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Legitigant Billing Management 1.2 (Windows)

Legitigant (Legit-ti-gant) is a easy-to-use software tool that handles billing specifically for small to mid-size law offices. Legitigant automates the tracking and accounting of all your firm's billable activities. Legitigant significantly mitigates an attorney's role time as accountant with bookkeeping and more as an attorney. Let Legitigant manage your billing...

Tags: Billing, Microsoft Windows, Attorney, VANGUARD I.T, Legitigant Billing

Software downloads 2008-01-21

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HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

Now here's a ringing endorsement of cloud computing......"HP "wouldn?t put anything material in nature outside the firewall." "Sure gives one confidence, doesn't it? And this company is trying sell people on the cloud...but its CEO doesn't trust it? Nice. :-(Translation: We make a lot of money selling overpriced, under utilizedservers...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., server

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Fourth type of cloud computing

Close, but no cigarThere is no requirement that a cloud be publicly accessible. In many cases, corporations use cloud products to supplement existing production. In that case, the public access is via the existing security scheme and the cloud assets are never directly accessible via public IP.Also, there...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Open web

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Gen X/GenY/Enterprise 2.0: are the naysayers right?

It seems that analyst firm Forrester has woken up to the fact that Gen Y are not the big movers and shakers that we've been told the last couple of years. According to Read Write Web Enterprise: A favorite argument among those who talk about...

Tags: Generation X, Generation Y, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-14

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Indexyou forgot the parasite employees that cause the falling ROA."The paradox of falling ROA alongside growing productivity is explained at least in part by the rising total compensation of knowledge workers and other talented employees"?????!!!!!!!!you've forgot the blood sucking...

Tags: Benefits, Personal finance, ROA, Global Collaboration, New Tricks, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Where will Java coders go now?

Where will Java coders go now?JBOSS? JBOSS?Wasn't that the company purchased by Red Hat?The one whose founder requested that its new corporate parent supply more paid labor to improve the product? Whose request was turned down because Red Hat refused to spend the money? And told him...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Java development tools, Java Coders, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

NASA craft may ride on Pentagon rockets

NASA craft may ride on Pentagon rocketsObama's More Economical waysThese types of moves are probably Obama's economical ways to explore to space. http://www.seochampion.comhttp://www.universityloveconnection.comI'm for anything that gets NASA producing more results for less $$ ntntRE: NASA craft may ride on Pentagon rocketsI am sure there are not to many on...

Tags: NASA, Ares, Pentagon, rocket, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-01-02

Storm Worm says the U.S have invaded Iran

Storm Worm says the U.S have invaded IranA little more convincing....Maybe if the storm worm article didn't sound as such a blatantly obvious fabrication some idiot who didn't know how far a was from z on a keyboard would have fallen for it. With all the things the storm worm...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Storm Worm, U.S, storm worm

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Standards, antitrust and Microsoft

No need to add to the Microsoft - Yahoo speculation frenzy, as plenty of others will do that for the remainder of this week (though if anything pops into mind, I'll certainly talk about it in these pages).  Instead, I'll return to the topic I had planned to write about...

Tags: Software, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Standards Competition, Quality, Business Operations, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-02-06

More hints that IT systems analysis and on-demand models are coming together

The hot albeit not necessarily sexy segment of IT operations -- the analysis and intelligence-gathering from logs and performance management data -- is showing increasing signs of an on-demand future. First, Paglo came out last month in beta with a free and open source GPL crawler service...

Tags: Analytics, Information Technology, On-demand, Data, Analysis, Paglo, LogLogic, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-12-03

SAP SRM, another brick from the wall

The contrast could not be more stark between yesterday's launch of Coupa's Amazon-hosted SaaS e-procurement system and SAP's decision on Friday to cancel the upcoming release of its spend management product. Another beneficiary of SAP's misfortune is SaaS vendor Ketera, which earlier this month added a new supplier management application...

Tags: SAP AG, Amazon.com Inc., Wall, Coupa, Ketera, Amazon Web Services, Service Level Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Municipal wi-fi on the ropes

I'm constantly amazed at the places Glenn Fleishman's excellent articles turn up. That latest, on the problems municipal wi-fi networks are facing is in The Economist the only newsweekly worth reading anymore. I originally met Glenn when he interviewed me years ago for a article on Warchalking, of...

Tags: Network, Municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Phil Windley

Blog posts 2007-09-02

Fair Use

According to an article over on Ars Technica, today is the 3rd annual Fair Use Day. On the project website for the event, advocates celebrated EMI's dropping of DRM from its digital music sales and the cracking of AACS, though they also for some reason threw net neutrality into the...

Tags: Digital Media, DRM, Media Center, Television

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Why can't I order PayPal's security key?

Why can't I order PayPal's security key?Good and cheap security measureOTP devices COMBINED with login personalization (*) is one of the best solutions for anti-phishing, anti-keyloggers, anti-ALL.One Time Passwords devices like these ones ALONE are not enough, as demonstrated with the Citibank Man-in-The-Middle attack of mid-2006 (RSA SecurId devices were...

Tags: Web site development, security, PayPal, security key, Web site

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

Vanguard CIO: Paul Heller - Transcript

Dan Farber: Paul thanks for joining me.Paul Heller: You bet Dan, I’m looking forward to talking with you.Dan Farber: Now you’ve been at Vanguard for about 20 years, in a variety of positions, and how did you end up in the CIO chair? Paul Heller: Well Dan, I’ve always had...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-13

Vanguard CIO: Paul Heller - Transcript

Dan Farber: Paul thanks for joining me. Paul Heller: You bet Dan, I’m looking forward to talking with you. Dan Farber: Now you’ve been at Vanguard for about 20 years, in a variety of positions, and how did you end up in the CIO...

Tags: CIO, Business, Client, Technology, Term, Vanguard, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Structures, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, ZDNet Editor

Blog posts 2007-02-13

Are we headed for Idiocracy?

Are we headed for Idiocracy?Quick Friday afternoon answer.Who's this We?Oppressive action is often undertaken in the name of a community, with individuals compelled to follow.A "community" can be defined by those to whom people are subject and by the rules with which people must comply.If goods move from items in...

Tags: Idiocracy

Discussion threads 2007-01-12

Macs...Why bother?

Macs...Why bother?MACToo bad that Windows took over the market. I miss my MAC from 97. When It died I bought an HP cause it was easier to rent at rent a center. The world has been taken over by Windows. Frankly, I miss the Mac. I am into video editing...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Desktops, educator, TCO figure, Apple Macintosh, TCO, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-09-30

Red Hat-JBoss points up seismic shift to an open source stack model

It's a seismic shift, this proposed acquisition of JBoss by Red Hat. The open source code/commercial support business model is no longer just riding a commoditizing wave among certain IT stack runtime and tools components. The model is now carving out a disruptive place on a full, modern IT stack...

Tags: open source

Blog posts 2006-04-10