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  • SharePoint as an Enterprise Asset

    09.21.2011 | Mark Pietrasanta

    SharePoint has gained a lot of notoriety for its enterprise potential, and it continues to show up almost everywhere. But the truth is that many organizations are limiting the benefits that could be gained from this comprehensive platform and treating it more like an Intranet for simple document management. SharePoint, particularly SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online through Office 365, should really be considered an enterprise-wide…

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  • The Truth About Open Source

    07.13.2011 | Nathan Gibb

    Open source has gotten a bad rap. It reminds me of the McDonald’s strawberry lemonade commercial. In a deep, “good guy” voice the lemon complains that his kind have unfairly become synonymous with “dud, reject, flop, failure, bust, fiasco.” It seems that a lot of organizations have a similarly not so high opinion of open source, justified or not. But like the lemon, which redeems…

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  • Open Government within the Acquisition Lifecycle

    03.16.2011 | Mike Deutsch

    So, I eat at Chipotle. A lot… And one thing that constantly impresses me is the speed and efficiency of their order preparation and payment operations. On most days, I’m looking at less than 60-75 seconds from the time I reach the top of the line to the time they hand me my to-go order and receipt.

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