Which role Web 2.0 will play in the ERP game?

What are your main investments in 2008/2009? This question is asked to a lot of CIOs these days. Many companies are planning a major ERP upgrade and doing first steps in a SOA based environment. These strategies are well aligned with business stakeholders and are based on a solid businesscase. It goes more flawsy if it comes [...]

Intel Mashmaker – Mashups easy, fast and fun!

Intel launched a new product for creation of mashups, called Intel Mashmaker. It is coming from Intel’s research center and it is really cool. It enables you to create personalized mashups on the fly, which is easier, faster and more fun. According to Intel, you can:

Build mashups on-the-fly – combine content from multiple sources such [...]

BumpTop – a REAL desktop UI

We have seen myriads of good or bad approaches to build a desktop UI, which has some similarities with a real desk. There were multiple directions to copy the reality in software and enrich it with more efficiency. Thousands of researchers tried to find the killer approach based on their understanding of the human behaviour. If we are [...]

Seadragon or picture zooming in amazing speed

Yesterday I came across with a very amazing product, called seadragon. It is a company, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2006. This software is capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces. The video shows you some of the astonishing features, what is possible today:
 
Microsoft plans to [...]