Business Intelligence encompasses a wide range of best practices, architectures, and technologies that allow firms to gather their existing data into meaningful and useful information. This information can be readily used to support business decision-making in such areas as sales, finance, marketing, and HR. Business intelligence (BI) and related tools have been around for years […]

f you’ve never heard about content management systems(CMS’s), this article is for you. If you think of content management systems as blogging environments, there’s much more to the story, so this article is for you, too.A content management system is a system that helps us manage content. [Well, that’s a pretty obvious definition, isn’t it?] […]

We hear more and more today about the notion of ubiquitous computing, or the idea of computers being available anywhere. Just a few short years ago such an idea seemed more like science fiction than anything. But the continued ascendancy of mobile computing over desktops, coupled with Internet of Things and rapid advances in AI […]

JavaScript has emerged in the past couple years as the de facto expression of next generation web technologies, and a critical component of HTML5 technologies – along with CSS and JQuery. JavaScript is really ubiquitous – it really is showing up everywhere! There are many other reasons why JavaScript and JS-based tools like JSON and […]

If you would like to monitor a number or string from some arbitrary web page anywhere in the world, Dan Fruehauf’s article, HTTP Extraction With Paid Monitor, shows you how.Dan’s article not only explains how, but also contains sample code to show how.  The sample code is written in M3 (the Paid Monitor Monitor Manager) […]

Better performance of Apache web server can be attained by fine tuning its parameters in the configuration file (httpd.conf), located at in apache_dir/conf/. One of the parameters that should be considered is HostnameLookups. By configuring this parameter the user can customize the output format of the log file. By default Apache logs all requests in […]

Office365 is the successor of Microsoft BPOS (Business Productivity Online Standard Suite) and it’s basically an online service allowing organizations’ employees to share information through the Internet. Office 365 consists of several Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, such as Exchange Online, Lync Online, and SharePoint online, together with the common Microsoft Office applications, such as Word, Excel, […]

Building a startup begins with a dream or vision about taking something you’re passionate about and turning it into a business. You hope that the result will change the world and give you some financial freedom along the way. The chance to be your own boss is a nice appeal as well. There are lots […]