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Conferences, comedy, clouds and contracts.

Conferences, comedy, clouds and contracts.

By Thomas Otter on October 30, 2012

Continuing my attempts to bring Shakespeare into as many posts as I can…. Let specialties be therefore drawn between us, That covenants may be kept on either hand. (Taming of the Shrew  II. i. 127-8) A couple of weeks ago, I presented at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, the topic being SaaS Contracts:  how not to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged cartoon, Cloud, Compliance, contracts, Finance related, HCM, HR, HR Technology, Law, Law related, SaaS, Shakespeare

Shrinking Balls

Shrinking Balls

By John Taschek on February 10, 2011

In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged @jtaschek, analysts, bullying, chatter, Cloud Computing, cloudblog, Constellation, excel, Facebook, google, iPad/Apple, mean girls, microsoft, mobile, NetBase Solutions, platform, Ray Wang, real-time, salesforce.com, sentiment analysis, Shakespeare, Super Bowl, taschek, Twitter, Weblogs

More Shakespeare. This time on the software sales pitch.

More Shakespeare. This time on the software sales pitch.

By Thomas Otter on November 23, 2009

 
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:Thy pyramids built up with newer mightTo me are nothing novel, nothing strange;They are but dressings of a former sight.Our dates are brief, and therefore we admireWhat thou dost foist upon us that is old;And rather make them born to our desireThan think that we before […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged IT Related, life, sales, Shakespeare

Shakespeare groks in memory databases

Shakespeare groks in memory databases

By Thomas Otter on November 8, 2009

I’ve been trying to get to grips with in-memory databases. Seems the bard beat me to it.

(image via wikipedia, thanks)
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brainFull charactered with lasting memory,Which shall above that idle rank remain,Beyond all date, even to eternity:Or, at the least, so long as brain and heartHave faculty by nature to […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged databases, IT Related, Shakespeare, sonnets

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