An umbrella term for the management systems, information systems and computer systems within an organization. See management system.
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- SAP Users start to flex their muscles
- Ray WangStill wondering if Ray Wang has ever said anything positive about SAP. I am sure he has at one point in his career. Based on his comments, SAP should probably close up shop. Dennis, thanks for providing some balance. RE: SAP Users start to flex...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
- Sorry Paul, but you're wrong about knowledge basesGreetings Paul:Very good overall post!However, considering our core competency in knowledge bases, I have to take exception to your conclusions on KBs.Consumers certainly will and shouldturn to other consumers when looking for input on product and service selection because it is not motivated...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
- (NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog. Â Let's see how that...
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Pacific Timesheet 6.69 (Mac)
- Pacific Timesheet Enterprise PTE is a time and work tracking platform that powers the management and secure deployment of specialized end-user tools for: Enterprise time, attendance, work, project and schedule tracking, Enterprise timesheet and custom object workflow and management, Standard Reporting, Custom Reporting and distribution,Proven, scalable, open J2EE-compliant services-oriented architecture,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Microsoft whittles away at Oslo; now plans to fold it into SQL Server
- Let's wait for PDC09 firstOk, it's a fact that the Oslo umbrella has little left of the glory it once had. On the other hand, the original plan would never have yielded a stable, full-featured product or a set of products in v1. If the new direction results in shipping...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Live Webcast: Is Your Enterprise Architected for 2010?
- Enterprise Architecture can be a challenging undertaking. Sybase has worked with a number of customers that have found success by implementing EA in an interactive fashion. This webcast will present the story of one of those customers: an international shipping company. Join this live TechRepbulic...
- Webcasts 2009-11-10
- Survey: Cloud confusion among IT could slow enterprise adoption
- Security - Connectivity?Can the connectivity be guaranteed, if a glitchoccurs and thousands of customers are lefthanging saving $500 is hardly worth it.Plus, the security holes when dealing with data... Instead of worrying about....whether your are using the cloud or any other "buzz word" technology IT pros need only worry that...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- You'll be far better off in a future without enterprise software
- As per usual...you give no concrete examples only ethereal ideas that go nowhere. You talk about services as though it is something other than software. Everything you propose goes back to the fact that you still have to have infrastructure and software before you can even get started. You use...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- You'll be far better off in a future without enterprise software
- All the enterprise software that could be sold has been sold, and the reasons for buying or implementing new licenses are few and far between. Invest in enterprise architecture over enterprise software, services over customizations, and clouds over costly and unpredictable infrastructure -- and you’ll be better off. by Dana...
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Is Your Enterprise Architected for Tomorrow's Growth?
- Today's business climate makes it imperative that organizations make the necessary plans for tomorrow's growth. Implementing an Enterprise Architecture can be a necessary, but challenging undertaking to prepare for that growth. "EA for Dummies" can help you cut through the chaos and get the business results that EA can...
- Book chapters 2009-11-01
- SAP Q3: sales down, profit up
- SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- What's on your watch list? Forrester identifies 15 key technologies for enterprise architects
- Enterprise 2.0 is here todayThanks for sharing Forrester's 15 Key Technologies. Though they represent discrete capabilities, collectively they nicely sum up Enterprise 2.0.Global adoption will take awhile, not for a lack of interest, but rather due to the slow up take of the underlying architecture, database, and coding methodologies.Forward...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Linthicum's latest book: How SOA and cloud intersect for enterprise productivity benefits
- SOA is the way to do cloud. It's really about breaking down your architecture into a primitive state of several components. Then, it's figuring out how to assemble those in such a way that you can use those components to resolve problems as your business changes over time. Cloud computing...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Data center design 101
- I don't have to design data centers, but I do have to play a knowledgeable wonk on the Web from time to time. With that in mind, I attended two data center presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium to see what I could learn. My knowledge about...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledges that Google Docs lacks workflow features that Microsoft Office has, but isn't trying to emulate the suite. In an interview with Stephen Shankland at CNet News, Schmidt continued his courting of the enterprise. Schmidt on Wednesday had a good performance at the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Gartner leaves SOA off 'top ten' list - again
- Gartner just issued its Top 10 Technology list for the year ahead, and guess what's missing? Once again, service oriented architecture got sacked by the sages of Stamford. SOA proponents, however, can take cold comfort that just as was the case last year, SOA is the underpinning...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears
- another nail in M$ coffinThe upcomming failure of windoze 7 and M$ going under will not leave the users exposed.Linux is here to save the day!Wrong Answerhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaks-amazon-uk-pre-order-volume-record-ousts-harry/DesperationGuess it shows how desperate Vista users are to get onto Win7Windows 7 a failure?Didn't it already surpass Linux's market share? BEFORE it's GA?Failure...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
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