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“Q2 by adding approximately 3,000 net paying customers in a quarter for the first time in its history. These additions pushed total net paying customers in the second quarter to 35,300.”
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Mark really likes this book.
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Firefox extension for capturing web pages. Says it will capture the whole webpage, which would be nice: I haven’t found a tool yet that works for me at that.
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Nice post pulling apart Service, Applications, etc. in IT management.
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Blog on Austin startups.
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Whao, check out the graphic for it. It’s like outta Heavy Metal.
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“[T]he Service Catalog encourages IT to track service details and metrics, and use a relevant subset of that information to document business services in terminology that business service consumers understand.”
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“According to Forrester Research, over 40% of billion dollar corporations have already adopted ITIL. That figure will rise to 80% by the end of 2008.”
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Two lines of thought on IT being a “profit center,” as it were: as the obvious, but forgotten, enabler of end-user facing technologies that make money and as for internal customers via chargebacks.
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“The IT Skeptic and his alter-ego The IT Swami are pseudonyms of Rob England of Pukerua Bay, New Zealand.”
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“The constant refocusing, its advocates say, leads to more timely and useful business tools.” Several mini-cases of enterprise developers uses of Agile. Nothing too new for long-time Agile followers, but good for management by magazine discussions.
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“Project failures often have roots in two distinct, emergent and dysfunctional behaviors arising from the unwritten rules I just described. These are: 1. Silos and territorialism across the functions and business units 2. Unhealthy conflict avoidance…”
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Rare commentary on partners & channels in SaaS-land.
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Not definite conclusions, just that it’s tough out there.
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Some enterprise IT management books (ITIL, CMDB, etc.) from BMC.
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Looks like Windows licensing has turned into a game of licensing wizardary, eh? Just like with mainframes. Exciting!
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“There’s something about the Java culture which just seems to encourage obtuse solutions over simplicity.”
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Could it be that the more “hands on” you are in IT, the less use you have for traditional analyst services? Just a wild, probably coincidental mashing up of the two charts here…
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More biz-talk to chuckle at and avoid using.
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“Facebook ‘Compare Your Friends’ app: Guessing @Cote could take @webmink. Just based on twitter pics…Simon could be a dirty fighter.” –@ThinGuy
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Podtech’s Jeremiah Owyang goes to Forrester to help out with all that new media hoopla.
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