Why You Should Care About GPS

GPS is here and it isn’t going anywhere. Since the US government announced that it was going to make its NAVSTAR system available to the public for the common good it has gained steady and widespread acceptance into many different areas of modern society.
The first to catch on to the power of GPS derived location [...]

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Database Design and Avoiding Requirements Analysis Mistakes

Requirements analysis mistakes serve as the most troublesome aspect of a good database design. Design mistakes are often the result of a shallow or poorly conducted requirements analysis scenario. And even for the experienced developer, it is almost impossible to build a software application that meets most of business needs once the requirement analysis is [...]

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Keeping Medical Records Safe

Medical records are sensitive documents that must be maintained correctly in order to comply with federal, state and local governments.  Whether the files are made of paper and stored in the traditional manner or entered into the computer and stored electronically, an accurate tracking database is essential.
In the US, most of the rules that relate [...]

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Collaboration and Process Modelling in Engineering and Business - Research Implementation

An example was created of a cube to be manufactured is provided to illustrate the structure and process for creating the ontology, model, and visualisation/representation used for the 3 step translation process. This example was small enough to illustrate the whole three step process, with screenshots.
The cube model, as for all the engineering/process models was [...]

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Database Assisted Testing for Software Applications

The next time you plan to install a new software application, you should seriously consider designing a database-assisted test configuration. The table-records of the new database can then be populated with values that contribute to a strenuous requirements-validation and verification series of tests.
This configuration will provide you with a handy tool that can generate test-values [...]

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Applications Service Providers - What Do They Do and How Does it Benefit You?

Applications Service Providers (ASPs) are firms that give computer based services to customers over a network, usually the Internet. Sometimes called “On Demand” service providers, their business model relies on the ability to sell their expertise in a particular area to a wide swathe of customers. Much the same way that most small businesses don’t [...]

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How Does Case Management Software Help the Legal Industry?

Business these days are growing at an alarmingly increasing speed, thus creating a need for automation in any and every possible way. Companies are basically coming into the knowledge that unless they start automating parts of their businesses in ways that save them time, money and human resources, they are likely to lack behind the [...]

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Overcoming Complexity with Good Business Database Design

A Good business database design within a competitive market whose complexities seem to be growing exponentially can make everything easier for your company. But the effort requires that you find a way to get your mind around the complexity and make it more manageable. This article suggests that it can only be done by introducing [...]

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Is Oracle Recruiting MySQL Software Into Its Empire?

With Oracle’s recent $7.38 billion dollar buyout of Sun Microsystems, some new product recipes are bound to end up on the fattened company’s revisited menu. New head chef Larry Ellison is now directing the flavor of Sun’s software products, and some people are concerned for possible drastic changes, especially during this economic recession and the [...]

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A Broader View of Virtual Management

Managing a virtual environment is a lot like cleaning your car: No matter how many times you run the vacuum head over the carpet, the sand just bounces around among the fibers.
In the IT world, virtual machines would be the sand and your data center infrastructure would be the carpet. You, of course, are the [...]

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