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- Kolodner move boosts open source health IT
- System Integrators view of VistADana, get in touch with this system integrator: www.nitconnect.net Ask to speak to the CEO Lior Blik who is very technical. Have him tell you his experiences with integrating Medsphere's VistA with hospital systems, both local and remote.I will try to do thatThanks for...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- Oracle Fusion - a damp squib
- Vomitworthy? Please try not to choke....Dennis, Thanks for the charming review of my post. You could never could figure out the difference between a good argument and an ad hominem attack, so you've deferred to your strength, the unreasoned insult. Great job. Kind of makes it hard to comment on...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- When Consultancies Feel the Pain of Recession
- Phil Fersht, an AMR analyst and blogger, wrote yesterday about the bad year that major outsourcing consultancy TPI is having. He went further and checked with other consultancies about how they are doing. In short, he found that some firms were doing more outsourcing consulting and some less. But, he...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers
- 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. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Five reasons to fire your system integrator
- Although consultants make easy scapegoats when projects go wrong, there are definitely times when you should replace the incumbent. Here are five good reasons to get rid of your system integrator. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- To the Moon: The Integrators
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- CLEAR: Your data will be properly disposed of
- The defunct CLEAR service is attempting to re-assure its former customers that their biometric data will not be divulged or misused. The defunct registered traveler service CLEAR see previous post has recently sent out the following communication to its former subscribers,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Get ready for Oracle's 100 days of press releases aka innovation
- It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed vs. Giants†Debate raises a donkey's year old discussion where he concludes: Call me cynical, but...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Some like it cool: HP/EDS fellow shares data center best practices
- I spoke last week with Ed Kettler, a fellow for Hewlett-Packard who comes to the company via HP's acquisition of systems integrator EDS. Kettler has been involved with two major data center overhauls that EDS undertook before it became part of HP, including the retrofit of a facility in Wynyard,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac
- I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddanceâ€...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Measure your data center environmental stats with AlertWerks
- Data center integrator Black Box Network Services (tell me how they managed to protect that name!), which is a Cisco Gold Certified VAR, started selling an Environmental Monitoring System this spring that isn't strictly marketed as a piece of green infrastructure but that can be an ally in terms of...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- IT Integrator Attracts Higher Value Customers by Rolling Out New Server Suite
- For several years, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Digital IP has supplied customers with versions of Windows Small Business Server, a suite of server technologies designed for small businesses. The IT integrator needed to accommodate its customers' needs as they expanded. It also wanted to serve larger, higher value clients, but...
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Systems Integrator Delivers Information Access, Reduces Costs With Operating System
- BRAIN FORCE offers its customers IT implementation, integrations, and management solutions, and has 100 employees at its office in the Netherlands. In order to prepare for customers who want to implement it, BRAIN FORCE decided to upgrade to the Windows 7 operating system. It has already realized faster deployment times...
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Oracle: A complete industry in a box
- Near the end of this morning's announcement (at 5:30 a.m. Pacific time) of Oracle's lightning acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle co-president Charles Phillips gave a glimpse of what lay in store. The merger of Oracle, with its wide range of database and enterprise software, with Sun, with...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- IT Services Provider Reduces Annual Costs by $96,426 With Operating System Upgrade
- Located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Wortell is a systems integrator and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. To deliver innovative solutions to customers, it adopts new technology as early as possible. Wortell began upgrading its 105 computers to Windows 7 after the beta version was available to the public. As a result,...
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Where Worlds Collide - and then there's Sharepoint
- I'm at the Open Source Business Conference where Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Robert Youngjohns, President, Microsoft North America and Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM Corporation have just keynoted. This is my third OSBC, a conference primarily framed...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Will half-baked Ubuntu Linux netbooks ruin the OS for consumers?
- Will half-baked Ubuntu Linux netbooks ruin the OS for consumers?DELL ...has always fsck'd up ANY thing the have done with *NIX ..... Gawd, I remember that sucky UNIX stuff they did in the 1990's ..... what a WASTE of code ..NopeThis is Linux and always has been. Linux can be...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- Schools Find Cost-Effective Portal Solution That Fosters Individualized Learning
- Winvision is a Dutch system integrator and independent software vendor that creates learning portals using the Microsoft Learning Gateway and its own Winvision Digital Portfolio application. The combined solution helps schools deliver individualized learning and track student progress as they gain competencies. Because they can be extended with other Microsoft...
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Forrester CRM analyst discusses IT failure [podcast]
- Strong executive leadership and organizational transformation are essential determinants of successful IT projects. Any IT initiative that does not properly address these strategic points is doomed to fail. I spoke with Forrester CRM, customer experience, and call center analyst, Dr. Natalie Petouhoff, to explore these issues. Click...
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- NetSuite attacks SAP: hype vs. reality
- NetSuite attacks SAP: hype vs. realityAppears to be going aroundThis seems to be going around this week. SAP did the same thing to Infor (http://www.mcsolutions.co.uk/article/17004/SAP-claims-customers-migrating-from-Infor-for-better-business-.aspx). I don't understand this tactic, maybe it is the economic situation making them feel they have to take the low-road and bad mouth the competition....
- Discussion threads 2009-02-13
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