Empathy as Design Value

Cornified AppsLab! Probably the most memorable session for me at SXSW, at least in terms of nuggets I can take away and use, was How to Design for the 15 Minutes presented by Rob Goodlatte  (@rsg) of Facebook and Daniel Burka (@dburka) formerly of Digg. The slides make a little more sense when read side-by-side with [...]

Empathy as Design Value

Cornified AppsLab! Probably the most memorable session for me at SXSW, at least in terms of nuggets I can take away and use, was How to Design for the 15 Minutes presented by Rob Goodlatte  (@rsg) of Facebook and Daniel Burka (@dburka) formerly of Digg. The slides make a little more sense when read side-by-side with [...]

Anthology of blog posts about protocols and data formats

I just finished reading or re-reading a half-dozen great short texts about data formats and protocols, in the XML/RDF space. I started with this “do we need WADL” post by Joe Gregorio (since the previous entry made me go back to WADL which is used by Rackspace). Under the guise of a Q&A about WADL, [...]

Personal Fire Trucks and Overengineering Identity Solutions

So I noticed an odd headline in a news feed from the Chicago Tribune this morning: Neighbors seeing red over man’s firetruck The gist is that a man purchased a fire truck on e-bay, built a garage near his suburban home for it, and engineered a solution to bring water from his pool to the [...]

Personal Fire Trucks and Overengineering Identity Solutions

So I noticed an odd headline in a news feed from the Chicago Tribune this morning: Neighbors seeing red over man’s firetruck The gist is that a man purchased a fire truck on e-bay, built a garage near his suburban home for it, and engineered a solution to bring water from his pool to the [...]

Oracle Validated Integrations Continue to Provide Value to Partners and Customers

Oracle Press Release Oracle Validated Integrations Continue to Provide Value to Partners and Customers More than 500 Validated Integrations Delivered Through Oracle PartnerNetwork Application Integration Architecture for Partners Initiative to Reduce Risk and Cost for Customers Redwood Shores, CA – August 10, 2009 News Facts Further providing customers a simplified, low-risk and tested path to [...]

Leading Analyst Firm Places Oracle in Leader’s Quadrant for Sales Force Automation

Oracle Press Release Leading Analyst Firm Places Oracle in Leader’s Quadrant for Sales Force Automation Redwood Shores, CA – August 10, 2009 News Facts Oracle’s Siebel CRM and Oracle® CRM On Demand are both positioned in the leader’s quadrant of Gartner’s recent “Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation”1. According to Gartner, leaders in Sales Force [...]

Oracle Integrates Oracle’s Value Chain Planning Applications with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Oracle Press Release Oracle Integrates Oracle’s Value Chain Planning Applications with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Oracle® Application Integration Architecture Connects Industry Leading ERP to the Information-Driven Value Chain Redwood Shores, Calif. – August 10, 2009 News Facts Delivering on its Applications Unlimited commitment to continually enhance products, Oracle today announced the Oracle® Application Integration Architecture [...]

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Enables Billing Services for 172,000 Water and Wastewater Customers with Oracle® Utilities Customer Care and Billing

Oracle Press Release San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Enables Billing Services for 172,000 Water and Wastewater Customers with Oracle® Utilities Customer Care and Billing Redwood Shores, CA – August 6, 2009 News Facts The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), a department of the City and County of San Francisco that provides water, wastewater and [...]

Pivotal S.L. Uses Oracle® Health Sciences Applications to Accelerate Clinical Trial Data Collection and Gain Real-Time Visibility into Studies

Oracle Press Release Pivotal S.L. Uses Oracle® Health Sciences Applications to Accelerate Clinical Trial Data Collection and Gain Real-Time Visibility into Studies Spanish Contract Research Organization Upgrades to Oracle Remote Data Capture 4.5.3 and Oracle’s Siebel Clinical Trial Management System Redwood Shores, CA – August 5, 2009 News Facts Pivotal S.L., a leading Spanish contract [...]