by Laura Fitton of Pistachio Consulting. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Network, Twitter, Microsharing, Microcollaboration, Blogging, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-06-23

News to Know: Googlenomics; Windows Mobile 7 phones; Broadband hell

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Free Sourcefire tool pinpoints hostile MS Office files Apple security team finds code execution holes in Ruby Google using invalid security certificate Dancho Danchev: Phishers targeting Facebook users, fake logins...

Tags: Security, Google Inc., Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Information Technology, Broadband, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Virtualization, Telecom & Utilities, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Interview: HP information management maven Rod Walker describes how BI empowers business leaders to innovate

In health care, customer retention, energy and oil management, and for global risk reduction and compliance, BI is offering some of the best payoffs from IT and datacenter investments, says Rod Walker, vice president for information management at HP's Consulting and Integration group. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Information Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Leader, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Podcasts, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Interview: Dan Rueckert of HP consulting digs into ITIL's role in accelerating SOA, IT service management

Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for both the service management and security practices in HP's Consulting and Integration group, explains in an interview the direct and significant ancillary payoffs from ITIL adoption -- from establishing an IT service lifecycle to defining an overall IT service strategy. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Service Management, SOA, Consulting, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-20

IT catfight in Portland, OR

IT catfight in Portland, ORSacraficeMy company just finished an ERP release, successfully!It takes whole company sacrifice and requires separate Change Management groups to come to power to lead staff and executive management with the project and the temporary sacrifices in business process and political ownership. It takes years of...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Leadership, information technology, change management, ERP

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

IT catfight in Portland, OR

Portland, Oregon's late and over-budget ERP implementation has become a battleground between city officials and system integrator Ariston Consulting & Technologies. As the failing project's budget ballooned from $31 million to $49.45 million, finger-pointing and mutual blame have obscured faults on both sides. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: City, Financial, Information Technology, Portland, SAP AG, Financial Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Kinesis Contoured Advantage Keyboard

The Kinesis Advantage Contoured Keyboard is designed for users whose RSI-related pain is not helped by a traditional split keyboard, such as the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Unlike a traditional keyboard, which features raised keys on a mostly flat surface, the Kinesis features two concave bowls that dip below...

Tags: Keyboards, Kinesis Advantage Contoured Keyboard, keyboard

Product reviews 2008-06-18

VMWare and HP align products to bring greater management and insight to virtualized environments

I was just having breakfast yesterday with two systems architects from Seattle, who said they were exploring virtualization, including both VMWare and Xen hypervisors. The liked the potential benefits but were put off by the complexity of setting the stuff up and maintaining it. Their choices, they said, pretty much...

Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, VMware Inc., Tools & Techniques, Business Structures, Data Management, Management, Finance, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02

Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02Don't care what's under the hood?I my experience not caring about what's under the hood is about the fastest way possible to end up with a steaming pile of crap that will be both be a nightmare to maintain and will have constant errors that will severely...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-13