University of Central Florida Professor Richard Quinn used statistical analysis and other data forensics techniques to uncover an exam cheating ploy used by a significant number of his students. Instead of confronting them directly, Professor Quinn recorded a lecture (and video) describing his analysis of the situation.
Read More...Given what we do as a consulting firm, we have to be a keen observer of the latest industry trends and advances in the technology marketplace. It is, after all, what our clients talk to us about daily. Here are some thoughts about the cloud trend and Oracle's direction in that space.
Read More...MIPRO's popular Friday Linkology is up on its blog. Give it a look when you have a chance.
Read More...If you’re anything like me, you totally nerd out over what to read, checking editorial and user reviews until your ISP shuts down your connection. With so many books to choose from and so much review information to obsess over, wouldn’t it be nice to have yet another review source to consider? Of course it
Read More...Yes, you’ve heard it over and over again. Organizations make substantial investments in technology hoping to improve business practices. In the early stages of projects, the focus may indeed be using technology to improve the business, but as deadlines approach, this focus invariably narrows to enabling an on-time go-live. But there's more -- much more.
Read More...Is this finally the beginning of the vaunted ‘enterprise penetration’ Apple has been seeking for years? And Java notwithstanding, how much of the luster of this alliance is driven by Apple devices that are succeeding in the enterprise, namely the iPhone and iPad? (Never before has Apple succeeded in wooing C-level brass to their devices.
Read More...Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it’s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world. —Matt Mullenweg, founding developer
Read More...Busy week, so let’s skip any silly precursory stories (such as the one involving my cat and how he has discovered that he can chew on a bathtub faucet knob with such horrible force that it wakes me up, and even when you start laughing and tell him to stop at 3:20 AM he just
Read More...We’ve touched on this topic before, but now Oracle has released an official series of whitepapers and guides covering PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM integrations. Here are all the details you need to know to get your head around this popular set of capabilities. With PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM Integrations
Read More...37signals’ Ryan Singer, who manages the company’s products and designs interfaces, recently gave a talk about his firm’s design process in London at the Future of Web Apps conference. As he says: I gave this talk at Future of Web Apps in London last week. In this talk I walk through the steps of creating
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