UPDATE: It seems Microsoft is trying to patent sparklines, so says Edward Tufte himself. See here for further legal discussion. Not as tidy as once thought. Microsoft’s Sam Radakovitz on Excel 2010’s sparkline feature: For Excel 2010 we’ve implemented sparklines, “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”, as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful
Read More...Quick update: Oracle has released PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1. This is the final GA component of the 9.1 family of PeopleSoft applications. If you wish to download it, it is available via Oracle’s E-Delivery portal. To get it, simply search on “My Oracle Support” for “documentation home pages” related to the PeopleSoft
Read More...Since we announced our fixed-fee PeopleTools 8.5 upgrade service, we’ve had a lot of interest and inquiries about not only how our service works, but what, exactly, PeopleTools 8.5 gives you. We’ve covered that here and here, but recently Oracle announced an additional benefit of licensing PeopleTools 8.5, and we’re finding it’s something many prospects
Read More...Following in the wake of last week’s news that Steve Jobs won Fortune’s CEO of the Decade, Fortune ran an ancillary feature in which 8 business megastars talk about Steve Jobs. I particularly like Larry Ellison’s anecdote: I remember when Steve was my neighbor in Woodside, Calif., and he had no furniture. It struck me
Read More...I have parsed every single page on the Internet this week and distilled the highlights, which means you don’t have to, because it takes a very long time. I selflessly bring this feature to this blog every Friday, primarily out of social altruism, but also because it gives me a legitimate reason to scour weird,
Read More...We have posted multiple posts on the new PeopleTools 8.5 release (here’s our most popular; here’s our shameless plug), in addition to several posts on the value of Oracle OBIEE and BI apps. However, today’s post will talk about PeopleTools 8.5: for customers who have both PeopleSoft and Oracle OBIEE, there is some additional value
Read More...Two bits of exciting news to share with everyone today. First, we’ve won SE Michigan’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for the fourth year in a row. We’re excited about that, because no matter what we do or why we do it, it’s not worth it if the work experience (and, by
Read More...Hot on the heels of Oracle OpenWorld 2009, the 9.1 PeopleSoft app releases keep coming. Over the weekend, Oracle has made available both PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Solutions 9.1 and Customer Relationship Management 9.1. Both of these releases are now available on eDelivery and you can find the release notes on Oracle’s ‘My Oracle Support’ by
Read More...UPDATE 10/22 10:08 AM EST: Google just announced its capability to show Twitter updates in its search results. So much for Bing having any substantial upper hand. Looks like Microsoft’s Bing gets the first shot at indexing the Twitter datastream, at least as part of the Bing brand itself (web nerds likely know there is
Read More...Interesting list. Of these, I see the biggest hitters being: Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is a style of computing that characterizes a model in which providers deliver a variety of IT-enabled capabilities to consumers. Cloud-based services can be exploited in a variety of ways to develop an application or a solution. Using cloud resources does
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