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MIPRO Consulting Featured in Building Services Management January 2014   From simple tasks like changing a light bulb to more involved duties like HVAC maintenance, facilities management professionals find that effective building care can often become a matter of rushing around and putting out (figurative) fires.  However, through robust asset lifecycle management solutions, facilities management

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Oracle Value Chain Summit — Feb 3-5, 2014

Justify the Trip Register Now #OVCS (Twitter hashtag) We’re sure your manager has a few reasons why you shouldn’t attend the Oracle Value Chain Summit — so we’re arming you with reasons you can’t afford to miss it. After all, this isn’t just another event. This is the supply chain event of the year. Three days…

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Review: The Biggest Stories of 2013

One of my favorite tech culture websites, The Verge, has an excellent recap of the biggest stories of 2013. From Edward Snowden, to Twitter’s IPO, to Elon Musk to Bitcoin, 2013 was an interesting year, to say the least, with many businesses opening online with sites where you can post your ideas or get free

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LINK: Mugger Rejects Flip Phone

A Central Park mugger was so disappointed by his victim’s cheap flip phone that he actually refused to take it. “Once he saw my phone, he looked at it like, ‘What the f–k is this?’ and gave it back to me,” recalled Kevin Cook, 25, of Brooklyn. So, two things here: 1. Having a cheap

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Happy Holidays from the MIPRO Team

As I sit down to write the last “longer” post of the year, I want to go back to when this blog started, some four years ago. I wanted to start a blog for MIPRO because a blog is a great way for you, our readers, to get a feel for the “personality” of our

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PeopleSoft Update Manager Is a Game-Changer for Businesses

The highly anticipated release of PeopleSoft 9.2 earlier this year not only provided users with significant system enhancements and improvements, but may also have sparked the end of the upgrade process as we currently know it thanks to a new feature called PeopleSoft Update Manager (casually known as PUM). Paco Aubrejuan, Senior Vice President of

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Truth and Lies About Apple

Brian S. Hall, writing for Techpinions: That Google continues to develop and support services optimized for iPhone is all you need to know about those who scream that IPHONE IS DOOMED. They are either ignorant or they are lying to you. Why do you continue to reward them with your attention? Very smart piece about

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FAA Approves Most Electronics for Use During Flight

You’ve probably heard this news, and thought, “Oh good, finally.” The reality is that while the FAA has approved expanded use of personal electronics, it’s now up to the airlines to show the FAA its airplanes can handle radio interference. And, naturally, not many airlines have gone through that process yet. From the portable electronics

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FASB Discussed in AccountingWEB

MIPRO Consulting talks FASB changes & Solutions in AccountingWEB October 2013   Whether it’s real estate, machinery, or equipment, financial professionals encounter a broad spectrum of long-term lease liabilities.  Typically, these leases are accounted for as footnotes in financial statements.  However, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) intends to move ahead with plans to alter

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