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Is Custom Development Dead?
Is Custom Development dead? After the last two years of custom development’s nuclear winter, (following 2008s Financial Armageddon), one would think the the Grim Reaper did his best in the blast. I...
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Product-based Solutions Versus Custom Solutions : Tomb Raider or Genesis?
The Product-based Solution is where most of Corporate America is going for IT today. The talent required to povide a successful implementation (one you actually renew license maintenance on rather...
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Paying Too Much for Custom Application Implementation
Face it. Even if you have a team of entry-level coders implementing custom application software, you’re probably still paying too much. Here’s what I mean: You already pay upfront for fool proof design...
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Is Legacy Modernization Just Procrastination?
There is no doubt that replacement of core systems for insurers has been very popular over the past six years or so. With the advancements in technology enabling vendors to provide solutions that are...
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The U.S. Postal Service is in dire financial straits and, like many businesses, in danger of shutting down completely if it doesn’t cut costs. By now, most carriers have been conducting business with...
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Share More: a framework for enhancing collaboration
In a great study, McKinsey and Company published last year they showed how companies that use social and collaborative technologies extensively (networked companies in their terminology) outperformed...
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ASP.Net Master Pages
In ASP.NET MVC3 “master pages” are handled in the _ViewStart.cshtml file. As the name, suggests the code in this file is executed before each view is rendered (see Scott Gu’s blog post for more...
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Time to Remodel the Kitchen?
Although determining full and realistic corporate valuation is a task I’ll leave to people of sterner stuff than I (since Facebook went public, not many could begin to speculate on the bigger picture...
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Cloud 2012 Redux
You shouldn’t have to commit everything at once This year will be remembered as the year the cloud moved beyond the realm of “Back to Time-Sharing” or a curio for greenfields and start-ups. While...
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Hunting Down an Apache PermGen Issue
We have been experiencing a PermGen out-of-memory problem in an application we have been working on when redeploying our .war to a Tomcat 7.0.33 application server. This would cause Tomcat to become...
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Beware What Lies Beyond the Valley of Despair
If you’ve implemented an ERP system in the last few decades, you have surely seen one of the many representations of the traditional ERP change management curve, with copious advice for avoiding, or...
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