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Archive for July, 2011

Buzz+failure=Google+

BusinessWeek has a really nice article explaining Google+.  There are a lot of articles about Google+ and how to use it. It is intriguing in the BW article about how Google has struggled with social through purchases and organic builds. Each one has resulted in what some call “catastrophic failure” to “mis-fires”. I am not […]

Designing With the User: Agile SharePoint Development

Many times when we begin a project we start by sitting down with the user and drafting a requirements document. After a few days of organization we come up with wireframes and a general idea of what we understand, and then we wait for user feedback. This is the way things are done, but is […]

Mobile UI Patterns – a comparison

I just came across Mari Sheibley’s Mobile UI Patterns site, and I find it really interesting.  Mari is a graphic designer and currently is lead designer for foursquare. Mobile UI Patterns shows the design of many different applications and shows how these applications implement various patterns (Activity Stream, User Profile, etc).  You can see two […]

Handy OBIEE Tricks – RR_4035 SQL Error / ORA-00911: invalid character

On my current project I am implementing OBIEE 11.1.1.5 with OBI Applications 7.9.6.3. I am running the Data Warehouse Administration Console 10.1.3.4.1 and Informatica 9.0.1 HF2 on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition. Once I followed all of the installation and configuration steps I was able to run my first full execution plan to […]

Top 10 Developer Features of Java 7

eWeek has an article out about the top10 developer features of Java 7.  My favorite is the xRender Pipeline which takes advantage of modern GPU’s.  I’m sure game developers on Android will be happy…..

12 Things You Can Do to Get Your Portal to Production Quickly: Part 9 – Provide Ramp Up Time for Less Experienced Resources

In Part 7 of the series, I wrote about the importance of using an experienced core team.  However, every single resource on your project will not be a senior resource with years of relevant experience and that is the focus of this post.  If you do throw resources into the fire and expect them to […]

EPM in the New Normal…..Slaying the Profitability Dragons in your Company….With Cost & Profitability

This is a 1 in an 8 part series to help you connect your enterprise and manage better in the new normal.  Value of a Driver based cost and profitability solution for your EPM (Optional Webinar from July 28 on Cost & Profitability): See below or visit SlideShare for a presentation based upon this material. […]

Emerging Trends in Analytics – Part I

In my previous post, I talked about organizational readiness for Pervasive BI and Advanced Analytics, and that theme briefly touched upon the new, obvious trend in BI – Analytics for the masses. As a matter of fact, some industry experts opine that “BI for the masses” has actually graciously given way to “Analytics for the […]

Innovation Suffocation

This morning I read an interesting article by Scott Anthony called “How Iteration-itis Kills Good Ideas” in which the author details an experience he had at a company whose system and culture were accidentally stifling creativity. “We never see any good ideas,” lamented a senior executive. “People bring us ideas. But they just don’t have any […]

Requirements Driven Software Development Must Die

Brad Nunnally in our User Experience group pushed this out to a bunch of people via Yammer which we are starting to use a bunch.  Anyway, Fred Beecher does a great job of describing the pains of using a requirements driven approach and where it fails.  He also has a nice graphic outlining a hybrid […]

How the Healthcare CIO Saves Lives: #4 Makes Healthcare Available Across Vast Distance

Technologies such as mobile health, telehealth, and social portal solutions are making great waves in healthcare organizations around the world. Gone are the days where a patient needed to go to the doctor’s office to get important care. As uses for these technologies increase, and this data is integrated across the care continuum, the Healthcare […]

12 Things to Get Your Portal In Production: Part 8 Use Collaborative Tools

From an organization perspective, after getting a decent project manager or scrum master, you need to have a place to share everything about the project.  I personally don’t care if you use IBM Quickr, Microsoft Sharepoint, Confluence Wiki, or eProject.  You just need to get a place to share the following: Documents that are deliverables […]

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