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  • Innovation Starts with Leadership

    Hu' Blog
    Hu Yoshida
    25 Apr 2013 | 11:53 am
    Recently Hitachi Data Systems announced new roles for several of our senior executives. The key part of the announcement was the appointment of our CEO, Jack Domme, as a Corporate Officer of Hitachi, Ltd. This means that Jack has an expanded leadership role in further advancing the globalization efforts of Hitachi and will report directly to Hitachi President Hiroaki Nakanishi. This will help expand Hitachi’s strategic Social Innovation initiative through the Information & Telecommunication Systems Company’s (ITSC) platform business on a global basis. This announcement is significant…

  • Innovation Isn't Working At 4 Out Of 5 Companies

    InformationWeek Business Intelligence News
    16 May 2013 | 10:37 am
    Companies are too afraid of risk, among other factors, according to Accenture.

  • Innovate in four short steps

    thingamy
    sig
    30 Apr 2013 | 8:35 am
    Innovation: "Make changes in something established, esp. by introducing new methods, ideas, products or technology" Everything we do is based on assumptions, most of which are never questioned. That's how we're stuck with bad ways and mediocre products, and that's an opportunity: 1. Make a list of things we do and take for granted. Sony once heard: "We listen to music in the living room or in the concert hall, that's the way it is". And Karl Benz heard: "Transport is by train for long distances and horse for mid distances, that works nicely thank…

  • Sourcing reinvented: cloud supply chain and spend management

    ZDNet | Software As Services Blog RSS
    13 May 2013 | 1:23 pm
    In a networked world, it's inevitable that sourcing and spend management must move to the cloud to take advantage of real-time connection across a rapidly changing supply chain.

  • Let the managers go

    thingamy
    sig
    21 Feb 2012 | 3:34 am
    Fire the managers and purge the language of the term "management". Long live leaders and let everybody manage themselves. Most people manage themselves with great success: they manage to get out of bed in the morning, they manage to get dressed, they manage to get to the office on time. Then, at the office, they meet the "manager" that will manage them until end of the day. That's at best a paradox, at worst a devastating error. Highly efficient manager to the left But is it at all possible to do without managers? Let's check reality: Take a look at this aptly…
 
 
 
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  • CTO, CIO, CMO, CPO, C3PO?

    sig
    7 May 2013 | 2:50 am
    The CIO and CTO titles have been around for a bit… And I can sympathise with that, after all IT used to be something magical hard-to-grasp stuff for many in the upper echelons of the organisations. And much of that obscure technology was brought in the door and had to be operated by somebody in-house, so better have some focused expert for that. But does that still apply? IT is fast becoming just a component, a rather boring component, of some service that brings value to the organisation. Cartoon by Hugh Macleod of Gapingvoid fame So here's the obvious question: What about those other…

  • Innovate in four short steps

    sig
    30 Apr 2013 | 8:35 am
    Innovation: "Make changes in something established, esp. by introducing new methods, ideas, products or technology" Everything we do is based on assumptions, most of which are never questioned. That's how we're stuck with bad ways and mediocre products, and that's an opportunity: 1. Make a list of things we do and take for granted. Sony once heard: "We listen to music in the living room or in the concert hall, that's the way it is". And Karl Benz heard: "Transport is by train for long distances and horse for mid distances, that works nicely thank…

  • The information age fallacy

    sig
    30 Oct 2012 | 6:20 am
    Humanity has developed by leap and bounds - when we learned to fish the new ample source of protein increased the human chance of survival and forwarded our development, we became smarter and stronger over time. With fire we started cooking the food and hence made it easier to digest leaving more energy to be spent on hunting and gathering. Again humanity increased its chances of survival. Then came the "ages", times when technology and methodology allowed humanity to move forward in great leaps: The hunter gatherers moved on to the agricultural society and the effect over time was…

  • Hand washing, IT and Flow Technology

    sig
    17 Jul 2012 | 6:39 am
    One day in May 1847 at the First Obstetrical Clinic of the Vienna General Hospital Ignaz Semmelweis instituted washing hands between autopsy work and the examination of patients using a chlorinated solution, and almost immediately maternal mortality rate due to puerperal fever was reduced with 90%. The sad part was that even with proven success it was too early to explain what happened, the germ theory was only to be introduced by Louis Pasteur years after Dr Semmelweiss' death. As the results were going against the established truths of the day, the medical profession would not accept…

  • Let the managers go

    sig
    21 Feb 2012 | 3:34 am
    Fire the managers and purge the language of the term "management". Long live leaders and let everybody manage themselves. Most people manage themselves with great success: they manage to get out of bed in the morning, they manage to get dressed, they manage to get to the office on time. Then, at the office, they meet the "manager" that will manage them until end of the day. That's at best a paradox, at worst a devastating error. Highly efficient manager to the left But is it at all possible to do without managers? Let's check reality: Take a look at this aptly…
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  • The shock and awe of the public cloud

    21 May 2013 | 11:14 am
    On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. Look at the graph below and let the enormity of that sink in. Now consider this. Netflix uses Amazon Web Services as...

  • Bill McDermott and Boston

    20 May 2013 | 5:30 am
    I caught a replay of Bill McDermott's pitch at SapphireNow last week. Loved it. How could you not with acronyms like B2B2C?:) Seriously, tough to not like his sports talk and see him surrounded by sports world luminaries you see...

  • Global SIs: The Forest and the Trees

    20 May 2013 | 4:26 am
    A short talk with some Cap Gemini BPO execs at SuiteWorld last week and reading Phil Wainewright's post about Cloud SIs had me thinking how the global service firms are changing - and in many ways resisting change. Most larger...

  • More New Renaissance

    19 May 2013 | 7:51 am
    on the innovation blog Automating Airport Security Trays Crowdsourcing Home Deliveries Bequeathing Digital Assets The changing world of puzzles Mindfulness Street Foodies Google Shopping Express Upgrading Mall Surveillance

  • Life after SAP

    18 May 2013 | 7:37 am
    For the first time in a while I missed SapphireNow this year, and yet through some unplanned scheduling got to be around a bunch of SAP alums, ex-partners and ex-customers. I was invited to present to SAP alum at the...
 
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    Hu' Blog

  • Object Storage is a Horizontal Platform: HCP

    Hu Yoshida
    15 May 2013 | 9:27 am
    I have had a busy week in Hong Kong, with several of our executives providing an update for some customers and partners. There was a lot of interest in a new option that we will announce for our Hitachi Content Platform that will address the challenges of BYOD. BYOD is a great enabler for user productivity and innovation but can create a security risk for corporate IP. This option is a gateway that enables enterprise users to sync and share files via secure smart links so the latest version of their document is available on their iPhone, iPad, Windows, Mac, or browser and is shareable with…

  • The World is No Longer Flat – It’s multi-dimensional

    Hu Yoshida
    3 May 2013 | 4:11 pm
    In 2005 Thomas Friedman published his book, “The World is Flat” where he describes how globalization has changed the economy thanks to the Internet and workflow software. Some of the flattening events were: the fall of the Berlin wall that lifted the restrictions on access to technology, Netscape, outsourcing, insourcing, offshoring, and supply chain. He wrote about the epiphany he had on a golf course in India where Bangladesh and Silicon Valley companies were connected and collaborating across time zones and vast distances. Thomas Friedman recently had an article, “It’s a 401(K)…

  • FC or FCoE – Where do you invest for SAN?

    Hu Yoshida
    1 May 2013 | 5:00 am
    While Ethernet networks were available for sometime to connect clients and servers in local area networks; we could not network storage until the introduction of Fibre Channel. Unlike storage systems, clients and servers are software that can be put on hold if the network is busy. If a client sends a data packet and the server or network is busy, Ethernet throws the data packet away and tells the client to try again later. The client waits and resends the packet and repeats this until it gets an acknowledgement of receipt. The server to storage connection is not that polite. Servers do not…

  • Performance Benchmarks for Midrange Products

    Hu Yoshida
    30 Apr 2013 | 10:26 am
    Performance comparison between different products is dependent on the workload and is measured in terms of throughput, response time and price performance. The Storage Performance Council provides a standard workload and provides three standard metrics: SPC-1 IOPS™ represents the maximum I/O request throughput at the 100% load point. SPC-1 Price-Performance™ is the ratio of total price to SPC-1 IOPS™. Total price includes the cost of the priced storage configuration plus three years of hardware maintenance and software support.  It is based on the vendors list prices. Response Timeis…

  • Innovation Starts with Leadership

    Hu Yoshida
    25 Apr 2013 | 11:53 am
    Recently Hitachi Data Systems announced new roles for several of our senior executives. The key part of the announcement was the appointment of our CEO, Jack Domme, as a Corporate Officer of Hitachi, Ltd. This means that Jack has an expanded leadership role in further advancing the globalization efforts of Hitachi and will report directly to Hitachi President Hiroaki Nakanishi. This will help expand Hitachi’s strategic Social Innovation initiative through the Information & Telecommunication Systems Company’s (ITSC) platform business on a global basis. This announcement is significant…
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    Andrew McAfee's Blog

  • The Modern Mantra: “Instrument, Analyze, Tune”

    Andrew McAfee
    17 May 2013 | 8:06 am
    An interesting article by James R. Hagerty in the Journal yesterday tells how lots of manufacturers, including Raytheon, GE, and Harley are installing tons of gear to monitor every element of their processes, from the speed of fans in a paint booth to the number of times a screw is turned as it’s being inserted. These are all examples of instrumentation, which we can very loosely define as ‘adding sensors so that more aspects of a process can be measured as it’s being executed.’ An instrumented process throws of mountains of data, which can be used for three main…

  • New Jobs Data, Same Old Story…

    Andrew McAfee
    9 May 2013 | 7:25 am
    A couple months back I drew a graph of the employment rate, workforce participation rate, and employment-to-population ratio and argued that the unemployment rate was going down not because people were going back to work in huge numbers, but instead because they were dropping out of the labor force. I said: The simplest and, I believe, best explanation for what’s going on here is that the US economy is adding just enough jobs each month to keep up with population growth. This explains why the red line is flat. But since we’re not adding jobs any faster than that, the principal reason the…

  • Technology’s Real Benefits (Hint: They’re Not Economic)

    Andrew McAfee
    3 May 2013 | 10:17 am
    A couple recent articles, one in the WSJ by Dennis Berman and one in the NYT by Eduardo Porter, have raised the question of why all the amazing technologies we have these days aren’t showing up more strongly in the productivity and GDP growth statistics. This is both a really important question, and one that misses the point. It’s really important because technology optimists like myself should be able to point to stats showing how much the new digital tools have accelerated the march of economic progress. And for a while there, we could. Productivity growth took off in the mid…

  • One More Industry Where Employment is Dropping as Output Rises

    Andrew McAfee
    24 Apr 2013 | 10:09 am
    Mona Vernon, senior director of emerging technology at Thomson Reuters (and a former RA of mine) pointed me to an amazing Bloomberg chart of the day showing that “ the number of people employed in New York City in “securities and commodities contracts intermediation and brokerage,” which includes investment banking and securities dealing, fell to about 101,200 in March, a decline of more than 30 percent from the peak in December 2000 and the fewest in Bureau of Labor records dating to 1990.” This employment decline has taken place despite the fact that US financial industry…

  • Head-to-Head at TED

    Andrew McAfee
    24 Apr 2013 | 8:42 am
    My colleague, coauthor, and friend Erik “The Iceland Cometh” Brynjolfsson went up against Bob “Flash” Gordon onstage at TED earlier this year. It was one of the highlights of the conference for me, and the videos are now up. Bob went first, giving his provocative view of why economic growth, as we know it, might be coming to an end: Erik went next, and gave the case for optimism based on the current flourishing of digital technologies. The two of them then took the stage together and continued the conversation in debate format, with TED maestro Chris Anderson as…
 
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    The Enterprise System Spectator

  • NetSuite Manufacturing Moves on Down the Highway

    Frank Scavo
    20 May 2013 | 8:35 am
    NetSuite held its annual user conference, Suiteworld, last week, and in his day one keynote, CEO Zach Nelson highlighted "NetSuite for Manufacturing."I wrote about NetSuite's manufacturing functionality last year in my post, NetSuite Manufacturing: Right Direction, Long Road Ahead. Returning to this subject one year later, it is encouraging to see the progress that NetSuite has made. At the same time, there will be twists and turns that NetSuite will face in continuing down this highway.If NetSuite is going to continue its growth, reported at 28% last year in its core business, it really has…

  • Does SaaS Save Money?

    Frank Scavo
    28 Mar 2013 | 1:31 pm
    According to a soon-to-be-published survey by Computer Economics, IT decision-makers appreciate the benefits of SaaS, such as speed, agility, and scalability. But there is one benefit that they do not rate highly. They do not see that SaaS saves money. Please read to the end of this post to see how I plan to quantify this issue with some hard data. One Client’s ImpressionThis finding was reinforced in my mind last week, when I reconnected with a past client of my consulting firm, Strativa. We had helped this high tech manufacturer three years ago with a new CRM system selection, and the…

  • Microsoft Dynamics Move Up-Market: What’s Missing?

    Frank Scavo
    27 Mar 2013 | 1:46 pm
    In December 2012, I wrote about four market forces that are pushing Microsoft Dynamics onto large enterprise turf. I also outlined several case studies in which Microsoft was having success with large multinational organizations. Now, more recently, I attended the Microsoft Dynamics annual user conference, Convergence, and had an opportunity to interview Microsoft executives and customers to see what further progress Microsoft was making in its move up-market. Bottom line: Microsoft has many of the necessary elements in place to continue its move into large enterprises, but it still needs to…

  • Supply Chain Management Delivers Positive ROI Despite Challenges

    Frank Scavo
    2 Mar 2013 | 9:48 am
    Over at Computer Economics, I've just published a new report in our technology adoption series. The report, entitled Supply Chain Management Adoption Trends and Customer Experience, finds that the total cost of ownership for SCM systems often exceeds budget.Nevertheless, the payback on SCM systems is so good that most companies achieve a return on their investment within two years, despite the challenges in managing costs. As shown in Figure 1, the full report compares the adoption, investment, ROI and TCO rates of supply chain management systems against the rates for 13 other technologies…

  • Cloud Confusion on The Motley Fool

    Frank Scavo
    2 Mar 2013 | 8:02 am
    As I've written in the past, financial analysts may provide good advice for investors in the tech sector. But their analysis is not very useful to buyers of technology products and services. It's not that they don't have insights, but they are writing for a different audience: investors, not customers and prospects. Some parts of the financial press are another story. Some financial media reporters so poorly understand the tech industry that neither investors nor prospective buyers should listen to them.   I saw an example of this today on The Motley Fool, in a story entitled, Is…
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    Digital Landfill

  • 5 Things You Need to Know About Mobile Content...

    John Mancini
    8 May 2013 | 7:27 pm
    A few data points to consider... Per AIIM -- 64% are using social but have no integration into their business processes. Per Forrester -- 70 percent of organizations have adopted some form of BYOD program. Per AIIM -- 32% have browser access for mobile and 3rd parties to content repositories…but only 11% have a mobile optimized browser interface and only 10% have apps. Per Forrester -- 62 percent of people who use a smartphone for work and 56 percent of those who use a tablet for work purchased those devices themselves. Per AIIM -- 22% experiencing unofficial mobile access to…

  • Even the Fortune 100 Now Face the Eve of Creative Destruction

    John Mancini
    24 Apr 2013 | 12:36 pm
    It’s not too often that you can get an allusion to the Fortune 100, Joseph Schumpeter and Barry McGuire in the same title.  Let me start in reverse order: Barry McGuire:    “But you tell me Over and over and over again, my friend Ah, you don't believe We're on the eve of destruction.” Joseph Schumpeter: “As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i.e., by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of…

  • 8 Things to Consider as #SharePoint Moves to the #Cloud

    John Mancini
    16 Apr 2013 | 8:08 am
    [This is a guest post by AIIM Expert Blogger Christian Buckley.  Christian has been writing about, speaking on, and breathing collaboration technology and social informatics since 1997. He is a SharePoint MVP, and the Director of Product Evangelism for Boston-based SharePoint ISV Axceler where he helps drive partner and community development.  Background info on Christian and his blog posts can be found HERE.] If the following topic is of interest, you should attend our upcoming free seminar in these cities: May 1 - Toronto, ON May 7 - Anaheim, CA May 23 - Washington, DC In many…

  • 8 Ways to Make Collaboration Tools More than a Virtual Water Cooler

    John Mancini
    9 Apr 2013 | 7:31 am
    Today's guest post is by Pete Steege from Qumu, where he works with rich content and its distribution on a daily basis.  Pete has invested more than 20 years in the technology industry with companies including IBM, StorageTek and Seagate.  He blogs on enterprise video trends for the Qumu blog at http://qumu.com/blog. Yahoo, Best Buy and other innovation-hungry businesses are rethinking the value of remote work in their organizations. But everyone can’t work face-to-face all the time; social collaboration platforms are being called upon by a growing number of organizations to…

  • 8 Questions You Need to Ask About Distributed Capture

    John Mancini
    4 Apr 2013 | 7:30 am
    [This is a guest post by Scott Blau, Worldwide Director of Document Capture for IBM.] It’s always been a given: the sooner you convert a paper document into an electronic image, the faster, more accurately, and less expensively you can process it.  Obvious though it may have been, over the 20+ years I’ve been in this business it’s not been an easy insight to act upon. In the era of MFPs (multifunction peripherals), mobile phones and, more importantly, mobile data plans, it’s easy to forget how tentative data connectivity was even a short time ago.  Even in a commercial…
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    Schneier on Security

  • DDOS as Civil Disobedience

    schneier
    22 May 2013 | 4:24 am
    For a while now, I have been thinking about what civil disobedience looks like in the Internet Age. Certainly DDOS attacks, and politically motivated hacking in general, is a part of that. This is one of the reasons I found Molly Sauter's recent thesis, "Distributed Denial of Service Actions and the Challenge of Civil Disobedience on the Internet," so interesting: Abstract: This thesis examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. DDOS actions have been used in online political activism since the early…

  • Surveillance and the Internet of Things

    schneier
    21 May 2013 | 4:15 am
    The Internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool. We're constantly monitored on the Internet by hundreds of companies -- both familiar and unfamiliar. Everything we do there is recorded, collected, and collated -- sometimes by corporations wanting to sell us stuff and sometimes by governments wanting to keep an eye on us. Ephemeral conversation is over. Wholesale surveillance is the norm. Maintaining privacy from these powerful entities is basically impossible, and any illusion of privacy we maintain is based either on ignorance or on our unwillingness to accept what's really going…

  • Security Risks of Too Much Security

    schneier
    20 May 2013 | 4:34 am
    All of the anti-counterfeiting features of the new Canadian $100 bill are resulting in people not bothering to verify them. The fanfare about the security features on the bills, may be part of the problem, said RCMP Sgt. Duncan Pound. "Because the polymer series' notes are so secure ... there's almost an overconfidence among retailers and the public in terms of when you sort of see the strip, the polymer looking materials, everybody says 'oh, this one's going to be good because you know it's impossible to counterfeit,'" he said. "So people don't actually check it."

  • Friday Squid Blogging: Striped Pyjama Squid Pet Sculpture

    schneier
    17 May 2013 | 2:57 pm
    Technically, it's a cuttlefish and not a squid. But it's still nice art. I posted a photo of a real striped pyjama squid way back in 2006. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

  • Applied Cryptography on Elementary

    schneier
    17 May 2013 | 12:59 pm
    In the episode that aired on May 9th, about eight or nine minutes in, there's a scene with a copy of Applied Cryptography prominently displayed on the coffee table. This isn't the first time that my books have appeared on that TV show.
 
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    Network Security Blog

  • Network Security Podcast, Episode 313

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    21 May 2013 | 5:06 pm
    …and now Rich is dealing with an entire family of “sick”. Zach must be empathizing, as he’s also a bit under the weather, but joins Martin for a romp through this week’s stories. Network Security Podcast, Episode 313, May 21, 2013 Time: 41:13 Show notes: Is It Wrong to Use Data From the World’s First ‘Nice’ Botnet? Google Reveals How To Hack Google Glass Device (And Void Your Warranty) Google On Glass Privacy Issues & Congress: “Social Cues” Will Help, Plus It Takes Trust Seriously The man who ‘nearly broke the internet’ FedRAMP seal of…

  • Network Security Podcast, Episode 312

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    14 May 2013 | 4:38 pm
    Rich is dealing with some sick babies, so Martin and Zach inadvertently make the show about corporate and government (not just the U.S. this time!) surveillance. Network Security Podcast, Episode 312, May14, 2013 Time: 38:26 Show notes: How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion U.S. Weighs Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws FBI’s Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed Bloomberg reporters allegedly used financial terminals to spy on Wall Street A Saudi Arabia Telecom’s Surveillance Pitch Tonight’s Music: London Girl by Lato What didn’t make the show:…

  • Network Security Podcast, Episode 311

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    1 May 2013 | 6:10 pm
    Long show with short notes this week as Wade Baker of Verizon and Josh Corman of Akamai join us to talk about the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. This is a must-read report and our short podcast can’t possibly do it justice, but we made our best effort.  Listen to the end, we have some big news! Network Security Podcast, Episode 311, May 1, 2013 Time: 48:49 Show notes: The 2013 Verizon DBIR Tonight’s Music: Tipping – Marucci – Dube  with I’m Confused

  • Network Security Podcast, Episode 310

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    23 Apr 2013 | 3:36 pm
    After a hectic couple of weeks — conferences, travel, and city-wide lockdowns – recovery is sorely needed, but we push through a relatively lively show with a teaser for a bigger debate^Wdiscussion slated for next week.  And somehow the podcast just keeps getting a little longer every week. Network Security Podcast, Episode 310, April 23, 2013 Time: 43:06 Show notes: Japanese police ask ISPs to start blocking Tor Post Boston: Privacy advocates warn about coming tsunami of surveillance cameras Law professor makes a case for legally recognizing the Dangers of Surveillance US House…

  • Network Security Podcast, Episode 309

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    9 Apr 2013 | 4:13 pm
    Due to a last minute work engagement, Rich is not present on tonight’s show. Martin and Zach attempt to compensate for Rich’s absence by being snark but also half-asleep.  We’ll leave it to you to figure out which half of that we feel is most like Rich. Network Security Podcast, Episode 309, April 9, 2013 Time: 41:04 Show notes: Apple’s iMessage encryption trips up feds’ surveillance Google will fight secretive national security letters in court Privacy group calls for changes in CISPA cyberthreat sharing bill Unlocking the Motorola Bootloader Key Lulzsec…
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    Martin Fowler

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    21 May 2013 | 6:34 am
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  • Expansion to DIP in the Wild

    Martin Fowler
    21 May 2013 | 5:50 am
    Brett’s article on the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) and how it works in practice has been a popular read on this site (over 24,000 views since it was published at the beginning of the month). Brett has now expanded the article with two more examples from his delivery experience: questioning requirements and handling time.

  • How do you estimate on an Agile project?

    Martin Fowler
    3 May 2013 | 10:36 am
    If you’re interested in techniques for estimation, you should take a look at this pdf ebook. It contains half-a-dozen essays on estimating in agile projects, drawn from our experiences with a wide range of clients. We explain approaches based on story points and on story counting, which should give you a good overview for you to explore an approach that will work for you.

  • DIP in the Wild

    Martin Fowler
    1 May 2013 | 9:13 am
    The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) was coined by (Uncle) Bob Martin several years ago. It’s a useful principle to help organize the dependencies in your system. Here Brett Schuchert shows how this principle works in practice to simplify designs with a couple of real world examples from his recent ThoughtWorks projects.

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    Martin Fowler
    24 Apr 2013 | 4:18 pm
    Segovia, Spain
 
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    PGreenblog

  • My Boyfriend in the Cloud: Oracles Susie Penner Posts on The Cloud andRelationships

    Paul G.
    6 May 2013 | 8:11 am
    PG Note: Susie Penner is arguably one of the most beloved people who ever met an analyst or influencer. A Director of Corporate Communications at Oracle, Susie is one of the best at her job, handling... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg

  • Truth In Advertising? How about Joy In Advertising?

    Paul G.
    10 Feb 2013 | 9:32 pm
    This is an ad…for a bank. As an ad, it is clever and straightforward and…an ad. It was done by the Banco Sabadell in Catalonia, Spain on its 130th anniversary. But, for once, this transcends what it... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg

  • Lessons from and for 21st Century Leaders

    Paul G.
    24 Jan 2013 | 4:00 am
    Last October, I had the honor of speaking at the 2012 Pivot Con, a conference hosted by my dear friend and key social influencer Brian Solis. This conference held annually, is an affordable laid-back... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg

  • Help Save Hamburg, Iowa!

    Paul G.
    8 Oct 2012 | 5:54 am
    A PERSONAL NOTE: My brother Bob and I are making an effort to try and get the funds for Hamburg, IA, a gutsy town of 1200 citizens, to keep a levy necessary for its survival. It literally is a... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg

  • A Guide to Influence(rs): Chapter 2

    Paul G.
    20 Jun 2012 | 4:00 am
    I’m presuming that you’ve read Chapter 1 a.k.a. the first post on this. If not, here’s the link. Go do that now. If you’re reading this in the book form, I know you’ve read it because this says... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg
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    EMC Blogs

  • Hadoop On VMware -- Another Workload Conquered?

    22 May 2013 | 8:18 am

  • VMware Virsto: A Very Smart Volume Manager For VMs

    21 May 2013 | 12:08 pm

  • Arming the Enterprise

    20 May 2013 | 7:38 am
      One of the more interesting talk tracks coming out of EMC World 2013 was the Venn Diagram introduced by EMC Chief Technology Officer John Roese: Prior to joining EMC, John had observed that the lines were blurring between three different markets: the enterprise market, the service provider market, and the new consumer ecosystem that is driving information and communication Infrastructures into a new era.  John is on record discussing this phenomenon in a variety of online videos and interviews. During EMC World, John discussed the technology ramifications of each market in…

  • Data Domain. Oracle RMAN multiplexing now welcome.

    13 May 2013 | 12:44 pm
    Without writing a magnum opus on the topic one of the features I really like in the new DDOS 5.3 release for Data Domain systems is the ability to deduplicate multiplexed Oracle RMAN backup streams. Multiplexing as a backup concept is a hold over from the days when you needed to keep tape drives writing data at a minimum throughput to prevent rewind operations from occurring. You did this by interleaving backups from different systems, queuing up the writes and sending them all to the same tape drive. Net result you kept the tape drive fed during write but the restore speed was significantly…

  • Busiest EMC World for Backup Recovery Systems *ever.*

    11 May 2013 | 6:29 pm
    Against the backdrop of the ViPR announcement and the predictable competitor sniping which followed.. We get it. You’ve done nothing to advance storage outside of your array controllers and as such now have to take the position that no one should. I’m betting as is usually the case there were teams established immediately after ViPR was announced to chase after EMC and we’ll all start reading the strategic leaks in six to nine months that you ‘have something coming’.  Too late, the boys & girls in the Seattle office are already setting the pace with code while you have yet…
 
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    Oracle Bloggers

  • Debugging Hadoop using Solaris Studio in a Solaris 11 Zone

    user12620111
    22 May 2013 | 8:50 am
         Debugging Hadoop using Solaris Studio in a Solaris 11 Zone I've found Orgad Kimchi's How to Set Up a Hadoop Cluster Using Oracle Solaris Zones to be very useful, however, for a development environment, it is too complex. When map/reduce tasks are running in a clustered environment, it is challenging to isolate bugs. Debugging is easier when working within a standalone Hadoop installation. I've put the following instructions together for installation of a standalone Hadoop installation in a Solaris Zone adding using Solaris Studio for application development. A lovely…

  • REGISTER NOW: OPN EXCHANGE @OPENWORLD LATIN AMERICA - DECEMBER 4-6

    Catalin Teodor
    22 May 2013 | 8:13 am
    Attention all partners! Register before November 16th to take advantage of discounted pricing. Access to 12 Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange sessions. Session topics will include: Applications for PartnersCloud for PartnersEngineered Systems for PartnersIndustries for PartnersTechnology for Partners More details here.

  • SAVE THE DATE - LIVE OPN PARTNERCAST ON INDUSTRIES

    Kristin Rose
    22 May 2013 | 8:13 am
      Mark your calendar for the next OPN PartnerCast on Industries. Streaming Live at partners.oracle.com on December 12th @ 10:00 AM PT.

  • Juniper Networks supports Steel-Belted Radius Carrier (SBRC) 7.5 on Solaris 11 (x86)

    user13333379
    22 May 2013 | 7:56 am
    Juniper Networks supports Steel-Belted Radius Carrier (SBRC) 7.5 with Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 (x64). See Juniper Networks Technical Documentation for details.

  • Big Data Analytics in R – the tORCH has been lit!

    mhornick
    22 May 2013 | 7:14 am
    This guest post from Anand Srinivasan compares performance of the Oracle R Connector for Hadoop with the R {parallel} package for covariance matrix computation, sampling, and parallel linear model fitting.  Oracle R Connector for Hadoop (ORCH) is a collection of R packages that enables Big Data analytics from the R environment. It enables a Data Scientist /Analyst to work on data straddling multiple data platforms (HDFS, Hive, Oracle Database, local files) from the comfort of the R environment and benefit from the R ecosystem. ORCH provides: 1)Out of the box predictive analytic…
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  • White Paper of the Week – Decisions at the heart of your process

    James Taylor
    21 May 2013 | 11:21 am
    Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorA new week and another new white paper. This week it is The Decisions at the Heart of Your Process How Decision Management simplifies business processes and improves results Companies applying Business Process Management can create simpler and more agile processes, and more flexible business applications, by externalizing decisions and applying business rules to effectively manage those decisions. Integrating Business Rules Management Systems in the most dynamic parts of a business process improves visibility, builds in agility and helps…

  • First Look: FICO Decision Optimizer

    James Taylor
    20 May 2013 | 7:12 am
    Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorDecision optimizer is one of FICO’s Decision Management Tools and is designed to address some specific challenges in customer decisioning, particularly that there are often competing objectives and very large numbers of customers (and thus customer decisions) involved. Combine this with the many possible action combinations, uncertainty about what customers might do, as well as uncertainty about the actual business impact of each decision and coming up with the best approach is complex. Once you have an approach or strategy to address these…

  • Using Decision Management to improve call centers

    James Taylor
    19 May 2013 | 5:12 pm
    Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorI was struck over the weekend by this article on the BBC website - Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man. Essentially this guy has been documenting call center menus. As the article says “He started the project after growing frustrated about the number of options and amount of recorded information on call centre menus.” Mr Clarke talks about the value of publishing menu trees because they help speed people through IVR systems. But why should we assume that everyone gets the same menu? Given we know where you are…

  • First Look: Sapiens DECISION update

    James Taylor
    16 May 2013 | 9:23 am
    Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorI last got a briefing from Sapiens last year and I recently got an update on Sapiens DECISION release 3.2. Obviously Sapiens DECISION is focused on a robust and complete implementation of The Decision Model as described by KPI. Governance has seen a major update in the recent release. Users create a Business Change Request to describe a change to a decision model. This describes the change from an external perspective – what do people “outside” the model think needs to be done. This is described (optionally with a document) and assigned…

  • First Look: Zementis Update 2013

    James Taylor
    14 May 2013 | 6:19 am
    Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorIt’s been over a year since I last got updated on Zementis (their 3.5 release of ADAPA and PMML Universal Plug-in). Since then they have been busy adding support for new platforms and signing new partnerships. Most recently they have announced a strategic alliance between Zementis and FICO, something Zementis sees as a big win for open standards (see this post on the new FICO cloud). The partnership means that Zementis’ PMML-based solutions will run on the new FICO Analytic Cloud platform. The FICO Decision Management Platform will tightly…
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  • The Roles within Systems Integration Lifecycle Projects

    20 May 2013 | 9:37 am
    Clearly defined roles and responsibilities are a prerequisite for any successful project. This section provides an introduction to the major roles identified within SILC and describes each role in terms of its duties, qualifications and experience. ...

  • d3.js for PageRank visualization

    20 May 2013 | 8:54 am
    A friend of mine and a programmer with "humble" PhD in Math from Vanderbilt programs in d3.js as a hobby and creates a very interesting visualizations.   The most recent one is very cool. Not only it looks good, but it is also a good demonstration tool for what is probably the most lucrative algorithm of

  • API Testing Maturity

    15 May 2013 | 5:12 pm
    API testing is critical – how mature is your process?

  • Dates and numbers

    13 May 2013 | 11:58 am
    Finding things I didn't want helped me understand what I do want. I want a standard identifier for something like "Slovakia Short Numeric Date" or "USA Written Date". Codes like this would make it easy to select what format I want to show the user.

  • The Phases of System Integration Lifecycle (SILC)

    12 May 2013 | 11:13 am
    The objective of the Systems Planning phase is to develop the long-range systems plan for the implementation of an integrated, automated environment within an organization.
 
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    StorageMojo

  • Architecting & integrating flash into enterprise storage

    Robin Harris
    16 May 2013 | 11:04 am
    Have you ever noticed that it is difficult to get good information about how flash works? The vendors know but they’ve never been terribly forthcoming. For example, how does flash wear out? When most things break you lose their contents. But once flash stops working your data is still there. Huh? And the fact that flash is a wearing medium spooks many people. How should we think about flash? Can we live with a wearing medium? Or write amplification? How does that work? What can be done to reduce it? That’s why it was a pleasure to sit down with Rob Ober of LSI. Rob is an LSI…

  • Cloud money: flip a Bitcoin

    Robin Harris
    11 May 2013 | 2:25 pm
    Digital coinage can’t do everything a physical coin can do, but that’s not stopping people from signing up – or going to conferences. There’s one in Silicon Valley next week and the elite StorageMojo analyst crew will be there in force. Digital currency as a store of value? Today Bitcoin and other digital currencies look more like stocks than bonds because of their volatility. But with Amazon and eBay looking at accepting them, they could become more like money. If that seems unlikely, recall that much of what you use now as “money” is simply electronic…

  • EMC and the 7 dwarves – pt 2

    Robin Harris
    3 May 2013 | 12:52 pm
    Note: This post got so long it needed to be posted in 2 parts. Part 1 is here. And while I promised this 2nd part “tomorrow” the editing took much longer than expected. End note. HP has made the most dramatic bet with their 3PAR-based converged storage line. While the rapid growth of the new products is overwhelmed by the even quicker decline of older products like EVA, they’re off to a good start, claiming over 1200 new customeres. The challenge for former EMC’er Dave Donatelli and 3PAR’s David Scott isn’t technology but sales. Do you have field storage…

  • EMC and the 7 dwarves – part 1

    Robin Harris
    25 Apr 2013 | 1:05 pm
    EMC has been gaining marketshare over the last several years. The world’s largest data storage company is getting larger. Why? IBM and the 7 dwarves Back when mainframes ruled the earth, IBM faced a hardy band of competitors that used its software – usually MVS – but ran it on less costly or more performant hardware. had their own processor architectures and operating systems. Originally known as the 7 dwarves – Burroughs, UNIVAC, Control Data, NCR, GE, RCA and Honeywell – these companies rode the computing boom with varying success until the early 70s. Then the…

  • Is F5′s ARX file virtualization a success?

    Robin Harris
    22 Apr 2013 | 10:35 am
    In response to the post on Avere’s architecture for fronting backend NAS filers – where StorageMojo said that no front-end to NAS boxes has succeeded – alert reader Jacob Marley asked “What about F5′s ARX to stitch/balance storage across multiple filers?” Good question! What can we deduce from publicly available sources? The F5 ARX product line is billed as an “intelligent file virtualization solution” that “. . .preserves the logical access to files regardless of their current location on storage.” Like earlier file switches The ARX…
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    Network & Infrastructure Blogs

  • When will R. Daneel Olivaw arrive?

    21 May 2013 | 9:47 pm
    R. Daneel Olivaw is a character in several novels by what I consider the greatest science fiction writer of all time, Isaac Asimov. Daneel is not human, it is not even living but is intelligent. The R in it's name stands for Robot. This robot, Daneel, does not look like a robot. It looks like a human being, in other words it is an android (no not like something put out by google :).   Already

  • The Roles within Systems Integration Lifecycle Projects

    20 May 2013 | 9:37 am
    Clearly defined roles and responsibilities are a prerequisite for any successful project. This section provides an introduction to the major roles identified within SILC and describes each role in terms of its duties, qualifications and experience. ...

  • Too much wizz bang for your buck.

    15 May 2013 | 11:51 pm
    Money doesn't grow on trees, we all know that. Although, in many countries, money is made from trees, the others use the remains of dead animals which are millions of years old. Where ever it comes from, money is much harder to come by than it is to spend.   This is because every man, woman, child and their dog are trying to find ways of parting your money from you and avoid

  • Monkey do my job?

    12 May 2013 | 12:23 pm
    Can a trained monkey do a system administrator job? I am in a training class right now, this class is about how to build a stack of servers to provide specific services to users in a unique situation.

  • The Phases of System Integration Lifecycle (SILC)

    12 May 2013 | 11:13 am
    The objective of the Systems Planning phase is to develop the long-range systems plan for the implementation of an integrated, automated environment within an organization.
 
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    Enterprise Back Office Blogs

  • The Roles within Systems Integration Lifecycle Projects

    20 May 2013 | 9:37 am
    Clearly defined roles and responsibilities are a prerequisite for any successful project. This section provides an introduction to the major roles identified within SILC and describes each role in terms of its duties, qualifications and experience. ...

  • Have you MOOCed, yet?

    15 May 2013 | 11:57 pm
    In this blog, I'll give you a brief history of MOOCs, describe my personal experience taking a MOOC, discuss current issues, and end with my thoughts on what this means for ERP education. This is the first in a two-part series on MOOCs.

  • Defining ERP Success for Your Organization

    15 May 2013 | 8:02 am
    One of the interesting takeaways from our 2013 ERP Report released earlier this year is the apparent confusion between the perceived success and actual results of ERP implementations. While most ERP projects still take longer than expected, cost more than expected and fail to deliver expected business benefits, our research indicates that most organizations are still generally satisfied with their

  • Defining ERP Success for Your Organization

    15 May 2013 | 8:02 am
    One of the interesting takeaways from our 2013 ERP Report released earlier this year is the apparent confusion between the perceived success and actual results of ERP implementations. While most ERP projects still take longer than expected, cost more than expected and fail to deliver expected business benefits, our research indicates that most organizations are still generally satisfied with their

  • The first Fix Pack for IBM Information Server 9.1 is Out

    14 May 2013 | 8:17 pm
    Information Server 9.1 was released late last year and now has a fix pack 1. It contains a lot of DataStage Connectivity and Engine fixes for specific APARs.
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  • May 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck

    MSRCTeam
    17 May 2013 | 11:00 am
    For those who couldn’t attend the live webcast, today we’re publishing the May 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page.  We fielded 13 questions on various topics during the webcast, with specific bulletin questions focusing primarily on Internet Explorer (MS13-037 and MS13-038 and Visio (MS13-044).  We invite our customers to join us for the next public webcast on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at 11 a.m. PDT (UTC -7), when we will go into detail about the June bulletin release and answer questions live on the air. Customers can register to attend the…

  • Microsoft Customer Protections for May 2013

    MSRCTeam
    14 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Today, we are releasing 10 bulletins, addressing 33 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Before we get into the details, we wanted to first let our enterprise customers know about a change in how we’re communicating technical details within our security advisories. Starting today, customers will be able to clearly identify key security updates within advisories. For further details, please visit Knowledge Base article 2849195. Let’s talk about the updates that we released today. Ten bulletins were released, two Critical and eight Important, addressing 33 vulnerabilities in…

  • Advance Notification Service for the May 2013 Security Bulletin Release

    MSRCTeam
    9 May 2013 | 10:00 am
    Today we’re providing Advance Notification of 10 bulletins for release on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. This release brings two Critical and eight Important-class bulletins, which address 33 unique vulnerabilities. The Critical-rated bulletins address issues in Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. Of note, we are working to have the Internet Explorer Security Update address the issue described in Security Advisory 2847140, supplementing the currently available Fix it.  The Important-rated bulletins address issues in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Server and Tools, and .NET…

  • Fix it for Security Advisory 2847140 is available

    MSRCTeam
    8 May 2013 | 4:32 pm
    We have updated Security Advisory 2847140 to include an easy, one-click Fix it to address the known attack vectors. The Fix it is available to all customers and helps prevent known attacks that leverage the vulnerability to execute code and should not affect your ability to browse the Web. Additionally, applying the Fix it does not require a reboot. We encourage all customers using Internet Explorer 8 to apply this Fix it to help protect their systems. Internet Explorer 6, 7, 9 and 10 are not affected. The Fix it is an effort to help protect as many customers as possible, as quickly as…

  • Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2847140

    MSRCTeam
    3 May 2013 | 7:15 pm
    Today, we released Security Advisory 2847140 regarding an issue that impacts Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer 6, 7, 9 and 10 are not affected by the vulnerability. This issue allows remote code execution if users browse to a malicious website with an affected browser. This would typically occur by an attacker convincing someone to click a link in an email or instant message. Internet Explorer 9 and 10 are not affected by this issue, so upgrading to these versions will help protect you from this issue. While we are actively working to develop a security update to address this issue, we…
 
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    SQLblog.com - The SQL Server blog spot on the web

  • Not selected as a speaker at PASS Summit 2013 #sqlpass #sqlfamily

    Marco Russo (SQLBI)
    22 May 2013 | 6:05 am
    I received the communication from the PASS Program Committee that none of my proposals have been accepted at PASS Summit 2013. Probably this year there was too many proposals and I made a mistake not using all the possible proposals available per speaker. In fact, I just proposed one pre-conference day and two regular sessions: From 0 to DAX (preconference) DAX is the new language for creating Business Intelligence in the Microsoft stack. You can use it to query and program both Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2013 and the new SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular model. Learning the basics of…

  • May 2013 Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2008 SP3

    AaronBertrand
    21 May 2013 | 5:14 am
    Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update #11 Build # 10.00.5840 KB Article: KB #2834048 6 fixes Relevant for builds 10.00.5500 -> 10.00.5839 NOT for SQL Server 2008 R2 (10.50.xxxx)...(read more)

  • Huge news: Azure expanding to Australia!!!

    Greg Low
    20 May 2013 | 3:31 pm
    I was so glad to hear today that Azure is expanding to Australia. This helps with two remaining areas of concern that I've heard from a variety of customers:Compliance and data sovereignty (not wanting to store data outside Australia)Latency (previously high latency even to our nearest external data centres)With both these concerns now disappearing, it's time for more Australian customers to get involved with Azure if they've been resisting so far. Two Azure sub-regions are to be added. One for New South Wales and another for Victoria. In addition, data geo-replication between the…

  • AdventureWorks on Azure now hosted by Red Gate software

    jamiet
    20 May 2013 | 2:48 pm
    In March 2013 I launched an initiative called AdventureWorks on Azure in which I hosted the AdventureWorks2012 sample database on Azure so that the SQL Server community at large could use it to get familiar with what SQL Azure Windows Azure SQL Database had to offer. I asked the SQL community to support the initiative by donating money to keep it afloat and that community responded in spades to the point where last month I was able to make a donation to the War Child charity on behalf of that community. In the interim period I added more sample data to the pot, made Northwind available, and…

  • How Far Can You Push Tabular? Birds of a Feather at TechEd 2013–North America #msteched #ssas #tabular

    Marco Russo (SQLBI)
    20 May 2013 | 6:15 am
    I and Alberto Ferrari will moderate the following Birds of a Feather session at TechEd North America 2013: CODE: BOF-ITP21 TITLE: How Far Can You Push Tabular? SPEAKER: A. Ferrari; M. Russo TIMESLOT: June 5, 2013 at 1:30 pm ROOM: 263 Abstract: Tabular is the new engine in SQL Server Analysis Services. It is an in-memory columnar database capable of unprecedented performance but… how far can we go with an in-memory database? Will you be able to load your data warehouse in-memory to obtain the best performance? What should you care about when building the DWH? What does “fast” mean? What…
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    MySQL Performance Blog

  • MySQL and the SSB – Part 2 – MyISAM vs InnoDB low concurrency

    Justin Swanhart
    22 May 2013 | 6:50 am
    This blog post is part two in what is now a continuing series on the Star Schema Benchmark.In my previous blog post I compared MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.6.10, both with default settings using only the InnoDB storage engine.  In my testing I discovered that innodb_old_blocks_time had an effect on performance of the benchmark.  There was some discussion in the comments and I promised to follow up with more SSB tests at a later date.I also promised more low concurrency SSB tests when Peter blogged about the importance of performance at low concurrency.The SSB The SSB tests a database’s…

  • Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations – Part 1

    Stephane Combaudon
    21 May 2013 | 3:00 am
    Global Transactions Identifiers are one of the new features regarding replication in MySQL 5.6. They open up a lot of opportunities to make the life of DBAs much easier when having to maintain servers under a specific replication topology. However you should keep in mind some limitations of the current implementation. This post is the first one of a series of articles focused on the implications of enabling GTIDs on a production setup.The manual describes very nicely how to switch to GTID-based replication, I won’t repeat it.Basically the steps are:Make the master read-only so that the…

  • Webinar: SQL Query Patterns, Optimized

    Bill Karwin
    20 May 2013 | 3:00 am
    Next Friday, May 31 at 10 a.m. Pacific, I’ll present Percona’s next webinar, “SQL Query Patterns, Optimized.”Based on my experiences solving tough SQL problems for Percona training and consulting, I’ll classify several common types of queries with which developers struggle. I’ll test several SQL solutions for each type of query objective, and show how you can use MySQL 5.6 built-in methods to analyze them for optimal query efficiency.  The discussion will cover optimizer reports, query profiling, and session status to measure performance.The query patterns…

  • Percona XtraBackup 2.1.2 for MySQL available for download

    Hrvoje Matijakovic
    17 May 2013 | 9:25 pm
    Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.2 for MySQL on May 18, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.This release fixes number of high-priority bugs since version 2.1 became GA. It’s advised to upgrade your latest 2.1 version to 2.1.2. This release is the latest stable release in the 2.1 series.Bugs Fixed:Using Perl’s DBD::MySQL package for server communication instead of spawning the MySQL command line client introduced a regression which caused innobackupex –galera-info option to fail. Bug fixed…

  • Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2

    Ernie Souhrada
    17 May 2013 | 3:00 am
    This is the second part in a two-part series comparing Virident’s vCache to FlashCache. The first part was focused on usability and feature comparison; in this post, we’ll look at some sysbench test results.Disclosure: The research and testing conducted for this post were sponsored by Virident.First, some background information. All tests were conducted on Percona’s Cisco UCS C250 test machine, and both the vCache and FlashCache tests used the same 2.2TB Virident FlashMAX II as the cache storage device. EXT4 is the filesystem, and CentOS 6.4 the operating system, although…
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  • VRM at IIW

    Doc Searls
    7 May 2013 | 10:26 am
    We had a packed house yesterday at VRM Day 2013a — more than fifty people — prepping for IIW , which starts today and runs for two more at the Computer History Museumin Mountain View. IIW is an unconference. No keynotes, no panels, no sponsors controlling the agenda. At the beginning of each day, particpants (who aren’t just “attendees”) choose the topics they want to talk about, and from there on it’s all breakout sessions in separate rooms. So here are some of the session candidates we put up on the whiteboard(and also on the wiki at the first link above):…

  • Identity is personal

    Doc Searls
    1 May 2013 | 9:36 am
    It’s as simple as that. Identity is not corporate. That means no company is going to “win” at personal identity, any more than any company can win at being you or me. It makes no sense. But meanwhile, there’s this big war going on over identity, that Mike Elgan of CultOfMac covers (from the Apple side) in Why the ‘i’ in iPhone Will Stand For ‘Identity’. Writes Mike, Google honcho Eric Schmidt came right out and said it: “Google+ was created primarily as an identity service.” And Om Malik nailed it when he said: “The real power of Facebook lies in…

  • Outlining -> VRM

    Doc Searls
    30 Apr 2013 | 1:22 am
    Dave Winer‘s SmallPicture is a vendor I’ve been relating to from the start, mostly by cheering on development, for example of Fargo, the online outliner I describe here. Now that SmallPicture has a reader, I can copy and paste the HTML from my Fargo outline into WordPress under its HTML tab. This makes piling up and publishing outlines of links quite easy. So here goes: VRM The corroding value of the internet cookie, and an opportunity to shape a new market, by Nitin Badjitia. On polling, VRM and politicians, by Dave Durant VRM , Personal Clouds, and Information Architecture, by…

  • Prepping for #VRM Day and #IIW

    Doc Searls
    20 Apr 2013 | 5:10 am
    The 16th IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) is coming up, Tuesday to Thursday, 7-9 May, will be tat the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. As usual, VRM will be a main topic, with lots of developers and other interested folk participating. Also as usual, we will have a VRM planning day on the Monday preceding: 6 May, also at the CHM. So that’s four straight days during which we’ll get to present, whiteboard, discuss and move forward the many projects we’re working on. From the top of my head at the moment: Personal Clouds, including — The Internet of Me and My…

  • Intentcasting mojo

    Doc Searls
    8 Apr 2013 | 5:37 am
    Nice piece on Intently.co and intentcasting in 7 Days. Titled Intently.co – the new website where the firms come to you…, it’s right up the VRM alley. An excerpt: A global site or rather ‘intention engine’ called Intently.co is making it possible for suppliers who are listening to respond to buyers’ requests in the UAE and beyond. Neil Harris, founder of Intently.co explained to 7DAYS that he could see the potential of his site pretty clearly – even if the inspiration did come while he was looking for an optician. “I wanted an optician’s appointment and…
 
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  • Remove Disk based backups after duplicate to tape successfully verifies.

    Andrew_Serna
    22 May 2013 | 9:36 am
    I have had several customers request a feature that will automatically remove backups staged to disk on a successful duplicate to tape. So basically backup goes to disk, duplicates to tape, then upon successful verify to tape removes the backup located on disk either immediatly or on schedule.

  • Uninstall tools

    MaryOlson
    22 May 2013 | 9:32 am
    I need a solution Are there any uninstall tools for removing the previous version of the endpoint protection client? The install of our EPM was corrupted so we had to wipe itout and then install again so I have orpahned clients all over the network now with no management. They are all version 11 clients and a push install will not remove the old version at all. I really don;t want to run around to every workstation so if there is an easier fix I would love to hear it.

  • SED requiring Administrator password on MAC Installs

    Squirre1 2
    22 May 2013 | 9:32 am
    I need a solution We are installing SED on MAC systems and then the system asks for a reboot... Once the reboot is completed, SED is asking for the administrator passphrase before it will start encrypting and, IMHO, is not enrolling correctly by prompting for the user account it should be enrolling under... Am I missing something here or why is it doing this.. Thanks...

  • SEP 12.1

    jjgalleg
    22 May 2013 | 9:23 am
    I need a solution I want to migrate a SEPM server version 11 to version 12.1. I have several SEP11 clients and I'm not trying to upgrade them to version 12 right now. I'm just trying to ugrade our SEPM department server to version 12, just to be able to support a few new SEP12 clients and continue to support the current SEP11 clients. The question is: should I request new SEP12 licenses only for the new SEP12 endpoints I'm going to install? after the temporary 90-day upgrade license expires, will my current SEP11 continue to get updates even if I don't gather a license for…

  • Enterprise Vault nsf import version limitations

    ExecNight
    22 May 2013 | 9:18 am
    I need a solution Hello, We have a customer using Domino Server 7.0.3, in the process of migrating to Exchange 2013. So we will have to use the Enterprise Vault 10.0.3 version it seems, but Domino 7.0.3 seems unsupported for this scenario.   Is it possible to get the nsf files from the server, and manually import them onto the EV 10.0.3? or are there any migration paths other than;   1- Upgrading many domino servers from 7.0.3 => 8.5.3 which would take some serious time 2- Using EV 8.0 first and upgrade to EV 9.0  then to EV 10.0.3 etc..   Thanks
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  • Won’t Get Fooled Again

    JP
    18 May 2013 | 9:12 am
    I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around me Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday And I’ll get on my knees and pray We don’t get fooled again Don’t get fooled again Won’t Get Fooled Again (Pete Townshend) The Who, 1971 I was born in 1957. Which meant that most of my growing up happened in the Sixties and Seventies: my taste in music, as some of you no doubt have figured out, is deeply influenced by the musicians of the time. As I grow older, my appreciation for that privilege grows.

  • …and I’m floating in a most peculiar way…

    JP
    12 May 2013 | 2:50 pm
    Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major Tom (Eight) (Seven, six) Commencing countdown (Five), engines on (Four) (Three, two) Check ignition (One) and may God’s (Blastoff) love be with you This is Ground Control to Major Tom, you’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare This is Major Tom to Ground Control, I’m stepping through the door And I’m floating in a most peculiar way And the…

  • Here, there and everywhere

    JP
    12 May 2013 | 6:17 am
    Here, making each day of the year Changing my life with a wave of her hand Nobody can deny that there’s something there There, running my hands through her hair Both of us thinking how good it can be Someone is speaking but she doesn’t know he’s there I want her everywhere and if she’s beside me I know I need never care But to love her is to need her everywhere Knowing that love is to share Here, there and everywhere (Lennon/McCartney) The Beatles, Revolver, 1966 What a wonderful song. Music from a time when bands were made up of musicians, most of whom knew how to…

  • Back on the Chain Gang

    JP
    11 May 2013 | 1:44 pm
      A circumstance beyond our control The phone, the TV, the News of the World Got in the house like a pigeon from hell Threw sand in your eyes and descended like flies The Pretenders, Back on the Chain Gang, 1982   As with many of the songs from the ’60s and ’70s, debates rage about what this song actually means or refers to. That’s not what this post is about. When it comes to meanings of songs, I take heart from the story of the Doors fans who wrote deep and searching treatises about how the band, and more particularly Jim Morrison, used the imagery of Mojo in…

  • I’m pickin’ up good vibrations

    JP
    10 May 2013 | 4:10 pm
    I’m pickin’ up good vibrations (Good good good good vibrations) Listen to a sample here: The Beach Boys, Good Vibrations   Picking up good vibrations. Hmmm. Love the song, but I suspect the phrase is a bit dated. If I used it in front of my kids, I’m convinced I’ll get their special “Can-we-pretend-he’s-not-with-us?” look. So I won’t use the phrase in front of them. Children. You know something? Apparently chillies have no such reservations. They’ve been happily picking up good vibrations from neighbouring plants for millennia. Or so…
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    Enterprise Irregulars

  • TAM is Great. But What Really Matters is That You Believe You Can Hit $100m ARR in 7 Years.

    Jason M. Lemkin
    22 May 2013 | 5:20 am
    I have a strong, semi-proven thesis that in SaaS, market size doesn’t matter that much … at least in the traditional tops-down sense. If you can get to $2m in ARR in 2 years, you can get to $4m the next.  From there, it’s on to $10m in ARR.  And if you can get to $10m in ARR in say 4 years … and that compounds, as it will … you have a real shot at $100m.  For real.  It’s will be incredible hard, yes.  You may not get there, yes.  But if you can get to $10m in any reasonably amount of time … your market is big enough to get you to $100m. As we’ve talked about before,…

  • Yahoo and Tumblr – Avoiding Commoditization by Association

    Maggie Fox
    22 May 2013 | 3:58 am
    So, it’s official – while many of us (especially on Twitter) waited and watched over the weekend after All Things D broke the story, Yahoo has agreed to buy content sharing platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. The analysis has been varied and thoughtful: why Tumblr’s exit is about 30% of what it might have been (they failed to demonstrate that they could monetize on a timeline that would suit their investors/were running out of cash), why the value isn’t in their technology, but rather the networks’ function as a “vector for viral sharing“, and, finally, how Tumblr can…

  • How Cloud Integration Is Defining The Future of CRM

    Louis Columbus
    22 May 2013 | 2:04 am
    The future of customer relationships depends more on context than transactions.   And this trend is accelerating, driven by the integration of social media into CRM, rapid gains in usability of CRM and integration applications, and the global growth of the API economy. Gaining a clear, contextually-based view of customers isn’t easy. Fine-tuning system integration to understand the nuances of customers, gain greater insights and infusing customer intelligence through a company requires more than APIs and cloud platform integration.  It requires a precise strategy of integration to align…

  • Mad Men and the UNIX Wars

    Susan Scrupski
    21 May 2013 | 9:20 am
    I’ve been cleaning out my closets and finding some real gems.  I came across my old ad portfolio a few days ago. With all the increasing tension between transparency and privacy and the role of Internet freedoms, it’s hard to believe there was once a time not too long ago that computers didn’t “talk” to each other.  So-called “closed systems” enabled large manufacturers to secure unfair advantage in the market for hardware, software, and services.  Entire walled garden ecosystems surrounded the largest technology vendors in the world.  The UNIX operating system changed all…

  • China Re-Starts Hacking Program

    Denis Pombriant
    21 May 2013 | 8:49 am
    This is important.  According to a story in the New York Times  the Chinese Army is back in the business of hacking into American computer systems to steal intellectual property and government security secrets.  After a three month lull that coincided with a tongue lashing by the Obama administration the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) unit 61398 is back in business and already operating at 60 to 70 percent of its pre-stand down effectiveness. The story discloses how Coca Cola lost a bid to acquire China Huiyuan Juice Group after its systems were hacked and the Chinese presumably got…
 
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    Mzinga Blog

  • The Return of Mzinga in Learning and Social Marketing

    17 May 2013 | 9:10 am
    It's been a busy year so far here at Mzinga and our efforts at brand awareness have been paying off.  In addition to recognition from TrainingIndustry.com, Aragon Research just published a great blog post linked here about our return to prominence.   Click through to read what Jim Lundy, CEO of Aragon  has to say:

  • Trials - but no tribulations

    7 May 2013 | 10:09 am
    May is off to an exciting start for us.  In addition to the recognition earlier about our Content Authoring Tool, today we launched a free Trial of our new social platform, OmniSocial Engaged.  Our flagship social offering is rapidly evolving ever since our Q4 launch and we look forward to  sharing our latest release (April 27th) with those of you interested in putting our offering through its’ paces. We offer a compelling line up of every social component imaginable. But our  real strength is the ability for a community manager (user/customer)  to easily  mix and match integration…

  • Mzinga is named a "Hot Vendor in Content Authoring" by Aragon Research

    1 May 2013 | 10:20 am
    We were just notified that Mzinga was highlighted in an Aragon Research note identifying Mzinga as a hot vendor in content authoring.  Visit Aragon for more details and to see other hot vendors in content authoring, content management, mobile, and collaboration.   Check out the news item on mzinga.com.   We're thrilled to be recognized and even more thrilled for our customers who are anxiously awaiting the release of Mzinga Publisher 6.0.
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    deal architect

  • The shock and awe of the public cloud

    21 May 2013 | 11:14 am
    On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. Look at the graph below and let the enormity of that sink in. Now consider this. Netflix uses Amazon Web Services as...

  • Bill McDermott and Boston

    20 May 2013 | 5:30 am
    I caught a replay of Bill McDermott's pitch at SapphireNow last week. Loved it. How could you not with acronyms like B2B2C?:) Seriously, tough to not like his sports talk and see him surrounded by sports world luminaries you see...

  • Global SIs: The Forest and the Trees

    20 May 2013 | 4:26 am
    A short talk with some Cap Gemini BPO execs at SuiteWorld last week and reading Phil Wainewright's post about Cloud SIs had me thinking how the global service firms are changing - and in many ways resisting change. Most larger...

  • More New Renaissance

    19 May 2013 | 7:51 am
    on the innovation blog Automating Airport Security Trays Crowdsourcing Home Deliveries Bequeathing Digital Assets The changing world of puzzles Mindfulness Street Foodies Google Shopping Express Upgrading Mall Surveillance

  • Life after SAP

    18 May 2013 | 7:37 am
    For the first time in a while I missed SapphireNow this year, and yet through some unplanned scheduling got to be around a bunch of SAP alums, ex-partners and ex-customers. I was invited to present to SAP alum at the...
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    Chuck's Blog

  • Hadoop On VMware -- Another Workload Conquered?

    Chuck Hollis
    22 May 2013 | 8:18 am
    If you're like me, you've been promoting the idea of server virtualization for many, many years. You're also probably familiar with the standard pushback: what about performance? I can clearly remember going through before-and-after charts over and over -- again and again -- for workload after workload: databases, Exchange, web servers, etc. You had to convince people one painful step at a time. Here comes a new workload that more IT organizations are stepping up to: Hadoop in all its forms. While most IT professionals can see the many, many benefits of virtualizing Hadoop environments, they…

  • VMware Virsto: A Very Smart Volume Manager For VMs

    Chuck Hollis
    21 May 2013 | 12:08 pm
    I think many IT professionals realize that many application performance issues eventually boil down to storage and physical I/O. That was true before server virtualization, and it's certainly true now. Storage array vendors do what they can. Operating system, hypervisor and database vendors do what they can as well. But between the two, there's the potential for a smart layer of storage software that does what others can't. As an example: way back when Solaris was popular, Veritas' VxVM and VxFS were almost ubiquitous. Both products offered an important value-added layer than neither the host…

  • EMC World 2013 -- The Tribe Is Strong

    Chuck Hollis
    10 May 2013 | 10:24 am
    I can't remember how many EMC Worlds I've been to over the years. These days, I don't pay much attention to the metrics: number of attendees, number of sessions, etc. I'm far more interested in the soft side -- the discussions, the concerns, what is getting people excited, etc. For me, it's not just a big technology event -- it's more of a tribal gathering. So, if EMC World is a tribal gathering -- how is the tribe doing? And I can safely report -- the tribe is quite strong. EMC World In A Nutshell From its early storage technology roots, EMC has blossomed into a very broad event smack dab at…

  • Introducing EMC ViPR: A Breathtaking Approach To Software-Defined Storage

    Chuck Hollis
    6 May 2013 | 11:40 am
    I'd like to think I have a pretty good capacity for approaching new technology concepts, internalizing them and explaining them effectively. Those capabilities were severely put to the test when I first approached EMC's new product announced at EMC World: ViPR. The effort paid off: I came away with a deeper understanding of some of the more powerful forces at work in our industry, as well as a breathtaking appreciation for what ViPR intends to achieve: both now and into the future. Rather than debate terminology and categories, the best approach with ViPR might be to relax, follow the…

  • Isilon's OneFS -- The Definition Of A Modern File System?

    Chuck Hollis
    1 May 2013 | 11:58 am
    As part of the EMC World festivities, EMC's Isilon group is announcing a few new features available today -- as well as previewing their next release, dubbed Waikiki. Even with my obvious EMC bias, I can make a strong argument that OneFS is now clearly in a class of its own: architecture, functionality, robustness, performance, efficiency, etc. You could teach an advanced course in file system design and use OneFS as a perfect example. The gap between OneFS and everything else shows every sign of widening over time. The Isilon team now uses a fast-cadence development model, and we should be…
 
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    Security Management

  • Bring Your Own Identity: the Rise of the User

    Henk van der Heijden
    14 May 2013 | 1:01 pm
    Social media is fast becoming the identity mechanism of choice to log into popular sites and company information. Looking to find the right music on Spotify? Want to connect with the world’s professionals on LinkedIn? You can now simply log in via your Facebook account. The UK Government may even soon allow citizens to use their social media identity to access public services safely and securely...  

  • Supporting Industry Standards

    Chris Wraight
    14 May 2013 | 11:07 am
    On May 7, Andras Cser of Forrester Research, Inc. posted a thought-provoking blog entry entitled “XACML is Dead” which postulated that there wasn’t any future for XACML. At CA Technologies we have long supported a broad range of industry standards such as LDAP, X.509, WS-Federation, SAML, WS-Security, REST, SPML as well as more recent standards like OpenID, OpenID Connect and OAuth, thereby...  

  • Identity-centric Security

    Sumner Blount
    13 May 2013 | 7:20 am
    The “good old days” are gone forever. Those were the days when IT environments were more predictable and easier to control. The user population and their access patterns were more easily defined. Stick a firewall in front of key systems, create some controls around who can access what, and you’re done. The world is far different now. The headlong march towards the cloud has made the...  

  • The Changing Face of Cyber-Attacks

    Russell Miller
    10 May 2013 | 10:51 am
    It is tempting to think about cyber-attacks as an ever-present, but unchanging threat. To the contrary, attacker profiles have shifted, and new goals and sources of motivation have fundamentally altered the nature of the threat landscape. The trends driving this shift include: The militarization of cyber-attacks. Network penetrations to cause damage and steal intellectual property are now...  

  • The Two-Step Tradeoff

    Jim Reno
    6 May 2013 | 7:18 am
    Like Google and others, Apple recently rolled out new two-factor authentication technology, under the name “two-step verification,” which users can add to their Apple IDs. It’s an optional security measure that applies when the user tries to perform account management operations. Again like Google, it isn’t used for every login, although the specific cases when it is used are different: Google...  
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    Venture Chronicles

  • The Wisdom of Being Safe

    Jeff
    22 May 2013 | 7:45 am
    I was reading this article on the wave of executive departures at HTC on the heals of a successful product, the HTC One, and a clearly unsuccessful launch of the HTC First. The reporting is actually good and highlights the phenomena of the death spiral that many in Silicon Valley are familiar with, as influential people in the company leave a succession of departures is certain to follow and taking with them the ability of the company to seamlessly conceptualize and develop new products that are the lifeblood of technology companies in the consumer space. One quote caught my attention if for…

  • My Next Journey: Ping Identity

    Jeff
    8 May 2013 | 10:41 am
    I recently wrapped up my transition period out of Get Satisfaction and immediately swung into a new role at Ping Identity. This was no easy decision for me as I continue to support the mission of Get Satisfaction and have invested much of myself in it over the last 3 years. Life in the Valley can be frenetic and the degree of institutional ADHD we exhibit is something I have long been aware of, and as a counterbalance to this I have strived for a high degree of continuity and stability in my professional life while also pushing myself into the next interesting thing. it’s a tough…

  • Windows 8: Return of the Start Menu

    Jeff
    22 Apr 2013 | 1:16 pm
    The Verge is reporting that the iconic Start Menu will be returning in Windows 8.1. For those of you that don’t follow such things, Microsoft removed the start menu is Win8 in when they replaced the desktop as the primary UX canvas in favor of the new tile interface, called Modern (originally called Metro). Removing the menu would probably have been a non-issue if the user experience of traditional and Modern designed apps were seamless but there is a critical distinction that makes this all but impossible to rectify, the current generation of Modern apps run in a dedicated focus,…

  • Lenovo Yoga–Straight up With a Twist

    Jeff
    13 Apr 2013 | 11:47 am
    I have been using a Lenovo Yoga laptop for a month and like it enough to report back on my impressions. This laptop replaces an Asus Zenbook Touch that I had been using and generally liked but in order to maximize the touch aspects of Windows 8 I found that having a touch screen simply wasn’t enough, a full convertible laptop is what makes the experience much more accommodating of touch interactions. Back in January I wrote about my initial reaction to Windows 8 and highlighted a couple of aspects of the hardware experience that needed attention. The Asus Zenbook Touch is a beautiful…

  • Ron Johnson Out: The Customer Experience Files

    Jeff
    9 Apr 2013 | 7:51 am
    I was in a cab yesterday with my wife, who works in the fashion industry, and she casually mentioned that Ron Johnson was out at JCP. I can imagine that everyone in the retail and fashion industry was aware of this 12 hours before the rest of us. This morning I was watching Squawk Box on CNBC and Richard Branson along with Virgin America CEO David Cush were being interviewed. Cush was asked about JCP and replied that the key lesson is that you don’t destroy your existing business model before ensuring that the new one works. This is good advice but I think it radically oversimplifies…
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    Applied Enterprise Architecture

  • How to build a Roadmap – Define End State

    James Parnitzke
    14 May 2013 | 11:32 am
    An earlier post (How to Build a Roadmap) discussed the specific steps required to develop a well thought out road map. This method identified specific actions using an overall pattern ALL roadmaps should follow. The steps required to complete this work: 1) Develop a clear and unambiguous understanding of the current state 2) Define the desired end state 3) Conduct a Gap Analysis exercise 4) Prioritize the findings from the Gap Analysis exercise into a series of gap closure strategies 5) Discover the optimum sequence of actions (recognizing predecessor – successor relationships)…

  • How to build a Roadmap – Define Current State

    James Parnitzke
    16 Sep 2012 | 10:05 am
    Introduction In an earlier post (How to Build a Roadmap) I discussed the specific steps required to develop a defensible, well thought out road map to identify specific actions using an overall pattern all roadmaps should follow. The steps required to complete this work: Develop a clear and unambiguous understanding of the current state Define the desired end state Conduct a Gap Analysis exercise Prioritize the findings from the Gap Analysis exercise into a series of gap closure strategies Discover the optimum sequence of actions (recognizing predecessor – successor relationships)…

  • How to build a Roadmap

    James Parnitzke
    5 Mar 2011 | 6:48 am
    How many of us in the profession can truly say we have been taught to develop, refine, and deliver a professional roadmap based on a sound method with consistent repeatable results?  Have been at this crazy business for years, and still astonished at the wide variety of quality in the results I have experienced over the years – and it’s not getting any better. Not sure I can identify why this is so, maybe it’s the consolidation and changes in the traditional consulting business (big eight to what? two, maybe) or the depreciation of the craft itself among our peers. And then again,…

  • The Architecture Value Proposition

    James Parnitzke
    26 Feb 2011 | 12:16 pm
    A lot of discussions are flying around on the Enterprise Architecture boards about our role (or lack of) and the need to demonstrate value. Some have even questioned why this is so (after all, we all know the value of accountants, right?).  Do all EA professionals have an identity crisis?  Seems so, and I decided to share this post to clear the air a bit and share some thoughts of the kind of value we should deliver to our business peers.  If you are impatient enough with this introduction just scroll down to the “money” section and see what a quick taxonomy (not complete by any…

  • Design Goals

    James Parnitzke
    19 Feb 2011 | 9:47 am
    In my last post (Wide open spaces) we discussed the elegance of using space based architecture platforms based on their simplicity and power. Compared to other models for developing distributed applications, it offers simpler design, savings in development and debugging effort, and more robust results that are easier to maintain and integrate.  Recall, this model combines and integrates distributed caching, content-based distributed messaging, and parallel processing into a powerful architecture within a grid computing framework.   That was a mouthful. You may want to read that last…
 
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    Exchange Server Pro

  • Don’t Leave POP/IMAP Protocol Logging Enabled

    Paul Cunningham
    20 May 2013 | 5:34 am
    Some time ago I wrote an article on protocol logging for Exchange, about how useful it is for troubleshooting and encouraging Exchange admins to leave it enabled. The article refers only to SMTP protocol logging and using it to troubleshoot email delivery issues. As a side note, I surveyed a few of my fellow MVPs on the topic of protocol logging and opinions were split about 50/50 on whether it should be left on all the time or not. You can certainly make up your own mind about that Anyway, in writing the chapters for the Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Guide I explored other forms of…

  • Exchange Virtual Conference, Starts May 27th

    Paul Cunningham
    20 May 2013 | 5:00 am
    I’m pleased to announce the upcoming Exchange Virtual Conference – a free, online event for the Exchange community starting on May 27th. The Exchange Virtual Conference features Exchange MVPs presenting sessions on Exchange Server and Office 365. This is a completely free, no strings attached event, delivered entirely online. You can watch the sessions from your home or office at a time that suits you, and ask questions in the Q&A section after each session. For more information, and to sign up to the mailing list to be notified as each session becomes available, please click…

  • Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator

    Paul Cunningham
    15 May 2013 | 4:15 am
    The Microsoft Exchange team has released the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements calculator. From the MS Exchange Team blog: It’s been a long road, but the initial release of the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator is here. No, that isn’t a mistake, the calculator has been rebranded. Yes, this is no longer a Mailbox server role calculator; this calculator includes recommendations on sizing Client Access servers too! I recommend reading the rest of that post because it does outline some very interesting things about Exchange 2013 sizing. Download the calculator here.

  • Proxying Outbound Email Through Exchange 2013 Client Access Servers

    Paul Cunningham
    6 May 2013 | 2:00 am
    In an Exchange Server 2013 organization the Mailbox server role is responsible for sending outbound email via a Send Connector. If you take a look at the properties of a Send Connector you will notice an option to proxy through a Client Access server. When this option is enabled outbound email that is being sent via a Send Connector does not go directly out from the Mailbox server, and instead is proxied through a Client Access server in the site. There is nothing complicated going on here, the Client Access server simply acts as a proxy for the connection so that the receiving host out on…

  • Test-ExchangeServerHealth.ps1 v1.2 Released

    Paul Cunningham
    5 May 2013 | 5:44 am
    I have just uploaded version 1.2 of the Test-ExchangeServerHealth.ps1 script. This version includes a number of important bug fixes, as well as adding the DAG health check (from Get-DAGHealth.ps1). You can download the new version here. Please continue to report bugs and make feature requests in the comments on that post. Related posts:V1.1 of Get-DAGHealth.ps1 is AvailableGet-DAGHealth.ps1 – Database Availability Group Health Check ScriptTest-ExchangeServerHealth – PowerShell Script to Generate a Health Check Report for Exchange Server 2010Create an Exchange Mail Flow Latency…
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    Socialcast | Enterprise Social Network Platform

  • Taming Rails Apps with Engines

    Lars Klevan
    21 May 2013 | 8:00 am
    As the engineering team was planning for the recent Socialcast release we realized we were going to be adding a couple of significant new functional areas that each had their own models, views, assets, etc.  We were concerned that this could result in a sprawling code base that was hard to learn and maintain. We came up with two ways to solve this in our Ruby on Rails application: either we could break it down into multiple applications and use API calls or we could isolate the functional areas using Rails Engines.  We knew that we wanted a seamless, integrated experience that was easy to…

  • Getting Value From Social in the Workplace

    Joan Bodensteiner
    9 May 2013 | 9:00 am
    The momentum for enterprise social networking continues to build. Analysts like Gartner and Forrester who cover the space along with a number of high-profile thought leaders such as McKinsey Global Institute[1] have validated that  companies are increasing their investment in social tools and technologies in the workplace. I am continually impressed by the various ways our customers are using Socialcast – many times it is in ways that we had not initially envisioned. There is still quite a bit of skepticism regarding the actual business value of enterprise social networks. This stems…

  • The Next Frontier for Productivity in the Enterprise

    Joan Bodensteiner
    18 Apr 2013 | 5:00 am
    Today we are announcing a brand new Socialcast experience for our customers. With this latest release, we have made it even easier to synchronize work-related messages, connect with colleagues, and collaborate as teams. If you have been using Socialcast for a while, the first thing you will notice is the new look-and-feel. It’s cleaner. More streamlined. It’s easier to see and manage more of your work in one place so you can focus on what is most important. Streams, group workspaces, private conversations, Town Halls and even Projects are all accessible in one convenient navigation…

  • jQuery Custom Events

    Jason Moon
    9 Apr 2013 | 11:28 am
    Overview In the last article about unobtrusive JavaScript, we learned how to use event delegation and markup-driven behavior to create reusable JavaScript components. This article will explore how to use custom events in jQuery to give the developer even greater control over the component’s behavior. While many facets of an unobtrusive widget can be controlled via the markup (data attributes), we can expose even more to the developer by triggering custom events. These events are fired on the DOM just like normal browser events, with the same bubbling characteristics. In jQuery,…

  • Introducing the Socialcast HootSuite Integration — Connecting external social conversations with internal experts

    Dan Wire
    5 Feb 2013 | 6:00 am
    Today we’re excited to announce our newest application integration – with HootSuite, the leading social media management system to monitor, track and measure social conversations and campaigns, users are now able to move external social content from HootSuite directly into their Socialcast community. Taking advantage of Socialcast’s rich set of API’s and the Reach Integration platform the integration allows HootSuite users to highlight the external conversations that are most relevant to the company and flag specific employees or internal groups to immediately take action on…
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    Process Cafe

  • The futility of ERP's

    17 May 2013 | 8:00 am
    Time for another story from the Comerford archives. Several years ago I was involved in a global project to implement an ERP system in a multinational pharmaceutical company. This project was huge. It was the biggest thing the company had ever done internally (and this is a company that had developed some of the most well known drugs ever made). At one point we had so many external contractors working on it we were spending over $100,000 per week just on them. It was unsustainable (this was ten or fifteen years ago, too). All we were doing was replacing financial systems worldwide along with…

  • It's Just Not Cricket!

    23 Apr 2013 | 7:58 am
    I was sitting over the weekend watching the guys practice their cricketing skills on the local cricket green. (For those of you who want an in-depth explanation of cricket I would recommend this:  Or for a more in-depth and less humourous look, this). The exercise was simple. A batter would lob a ball really high into the air and the fielder would have to catch the high ball, immediately throw it back accurately towards the batter who would knock it along the ground. The fielder would then catch the low ball and return it to the batter who would lob another high ball for the next fielder…

  • Have the BPM goalposts moved?

    29 Mar 2013 | 9:00 am
    My last post asked Where is the BPM Market going? and opened the way for discussion (mostly on Twitter) about the changing state of the BPM marketplace. Thanks to Craig, The Process Ninja, we can now look at the latest analysts offerings from Gartner and Forrester in the form of the Forrester Wave for BPM suites and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Software. Wait! Hold-up now. "Intelligent Business Process Management Software", you say? What the hell is that? Gartner has made changes to the classification of BPM solutions by redefining the…

  • Where's the BPM market going?

    26 Mar 2013 | 9:00 am
    I remember back in the deep, dark mists of time (about ten years ago, actually), The BPM market used to have several players in it. Gartner's Magic Quadrant had a diverse number of players in each of the quadrants, and it was easy to look at and understand the fragmentation. Things were called 'BPM' and everyone knew where they stood with it - although, in reality, very few people could adequately define 'BPM' as a concept. More recently, though, the market has started to amalgamate. Major companies were purchased by competitors and their products merged together (Metastorm and Provision…

  • The Path of Least Resistance

    1 Mar 2013 | 8:00 am
    Not far from where I live, there is a DIY store on an out-of-town trading estate. It is surrounded on all sides by dual carriageway roads and the only, real, access to it is by vehicular transport. However on the opposite side of this dual carriageway is a housing estate. I was waiting at the nearby traffic lights yesterday and noticed that from the fence surrounding the estate there appeared to be the beginnings of a pathway that had been worn by pedestrians across the central grass reservation of the dual carriageway and into a hole in the fence surrounding the DIY store. As I watched…
 
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    Panorama Consulting Solutions

  • Can ERP Systems be Used to Drive Innovation?

    Eric Kimberling
    22 May 2013 | 1:08 am
    Organizations that have implemented ERP systems have long complained that deployments are too costly, time consuming and risky, so it is pretty rare that organizations look at ways to leverage enterprise software to drive innovation. Indeed, without the right expertise and guidance, ERP implementations can be difficult, even without the grand ambition of driving innovation. Case in point: our 2013 ERP Report confirms that most projects cost more than expected, take longer than expected and fail to deliver expected business benefits, while our organizational change and business process…

  • Tuesday Poll: Is Your ERP Software’s Annual Maintenance Worth the Money?

    Panorama Consulting Solutions
    21 May 2013 | 1:05 am
    Many organizations cut ERP implementation costs by cancelling ERP software maintenance but this can have its risks. You may no longer have access to your ERP vendor’s source code and this can make upgrades difficult. Take a moment to vote in our poll and then check back to review overall results. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

  • Epicor Tallies Two New ERP Deals with Kibsons International and Hana International

    Epicor Software Corporation
    20 May 2013 | 1:36 pm
    Food Importer and Agricultural Equipment Manufacturer Choose Epicor ERP to Boost Warehouse Management, Distribution and Customer Relations Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, and services organizations, today announced that it has won two new contracts in the UAE with Kibsons International and Hana International to deploy its next-generation ERP solution, Epicor ERP. Kibsons is a fresh fruits and vegetables importer with a processed meat factory in Ajman, while Hana is a global supplier of diesel engine and…

  • SunGard Introduces New Consolidated Protegent Compliance Platform

    SunGard
    20 May 2013 | 1:23 pm
    SunGard, one of the world’s leading ERP software and technology services companies, has developed the Protegent Compliance Platform, a new consolidated technology platform to help financial firms achieve competitive advantages by streamlining their regulatory compliance management. A common platform can help firms use their compliance technology budgets more efficiently, enabling them to keep up with industry changes while continuing to effectively mitigate increasingly complex regulatory risks. SunGard’s Protegent Compliance Platform’s integrated core components help firms reduce the…

  • Arming Against Indifference in an ERP Implementation

    Brevard Neely
    20 May 2013 | 1:05 am
    Entrepreneur and author Seth Godin recently posted interesting commentary on the negative impact of indifference: “We armor ourselves against the cutting remark, the ad hominem attack, the person who just doesn’t like our stuff. But all of this is the feedback we get when we touch a nerve and are doing work that matters enough to care about. No, the worst sort of feedback is no feedback at all. That means we’ve created nothing but banality.” This also brings to mind the old cliché, “The opposite of love is indifference.” Hackneyed but true; indifference is a void, a…
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    elemental links

  • Link Collection — May 12, 2013

    brenda michelson
    12 May 2013 | 4:30 am
    Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default | Ars Technica good, but note the “if implemented”…   “President Barack Obama issued an executive order today that aims to make “open and machine-readable” data formats a requirement for all new government IT systems. The order would also apply to existing systems that are being modernized or upgraded. If implemented, the mandate would bring new life to efforts started by the Obama administration with the launch of Data.gov four years ago. It would also expand an order issued in 2012 to…

  • Avoid the PowerPoint-to-Execution Gap: Strategists as Operators

    brenda michelson
    3 May 2013 | 9:19 am
    Reading a point-of-view piece by Cynthia Montgomery in Rotman Magazine reminded me of a soapbox tweet of mine: “we need to value execution on par with creation”. That tweet was inspired by a consultation I did on a critical project that had fallen into the PowerPoint-to-Execution Gap. This project made all the right upfront moves: defined a bold, yet attainable business vision, rallied executive support, hired a top talent technology consultancy, and hand-picked a skunkworks team. Upon completion of the upfront, they had a well-defined business problem (process, requirements,…

  • Link Collection — April 28, 2013

    brenda michelson
    28 Apr 2013 | 7:30 am
    49ers Select New Technology For NFL Draft | Only A Game podcast / article on SF 49ers use of stats and SAP’s HANA appliance in scouting, drafting. Continues to speak of NBA statistics and further use of HANA in sports business.   “49ers COO Paraag Marathe says piling up information is easy, but the challenge is making it user-friendly for coaches and general managers. “And that’s something that’s sort of overlooked. People want to get reams of data and put together like this really robust analysis,” Marathe said. “But you know what? If it’s not communicated [or]…

  • Link Collection — April 7, 2013

    brenda michelson
    7 Apr 2013 | 4:30 am
    What’s Next in the Techonomy? — Hagel & Seely Brown “In the last few decades, we have witnessed a steady doubling in the price performance of digital technologies. However, we are reaching a tipping point of this exponential growth, and it is unclear how the cumulative effects of technology will reshape our economy, political systems, and collective future. One thing is clear: in the hands of existing institutions-firms, schools, non-profits, civic institutions and governments-this awesome technology will achieve only a fraction of its potential. Unfortunately, we…

  • Link Collection — March 24, 2013

    brenda michelson
    24 Mar 2013 | 4:30 am
    LEAD Frameworks | LEAD Frameworks, Methods & Approaches Speaking of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, this just crossed my radar via Twitter. Just passing it along, not an endorsement as I haven’t had a chance to dig in. “LEAD is an abbreviation for “Layered Enterprise Architecture Development” and is often used as a synonym to describe the entire LEAD concept. The LEAD Frameworks refers to either the entire LEAD concept, or to a specific LEAD Framework. A certified LEAD practitioner is called a LEAD eXpert or a LEAD Architect. The LEAD version 3.0 currently consists…
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    The TEC Blog

  • SAP Institutes Control Center Approach for Premium Implementations and Operations

    P.J. Jakovljevic
    22 May 2013 | 8:33 am
    A common myth in the enterprise applications space is that ongoing support and maintenance are only about “keeping the lights on.” Rather, support and maintenance should be innovation enablers to help companies become agile real-time enterprises, by more quickly deploying new capabilities and business models. Innovation cycles are becoming shorter, so the ability to maintain a competitive edge often depends on quickly implementing the latest technology advancements. SAP has recently launched a new control center approach for “premium engagement” customers (currently about…

  • IBM Unveils IBM Watson Engagement Advisor

    Raluca Druta
    22 May 2013 | 7:36 am
    IBM has announced that IBM Watson will be put to work towards improving customer satisfaction, as part of its Smarter Commerce initiative. The artificially intelligent computer is well known for its ability to win Jeopardy and for its advances in assisting medical institutions. More recently, IBM has decided to exploit Watson for its capacity to learn, adapt, and understand a company’s data rapidly.  Customer relationship management is a perfect scenario for testing this ability. (more…) Share This

  • Ring the Bell: Tableau Goes Public

    Jorge Garcia
    21 May 2013 | 10:58 am
    Sporting a brand new stock symbol (NYSE: DATA), Tableau Software, the Seattle-based analytics and visualization software provider announced the pricing of its initial public offering of its 8.2 million Class A shares. At a public price of $31 per share, 5 million shares are being offered by Tableau Software and 3.2 million shares are being offered by other selling stockholders. Acting as lead joint book-running managers for the offering are Goldman, Sachs & Co and Morgan Stanley & CO, with other important financial organizations also involved. (more…) Share This

  • Yahoo! Acquires Tumblr

    Raluca Druta
    21 May 2013 | 10:45 am
    Internet company Yahoo! has entered into an agreement to acquire the Tumblr social blogging service. According to the official press release: Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business. David Karp will remain CEO. The product, service and brand will continue to be defined and developed separately with the same Tumblr irreverence, wit, and commitment to empower creators.  Or, in other words, Tumblr can go on being Tumblr, if it’s not distracted by Yahoo! adds. (more…) Share This

  • TEC’s Bob Eastman on Technology Trends at Epicor Insights 2013

    TEC Staff
    21 May 2013 | 9:34 am
    Senior supply chain analyst Bob Eastman was at the Epicor Customer Conference, Insights 2013, in Nashville last week. Epicor invited Bob to share his insight into current technology trends in the supply chain space. Check out that conversation on YouTube. In this almost 9-minute video, Bob talks about the acceleration of the business cycle and some of the enabling trends (such as cloud and mobility) that address the challenges the speed of business presents to the supply chain. Bob also discusses the pursuit of supply chain excellence—how strategy and technology must go hand in…
 
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    BizTech2.com India

  • Security Is The New Business Enabler

    22 May 2013 | 8:59 am
    Filed under: Interviews : Security Vic Mankotia, VP - Security, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies shares how security needs to adapt to the way information is being created and consumed. Read more

  • VMware Announces vCloud Hybrid Service

    22 May 2013 | 6:28 am
    Filed under: News : Cloud Computing New IaaS offering extends existing datacentres to the public cloud. Read more

  • IT Just Keeping The Lights On Is Not Enough

    22 May 2013 | 6:27 am
    Filed under: Videos : Innovation &amp Leadership Nagaraj G N - Business Technology Leader, shares pearls of wisdom for CIOs to manage device proliferation, IT consumerisation and building in-house vsutsourcing. Read more

  • SapphireIMS Enhances Its Asset Mgmt Solution

    22 May 2013 | 6:04 am
    Filed under: News : Enterprise Solutions SapphireIMS can help organisations with IT asset lifecycle management process and technology solutions to achieve greater savings and efficiency on investments. Read more

  • Ericsson Brings Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi To Mobile Broadband

    22 May 2013 | 5:41 am
    Filed under: News : Mobility Announces its 3GPP compliant Wi-Fi network access, control and management solutions. Read more
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    Pretzel Logic - Social and Collaborative Business

  • Much ado about Competitive nothings

    Sameer Patel
    28 Apr 2013 | 10:48 am
    Nmachi Jidenma writes about the undue focus we put on the competition. This is written with individuals in mind but I think it matters to emerging software categories as well. My favorite lines: “It only makes sense that competing with others distracts from the distinctiveness that makes our art special. By comparing ourselves with others, we lose the magic that developing our core art affords the world. Competition with others in a sense makes us ordinary. It encourages imitation and, if we are not careful, makes us lose our essence. How boring.” and “Perhaps the best…

  • Year One at SAP

    Sameer Patel
    21 Apr 2013 | 10:05 pm
    April marks my one-year anniversary at SAP. It’s been an incredible ride to say the least. I’m a lucky guy – I came to SAP to help build out its products and go-to-market in the social and collaborative software category. But what I really I got was a chance to get in on the ground floor of a unique opportunity to participate in shaping SAPs place in the larger software category with SAP Cloud. Our mantra has always been clear that social is not a destination but a critical enabler to established performance KPIs and that’s what driven our product strategy and our value…

  • Circular [Social Business] Arguments

    Sameer Patel
    6 Apr 2013 | 7:12 am
    With respect to why “Social Business” is a natural fit for the world of work, I said on Twitter: @sameerpatel: Often heard #socbiz argument: “humans are social by nature”. Then why is it that #socbiz s/w adoption has been so hard historically? Contradicting this is another popular statement about Social Business: “Its not about the technology, its about the people and culture”. So which is it? The people or the tech? I got some fabulous commentary in response to my tweet: Bertrand Duperrin does what he does best (and why we became good friends instantly,…

  • CeBIT Keynote on Rethinking Work

    Sameer Patel
    10 Mar 2013 | 7:50 am
    Last week I had the privilege of keynoting CeBIT in Hanover. The theme was “Shareconomy“. From the CeBIT website: A multistage screening process involving top executives from leading high-tech companies and user industries, international research institutes, and thousands of fans at the CeBIT Facebook fan page resulted in Shareconomy being selected for the CeBIT 2013 keynote theme. “The trend was clear,” said Frank Pörschmann, Member of the Managing Board at Deutsche Messe, “Shareconomy is currently the hottest topic for business and society.” “Shareconomy”…

  • Putting the “Relationship” back in Customer Relationship Management

    Sameer Patel
    28 Feb 2013 | 2:24 pm
    Wrote a post about what today’s customer expects in terms of “relationships” on SAP’s Customer Edge Blog. Here is a snippet: ———– Transactional CRM, the system of record technology that lets you manage a sales cycle, a customer service request and marketing activity, is critical to make official records of who did what. But here’s what striking to me: Traditional CRM, which stands for customer relationship management is a transactional and operational technology that never really touched the customer. That may have been OK in the past, but…
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    Improving It

  • Tracking is not a dirty word. Understand customers through their actions.

    7 May 2013 | 9:59 am
    I've started a new blog over on Tumblr, focused on social media and associated marketing topics. The initial thought was that it would allow me to get very much more onto a new topic than I wanted to do on the Improving It blog. That said, I want to give you a taster of what is going on over there. So  here is one of my recent posts, previously published on the new blog. Check out and follow me on Meaningful Social. And make sure to keep watching out for new posts on this blog (its not going away).Tracking is not a dirty word. Understand customers through their actions.So much emphasis…

  • One Year Lived - the book. Or travelers make the best team members.

    23 Apr 2013 | 6:36 am
    I’ve reviewed books before on this blog. Usually I take a look at an unusual business book or something about innovation. Readers seem to like the reviews, which is a good thing. So, when I was approached by Adam Shepard to review his new book “One Year Lived”, I was willing to take a look, even though it doesn't fall into either of the categories above. This is a book about Adam’s quest to ensure he would have great memories about life to tell the grandchildren, while doing a little good along the way. A year spent traveling in Central America, New Zealand and beyond. Something that…

  • Nothing says privacy risk more than an API

    3 Apr 2013 | 8:34 am
    Less than a handful of years ago, mention the three letter acronym 'API' to a regular Internet user and you'd have got the look of "stay away from me, you scary unwashed software geek who is about to bore me to tears" (that's the bleeped version of the internal dialog). Now everything has changed. Not only is API part of the regular semi-tech word-dropping of web users, lack of one can raise questions about the viability of a modern web application. A publicly available API is a badge of honor for startup web apps that says "the information we have is worth being consumed by other apps, so…

  • Big Data - and what we'll do with it

    13 Mar 2013 | 9:59 am
    The Gartner Hype CycleBig Data: it is all just hype until the clouds clear, business users can use it, and customers are served better because of it. When Big Data truly arrives as some products in the enterprise, business decisions will start to be based more on information and insight and less on gut feel (by the highest paid person who trumps everybody else). While we are waiting for the final crescendo of hype, I’d like to consider what we are going to do with all that new information.Most rational people quietly accept that Big Data is mostly hype right now. Everybody is trying to…

  • Automation, BPM, ethics and competition. Or serving customers better.

    5 Mar 2013 | 8:39 am
    A recent discussion on the ebizQ Business Process Management forum asks: “what percentage of processes should be automated?”. In any given company, how many of those routine processes that get work done should be taken largely out of the hands of employees and made into software, or painstaking converted into automated manufacturing production lines? An interesting response came back came back from Emiel Kelly on the ethical implications of full automation. What happens to all the human-beings that previously had jobs and have now been phased out? This is not new news, but it did…
 
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    OSS Line

  • Big Data for Telco – Where is the Data?

    James Pullen
    9 May 2013 | 1:59 am
    If you’ve worked in OSS for more than 5 minutes you know that data, the availability of it, and its accuracy, is a bit of a thing. So, if you’re thinking about ‘doing’ some big data as part of an...

  • Ontology at T-Mobile Czech

    James Pullen
    11 Mar 2013 | 11:21 am
    Ontology, provider of really cool OSS data search and data integration technology, scores a live customer in T-Mobile Czech. It says here that Ontology has been deployed by the Czech T-Mobile op co. Ontology's products provide a means of pulling...

  • NetCracker Selected by Andorra Telecom

    James Pullen
    20 Feb 2013 | 4:46 am
    NetCracker will deliver a comprehensive OSS/BSS solution to Andorra Telecom. It says here, "Their selection of NetCracker underscores the industry trend toward utilizing a single, unified platform for BSS and OSS." Andorra Telecom is the principal telecomuncation supplier in the...

  • Cisco to Buy Cariden

    James Pullen
    30 Nov 2012 | 3:11 am
    It seems like most of my posts these days are about hardware vendors buying software vendors. Here's another acquisition in the OSS industry's (not so mini) acquisition bubble. Cisco is buying Cariden for $141 million. Cariden is a small organisation...

  • Coming Up: Telco Big Data Summit 2012

    James Pullen
    27 Nov 2012 | 1:16 pm
    I'm jolly excited to be heading to Informa's Telco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit next week. It says here: "Cutting through the hype, the Telco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit will bring the telecommunications industry together...
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    Ultra Consultants

  • The Hidden Value of Integrated ERP for Midsize Businesses

    Jeff Carr
    21 May 2013 | 9:59 am
    Ultra Consultants Part of Manufacturing Roundtable Webinar I hope you’ll join me Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 10:00AM PDT / 1:00PM EDT for an informative “Manufacturing Roundtable” Webinar.  Presented by Ziff Davis, I’ll be teaming with Sage ERP for a close look at how midsize organizations gain value from fully integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP). Despite the prevalence of ERP throughout the manufacturing sector, some midsized companies fail to understand the full potential ERP can deliver for greater business insight and competitive advantage. The webinar is geared to…

  • Jeeves ERP Review: A New Kid on the Block in North America

    Jeff Carr
    16 May 2013 | 12:58 pm
    We recently had the chance to be introduced to the Jeeves ERP solution at an informative briefing arranged by Jeeves’ North American Partner CompuTec Integrated Solutions (Hartland, Wisconsin). It’s an interesting time for Sweden-based Jeeves due to their growing North American presence. In June 2012, Jeeves was acquired by North American-based Battery Ventures, a multi-stage investment firm focused on technology and innovation. Note that Battery Ventures is the former owner of the global ERP developer Consona. With this major investment in the Jeeves ERP product, the vendor is now in…

  • Infor Syteline Review: Integrated, Comprehensive Features

    George Trudell
    14 May 2013 | 11:00 am
    Infor has a great story to tell. They have rationalized their product offering and are extending the technology underpinning each of their go-to market products in manufacturing and distribution verticals (Baan, M3, Syteline, and SXe). Their multiple acquisition model enables Infor to offer a complete ERP solution. In a recent demonstration with Infor Syteline at a client that is a complex manufacturer, we saw everything Infor has to offer. PLM Integration The PLM module is completely integrated with the ability to take drawings and BOM’s from CAD software (e.g., Solid Works) to Infor’s…

  • Captain Hope’s Kids Charity Golf Classic

    Jeff Carr
    9 May 2013 | 7:32 am
    Ultra Consultants was proud to be part of the recent 21st Annual Charity Golf Classic benefiting Captain Hope’s Kids. The event was held this past week at Prestonwood Country Club in Plano, Texas. This annual charity golf classic is sponsored by Ultra client Briggs Equipment, and helps Captain Hope’s Kids fuel their mission of meeting the critical needs of homeless children. Funds generated at the event help Captain Hope’s Kids address the immediate needs of the many infants, toddlers and students struggling to survive and overcome difficult circumstances during their most precious…

  • What’s To Be with ERP?

    Jeff Carr
    7 May 2013 | 4:57 am
    Undertaking an ERP selection is a big, and sometimes overwhelming, project. After teaming with numerous small to medium manufacturers, we know that it takes commitment, resources and focus to be effective when it comes to ERP selection and implementation. A key part of the project is to determine the “future state” – or where the company hopes to be in the future in terms of business processes. Building the “To Be Process” Assessing the desired “to be process” is the phase of an ERP selection project where the rubber meets the road. After taking stock of current processes, and…
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    Enterprise Apps Today

  • HCM No Longer an ERP Afterthought

    21 May 2013 | 5:36 am
    Human capital management is no longer an also-ran when it comes to ERP purchasing decisions. Increased interest in HCM is leading giants like Oracle and SAP to make changes in their products.

  • Alteryx Raises $12M to 'Humanize' Big Data

    20 May 2013 | 12:10 pm
    Hot on the heels of its Alteryx Strategic Analytics Platform 8.5 release, the Big Data analytics company raises additional funds to make Big Data more accessible to "ordinary" users.

  • G2 Crowd Shakes up Enterprise Software Buying with Peer Reviews

    20 May 2013 | 10:39 am
    A startup called G2 Crowd wants to help enterprises streamline and improve their software buying processes by offering a service based on peer reviews and social data.

  • Jive Delivers Social Inbox with StreamOnce

    17 May 2013 | 6:38 am
    Jive's social collaboration platform gains a new unified inbox, thanks to a social startup's newly-acquired technology.

  • School of Data Science

    16 May 2013 | 11:09 am
    Because data science is an emerging field with a broad range of requirements, some companies create specialized internal training programs to get the skills they want and need.
 
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    The Investing Edge

  • Financing News: PerspecSys and the Cloud Data Security Opportunity

    Matt Fates
    13 May 2013 | 7:15 am
    Last week PerspecSys announced a new financing round that we participated in, alongside Paladin and Intel. We are very excited to be working with the team and our co-investors, and see tremendous potential for this company. Over the last 12 to 18 months, we have witnessed an almost seismic shift in the posture of large enterprise customers toward cloud-based applications. SaaS has been around for over a decade – and many folks have realized the benefits and become early adopters – but the technology represents a big change for IT, and larger enterprises have been reluctant to move major…

  • Six Pre-Requisites for the New Wave of Enterprise IT Security Solutions

    Matt Fates
    23 Apr 2013 | 5:00 am
    Given that IT security is a $60 billion market, you might think that we have robust solutions for keeping enterprise networks and data protected. But you’d be wrong. In reality, better than 1 in 5 enterprises—and likely more—has been compromised. In the past few years, the number of cyber-breaches and the sophistication of the attacks have heightened dramatically. 250,000 new pieces of malicious code are detected every day, designed to steal data and money, or deliver more sinister payloads by attacking infrastructure. Today’s security solutions have not kept the pace. It’s a major…

  • Ascent Index: BYOD (March 2013)

    Luke Burns
    12 Apr 2013 | 6:04 am
    What a difference a year makes. Well, almost a year. For our newest Ascent Index we took another look at BYOD, the evermore popular news topic as more employees use their personal devices for work purposes. Our Index data confirms that BYOD is only gaining steam, and that’s putting it mildly. In the month of March 2013 BYOD received more than 80,000 mentions across websites and social channels like Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. Compare that to the June 2012 BYOD Index, when over the course of two weeks we saw 22,000 social mentions, a figure we thought substantial at the time. Prorate…

  • Experts Tackle Enterprise Mobility at Latest B2B IT Forum

    Matt Fates
    18 Mar 2013 | 7:13 am
    Despite the monumental traffic on Tuesday night (where did that come from?!?), we had well over 100 folks at our most recent B2B IT Forum, and the feedback has been universally positive. Our panel of experts, led by moderator Chris Hazelton of 451 Research, provided a compelling and informative discussion on the shift to mobile within organizations of all sizes. Thanks to the panel, the audience left the event smarter about how they can navigate the challenges of developing mobile apps for the enterprise. Here’s a quick recap of the key takeaways of the evening if you weren’t able to…

  • Selling Data Insights vs. Tools? Let’s Connect

    Matt Fates
    7 Mar 2013 | 5:00 am
    I have written a number of times about the massive potential that resides in extracting insight from data. Leveraging new database, storage, parallel processing and cloud infrastructure, we can now get to these insights at cost levels and in timeframes that can impact decision making at very regular intervals and in major ways. This was just not possible a few years ago. But it is still hard. To reach this potential, many companies have to shift their culture to become more data-driven. They must break down political, technical and legacy barriers and figure out how to pull the vast array of…
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