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A: The boy scouts taught me to plan ahead and be prepared. My mother reminded me often that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Your organization’s assets are no different, and a maintenance management solution such as Oracle’s is the perfect starting point for a proactive approach to maximizing the value
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Read More...A: The conference itself is a free, by invitation-only event that includes not only conference sessions but also meals and networking, social events. Many more reasons to follow. Stay tuned!
Read More...If you hold out with your vision a little bit, it’s like a cake being put in the oven. The scene doesn’t work immediately, you have to bake it a little bit. It’s unfair, when you begin to create a shot, say, or a scene, that it’s going to immediately be like those beautiful scenes
Read More...A: Oracle has gathered an array of maintenance and reliability industry experts and visionaries to discuss the future of maintenance management. Many more reasons to follow. Stay tuned!
Read More...Given the massive popularity of virtualization/VMMs/hypervisors in enterprise datacenters, this article by Gartner’s Neil MacDonald struck a chord with me. Like Neil, I have always been wary of the relative security of hypervisors and their ability to remain truly secure/hardened: A breach of the virtualization platform which results in an escape to the hypervisor represents
Read More...On Fridays, I normally post a brief and usually pointless anecdote, followed by some interesting links I culled during the week. I’m not going to do that today. Today is about a video. It was shot by Kristian Anderson of Sydney, Australia. Kristian is 34 years old. He’s a happily married husband and father of
Read More...At a recent Human Capital Management Institute seminar on Strategic Workforce Planning, there was a break from the main topic with a guest speaker who addressed the urgent need for companies to develop sustainability initiatives. Observing the HR professionals in the room during this presentation I saw the audience go from mildly interested to completely
Read More...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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