What is a browser?
This was the question asked of over 50 people of different ages, races and occupations in New York’s Times Square. The wide range of answers is fascinating.
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It Might Get Loud
August 14th can’t come fast enough: Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed
Read More...Business Intelligence: A picture (or Flash demo) is worth a thousand words
Business Intelligence (BI) is one of those things that we can talk to clients about until our jaws cramp and they still have only a loose impression of what the business value actually looks like. Folks get the concept and the high-level potential, but they struggle to apply the concept to a real business scenario,
Read More...Be nice
Catherine Powell: I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks…. you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to work with someone who makes them feel beat down all the time, or
Read More...Traditional software companies: adapt or perish
The disruption is here. To sloppily paraphrase Bob Dylan, software companies have to get busy being born or get busy dying. It’s not even about living anymore: if software vendors can’t be reborn into the new market, then they simply won’t survive.
Read More...Living together: Oracle BI and PeopleSoft
We previously discussed the basics of business intelligence and why companies – even in a down economy – should choose a BI tool. Today, we will explore a scenario that’s commonly talked about: having PeopleSoft ERP and Oracle BI applications happily coexist and thrive. First, the ERP side. PeopleSoft is a world-class ERP system and
Read More...Friday links + other assorted hypertext wares
It’s game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals tonight, and our Red Wings have a chance to repeat for the second time in 11 years. So if this post seems haphazard and aimless, it’s because everyone in Detroit is either planning a gigantic party tonight or learning how to tie a respectable noose, depending on
Read More...CIOs say ERP systems considerably underutilized
From CIO Insight: A survey of 300 senior IT professionals corroborated something we’ve been seeing for the past few years: most ERP systems are dramatically underutilized in terms of functionality. The survey, conducted by Accenture and targeted at senior IT pros across North America and the UK, yielded some interesting facts: Most organizations use only
Read More...PeopleSoft Real Estate Management (REM): A deeper look
If you can remember last week through the Pre and iPhone hype, you’ll recall I discussed PeopleSoft’s ALM product suite at an introductory level. This week we’ll take a deeper dive into Real Estate Management (REM), one of the modules included within the ALM suite. At the 10,000 foot level, PeopleSoft REM enables organizations to
Read More...QUOTE: On technique
“The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.” — Raymond Chandler (Thx Signal vs. Noise)
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