The measurable result or output of a process.
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- Blog posts 2009-10-08
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- Blog posts 2009-08-06
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- White papers 2009-05-17
- Scitable brings peer-reviewed credibility to the Wikipedia age
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- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K through 5
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- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- PowerPoint 101
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- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant
- In partnership with security analyst Rich Mogull right, Microsoft is set to roll out a new research project to help businesses compute the total cost of the patch-management cycle, from testing and distributing a fix to user deployment of the patch. According to this Dennis Fisher report...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11: Lots of Tech but Short on Polish
- At first glance, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) is virtually indistinguishable from the company's Free/Open Source and community supported Linux distribution, openSUSE 11.1. But does SLED 11 have the extra polish and the value add to justify its position as Novell's premier enterprise...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Turning Web X.0 Data Into Competitive Advantage
- Over the last decade, companies have been slowly realizing that the World Wide Web represents both a pivotal new source of information on their customers and game-changing technology that will augment their current business operations. In response to this recognition, companies are showing interest in technology that tells them what...
- White papers 2009-03-09
- An easy fix ignored
- Guest post by Chris Eng In the wake of this morning's 25C3 presentation by Alex Sotirov and Jacob Appelbaum, most of the coverage I've read so far has focused on the technical details and real-world impact of their findings. Rightly so -- their paper describing the attack...
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
- SaaS delivers return *before* investment
- SaaS delivers return *before* investmentBut is it SAAS that delivers?Sounds like a great win/win -- but the benefit is in the service, and the sales-pipeline expertise, surely, rather than in the SAAS part? What's to stop a non-SAAS vendor from doing exactly the same? LucidEra might argue that they can...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-21
- So just what is a 21st Century Skill?
- We hear a lot about 21st Century Skills lately; I'm certainly guilty of using the phrase. There's a whole website devoted to building them (actually, there are thousands, but this one has the domain name www.21stcenturyskills.org). We also know that a lot of our kids don't have them...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Will Microsoft apply 'Vista-Capable' lessons to Win 7 netbooks?
- As the e-mail trail in the "Vista-capable" class-action suit continues to unfold, I can't help but wonder whether Microsoft will apply some of the lessons it hopefully learned about working with OEMs to Windows 7 -- especially in the netbook space. The original suit, filed in March...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Women and leadership
- Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
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- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Doubletake Customer Profile: Chickasaw Nation
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- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Wondershare WebVideo Author 1.1.6 (Windows)
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- Software downloads 2008-07-21
- Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable (again)
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- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable (again)
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- Blog posts 2008-05-28
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