Memories

This brings me back to time I have never been. But I feel the world's the same.

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Reality

Did you know that people who lost their homes after the flood in western Ukraine will get 1000 us dollars compensation only?

I am sad because this is true.

Technorati Теги: humanity

ERP Live SaaS

Recently I've read Ballmer roadmap for Dynamics.
"Microsoft has taken a wait-and-see approach to software-as-a-service ERP, indicating that its experience with Dynamics CRM Live would provide some guidance. While not outright announcing plans for software-as-a-service versions of Microsoft's Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and SL ERP applications, Ballmer indicated the company might be moving in that direction."

"Microsoft has taken a wait-and-see approach to software-as-a-service ERP, indicating that its experience with Dynamics CRM Live would provide some guidance. While not outright announcing plans for software-as-a-service versions of Microsoft's Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and SL ERP applications, Ballmer indicated the company might be moving in that direction."

Was he cunning?

Microsoft Dynamics - Back'n the USSR

It is obvious ex-USSR region is a great ERP market. For some time main competitors keep parity and now MSFT decided to pass to the offensive. Well, this seems to be captivating.

Technorati Теги: it,business,erp

Bill Gone - Who Next

Respects to Bill Gates...

Technorati Теги: business

Security Consulting

I understood there should be companies specializing in security consulting although I have never heard about them. Recently I surfed the net looking for a such company. One of them is WhiteHat . HP and IBM should have something similiar.
This is a right way to delegate security analysis to experts. It is hardly many companies have security professionals internally, isn't?

Threat Analysis

I hope I will have a chance to try the Security Development Lifecycle in practice. At last the project has become ready for STRIDE analysis.

S - spoofing identity
T - tampering with data
R - repudiation
I - information disclosure
D - denial of service
E - elevation of privilege

Technorati Теги: security

St.Petersburg International Economic Forum - Live

Thanks for video streaming that is available on the site:  http://forumspb.com/video.html

I believe this is a very nice way to engage many people in the forum who cannot directly participate in it.

Besides, the opening session was quite fascinating. Known personalities talked about global challenges and the ways how to overcome them. I hope the forum will have success.

Technorati Теги: business,economics

Children's Day

"For attractive lips,
Speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes,
Seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure,
Share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair,
Let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise,
Walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things,
Have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,
And redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
You will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands;
One for helping yourself, and the other for helping others."

Tomorrow is the 1st of June - the Children's Day. Look round, probably someone needs your help.

Technorati Теги: humanity,children,society

Peter Druker

Peter Druker said: "For a long time there is a discussion of delegation in management. Some people believe manager should give part of his responsibilities to others. The results are not so impressive. The reason for that consists in the way delegation is implemented. It is quite often delegation means someone does work of another. This is incorrect. Everybody gets payment for the job he is responsible for..."

And the joke: "The only employee is always available - universal uncompetitive employee !"

Technorati Теги: management,fun

At least not bad

Я проверил свои знания русского языка и получил твердую четверку. Сходи, проверься?

AX 2009 Preview

Although the new version of Dynamics AX 2009 will bring a number of developer extensibility features including ASP.NET and AJAX support, deep Sharepoint integration, I don't think it is enough to get a niche on the ERP market where SAP and Oracle are so strong.

Microsoft needs for a quite different technology and integration level. Well then?

See here .

Technorati Теги: it,erp,microsoft

Hockey WC Champions!

Greetings!

SaaS market

SAP's decision to delay the rollout for its Business ByDesign on-demand software should comes as no surprise but could prove a boon for software as a service vendors according to analysts.

The company aimed to have 10,000 customers on the enterprise resource planning tech by 2010, generating $1bn in revenue.

But recently the company extended this target by 12 so companies specialising in on demand applications can use the SAP delay to further establish themselves in the medium-business market.

Among them are:

www.salesforce.com
www.webex.com
www.workday.com 
www.netsuite.com
www.expensewatch.com
www.StrikeIron.com
www.dnb.com
www.oanda.com

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Holy Grail

I agree with J. Zachman:

"Software architecture requires actual work. We keep looking for the "quick fix," a technological solution, a tool, a package, a new processor, the perennial "silver bullet." We wish we could simply throw money at the problem and have the pain go away.

This is simply not realistic. We have been looking for the "Holy Grail" of technology solutions to enterprise problems for forty years and are no closer today than when we first started. In fact, I might argue, we are even farther away."

http://www.dmreview.com/dmdirect/20000428/2187-1.html

Below some classification of existing EA standards is given:

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewalker/archive/2008/04/16/making-sense-of-architecture-standards.aspx

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Bookshelf

I got "Method McKinsey" book. Although I do not work at a consulting company and for sure I do not want to work at SUCH company at all, their approach to problem solving is rather interesting.

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How Much Do You Need?

Все, что мне нужно, чтобы больше НИКОГДА не работать

А тебе?

 

Technorati Теги: fun

Intelligent Web

This book has an overview of simple AI algorithms that I am aware from the institute. Nevertheless it is a nice try to familiarize oneself with the main ideas and see where they can be applied.

At the same time I believe the really successful "intelligent" IT projects will not share their experience soon as this is the part of their success. But this is what I am interested in above all!

Technorati Теги: development,algorithms

Silverlight Experience

Today I've made a short technology overview to my colleges regarding Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 released recently.

I found that not many of them are aware of the technology since our company plays on another ground. Still I saw an interest in this and it will only grow with the growing of Siverlight maturity. Stay online!

Technorati Теги: silverlight,development

Office Live

Today I've got my account activated. Office Live Workspace is the online place to store, access, and share documents.  You can use it to distribute meeting notes, work together, or simply store documents as I do :) Registration is free although your request will be queued. I had to wait for activation for two week.

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