CMS Case Studies: How to Compare Offerings From Vendors by Rita Lambros-Segur, M.H.
Microsoft is very active in the CMS (or content management system) market. For Microsoft .Net shops, it makes sense to buy Microsoft's CMS. But for others - and those using Java - rival CMSs are just as good, or even better. Those needing multi-site, multi-audience and multi-language... As part of its Reach Out e-government project, designed to improve local communities' access to essential services, the Council needed to make it easier for staff and local residents to publish new material on the portal.

Democamp9 Review by Colin Smillie
DemoCamp was back on in Toronto last night. It was again at No Regrets which is a great location to have a beer and watch the demos. As always it was pretty full and standing room only for alot of the demos. I think ConceptShare won the award for traveling the furthest, apparently it hasn't... InfoQ.com InfoQ is a community portal for developers to that focuses on a variety of popular languages/frameworks. ... For its target audience it seemed like a very advanced community application, it will be interesting to see how it can evolve relative to other open-source tools.

Remote Network Access by Josh Riverside
With Remote Network Access, your computer becomes just another citizen on the network. You can access the servers just as if you were on the local network, except the response is slower. Sometimes much, much slower. This network access can be by telephone line and modem, or by Internet through a... The user communities requiring Remote Network Access range from people who only need access to their e-mail and the corporate Web portal from their family PC, to the full-time telecommuters who need to use core applications from the office network wherever they are, and some customers and vendors.

Remote Internet Access by Josh Riverside
Most businesses, whether IT or non-IT, are under pressure to provide remote network access capabilities to its users. With Network Access, your computer becomes just another citizen on the network. You can access the servers just as if you were on the local network except response is slower. ... The user communities requiring Remote Internet Access range from people who only need access to their e-mail and the corporate Web portal from their family PC, to the full-time telecommuters, who need to use core applications from the office network wherever they are, and in some cases even...

Microsoft Dynamics GP Customization Tools Selection – Overview for Developer by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains was renamed into Microsoft Dynamics GP and became part of Microsoft Dynamics strategy in September 2005. Former name of the strategy was Microsoft Project Green, where the idea was to introduce so-called Microsoft Business Suites: Financials,... When Microsoft Dynamics GP will offload Fat Client logic to Business Portal, then you will be using more thin client or web development to do the job, it is not actual today and probably Dexterity has another several years to stay on the first position.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Offshore Remote Support – Overview by Andrew Karasev
As you probably heard, in September 2005 Microsoft strategically renamed its ERP applications: Microsoft Great Plains into Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Navision into Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Axapta into Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft CRM into Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft... As so-called Project Green is rolling out – you should expect more logic to be transferred into Microsoft Business Portal, and into Microsoft Outlook (currently Microsoft CRM has outlook client and Microsoft Small Business Accounting allows you to generate invoices in Outlook directly, plus promote...

Why Activity Based Costing Cannot be Overlooked by Richard Barrett
A look into the managerial myth that activity-based costing is too much like hard work! Activity-based costing (ABC) projects traditionally create visions of armies of accountants locking themselves away in darkened rooms, working for months on end to generate any meaningful results, only to... In addition, wider employee buy-in can also be gained as Web deployment enables ABC reports to be quickly and easily distributed to a large community of users. ... Where there is a performance management or business intelligence portal already in place, organizations may prefer to report through...

Questions You Should Be Asking Of Your Potential LMS Vendors - But Likely Are Not by Justyn Howard
What’s missing from your LMS RFP? If you have been involved in sourcing or researching Learning Management System vendors in the past few years, you may have noticed that your functionality spreadsheets and RFI responses all look the same. If you think about it, this makes sense. ... This is certainly a short list and I encourage you to share additional pearls of wisdom with your peers in the learning community. ... What will you have to pay if you choose to create a sub-portal to serve a unique user base?

My Google Wish List by Sharon Housley
There are a number of "wishes" that I have for Google's future. While I would like number one ranking for all of my important keywords and phrases, but I would be willing to settle for Google acknowledging at least a few of my wishes that will benefit the search community as a whole. ... Bury the Sandbox. ... Dispose of the sandbox or aging delay, or heck get rid of both. ... 12. ... I really wish Google would stand firm on the issue of trademarks and prevent competitors from bidding on the terms.

Automated Generation of Modelling Programs using Jena and Protégé by Peter Hale
Abstract This paper explains a technique of User Driven Model Development that could be part of a wider approach of User Driven Programming. This approach involves the creation of a visual environment for software development, where modelling programs can be created without the requirement of... To enable creation of web pages by people who are not experts in this task, open source content management tool such as Rainbow Portal www.rainbowportal.net or the Zope Community Content Management Framework (CMF) http://www.zope.org/, which is currently used at UWE could be considered.