Month: May 2003

May 1, 2003

Good blurb on the need to bring quantitative and qualitative together in support of better corporate performance. One technology to help make this happen from a user interface perspective is the portal. Other components include data warehouse, OLAP, and enterprise content management (unstructured data warehouse).

Henry Morris of research group IDC says that business intelligence of the variety delivered by CleverPath should be integrated with business processes for greatest efficiency. “If you were running a marketing campaign, you would … track the results of delivering messages to your customers, then you would analyze the results; the collaborative part would be that you would possibly make some adjustments in the way you ran the campaign,” he says, giving an example. Morris adds that a purchasing agent could also use business intelligence to analyze supplier performance, and, on that basis, enter into negotiations with suppliers, potentially via portals.

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May 1, 2003

Here’s a good article on revamping your intranet. It starts by identifying the warning signs of a fading intranet and then outlines a good approach for tackling the problem. The sixteen steps outlined are in-line with the major steps we’ve used with clients on enterprise content management and portal projects.

May 1, 2003

Michael Hall’s example of how he uses blogs at work

Michael Hall gives an example of how he used a weblog at work and also mentions wikis. He briefly digresses into Sharepoint toward the end of the article. Might have a couple of good blurbs for the uninitiated.

May 1, 2003

Here’s an article by Drew Falkman on cheap or free portal offerings. The article covers Jetspeed (which we’ve implemented internally), jPorta, Liferay, and RedHat CCM which is the new name for the open source content management system, ArsDigita.

May 1, 2003

Went to see Ben Harper at the Granada last night. Obviously much more intimate than his last show at the Bronco Bowl. The Granada holds about 1500 I think. The opening seemed a little soft–he started with a couple of his quieter songs and I don’t think the vocal levels were adjusted quite right early in the show. My favorites of the evening were a really cool version of Excuse Me Mister and The Woman in You but all of the new stuff sounded great. It was hotter than hell in there though. I had to bail halfway through the second encore for water and a breather. Watched the third and final encore from the ramp.

May 1, 2003

A Mighty Wind

Saw A Mighty Wind Saturday night. I haven’t stopped chuckling to myself since then. Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy have got major comedic writing talent. As some reviewer said, their attention to detail was incredible. The song lyrics were hysterical yet very believeable. I think it was funnier than Best in Show. We went to Crescent City Cafe for beignets after the show. Obviously it lacks the ambience of Cafe du Monde but the beignets were hot and fresh.