The dynamic capabilities framework analyzes the sources and methods of wealth creation and capture by private enterprise firms operating in environments of rapid technological change. The competitive advantage of firms is seen as resting on distinctive processes (ways of coordinating and combining), shaped by the firm's (spec$c) asset positions (such as the firm's portfolio of difficult-to-trad…
This section starts with an XML concepts chapter that gives an overview and history of XML, its purposes, and comparisons against previous and alternative data integration technologies. We then proceed to describe XML basic formats, XML well-formedness, and XML validation against DTDs and schemas. The chapters on XSL transformations and XSL formatting objects illustrate the transformation and f…
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (FS4SP) is Microsoft’s flagship enterprise search product and one of the most capable enterprise search platforms available. It provides a feature-rich alternative to the limited out-of-the-box search experience in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and can be extended to meet complex information retrieval requirements. If your organization is looking f…
Blogging has been a part of the web landscape for over a decade now. From personal journals to big corporate marketing, the medium has matured to become a ubiquitous mode of live communication. The power of blogging has been recognized by the business community, and canny marketers view it as a powerful weapon in their digital arsenal. If blogging is done well, it can bring myriad benefits to b…
Welcome to the Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit! This s a deta ed technical resource for pannng, deponent, and running Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Because some features of RDS are brand new, this book s valuable both for those compete y new to RDS and those who have used Terminate Services (ts former name) n previous versions of Microsoft Wndows Within thi…
One of the main characteristics of project management is communication. Communication is importance amongst the project
In today’s data-driven business environment, it’s become achingly clear that no company will thrive without agility, speed and, perhaps most of all, innovation. Agility allows a company to change direction in response to shifting market conditions. Speed lets it change quickly. And innovation gives enterprises the ability to disrupt the industry by bringing new processes, products and servi…
When big data and the cloud first surfaced as popular business buzzwords a few years ago, they raised many questions and even some fear. How will we deal with soaring levels of data? How can we leverage that data to lift sales and spur innovation? How will we keep all that data secure? How can these new tools generate a true competitive advantage? And how will all this affect our IT workers? T…
Technology is a key driver of disruption across all industries, with companies like Zalora, Ensogo, and Fitbit and others shaking traditional business models to the core. Technological innovation, in particular capabilities and solutions driven by disruptive technologies such as cloud computing, is levelling the playing field, accelerating growth and capabilities for businesses of any size and …
The cloud is gaining traction in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market and most vendors now have a cloud offering. After examining small and medium companies that have implemented cloud ERP, Nucleus found customers were able to achieve substantial benefits, including reduced IT costs, increased employee productivity, and better inventory management. This report analyzes the benefits of …
While we have seen modest gains in organizations’ ability to attack the security gap, advanced (and not-so- advanced) threat actors continue to evolve their tactics to find a way through it . In last year’s M-Trends we noted that cyber security had gone from a niche IT issue to a boardroom priority . This year, cyber security (or perhaps more accurately, cyber insecurity) entered the mains…
To discover how cloud-based ERP systems support and accelerate growing organizations, NetSuite’s Vishrut Parikh and Anand Misra engaged senior IT executives in discussions on the topic. These executives shared case studies of why they switched from on-premise to cloud-based systems, how the implementation process occurred, benefits they have experienced, and lessons learned. A prevailing them…
Over the years, QuickBooks has become the de facto standard financial software for small businesses, with more than 5 million businesses using it. QuickBooks is the best fit for many businesses on day one, but is it the right choice to enable rapidly growing businesses to sustain and accelerate growth? In many instances, QuickBooks is inadequate. It lacks many of the capabilities that growing b…
In an ideal world, every multinational organisation would run its entire global operations on a single enterprise resource planning (ERP) application suite. A few do achieve this financial nirvana–but often at significant cost. The rest have to make the best of reconciling conflicting requirements and historic investment decisions to manage what can often be a complex catalogue of different s…
With our Skill Up survey we wanted to look at the tech community as a whole to identify upcoming trends over the next few years and share what you can do to ensure you get the most out of your career and skills. We divided our survey into 4 segments, Web Development & Design, Application Development, Security & System Administration, and Data Science & Business Intelligence, making this one of …
Over fifteen years ago, Norm Kerth (author of Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews) asked me to lead are trospective for a team. He was acting as interim manager for the project which made him ineligible for the role of neutral facilitator - he knew he had opinions about the project and wanted to contribute them. We’d met through a mutual friend,and he had learned that I had ex…
Mobility is a hot topic these days. Regardless of industry or profession, there is a mobile application or ecosystem in development to serve it. The supply chain is no different. In fact, given its very manual and distributed nature, it is better suited to mobile application deployment than most business processes. For distribution and fulfillment services, where most of the activities take p…
The need for SSL certificates has moved well beyond the “Buy” page to core functions of the enterprise. SSL certificates are used to protect remote employee and partner communications via webmail, chat and IM. Browser-to-server communications for cloud-based services require SSL certificates when used to display customer account information, business partner transactions and for employee pr…
You have a thought. You want to write it down. You’re thinking your computer might be pretty good for that, but, surprise — it’s not. You need two things when you want to write. You need the words to say what you are thinking, and you need a place to put them. Before wikis, computer writing was all about the words. The computer could help you type them, spell them, hyphenate them, size…
In order to remain competitive in today’s global marketplace, organizations must constantly improve customer service, reduce IT overhead, and increase efficiency—frequently with fewer resources than ever before. This may seem like an impossible feat, but the advent of UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) has enabled many IT departments to be viewed as business drivers rather than cos…