Nine months ago, on a grey Spring morning, I got my iPad delivered to me by special Saturday FedEx. I was one of countless geeks across the USA blowing an entire weekend waiting for — and then using maniacally — what many were calling ‘an oversized iPhone.’ The FedEx driver thought I was nuts. She
Read More...Risks are inherent in every project, whether it be PeopleSoft ERP or Business Intelligence (BI). Risks are present before the project begins, all throughout the project and even after the project is officially closed. There is no way there aren’t risks, nor is it advisable to minimize or ignore them, for if they are not
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Read More...Good find by Matthew Haavisto over on Oracle’s PeopleSoft Technology Blog: I recently had an opportunity to work through a copy of a new book for PeopleTools developers and thought it might be of interest to the readers of the PeopleTools blog. It is called PeopleSoft PeopleTools Tips & Techniques, and was written by Jim
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Read More...I get asked the following questions often: What is real-time data warehousing? Is there such a thing as real-time? Who defines ‘real-time’ anyway? Is real-time really just ‘near-time’? It comes down to this concept: the ability to have valuable, quality data in your data warehouse as quickly as that data is generated within your operational
Read More...Today’s post is going to be a smallish browser tab clean-out, much like every other Friday Linkology post we publish, but this one will be especially incoherent because I’ve had a fever for the past two days and my thinking was a bit bizarre. Really, if you’re looking for a ‘2010 Year in Review’ thing,
Read More...A few good, worthwhile links before you get into the eggnog and rum balls today: The CIA has put together an investigatory task force to assess the damage caused by the leak of 250,000 diplomatic cables. It’s name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short. (I couldn’t make this up if I tried.) Why net
Read More...(Ed. note: Jeff Micallef is a Managing Partner of MIPRO Consulting.) Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~ Newt Gingrich Perseverance eventually pays off. As we look back at this past year I am reminded of the childhood story of the race
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