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Wed, Nov 18, 2009 11:18 EST
SaaS and the Need for Enterprise Architecture
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Posted by: Anonymous in Best Practices Topic: Applications
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Acquisition and deployment of real solutions is now within grasp of business owners (seemingly) without the need for conventional IT delivery and support. But many questions may go unanswered without
Read more »Wed, Nov 11, 2009 14:38 EST
Embrace the browser sledgehammer
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Posted by: phil_ayres in Best Practices Topic: Applications
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You CIO and therefore your IT team wants to keep the cost of desktop and application maintenance low. Internet browsers, and SaaS applications that truly embrace the browser without a plug-in in
Read more »Tue, Nov 10, 2009 10:14 EST
VMWare and SaaS can make office PCs a cheap commodity
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Posted by: phil_ayres in Soapbox Topic: Virtualization
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Any business that is vaguely serious about their IT infrastructure and its security is probably worried about the cost and hassle involved with keeping their PC software up to date and operating
Read more »Fri, Oct 30, 2009 12:48 EDT
Millennials + Enterprise Software: Doomed to Fail
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Posted by: Thomas Wailgum in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Enterprise Software Unplugged
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We can talk on and on about enterprise software ROI, TCO, upgrades, integration, delivery models, SaaS vs. on-premise, maintenance fees, but we tend to forget about usability. As in, are the
Read more »Thu, Oct 22, 2009 9:41 EDT
The 'Process Maven' and reaching employee buy-in
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Posted by: phil_ayres in Best Practices Topic: Applications
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It is hard to get employees to buy-in to any form of change, and process improvement is a really tough one. This strikes at the core of people's working existences and identities, making them resist
Read more »Wed, Oct 21, 2009 12:28 EDT
Comic-Book Software Projects
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Posted by: phil_ayres in Best Practices Topic: Partner/Vendor Management
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If software projects were comic-book characters they would NOT be Dilbert, nor would they be ugly beasts with two heads and dripping slime. Instead they would be insidious, vicious, but mostly
Read more »Mon, Oct 19, 2009 12:02 EDT
Balancing free, subscription and paid software licenses
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Posted by: phil_ayres in Soapbox Topic: Applications
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Laurie McCabe writes an interesting blog about computing for small businesses, though I think that many of his thoughts make a lot of sense to anyone interested in cloud computing, SaaS and online
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