Summarizing a Current Environment (Expanded)
The purpose of the Summary of Current Environment is to document the existing environment into which the new system is to be integrated. It is not necessary to duplicate the information which was...
View ArticleCelebrate the New Year with a Replacement for your Dysfunctional Lotus Notes...
I’ve been talking with a lot of IT people left scrambling to find a way to integrate Salesforce.com and other Force.com applications with Lotus Notes and Domino ever since Salesforce announced that it...
View ArticleCryptography Engineering Available as an eBook
Finally, Cryptography Engineering is available as an ebook. Even better, it's today's deal of the day at O'Reilly: $27.50 (50% off) and no copy protection. (The discount won't show until you add the...
View ArticleGoogle Apps Challenges Microsoft Office
Google's goal is to capture 90 percent of Microsoft's Office business.
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Half of All U.S. Smartphone Sales Are iPhones
A new report says Apple has achieved its highest ever smartphone market share in the U.S.
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Data Virtualization and Big Data: A 'Virtual Case Study'
Data virtualization and Big Data are a match made in analytics heaven, according to Wayne Kernochan of Infostructure Associates.
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Love your enemies.. it pisses them off.
There is always a threat from somewhere. Old-style DBAs are standing on the shaky ground. 5 years ago I remember myself defending the SQL Server against the domineering Oracle DBAs. The arguing was...
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Enterprise Irregulars: Membership list and Twitter names
Many people want to engage with the Enterprise Irregulars. Here is the complete membership list, with Twitter names, so you can converse and share.
View ArticleRestful Interfaces: A Tale of Two Years
The other day a co-worker stood outside my office. I greeted her, pivoted my chair, put my feet up, and told her to come on in. She commented about my ability to appear relaxed every time she came by....
View ArticleWhy HfS cancelled its 2013 predictions
For all of you waiting on tenterhooks for our 2013 predictions, I am afraid we have some bad news: today, we took the unprecedented step of canceling them. But why? Why HfS cancelled its 2013...
View ArticleScottish News: Gaelic singer up for Oscars battle
Praise has been showered on a Gaelic singer who has been nominated for a best song Oscar.
View ArticleScottish News: Shellfish reef 'huge and thriving'
The discovery of a large shellfish reef on the west coast of the UK could be the biggest find of its kind in the world, experts believe.
View ArticleScottish News: '£500,000' unused medicines costs
Collecting and destroying unused prescriptions is costing the NHS over £500,000 each year, according to figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats.
View ArticleScottish News: Maternity pay set to be cut: Labour
Prospective parents planning to have children in 2015 will be £180 worse off than those who had children this year, according to Labour.
View ArticleScottish News: Names suggested for Forth Crossing
Famous Scots feature among thousands of suggestions in the hunt to find a name for the new Forth Replacement Crossing.
View ArticleTop Ten ERP Predictions for 2013 Podcast
Between massive failures, major consolidations and huge shifts in consumer demand (and acceptance), the ERP industry is nothing if not ever-changing. In the latest podcast in Panorama’s ERP Strategies...
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Nice set of updates to Azure over the last few days - Data Sync now in the...
Scott Guthrie posted about the Azure-related changes that have happened over the last few days.Of particular interest to me was that Data Sync was now in the new HTML portal, and that the Azure store...
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Amazons Christmas Faux Pas Shows Risks In The Cloud
Filed under: News : Cloud Computing The latest service failure comes at a critical time for Amazon, which is betting that AWS can become a significant profit generator even if the economy continues to...
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IBM Unveils Its Social Software Platform
Filed under: News : Social IBM Connections incorporates sophisticated analytics capabilities, real-time data monitoring, and faster collaborative networks. Read more
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