Dovetail Software Blogs: Revolution – the Software Heard Round the World
“Despite
the cloudy future of IT, the need for management and executives to
adapt to change to create an agile company forces their reliance on
software managment tools – IT can start a revolution with the correct
deployment of these tools…”
Cognos Brings BI to Excel
“BI
Analysis for Microsoft Excel targets financial analysts and line of
business users who primarily live and work in Excel and require a
flexible and consistent way of hooking up their spreadsheets to BI
data. ‘The targeted user isn’t the BI professional, it’s the business
professional,’ says Delbert Krause, director of performance management
product marketing. ‘We want them to be able to focus on applying their
business skills, not learning new software functionality.’”
More on Model-Driven Development
“Diego
Lo Giudice of Forrester published The State of Model-Driven Development
recently. This is a well-written paper and does a nice job covering
Model Driven Development of which it says ‘Forrester expects
model-driven development (MDD) to play a key role in the future of
software development; it is a promising technique for helping
application development managers address growing business complexity
and demand.’ Reading it I was struck, though, with the lack of
attention paid to business rules in this context.”
More innovative indexing
“Access
Innovation reports in a recent news release that the solution—compliant
with various monolingual and multilingual thesauri standards—simplifies
the construction of taxonomies by allowing the user access to the
terms, their history and the hierarchical branches that comprise the
overall taxonomy. According to Access Innovations, the user can change
the content of a term as it evolves over time.”
Wired magazine discusses the See-Through CEO
“Wired magazine has a very good article this month titled the See-Through CEO. Interestingly, two members of our technical team forwarded this article to me this morning. A few gems from the article:
- The
new breed of naked executives also discover that once people are
interested in you, they’re interested in helping you out – by offering
ideas, critiques, and extra brain cycles. Customers become working
partners.
- Google is not a search engine. Google is a reputation-management system.”
Social media is respecting your customers
“Data
portability becomes a central issue while everyone of us is 24/24h
connected to social systems, putting in its information and attention
but every service has to learn to be transparent and honest with it
users. This means communicating, if not conversating. How can you sell
a tagging service if you don’t get this?
“Rawsugar, I actually feel betrayed and I want my data back. “
If You Are Serious about Social Computing Treat Your Customers The Way You Would Like to Be Treated – Trust and Respect!
“For
the time being, and in my own case, at least (And I would suggest for
you folks out there as well!), starting backing up all of the data that
you have stored in other social computing tools just in case that trust
fails to deliver both ways. Just in case. You never know.”
46 essential knowledge management sites and blogs.
“A
few weeks ago, I published a list of 26 essential knowledge management
sites (which ended up growing to 35) — which has gotten a few thousand
visits since then. So I wanted to update my list with some more sites
that were suggested to me by visitors (as well as some new sites I’ve
visited since then).”
Details Emerge About State Department Hack
“A
break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer
occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail
that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S. government’s network.”
