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Hi, this is Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you're listening to BriefingsDirect. Today, a sponsored podcast discussion on the burgeoning "Business Web," the concept around how companies and commerce-focused organizations can discover one another and create partnerships, relationships, and alliances. In doing so, they can exploit and leverage the search technologies around the Semantic Web and around the new opportunity for discovery of assets, resources and tacit knowledge. Joining us to discuss this is a representative from Zoom Information Inc., Russ Glass. He is the vice president of product and marketing at ZoomInfo. Welcome to the show, Russ.
While channel-surfing the other night, I came across the premiere episode of CNBC's new business news-magazine show, Business Nation. Hosted by David Faber, this appears to be one of the smartest, most entertaining business news shows to come along in awhile. It's a lot like CNBC's On the Money ("It's 7:00 on Wall Street... Do you know where your money is?"), but seems to cover more entertaining topics. The edition that I saw had a segment on the booming business of Ultimate Fighting, the use of eBay as fence for stolen goods, and a profile of the guy who invented the Super Soaker.
One of the most fundamental advances in the IT landscape during the 1990s was the emergence of integrated enterprise applications like SAP, Peoplesoft, more recently Oracle Applications, and so on. For the first time, companies could design their core business processes in such a way that they were integrated yet flexible. Basic work processes were automated. Yes, we all spent an enormous amount of effort getting these environments in, and they still present issues to this day, but I saw this shift as unleashing an enormous amount of productivity and competitiveness from the companies that made the investment.
As you may recall, the Validation Application Block comes with a library of validators that can be assigned to business object properties and fields to help validate a business object. There may be cases, however, where proper business object validation is complex and/or cannot be handled with the validators alone but you still want to use the Validation Application Block to provide consistent business object validation in your application. In cases like this, you can use Self Validation, which gives you full control of the validation and the same consistent use of the Validation Application Block.
Good article over at eWeek called “RSS Offers Relief from Enterprise E-Mail Overload.” It talks about how email has fallen out of favor as a way of distributing information to large groups of people, and how certain businesses are starting to use RSS.
Upcoming Conference: Business with Four Billion: Creating Mutual ...
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| Link to this blogThe William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University will be hosting a conference entitled “Business with Four Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of
Dave Girouard of Google highlights that technology is leading companies to spend 75% to 80% of IT budgets simply maintaining the systems they have already. Besides a shortage of money, Girouard notes CIOs face strict regulations and an impending brain drain with many CIOs in particular are really in a difficult situation, and innovation isn’t something they can spend the majority of their waking hours talking about. The information technology business as it pertains to large businesses has become a lot of maintenance IT officials approaching retirement. The key point to note here is that a lot of things that people think of as core IT functions need to disappear into the ether so that the IT organization can properly focus on the value-added [activities]. I like the part where Girouard says that the “consumerization of information technology,” describing budding efforts to bring the user-friendly features of consumer products to the workplace is getting center place and this pales the efforts of enterprise technologies makers who tend to add lots of features as a way to improve a product, but instead the extra bells and whistles often make products so complex they detract from the user experience.
