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- Multinational casing producer and food trader, DAT-SCHAUB, with headquarters in Denmark, had a business model that was becoming increasingly complex. More divisions and locations in multiple countries were being added, and each location was reporting in its own currency. Using Microsoft Business Solutions for Analytics-Enterprise Reporting, the company now efficiently delivers its products to customers around the globe. Their data collection and consolidation time has been dramatically reduced and accuracy improved. Among the many benefits realized from Microsoft Enterprise Reporting - the consolidation of reporting information has been reduced from a month-long process to just a few days. |
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- Entertaining nearly 50 million guests annually at 39 different theme and water parks located across 8 different countries, all while growing a multi-national organization, is not an easy task. Six Flags many parks were each running different general ledger systems. They needed a single, integrated business solution to span the parks diverse business management needs and reduce the cost of ownership of the disparate systems. Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains provided Six Flags with immediate insight into their financial operations around the globe. It streamlined financial reporting, provided quick analysis of financial data, improved inventory management, improved business processes, and resulted in expense savings of close to $1 million USD annually. |
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- Internet Summit Makes Call to 'Wire Up' the World (Reuters). Reuters - More than 170 countries approved an ambitious call to extend the Internet and the benefits of information technology to the poorest corners of the world Friday, but dodged some of the difficulties of doing so. [Yahoo! News - Technology] |
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- Internet Summit Makes Call to 'Wire Up' the World (Reuters). Reuters - More than 170 countries approved an ambitious call to extend the Internet and the benefits of information technology to the poorest corners of the world Friday, but dodged some of the difficulties of doing so. [Yahoo! News - Technology] |
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- As part of a global sales and marketing operation, liquor wholesalers Swift & Moore has built its business on excellence and continual improvement in tactical marketing, sales execution and back office systems. This imperative prompted the company to seek a cheaper and more reliable way for its mobile sales staff to market some of the worlds best-known liquor brands. Swift & Moores search for a more effective mobile communications system ended with an upgrade to GPRS, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Outlook 2003. Now, the companys growing sales force can contribute more in a demanding business environment by being able to prioritize tasks and communicate more effectively with both customers and head office. |
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- Hear from Microsoft Exchange expert, and author of the Sams Publishing book "Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed," what Microsoft is including in their new Exchange messaging product. Exchange Server 2003 will still be based on Active Directory and will run in a Windows 2000 or a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory environment. Some of the topics covered will be improvements in the Outlook Web Access technology, changes in Outlook 2003 thatll provide end to end secured full client access, built-in PDA and mobile phone integration, and new collaboration and information sharing technologies. |
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- IIS 6.0 relies on a new Kernel listener to process all incoming HTTP requests. HTTP.sys is much more robust than Winsock by offering features such as queuing of incoming unprocessed requests as well as caching of completed requests. This webcast will discuss how to configure HTTP. |
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- This webcast will go in-depth into the use of IIS 6.0s FTP services and also FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions as these two features allow users content to be published to IIS 6.0. The administrative audiences that will benefit from this webcast are any IIS administrators who are responsible for granting secure publishing methods for users via the intranet, extranet, or internet. |
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- The first of a two part series designed to help intranet and internet administrators of IIS 6.0 understand how to securely build an internet service provider solution using IIS 6.0. This first part will focus on the IIS configuration that allows for complete user isolation (content and process model). This will also advise how to build complete backup solutions in case of disaster recovery. |
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- 'Cyber Oscar' for web project. A Cambodian project has won an award at the UN's digital divide summit for using technology to improve lives. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] |
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- 'Cyber Oscar' for web project. A Cambodian project has won an award at the UN's digital divide summit for using technology to improve lives. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] |
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- This white paper presents the legacy integration capabilities of IBM Rational Rapid Developer. It includes a limited education of legacy integration and secondly, integration techniques available for Rational Rapid Developer customers, and how to select the right one for use. Legacy integration refers to the methods and transportation techniques used to access, and perhaps update, pre-existing data and applications from an existing computer system, often an IBM mainframe. |
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- The aim of this document is to present, in a concise and objective manner, the different functional, operational and technical challenges related to the deployment of service-oriented distributed architecture. It takes a close look at the architectures that facilitate the reuse of whole sections of the information system, thereby looking at the techniques that allow the best use of computer resources hosted on large systems. |
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- The necessity of guaranteeing data security in the IBM mainframe environment led to the development and introduction of the IBM Resource Access and Control Facility (RACF). For over 20 years, RACF (also known as the Security Server) has been the premier product for securing valuable corporate data. It is, in fact, still the industry leader with growth rates exceeding 15% each year for the past five years. Backed by RACF security, mainframes represented reliability for many years. |
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- Oracle9i Real Application Clusters enables IT managers to create robust, scalable, and highly available databases running on low cost Intel based servers using the Linux operating system. By leveraging low-cost hardware, Oracle9i Real Application Clusters also significantly improves return on investment and reduces total cost of ownership. And now, with a new class of interconnect standard called InfiniBand, Oracle9i Real Application Clusters builds upon these economic benefits with a dramatic performance and scalability boost that puts it in a class previously reserved for mainframe hardware. |
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- The purpose of this paper is to discuss various factors relative to transporting mainframe data over distance and to alert the reader that CTP has services available to help customers evaluate their networks when dealing with ESCON traffic and projected performance analysis. |
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Work (Dec 13 2003 07:17 GMT) - Sorry that I haven't been posting much lately. I'm buried in work, which is a good thing, I guess. There are a lot of people who don' |
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- SCO was ordered to show IBM evidence of stolen code. They sent it. (via Boing Boing) On one million sheets of paper. I can't wait until this is over and those extortionists are in prison. |
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- Ayer fué día feriado en México, con motivo de la celebración del día de la Virgen de Guadalupe. Así que no hubo demasiada actividad en el blog. Creo que así se mantendrá hasta el 5 de enero del próximo... |
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- Keiko, the killer whale made famous by the "Free Willy" movies, has died, his caretakers said early Saturday. |
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- Thanks! I definitely don't want to burn.. I just hate |
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- I've never been there, but I've been to Hawaii 6 times. |
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- We Need a Test Case Soon. Free music at LegalTorrents "LegalTorrents is a new site offering 5Gb of electronic music from a variety of labels, all licensed under Creative Commons. What makes this site unique is the large downloads are shared among everyone downloading, thanks to the P2P technology of BitTorrent. Once you download a client and load up a music torrent file, you'll be downloading the file from everyone that has downloaded the file, and as you gather data others will be downloading from you. It's an incredible technology meant to share large file downloads like these music archives and things such as linux distributions. |
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- We Need a Test Case Soon. Free music at LegalTorrents "LegalTorrents is a new site offering 5Gb of electronic music from a variety of labels, all licensed under Creative Commons. What makes this site unique is the large downloads are shared among everyone downloading, thanks to the P2P technology of BitTorrent. Once you download a client and load up a music torrent file, you'll be downloading the file from everyone that has downloaded the file, and as you gather data others will be downloading from you. It's an incredible technology meant to share large file downloads like these music archives and things such as linux distributions. |
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- While introducing a definitive 20-page referenced report on the anthrax mailings on December 10, 2001, it eventually reached 500,000 readers throug... - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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The Media (Dec 13 2003 07:13 GMT) - Is Dean Doomed? (washingtonpost.com) Howard Kurtz is probably the best in the business at covering the press itself along with politics. He's also been kind to bloggers and was one of the early press guys to notice blogging, though he... |
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- Prepared by the Patricia Seybold Group, the leading customer-centric executives research company that brought you bestsellers "Customer.com", and the "Customer Revolution", this report will help you understand:<br>< |
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- The RSS PushmepullyuMy column on RSS, which noted how poor a name the acronym is, sparked a good discussion over at John Battelle's blog about how to find a better name. And I note (thanks to Lockergnome for the link) that Amy Gahran of Contentious has a contest going for a new name. Jeremy Zawodny makes the same point I was trying to make, in a slightly different way: In 2004, RSS is going to go mainstream--and it's going to happen in a big way. |
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- The RSS PushmepullyuMy column on RSS, which noted how poor a name the acronym is, sparked a good discussion over at John Battelle's blog about how to find a better name. And I note (thanks to Lockergnome for the link) that Amy Gahran of Contentious has a contest going for a new name. Jeremy Zawodny makes the same point I was trying to make, in a slightly different way: In 2004, RSS is going to go mainstream--and it's going to happen in a big way. |
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- This document is aimed at the users of the VPN client. This document briefly explains the usage of the SSH Sentinel client with the Novell BorderManager (NBM) 3.8 server in Authentication Mode and Encryption Mode. |
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- This document describes the basic design and interoperability of an IP VPN network on top of a public network infrastructure using CISCO 2600 IOS 12.2 T with a Novell BorderManager 3.8 VPN server (site-to-site mode). |
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