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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

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The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

Cloud vs sand: Google vs MicrosoftGeeks make it right.Marketers make it look right.Which one do you want behind your business?Google may look like Sun in 20 years but then Microsoft will look like DRI. I can imagine a similar report with far different findings to be release from Microsoft....

Tags: Data centers, E-mail servers, Now Let, Who-ever, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

What

WhatExplaining IT behavior, what we're missingJust a guess but I think it has a lot to do with what you've talked about earlier, the social dimension to all of this. I would add that there's a cultural factor.Having been a part of the Windows world where I occasionally visit, I...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, UNIX Security, modality, PC, developer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

From Windows to Unix: a mental journey

Changing from Windows to Unix isn't so much about changing technology as it is about changing your thinking. From the 1920s through the wintel detour data processing has evolved in a consistent fashion - and from 1960s discussions on user empowerment to the latest OpenSolaris builds, so has Unix. Notice,...

Tags: Information Technology, Data-processing, Microsoft Windows, Troubles, zOS, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-01-24

Blueprint for Collaborative Application Architecture

Industry trends are converging on the next generation of applications. Users both inside and outside the enterprise are demanding more empowerment. Business decision makers require more and better access to real- or near-time information. The boundaries of the enterprise grow porous as globalization marches on. A next-generation architecture is required...

Tags: SOA, Mashup, Industry Trend, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Globalization, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Strategy, Management, Internet

White papers 2008-10-01

Introducing EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) 6.5: Web 2.0 Meets Enterprise Content Management - Part One

The new EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management ECM 6.5 platform lays the foundation for scalable Web 2.0 management and offers broader compliance and archiving capabilities. It delivers industry-leading enterprise content management without forcing any give-and-take between user empowerment and IT control. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to...

Tags: Web, EMC Corp., Documentum, Enterprise Content Management, Web 2.0, Storage, Content Management, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-08-07

Does your OS matter in a cloud?

Does your OS matter in a cloud?Some questionsI have two questions:1) Data. Where, exactly, is my data and is it secure. More importantly is it still legally my data. We all put money into the bank knowing that if the bank goes so does our money - does this same...

Tags: cloud computing, operating system, desktop, computing, bank, Web application

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

Achieving magical results in IT

Achieving magical results in ITClient assignments, no thanksI agree that Trust and empowerment are powerful motivators, but I doubt that there will be many cases where empowerment will be on the menu while assigned to a client area. This will require a similar shift in thinking for the client, away...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Business PCs are going nowhere fast

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." If Charles Duell, in 1888 the Commissioner for the U.S. patent office, actually said that, then he would, of course, have been wrong; but I think the claim may have some applicability to the business PC in 2008....

Tags: PC, Business PC, Unix, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-14

SAP's CTO: Business knows 'what', IT knows 'how'

The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. Vishal Sikka is SAP's Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Henning Kagermann, Vishal is responsible for driving...

Tags: CTO, Line Of Business, Information Technology, Packaged Application, SAP AG, Business byDesign, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-28

UI guidelines: one reason the Mac shines, Windows sucks

Is there a method behind the madness of the Windows experience and the elegance of the Macintosh? One reason can be seen with just one look at the human interface principles found on Apple's and Microsoft's developer sites. This exploration was sparked by a blog post on...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, User Interface, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Kermadec, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-26

The worst PC myth of all

The worst PC myth of allThe myth is that you know what you're talking about.You start off by defining "the best lie" and then you set about telling it.I've been working with personal computers since they were first invented, and have been working as a consultant to corporations using them...

Tags: Desktops, PC

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace period

ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace periodPLEASE! DO IT!!!I don't care if the original purpose was for typos. That's a lame excuse. Millions of addresses are locked up by cybersquatters. Many times, they just renew it for another free "trial". Or, another cybersquatter picks them up. They are never freed...

Tags: Typos, grace period, ICANN, domain-tasting grace period

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

A turn in the antispyware war?

A turn in the antispyware war?WTF?A Common sense ruling in our US court system?!?! I tell ya, this country is going down hill fast.Next, we will be electing a president that has common sense ....;->WTF? Completely different.Standard journalistic practice is to sumarize the information needed to understand the article before...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, anti-spyware, spyware, advertisement, software

Discussion threads 2007-10-03

FeedHub brings a layer of intelligence to feeds

RSS and Atom have brought some order out of chaos. The information that you subscribe via those protocols magically arrives in your feed reader, but it's still overload when you track several hundred feeds. At DEMOfall 07, mSpoke is giving feed readers more smarts with FeedHub, which formulates...

Tags: Algorithm, FeedHub, Engineering, RSS, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-23

Open source booming in K-12 education

Open source booming in K-12 educationOne thing...Peer reviewed journals are nice and all. But do you really expect high schoolers to understand the papers, and how many of them are free and accessible for free from home?Other than that, I'd be interested to see you delve deeper into this topic.I...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Internet, computer, K-12

Discussion threads 2007-08-31

Travelocity CTO - Transcript

Dan: Barry, Thanks for joining me.Barry Vandevier: Thanks Dan for having me.Dan: Now Sabre Holdings has been around for a while in the travel industry as an infrastructure provider to many other travel companies, and it seems to me that in the travel industry there are some...

Tags: Andrew Mager, performance, Travelocity.com LP, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-07-24

Travelocity CTO - Transcript

Dan: Barry, Thanks for joining me. Barry Vandevier: Thanks Dan for having me. Dan: Now Sabre Holdings has been around for a while in the travel industry as an infrastructure provider to many other travel companies, and it seems to me...

Tags: Andrew Mager, Customer, Data Centers, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Experience, Hardware, Human Resources, Internet, Performance, Performance Management, Product, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software, Storage, Technology, Travelocity.com LP, Vandevier, Web 2.0, Web Services, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2007-07-24