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Thanks for visiting. Subscribe to our RSS feed to stay in touch. Thanks for visiting! Who says you can’t take it with you? Well, at least with respect to the Engage, Inc. blog for Amazon’s Kindle users, that saying certainly no longer applies. That’s right, Engage’s content is now syndicated for Amazon Kindle readers in [...]

Microsoft Convergence 2009

March 9th, 2009

It’s that time of year again when all of us in the Microsoft Dynamics community join together in peace and harmony for our annual ‘lovefest’ – the Convergence Show.  This year the show rolls into New Orleans and I doubt the French Quarter will ever be quite the same.  Nothing like a few thousand of [...]

The Super Savvy Consumer

February 9th, 2009

Consumer access to personal technology is transforming the relationship between businesses and their customers now more than ever. Personal technology, particularly mobile technology, is driving the relationship for healthcare providers, retailers, governments – cutting across most other market segments as well. CRN.com has a pretty eye-opening article on the future of retail up right now. [...]

Netbooks and HealthCare

January 10th, 2009

If you haven’t had a chance to play with a netbook yet, you may want to give one a spin to see what you may be missing. One of our team members has been eyeing one of these miniature (about 2lbs or less) laptops for a while, but decided to go with a more traditional [...]

I’ve always been one for supporting healthy, new beginnings; especially when they are brought about without avoidance of past events, but rather through healthy acknowledgement of the valuable lessons learned instead. The passing of 2008 into the rear view mirror and the coming of 2009 into view through the front windscreen brings just that type [...]

Chalk one up on the scoreboard for Disaster Recovery (DR) this year. Ever since the brutal hurricane season of 2005, more and more business have been putting serious thought into disaster recovery plans. This year, according to an article from CRN, the hard efforts paid off. Though I haven’t come across any hard statistics on [...]

An Integration Sucess Story

October 10th, 2008

At the start of this summer Borders revealed a new eCommerce portal, designed to help it’s flagging book and media selling business catch up to eCommerce giants like Amazon.com. The project has been sucessful, but that’s mostly because what borders has created is far more than just a website. They’ve overhauled their IT systems to [...]

Quick Compliance Tips

September 22nd, 2008

Worried you might not be compliant when it comes to security and privacy regulations? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. According to

Living Organizations

August 5th, 2008

Among the definitions of life is the ability for an organism to grow, to adapt, to respond, to reproduce, and to convert raw materials into energy. Organizations, it seems, fit the definition of life very well. So are there other qualities of life that the living organization can deploy to improve its success. Recently, I [...]

So, after being in technology for more or less all of my adult life I am embarrassed to say that I have NOT been on the leading edge of those trends collectively called ‘Social Networking’. In fact, I have been something of a Social Networking Pariah, having only recently moved myself (largely through threats from [...]