Ensure Best-Possible Performance From SaaS
David Linthicum 08. 6.2007
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Ensure Best-Possible Performance From SaaS
David Linthicum
08. 6.2007
8:22 AM
 Those who leverage enterprise applications have two major complaints. First, the apps are too complex and too difficult to use. Second, they perform poorly, which is what I'm focusing on here... Most SaaS-vendors rely on the traditional HTTP/HTML pump-and-pull architecture. Thus, we're really using well-designed, well-delivered Web sites when using SaaS applications, not true, dynamic native interfaces. So, what's a SaaS advocate to do? Here are a few tips:

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 Measuring Microsoft SharePoint Growth
Alan Pelz-Sharpe
08. 3.2007
10:35 AM
 Microsoft SharePoint continues to grow apace. In a presentation to financial analysts earlier this week, Microsoft stated that in the past year it has seen 35-percent year-over-year growth and revenues of a staggering $800 Million. The company claims is has shipped 85 million seat licenses to 17,000 customers since the beginning of SharePoint time (in 2001). If there was ever any lingering doubt that SharePoint was having an impact on the market, these numbers put that argument to rest.

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Make Your BI Vendor Partnership a Priority
Cindi Howson
08. 2.2007
12:29 PM
 When you're buying BI as a point solution or departmental purchase, the idea of a customer-vendor partnership may not matter. When you're buying for the enterprise, it should. While BI software has become enterprise class, BI account management – for the most part – has not. A number of vendors recognize this and have efforts underway to improve the situation... but what can you as the customer do? Here's how to make partnering with the vendor a priority...

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 Business Objects' Web 2.0 Features Nice, but Inadequate
Neil Raden
08. 1.2007
9:28 AM
 You can't solve BI infoglut with mashups. If you're going to spend time threshing through unstructured data, you should build a useful semantic model to use it. Instead of building features for developers to use to rearrange data in preparation of analysis, why not just make the data smarter so it can rearrange itself? And finally, if you accept the idea that BI 1.0 is inadequate (though still useful), why build 2.0 capabilities on top of an aging 1.0 model?

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