Business Development Metrics

Unless you’ve been living in a  hole this week – or fighting a revolution – you probably heard about Oracle’s release of Fusion 11g, its middleware offering. Fusion11g is all over the tech press, and analysts everywhere are tossing in their two cents,

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Elements unique to long-term contracts pose a challenge for FASB and IASB in their bid to create one standard covering all customer relationships.

The Australia-based IT Channel site, ARN, recently ran a package on SaaS and why it’s succeeding now – as opposed to the sad failure of its earlier incarnation, ASPs. nbsp; While the feature article is excellent, what are really worth reading are the

pProgress Software Corporation, a global provider of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today launched FUSEtrade; Forge, a collaborative environment for developing open source projects based on Progressreg; FUSEtrade; products. /p
pThe Progress FUSE product line includes productized versions of Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF and Camel. FUSE components are standards-based, open source enterprise integration tools based on popular Apache SOA projects, and are productized and supported by the people who contribute to and influence the Apache projects. Progress developers lead these Apache communities and contribute to the development of the code. /p

When it comes to short-term investments during the downturn, treasury departments see protecting their principal, rather than making money, as a top priority.

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In a rapidly changing economic environment marked by unpredictable risk, organizations today are increasingly vulnerable to financial loss and, tarnished reputations. SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today introduced new capabilities in two SAP® BusinessObjects™ governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions that promote automated, unified risk management and compliance strategies. Available today, new versions of the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Risk Management and SAP® BusinessObjects™ Process Control applications give customers the clarity required to help ensure that the right controls are in place, helping them to both comply with government regulations and manage business risks. This holistic view will help customers take a preventative approach to risk and be better protected against future vulnerabilities caused by rapidly shifting conditions. The new SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions are also embedded with SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions, enabling greater transparency across customers’ organizations and helping them to develop smarter, more risk-aware business strategies.

iWay Software, a division of Information Builders and an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, today announced that it has been named in the 2009 SD Times 100. Now in its seventh year, the SD Times 100 recognizes the top companies, organizations, and individuals that had the greatest impact on software development during the previous calendar year. Companies included on the list are selected by knowledge management practitioners, theorists, analysts, and vendors as well as their customers and colleagues.

Most people have already formed their opinions of mobile business intelligence (BI). Unfortunately, most of the opinions are not favorable and there’s a good reason for this: Early attempts at transforming useful business applications into a mobile environment have failed. Some were quick to gain that first-mover advantage to the small screen by simply shrinking their application to accommodate the reduced real estate of the screen. Other attempts pushed out static reports on a mobile screen which may have been marginally helpful but it typically created a tremendously frustrating user experience, leaving no opportunity to interact with the data. These approaches may have given access to some information, but it certainly didn’t give the mobile user a positive experience.

pAll this month, Dashboard insight will be focused on a particularly hot topic these days: quot;mobile BI.quot;/p
pFrom the first portable phone to the latest multipurpose PDA, we believe we’re entering a new era in technology for handheld devices.nbsp; These powerful little gadgets have evolved into fully functional web browsers providing a quick quot;heads upquot; by showing the latest analytical data and company metrics.nbsp; Whether you’re accessing real-time sales figures or drilling down into the numbers, mobile devices are bound to enhance the way you currently receive and analyze data./p