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The ultimate list of tools you need to analyze your content (5/6)

Content marketing is the ultimate way to connect with your audience and build brand awareness. It allows you to tell your own unique story and increase visibility around your product or company. Content marketing is an ongoing c…

How The Global Fund streamlined its move to the cloud

Today’s post was written by Paul Tuxford, chief information officer at The Global Fund, a public–private partnership that supports programs in 140 countries to prevent and treat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The Global Fund is…

The Best Way to Establish a Baseline When Playing Planning Poker

Planning Poker relies on relative estimating, in which the item being estimated is compared to one or more previously estimated items. It is the ratio between items that is important. An item estimated as 10 units of work (gener…

It seems like nearly everyone is ready (or at least willing) to add intelligence to their applications. Despite the enthusiasm, developers building cognitive applications have encountered some real growing pains . The way we…

The Mainframe Database

George, an independent contractor, usually spent his first day home from a business trip plowing through the emails that'd piled up in his absence. In the midst of this grind, he received a call from Lucinda, a Microsoft co…

There is now near universal commitment from senior managers across industries and parts of the world to the benefits of employee “wellness” programs. The idea of wellness goes beyond ensuring employees are physically healthy a…

Although 2015 was a record year for M&A activity , the heat is now starting to flow out of the market a little . But that still means that a lot of deals done over the past 12 months or so now need to be integrated into the n…

Connect Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 to Amazon’s Cloudwatch

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13C has been introduced as a ‘single pane of glass’. Managing and monitoring all the assets, in or out of the public cloud. But when creating an RDS- database instance in Amazon’s cloud, it is monitored…

Memorial Day 2016

If we don't remember those who have died, they died for nothing From 1775 to Present - 2,852,901 from Herding Cats

As part of an ongoing effort to keep you informed about our latest work, I would like to let you know about some recently published SEI technical reports, white papers, webinars, and podcasts. These publications highlight the lat…

CodeSOD: Classic WTF: Some Crazy Reason

It's Memorial Day in the US, which is a holiday remembering those who have died in wars, which we celebrate by not going to work and generally grilling something. I leave it to someone smarter than myself to unpack the deeper…

Integration Cloud Service (ICS): Execution Agent proxy issue: NumberFormatException

Integration Cloud Service (ICS) offers an Execution Agent which you can download and install on-premises. This provides a local ICS instance. The Execution Agent is useful in several situations. When you have an ICS trial, it is …

The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance

The basis of #Noestimates is that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without having to estimate the impact of those decisions Here's a research paper that hopefully will put an end to the nonsensical idea…

During the past two weeks, we’ve announced improvements that make Office 365 more accessible and easier to use. We’ve also introduced new features to make it easier for you to recover documents and resolve issues when problems oc…

Cybersecurity is no longer a choice

Security breaches are once again making big news in 2016. Despite years of headline stories about security leaks and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and repeated admonishments from security professionals that busines…

Error'd: Too Sexy for my Support Portal

"Nice try ScreenConnect," writes J.R. , "I'm wise to your supposedly random generated access codes."   Herb L. wrote, "I'd like to track more packages but USPS has very strict limits." …