ZDNet’s Joe McKendrick sheds some light on a recent survey of 204 corporate directors who say they’re dissatisfied with the level and quality of communication coming from their IT departments: Now a new survey of 204 corporate board members finds that almost half (47%) of corporate directors surveyed are dissatisfied with their boards’ ability to
Read More...“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” — Steve Jobs to then-Pepsi executive John Sculley to lure him to come work for Apple. Sculley mentions this exchange in the documentary Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs. The series
Read More...Extended support for PeopleSoft Portal Solutions has ended, according to the PeopleSoft Technology Blog. What does this mean? Extended support for PeopleSoft Portal Solutions 8.8 will end in March 2011. This means that Oracle is not obliged to provide development support in the form of new features and fixes to Portal Solutions customers running 8.8
Read More...Know This Last year’s definitive list of April Fools pranks as curated from the internet at large. Can’t wait to see what this year’s list looks like. Familiar with the uber-nerdy +1 meme? You should be, because Google just announced a product called +1 and its name is clever, but obscure. How to write a
Read More...Long before joining MIPRO I used to write software documentation. As part of the process, we had some pretty spirited debates about our assumptions for these training guides. Do you assume the users know anything about accounting? Do you assume they know the industry? Do you assume they are college educated? Do you assume anything?
Read More...From MarketWatch: Oracle (ORCL 32.80, +0.25, +0.76%) said its third-quarter net income rose to $2.1 billion, or 41 cents a share, compared to $1.19 billion, or 23 cents a share, in the same period a year earlier. Revenue for the quarter ended Feb. 28 rose 37% to $8.76 billion. Excluding one-time items, Oracle said earnings
Read More...Indian lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 has discovered an enormous volcanic cave under the surface of the moon, big enough (and with a steady enough temperature) to serve as a home base for human voyagers. But back to the temperature aspect: Its main attraction is a temperate climate. Temperatures on the moon swing wildly, from a maximum
Read More...“Don’t worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.” — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones (Via Merlin) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing inPeopleSoft Enterprise (particularly Enterprise Asset Management) andBusiness Intelligence. You’re reading MIPRO Unfiltered, its blog. If you’d
Read More...Know This I missed this last week, but better late than never: Alec Baldwin offers advice to Charlie Sheen. Voice map assures Britons they’re not speaking like Americans. Why most of the world’s cuisine is comfort food, despite modernist trends. A clever deconstruction and analysis of the phrase, ‘it turns out.’ It turns out I
Read More...From Peter Bregman over at Harvard Business Review Blogs comes a story with a lesson everyone – literally, everyone – can use for the first time or, if you’re really lucky, be reminded of: Nothing we said seemed to have any impact on her. Nothing changed her expressionless stare. Nothing helped. Then her grandmother Mimi
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