Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 11/4/11

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 11/4/11

Today’s post is about mattresses, because they’re the only product that has ruined my brain. When I buy things, I research the everloving juice out of them. I compile so much data on pending purchases that Google sends me a bill for smoking their servers. After any given product I buy, I am capable of

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QUOTE: On Spending Oneself

“Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.” — Sarah Bernhardt ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.

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The Great Tech War of 2012

Utterly fantastic article in Fast Company by Farhad Manjoo about the greatest tech showdown of our time, all likely going fully thermonuclear next year. With players like Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon in the mix, this isn’t the minor leagues. Who winds up on top here controls the innovation economy moving forward, and there are

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Are You Running or Managing Your Business?

Recently, I was traveling to Kansas City to give a presentation on using PeopleTools 8.5 to improve business intelligence.  Little did I know that my travel would offer me a good opening example to support the presentation. If you are a reader of this blog then you are likely familiar with the statement “ERP systems

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/28/11

I was 10. Our subdivision was just being built when we moved in. We were one of the first houses. Every other lot seemed to have a house-in-progress going on, complete with giant piles of dirt in front of each. As miscreant kids (sorry for the redundancy), we didn’t understand anything about the Roofing construction

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Using PeopleTools 8.51+ to Improve Business Intelligence

The live demonstration below will discuss and demonstrate how to take advantage of native PeopleTools 8.51 and higher to improve business intelligence in your organization. In this video, we show you how to expand business intelligence into PeopleSoft utilizing delivered tools to “configure,” not “customize” your solution and improve the business process with embedded business

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RightNow Opens Oracle’s SaaS Play; Puts Salesforce.com on Alert

Two days ago, Oracle acquired RightNow for $1.5B, and many analysts immediately said the purchase was, for all intents and purposes, missiles aimed at Salesforce.com. But  how? What does this mean? How to decipher this? What does the acquisition do for Oracle? Won’t Oracle’s ‘Public Cloud’ be comprised of technologies already in Oracle’s stack? Not exactly. According

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Oracle Fusion HCM Executive Briefing

If you’re an HR executive or involved in any way with shaping your organization’s HR direction, you should seriously consider attending Oracle’s upcoming HR executive roundtable. It’s a special event that will touch on all aspects of HR challenges (such as how HR can help build the corporate brand and measuring HR’s impact on business

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Oracle Enters Enterprise Search & Data Management Market

So the news is this: Oracle bought Endeca, a search and data management company. Smart move. Enterprise search has long been lacking, especially when it comes to searching unstructured data, and now Oracle will have a very compelling differentiator for its business intelligence and analytics platforms. Here’s TechCrunch on the deal: Endeca’s core technology enables

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