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How to Make On-Boarding Easier for Your New Hire

Paul Lancour — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:00:41 +0000

Join BearingPoint senior manager Randy Nease as he explores employee on-boarding and how it can be made easier for the new hire. Employee on-boarding begins when the new hire accepts a company’s offer, and continues all the way through setting their performance goals. In the midst of this, there are the duties of payroll initiation, employee benefit enrollment and providing them with everything they will need to be productive, such as a permanent seat with an equipped computer.

The employee on-boarding process is a great concern for most organizations. The concern being that there is not a single owner of this process, so it is essential to get every responsible party involved. A company needs to ensure that groups such as procurement, real estate for seat assignment, and IT for computer set up are all engaged. In the past, an email was sent company-wide and the manager of the new hire assumed all tactical objectives would be completed. As many companies soon found out, this was hardly ever the case.

BearingPoint has partnered with Oracle to provide a solution to on-boarding that involves a precise architecture that serves as the foundation of your central system. This architecture provides a single point of access and serves as a new hire portal for both the employee and the company. This system serves as a tracker for what needs to be done and what has been completed to ensure a smooth transition for your new hire.

Tags: human resources, BearingPoint, Randy Nease, on-boarding, Oracle

Defining Application Ready Networks with F5’s Ken Salchow

Michael Johnson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:50:41 +0000

Ken Salchow, F5’s manager of technical marketing, talks about F5’s Application Ready Networks (ARNs). These road-tested architectures cover best practices and deployment support for specific solutions from F5 and major software vendors. F5 currently offers ARNs for Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle products. This podcast describes how ARNs benefit customers and why F5 believes they are important.

Tags: Application Ready Network, ARN, F5 Networks, Ken Salchow

Lease Management: Why the Time is Right, Right Now

editor — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:23:12 +0000

Join BearingPoint’s Senior Manager Diane Jennings and Senior Practice Director Joe Franco of Oracle, as they explore Oracle Lease Management (OLM) and why the time is right for OLM.

Oracle Lease Management is a powerful data management tool that offers the user flexibility and the ability to be competitive in the marketplace. Designed for asset-based finance companies, OLM can increase productivity and manage the challenges that many users face from their old legacy systems. In past efforts to introduce OLM to the marketplace, there was a lot of hesitation around its effectiveness; companies not only feared changing platforms, but the time it took to implement the system.

Over the course of the past four years since it was first introduced, BearingPoint has taken many steps to streamline the process. By utilizing the newest technology, OLM serves as an effective tool that has configuration already built into it. BearingPoint provides a strategic plan to each client that demonstrates how OLM can deliver better results at a more cost-efficient price.

Tags: BearingPoint, Diane Jennings, Joe Franco, Oracle, Oracle Lease Management, OLM

COMPLETExRM: Enterprise 2.0 Foundation for CxRM

Brad Baldwin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:00:30 +0000

CRM is migrating from desktop applications to Software as a Service (Saas). COMPLETExRM is a new company based in Salt Lake City that offers a highly customizable CxRM foundation based on a SaaS platform. This allowed COMPLETExRM to create PlanPlus Online, a custom planning and enterprise-grade CRM solution offered by partner FranklinCovey. In addition to its OEM parnters, COMPLETExRM is offering integrated sales, marketing, and project management solutions to small and medium business.

To support their growth, COMPLETExRM landed funding and a board seat from Donald L. Lucas, a respected VC and board member at Oracle and other tech companies.

Tags: CRM, Saas, COMPLETExRM, Salt Lake City, PlanPlus Online, FranklinCovey, Donald L. Lucas, Oracle

Web 2.0 Design Patterns, the book

Michael Cote — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:36:56 +0000

While in Barcelona at Adobe MAX ‘07, James talks with Duane Nickull about their upcoming book Web 2.0 Design Patterns.

Tags: Barcelona, Adobe MAX ‘07, Duane Nickull

SNWSpotlight PM - Wednesday October 17th, 2007

Paul Lancour — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:58:02 +0000

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World.

In this podcast Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at Dell and Claude Lorenson, senior manager in the storage solution division at Microsoft, talk iSCSI and virtualization. Also hear about a data integrity initiative by Oracle, Seagate, Emulex, and LSI. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI.

Tags: SNWSpotlight, Storage Networking World, Darren Thomas, Claude Lorenson, iSCSI, virtualization, LSI

Infrastructure: Office 2.0; Questions and Answers

Aron Pruiett — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:40:45 +0000

More questions are asked of the Office 2.0 vendor panel of Vishal Saxena (development manager, Oracle), Matt Quinn (vice president, product strategy, TIBCO Software), Bert Armijo (VP product management 3Tera) and Brett Adam (VP engineering, rPath). Steve Guengerich (chief learning officer, BSG Alliance Corporation) continues his moderation and includes audience participation.

Does SaaS require hosted modalities? How will open source demands affect traditional stability and maintenance within infrastructure? Appliance modeling vs. SaaS is also raised an audience concern.

Tags: Vishal Saxena, Matt Quinn, Bert Armijo, Brett Adam, Steve Guengerich

Infrastructure: Office 2.0; Questions and Answers part 2

Aron Pruiett — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:39:02 +0000

More questions are asked of the Office 2.0 vendor panel of Vishal Saxena (development manager, Oracle), Matt Quinn (vice president, product strategy, TIBCO Software), Bert Armijo (VP product management 3Tera) and Brett Adam (VP Engineering, rPath). Steve Guengerich (chief learning officer, BSG Alliance Corporation) continues his moderation and includes audience participation in part two.

What are the economic impacts for small companies interacting with SaaS? Are the economic models separate from deployment and can alternatives be easily introduced once a vendor selection is made?

Tags: Vishal Saxena, Matt Quinn, Bert Armijo, Brett Adam, Steve Guengerich

Infrastructure: Office 2.0 “What is Infrastructure?”

Aron Pruiett — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:15:13 +0000

An Office 2.0 vendor panel of Vishal Saxena (development manager, Oracle), Matt Quinn (vice president, product strategy, TIBCO Software ), Bert Armijo (VP product management 3Tera) and Brett Adam (VP Engineering, rPath) are all asked what they think of infrastructure by moderator Steve Guengerich (chief learning officer, BSG Alliance Corporation).

As an enterprise IT professional or a SaaS vendor, there are several considerations that go into creating the cornerstones of an organization. What challenges must be overcome before advances in infrastructure become as much a recognizable priority as application development?

Tags: Vishal Saxena, Matt Quinn, Bert Armijo, Brett Adam, Steve Guengerich

Live at IDF: Engaging With Global Intel Software Communities

Catherine Girardeau — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:27:49 +0000

In what Intel called the “first ever software keynote address,” Intel Vice President and General Manager of the Software and Solutions Group Renee James kicked off Day 3 of the Fall IDF in San Francisco.

James, who manages the global network of teams that interact with all of the software companies that do business with Intel, spoke about, “Where Innovation Happens: Engaging with Intel Software Communities.”

In this podcast, we hear how the “community” aspect turns out to be key, as the relationships James oversees encompass the entire product lifecycle from early planning all the way through to sales and marketing. James devoted some time during the keynote to a few of those communities, including Moblin.org, a new community site that hosts the Mobile & Internet Linux Project, an “umbrella, open source project” for mobile Internet devices (MID). Another community, www.lesswatts.org, is a developer community for reducing power consumption that’s supported by Oracle (the site explains that, rather than being “about marketing,” it’s about “creating a community around saving power on Linux, bringing developers, users, and sysadmins together to share software, optimizations, and tips and tricks.” There’s also a global developer relations group, in addition to engineering and product teams.

James also pointed to whatif.intel.com, an Intel initiative that encourages communities to weigh in on the software development process, providing resources like, at the moment, an Integrated Debugger for Java/JNI Environments, for example.

In addition to supporting such a diverse array of global communities, James also oversees Intel Solution Services, Intel’s worldwide professional services organization.

At Intel, James was the product and program manager for the first software video codecs (Indeo), and was a member of the team developing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the unification of Unix on Intel Architecture.

To learn more about the Intel Software Community, click here.

Tags: software keynote, Software and Solutions, Renee James, Fall IDF, software companies, Software Communities, Moblin.org, Mobile & Internet Linux Project, open source, mobile Internet device, MID, Oracle, Linux, developer relations, software development, Integrated Debugger, video codecs, Indeo, Application Programming Interfaces, APIs, Unix

Enterprise Collaboration, Part 2

Aron Pruiett — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:22:02 +0000

In part 2, Dan Farber continues his moderation of a discussion panel surrounding collaboration and Web 2.0 during the 2007 Office 2.0 conference. Panelists include Scott Dietzen, Etay Gafni, Sam Lawrence, Oliver Marks, Paul Pedrazzi and Jay Simons.

Dan gets more input about his question of how to federate a people centric concept. Separating signal from noise is also addressed.

Will improved bandwidth increase trust within social networks? Sales remain key to enterprise success. Is the customer’s personal information less valuable in an open environment or is their data imperative for innovation?

Tags: Dan Farber, Web 2.0, Office 2.0, Scott Dietzen, Etay Gafni, Sam Lawrence, Oliver Marks, Paul Pedrazzi, Jay Simons, social networks

Enterprise Collaboration

Aron Pruiett — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:15:42 +0000

Dan Farber recently moderated the discussion panel surrounding collaboration and Web 2.0 during the 2007 Office 2.0 conference. Panelists include Scott Dietzen, Etay Gafni, Sam Lawrence, Oliver Marks, Paul Pedrazzi and Jay Simons.

Although collaboration has existed in many forms over a long period of time. Dan addresses the panelists on what to expect from current online environments.

What is the value of an increasingly open online culture? Connecting developers and customers online create many fresh ideas, however, what direction will software, applications and communication take as people become center focus? Where will the successful results of prior enterprise collaboration go?

Tags: Dan Farber, Web 2.0, Office 2.0, Scott Dietzen, Etay Gafni, Sam Lawrence, Oliver Marks, Paul Pedrazzi, Jay Simons

Web 2.0 goes Enterprise with Siderean

Robert Scoble — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:04:25 +0000

Brad Allen, founder and CTO of Siderean, shows me how Oracle and other companies are using his company’s software to capture and share knowledge. You know, people’s ideas.

Tags: Brad Allen, Siderean, Oracle

Umang Gupta On Entrepreneurship, Part I

Kamla Bhatt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:02:57 +0000

Umang Gupta is CEO of Keynote Systems. I caught up with Umang at the Pan IIT Global Conference in July and talked to him about entrepreneurship and what it takes to do startups and run your business.

Umang wrote Oracle’s first business plan and went on to co-found Gupta Technologies and take it through a successful IPO. Gupta Technologies was the first client-server SQL relational database for PCs. But, after Gupta Technologies went IPO the company took a different route, and Umang stepped down from the board in 1997.

Umang is an active investor and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-up companies. He served on the Board of Trustees of Mosaix, a publicly held call-center systems company from 1997 to 1999 until its sale to Lucent Technologies.

Tags: Umang Gupta, Keynote Systems, Oracle, Silicon Valley, Mosaix

How to Begin Building an Adaptive Infrastructure

editor — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:15:07 +0000

Business Technology is HP’s strategy for the enterprise. Olivier Helleboid, VP Adaptive Infrastructure at HP, talks about how customers have benefited from HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure approach. Learn how a company can use its information technology infrastructure as a strategic asset.

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Tags: Business Technology, HP, Olivier Helleboid, Adaptive Infrastructure, information technology infrastructure

Shardul Shroff on Doing Business In India

Kamla Bhatt — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:07:02 +0000

What are the advantages of doing business in India? What is the legal framework to do business in India? What about intellectual property rights in India? These are some of the basic and obvious questions that come to mind when you are planning to do business in India. I turned to Mr. Shardul Shroff, a well-known lawyer with deep knowledge and experience with the changing Indian legal and economic landscape, for answers. Mr. Shroff has been involved with many of the landmark and important changes in India in the economic and legal areas.

Mr. Shroff also addresses the advantages of doing business in India when compared to China from a legal perspective.

He talks about the change in attitude and the confidence that Indian businessmen have acquired in the last few years. Mr. Shroff has been invovled in some of the biggest M&A deals in India like the Tata-Corus, Oracle-iFlex and Hutch Essar among others.

Mr. Shroff is the managing parter of Amarchand Mangaldas, a 90-year legal firm with offices in India.

Tune back in next week to listen to part two of our conversation, where Mr. Shroff talks at length about foreign direct investment in the telecom and retail sectors.

Tags: legal, intellectual property, Shardul Shroff, Amarchand Mangaldas

Pankaj Jain on Long Tail Retailing via Mobile Phones

Kamla Bhatt — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:35:44 +0000

Entrepreneur Pankaj Jain is bootstrapping his mobile start-up, Taxila Lab, and is on the verge of releasing his product soon. Though Taxila Lab is still in stealth mode, Pankaj agreed to talk to us about his company and its new product in broad terms - it has something to do with mobile retail and the long tail theory.

Pankaj pointed out that, for example, iTunes makes millions of titles available, while mobile music stores like Vodafone Live are restricted to only the hits (fewer than a thousand at any given point). It is the mobile phone’s UI limitation that is limiting the high levels of user adoption and full monetization of content that a digital channel ought to have, says Pankaj. And that’s where Taxila comes in.

Pankaj says that his company’s technology helps build digital stores that enables “long tail retailing” on mobile phones.

Prior to founding Taxila, Pankaj worked at Oracle, Siebel and July Systems.

Tags: Pankaj Jain, Taxila Lab, Vodafone Live

Utility Computing - Is It Real?

Paul Lancour — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:13:48 +0000

Utility computing is not a new concept, but the technologies that make it viable are finally maturing. Properly deployed, utility computing can increase server utilization rates, reduce the requirement to build overcapacity and lower operating costs. This podcast identifies key success factors for organizations hoping to capture the benefits of utility computing.

Moreover, utility computing is a dramatic departure from the ways IT departments have traditionally worked. Like providers of electricity, gas, water and other utilities, organizations can use the utility computing model to consolidate capacity and automatically allocate resources based upon the real-time requirements of users.

As a result, the utility computing model can contribute to achieving extremely high server utilization rates — and greatly save when it comes to the cost of adding and managing data center capacity in the traditional way.

Join BearingPoint technologist Frederic Veron to explore why, for these reasons and more, BearingPoint believes that the time is right to implement utility computing.