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- Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale
- We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity
- Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Advanced Time Reports Web Premier 8.18.200 (Windows)
- Advanced Time Reports Web will help you increase your billable hours by better managing all your projects, clients and working hours. All of ATR functionality now available in pure 100% web-based application. Manage your projects, receive updates, create reports and view team schedules - all remotely from any place in...
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- Teradata unveils cloud strategy, answer for Oracle's Exadata machine
- Data warehousing giant Teradata is outlining its cloud computing strategy including an internal cloud service and a public offering via Amazon Web Services. In addition, Teradata is rolling out an appliance it claims will provide a big performance boost. The announcements, timed for Teradata's partner conference in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- 'Lean IT': another buzzphrase for something we've been trying to do all along?
- Lean IT is about reducing 'waste' in IT processes. Haven't we been trying to do that for years with SOA, virtualization, Agile development, and IT automation? by Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- I've joined the Dachis Group
- As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Advanced Time Reports Premier 8.9.176 (Windows)
- Advanced Time Reports Premier Edition is an intuitive time tracking & project management solution that will help you increase your billable hours by better managing all your projects, clients and working hours. Used by professionals and project-oriented businesses worldwide to perform essential functions such as timesheet reporting and project management....
- Software downloads 2009-09-24
- How Kanye West influences enterprise social business strategy
- Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- More Microsoft layoffs, a resignation and other pre-Labor Day tidbits
- Oh pooh...The days are coming to an end for 15G Operating Systems, in case they missed it Appliance driven devices under VMware IS the future.Not some insecure bloated expensive Server versions that require tens of thousands in licenses and still is crippled up by viruses/worms.;)On the plus side,nobody now knows...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape
- McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of 'Web 2.0 in business' research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I'd argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Chartered Cuts Time to Report a Bill of Materials From One Hour to Less Than One Minute
- The ability to respond quickly to customer requests is a significant competitive advantage and more important than ever in challenging economic times. However, the use of suboptimal systems to track and manage critical Intellectual Property IP and process attributes was hampering Chartered's ability to react quickly to design opportunities. Staff...
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Packaged software, an accident of history
- "government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Agile Platform - Community Edition 4.2.4.47 (Windows)
- The Community Edition is a full version of the Agile Platform for building web business applications that can be deployed into production for personal use or by small businesses. It offers a completely visual IDE to integrate, develop, deploy, manage and change web applications, including: 1) Integration Studio: Desktop tool...
- Software downloads 2009-08-24
- Federal government validates cloud computing
- Last week, we surfaced the views of Michael Daconta, writing in Government Computer News, who cautioned government agencies from diving in too deep into new approaches to managing technology, such as cloud computing, SOA, and Agile development. It looks like the folks over at the General...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Sprintometer 3.0 (Windows)
- Sprintometer is a simple tool with modern GUI for SCRUM and Extreme Programming projects' tracking. Enhanced Burn-down with 95% statistical sector. Support for variable team size. Prediction of deviation from sprint/iteration plan. Export to Microsoft Excel for all charts and spreadsheets. Data in local file or in shared DB on...
- Software downloads 2009-08-06
- SOA, cloud not good enough for government work?
- There are plenty of examples of government agencies demanding service-oriented approaches to programs and projects, including the recent revelation that the Department of Defense and Veteran's Administration plan to spend more than $1 billion to bring their systems together in an SOA way. However, Michael Daconta, writing...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)
- What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)Typo"Business Productivity Online Services, Windows Azure, desktop virtualization, storage Data Protection Manager and identity ser[b]v[/b]ices."Me: I would really work much harder on mobileI think Microsoft is doing the right thing in the Enterprise space. I even think it is a...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Harris Corporation Cuts Engineering Change Time in Half to Accelerate Time to Market
- Harris Corporation is an international information technology company focused on providing assured communications - anytime and anywhere. Harris found that it already learned a lot of lessons about its supply chain downstream - for example, from which vendors it should purchase supplies, which parts it should use, and how its...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages Vendor Development Projects (Level 300)
- When managing vendor development projects, lack of metrics, or the dependence on a single metric, can lead to surprises by the project's end. The attendee will learn about the tracking system that Microsoft IT uses to manage software development projects from a client perspective. Agile Cross IT Engineering AXE generates...
- Webcasts 2009-07-30
- Plastic Logic Reader will connect via AT&T and WiFi
- Plastic Logic Reader will connect via AT&T and WiFiRE: Plastic Logic Reader will connect via AT&T and WiFiI wonder how it will compare with Bebook2?native PDF and Office file support?Can you say King of eBook readers?Wireless is something I could take or leave-- especially the 3G. But the format support...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
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