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 SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business ...Nov. 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST Reads: 1,345 |
 The Orchestra Team has tested SAP Business One running on a Windows 7 workstation and deemed them compatible. Check out the video and updates. Now that windows 7 has been released and all signs are pointing towards a migration away from windows XP and Vista, a number of questions arise...Oct. 30, 2009 09:04 PM EDT Reads: 467 |
 We are standing on the threshold of a new transition in information technology and communications; a radical departure from current practice that promises to bring us new levels of efficiency at a vastly reduced cost. Cloud computing is full of potential, bursting with opportunity and ...Oct. 26, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,763 |
 SAP AG has announced the appointment of S. Singh Mecker as the head of the Global Ecosystem and Partner Group (GEPG) for SAP AG. Mecker, as senior vice president of GEPG, reports directly to SAP Executive Board Member John Schwarz, and is responsible for leading all strategic and opera...Oct. 26, 2009 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 209 |
 Carl Icahn announced today that he had informed the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. that he was resigning as a director of Yahoo!. Mr. Icahn told the Board that in his view there was not a need at this time for an activist director at Yahoo! Mr. Icahn indicated that there are a numbe...Oct. 23, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 866 |
 There is now a thing called EuroCloud, for the moment a French-based SaaS and cloud community whose 70-odd members include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, France Telecom and SAP and whose 30 supporters include Amazon. The object of the name is to share best practices and expand...Oct. 23, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 975 |
 I happy to announce my appointment by SYS-CON to be the Technical Chair of the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo. This event is a 1-day deep dive into how cloud computing is changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. GovITExpo, which is being ...Sep. 18, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,824 |
 I'm proud to announce that representatives from Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Unisys will join me in a "Tactical Cloud Computing" Panel at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6, 2009.As Technical Chair of this conference, my goal has been ...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,067 |
 It’s Thursday morning, you’re the CEO of a large, publicly traded company, and you just called your executives into the conference room for the exciting news. The board of directors has approved the acquisition of a key competitor, and you’re looking for a call-to-action to get everyon...Oct. 6, 2009 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,274 |
 VMware: I already have the most popular virtualization software and I will integrate Spring Source and create the best PaaS offering. Amazon EC2: I am extending my cloud facility to a virtual private environment so that you security concerns are taken care. Microsoft: I am giving you a...Sep. 26, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,605 |
 Everyone wants to lower their capital expenditures and increase operational efficiency - it's a sign of the times. The economy of the past 12 - 18 months has forced all organizations to do more with less and become more efficient. While everyone can identify with the request to do more...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,453 |
Lookstat is a web service that automatically lets you track your online sales by image at multiple sites. We’ve already written about its Analytics functions in a previous post. They’ve just launched a new home page to focus on the new stock photo backoffice services. The ... Sep. 22, 2009 07:54 AM EDT Reads: 634 |
 Brad Windecker launched today "Open Source for Small Business" topic on Ulitzer. A topic for open source software specific to the small business marketplace. Small and midsize companies can today take advantage of the maturity in open source applications. This topic will collect storie...Sep. 26, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,000 |
 SAP Business One, a business management application (ERP) for small and midsize companies, can be deployed in a Mac environment using Citrix XenApp Fundamentals and services from Orchestra LLC. Orchestra deploys SAP Business One on a hosted server and uses Citrix XenApp Fundamentals t...Sep. 23, 2009 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 679 |
 With IP networks taking on many new challenges from VoIP, rich multimedia and other high-bandwidth consuming and high-priority applications, SMBs need to be sure the network connectivity between their business and Cloud Computing provider is protected with controls for reliable Interne...Sep. 23, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,169 |
 Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a global provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with nefos GmbH, a leading consulting partner of Salesforce.com located in Zurich, Switzerland. Nefos w...Sep. 23, 2009 04:40 AM EDT Reads: 493 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Sal Visca, CTO of Technology Development for SAP, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) this coming November 2-4, 2009, in Santa Clara, California. His session will be entitled “Next-Generat...Sep. 20, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,510 |
 Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the...Sep. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,145 |
 On-demand software distribution and retail e-commerce are key growth strategies for software manufacturers to enhance their online revenues and increase market share.
The online store presents unlimited opportunity for expansion – across the globe – to reach out to end consumers dire...Sep. 17, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,468 |
 On yet another application review with a prospective client the issue of potentially troublesome data entity relationships came up. A number of our clients are existing QuickBase users who have made an initial attempt to design their applications and find that some assistance is neede...Sep. 16, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,617 |
 Founder and former Satyam Computer Services CEO Ramalinga Raju, 54, the admitted bad boy of India who overstated the company's revenues by a billion dollars more or less, suffered a reported heart attack Monday afternoon while in the calaboose awaiting imminent trial. He's in the hospi...Sep. 12, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,075 |
 Yesterday a friend of mine was asking me what I've been doing lately in my spare time. When I mentioned that I'd been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure, he was naturally curious. After explaining what Azure is, he asked me what the difference was between Windows Azure, a...Sep. 12, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,359 |
 ESB products emerged around 2002 from message-oriented middleware (MOM). Faced with market domination by IBM, MOM vendors were the first to jumpstart the ESB concept with the aim of developing a unique selling proposition. They added Web service and EAI capabilities on top of existing ...Sep. 10, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,818 |
 You may wonder whether it’s too early to make the call given the lack of interoperability standards, security concerns, and common definition of cloud computing. Well, the IPTV space shares many of the same similarities – emerging technology, emerging standards, emerging adoption, var...Aug. 30, 2009 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,457 |
 Cloud computing is becoming a ubiquitous concept. It has mass-market implications for the technology industry, and it is advancing at speeds rarely seen with any major technological evolution.
As a business leader, do you know why cloud computing is important to you? What parts of y...Aug. 28, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,694 |
 The debate has raged for some time now about the exact definition of a 5GL. One might argue that there also is still some debate going on about what exactly is a Platform as a Service PaaS. Throw together two semi-ambiguous industry-specific buzzwords and what do you get? Well, for ...Aug. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,902 |
 There is a common misconception that CMMI and Agile are polar opposites. One relies on institutionalization and documentation of processes and methodologies, while the other emphasizes interaction among workers and “working software over comprehensive documentation” (Agile Manifesto). ...Aug. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,329 |
 Platform as a service (PaaS) is a big piece of the cloud computing puzzle, the other pieces being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Application software as a service (SaaS). PaaS enables the delivery of solution frameworks and components as on-demand, pay-as-you-go services. Some ...Aug. 27, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,538 Replies: 1 |
 The fabled Eastern District Court down in Texas has struck again.
After nailing Microsoft for $290 million and counting on a patent rap and enjoining Word a couple of weeks ago, it's now found SAP guilty of patent infringement and told it to pay Versata Software $138.6 million, whic...Aug. 27, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 732 |
 Orchestra LLC (Orchestra) is kicking off Orchestrated Stimulus, a stimulus program for small and midsize companies. Orchestrated Stimulus is a new program that enables companies to make an investment in SAP Business One at a low upfront cost and quick return on investment. The program...Aug. 26, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 314 |
 There's nothing like an Apple product to generate buzz. Our post last week about the iPhone App for SAP Business One has generated a lot of discussion and interest, so let's take it a step further.
What is the BEST mobile application for SAP Business One?
Le...Aug. 26, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 565 |
 VMWare’s purchase of SpringSource came as quite a shock to many in the industry. Why? Because, with this purchase, the Gorilla of Virtualization jumped from below the OS right smack up into application development and the runtime stack. Now they can deliver a Platform as a Service (P...Aug. 26, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,984 |
 Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about secu...Aug. 18, 2009 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 9,526 |
 RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica have joined together to deliver a complete business intelligence solution in the cloud. Jaspersoft’s kicking in the compute-intensive BI software, Talend the open source data integration software, and Vertica the analytic database management s...Aug. 17, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,105 |
 Orchestra LLC, an IT company serving small and mid-size businesses, is expanding into Portland, Oregon. Orchestra is a leading provider of business management software, website development, and web marketing on the West Coast.Aug. 17, 2009 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 752 |
 Businesses tend to focus their architecture on efficiency instead of agility. This clear distinction between optimising for the known versus optimising for the unknown inherently counteracts on businesses in their effort to seize any of the new opportunities that arises around them.
T...Aug. 16, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,219 |
 Oracle rival SAP is supposed to be close – but not absolutely committed – to buying TIBCO according to the German business weekly Wirtschaftwoche. Such rumors have been heard before. TIBCO has a market cap of roughly $1.6 billion, with its shares pre-leak trading at under eight bucks. ...Aug. 12, 2009 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,613 |
 As an unpractical futurist the concept of singularity (the theoretical future point of technological advancement in which the ability for software to improve itself using artificial intelligence is archived) is an idea that has been of great interest to me for a long time. In order to ...Jul. 26, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,709 |
 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) presents a challenge to software marketing people like none other in recent history. On the one hand, SOA has been the top enterprise software bandwagon to jump on for the last four years or so, but on the other hand, many vendors have struggled to t...Jul. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,280 |
 ZapThink considers the SOA business case as an essential SOA artifact. Architects must have a clear picture of the business motivations for SOA, not only at the beginning of the initiative, but also as the architecture rolls out. Nevertheless, there is still frequently a disconnect bet...Jul. 22, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,732 |
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