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why yahoo pipes falls short and RSSbus gets it
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This IBM Redbook describes the features and functionality of Workplace Forms 2.6 and each of its component products. After introducing the products and providing an overview of features and functionality, we discuss the underlying product architecture and
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BDNA Corporation, a leading provider of Enterprise Asset Inventory solutions, today launched its BDNA Accelerator for IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB). BDNA also announced that its Inventory solution has been technically val
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he patent — number 7,124,289 — covers the cornerstone of Opsware’s technology, the ability to automate the management of servers and network devices across a data center through model-based control. This innovation allows models of granular configur
Rich is spot on with this post and his design motives for Akorri. How can the incumbents reinvent themselves and their products? Is EOU developed inheriently in the developed product, choice of technologies, or the solution ultimately deployed for a customer?
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“It’s my belief that consumer based software products have raised the stakes for enterprise software vendors. Customers use Exchange, Excel, and other business productivity products every day in their office environment. They are finding these products easy to understand, start, and navigate. Whether consciously or unconsciously they now expect, even require, that the enterprise software products they purchase have the same “Ease of Use†(EOU) properties.
When I started Akorri this was on the forefront of my thinking. I needed to develop products that are as easy to understand, deploy and use. Clear, simple goals that are actually very difficult to achieve.
The gauntlet has been thrown down to enterprise software companies and we better listen. Heavy frameworks that require a team of people to manage and use just doesn’t cut it anymore. Customers are demanding that the products they buy put more time back into their day, not take away from it.”