Epicor Retail CRM 7.0 Spruced Up
Epicor has introduced Epicor Retail CRM 7.0, which includes improved customer views, loyalty program functionality, sophisticated query tools, and support for multidivisional retail enterprises. Share...
View ArticleSalesforce Partners Stir Pot
It’s a sign of Salesforce’s growing strength in the enterprise market that today Cloud Sherpas and Innoveer announced their merger. The two companies provide consulting and application development...
View ArticleThe problem with BPM Solutions....
BPM software is big business today. There are, literally, dozens of companies on this particular software space. Gartner classify some of them on various different magic quadrants. Forrester classify...
View ArticlejQuery custom “remove” event with Chrome 24
On January 10th 2013, Google released version 24 of Chrome, which included an unexpected feature: the native remove() method of an HTML element: It’s essentially a shortcut for this:...
View ArticleElectronic Medical Records (EMRs): Told You So
Electronic medical records (EMRs, or electronic health records—EHRs) offer a tempting opportunity for some IT companies, particularly given the massive portion of the economy that health care...
View ArticleReport: Dell in Buyout Talks
Rumors say the talks are in preliminary stages, and the deal could fall apart.
View ArticleSAP Caps Strong 2012 With Modest Q4
SAP meets resistance in the Americas and falls behind Oracle on software sales growth.
View ArticleMicrosoft Issues Emergency Update for Internet Explorer
The update patches a zero-day vulnerability in the browser.
View Article60 Minutes, How Many Jobs?
My colleague and Race Against the Machine co-author Erik Bynjolfsson and I were part of the 60 Minutes story “March of the Machines” that aired last night. I was really pleased with the piece. Reporter...
View ArticleSAP Reports Strong Software Sales, But Profits Disappoint
The company's stock slid following the report.
View ArticleOnly One Million Surface Tablets Sold So Far
An influential analyst says the Microsoft hasn't sold as many Surface RT devices as expected.
View ArticleThe Intersection of Private and Business…
Like for many in the tech industry, and beyond, the case of Aaron Swartz touched a nerve with me. We live in an era where government has few boundaries and the threat of legal action carries as much...
View Article'Fiscal Cliff' Law To Affect Medicare's Quality Reporting
Quality of care registries might someday be used to report quality data to the EHR incentive program.
View ArticleCES 2013 Report
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year attracted about 153K attendees (flat compared to last year) and had 3000 exhibitors (about a 15% increase over last year). Building from last year’s...
View ArticleThis $299 Robot Can Keep Your House Safe From Intruders
At CES, Robotex showed off its latest robot, made with BYOD in mind. This watered-down consumer robot is significantly cheaper than the line of robots Robotex sells to police departments, the military,...
View ArticleLicense File Changes in IBM Information Server and DataStage v9.1
Information Server version 8.7 has been superseded by version 9.1. This post looks at any license changes between the versions.
View ArticlePhone Tracking Tool Leads Authorities to Wrong Home, Constantly
One man gets angry calls from people who have lost their cell phone due to a technology glitch. It turns out phone tracking tool is imperfect due to the way the GPS location is approximated and this is...
View Article3D Systems to Acquire Geomagic: Set to Capture Market Share of Scan-to-CAD...
Recently, 3D Systems signed a definitive agreement to acquire Geomagic. Geomagic develops the software that is used for scanning physical objects into 3D data. It also produces 3D metrology and...
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