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09. 1.2010 Rome was not reinvented in a day. Your enterprise business processes won't turn around overnight either. You'll need to re-engineer processes while you continue to run a business -- albeit one with many buried layers, some splendid ruins, and many construction projects that cause never-ending traffic snarls. Read more from James Kobielus >> Why HP and Dell are Going Nuts Over 3PAR 08.31.2010
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08.30.2010 As a tool for communicating data-derived insights, PowerPoint comes up repeatedly, praised or under fire, reflecting the office software's ubiquity, adaptability, and unfortunate ease of misuse. Read more from Seth Grimes >> Multi-tenancy Is Not a Customer Issue 08.27.2010
The benefits that multi-tenancy can provide are manifold for the vendor, but these rationales don't hold water on the user side... That's not to say that customers can't benefit from multi-tenancy, but they are side-benefits, subordinate to the vendors' benefits. Read more from Josh Greenbaum >>
08.25.2010 We usually think of BPMN as a diagramming standard, but it is also -- in principle -- a model interchange standard, an XML format than can be exported from tool A and imported into tool B. In reality, however, BPMN model interchange faces serious -- some would say insurmountable -- hurdles... Read more from Bruce Silver >>
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