Author Archives: Intrepid Business Venturer

Communicating with your clients: Skype v WebEx v GoToMeeting

It is, perhaps ironic, that we arrived at the choice for GoToMeeting after first using WebEx for a while in conjunction with a software vendor. We also tasted AccuConference through connections with a past client and looked at a couple of other options. In an admittedly rather un-scientific manner, though cost was a consideration, we ultimately decided that GoToMeeting offered all we needed in terms of supporting and connecting with our clients – or rather, the combination of GoToMeeting together with our Skype account gave us the full scope of inter-communication functionality that we needed for our business in servicing our clients ~ the only reason that we exist as a business in the first place! Continue reading

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Clever “Adobe Risk Management” Fake Alert ~ Do not be fooled!

The above title for today’s cautionary tale was lightly ’stolen’ from the blog of our good friend Bill Houle, Director of IT for Verari Technologies, Inc. There have been frequent rogue exploits by the cracker community to use references to Adobe Flash and … Continue reading

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Is (packaged) Business Intelligence (BI) Software Coming Up Short?

The article quoted below was written by David Needle and published April 29, 2010 on the ”IT Management” website at: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/datbus/article.php/3879316 The article directly addresses a principle limitation of BI tools: The information presented to Decision Makers typically begs addition questions that … Continue reading

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Business Intelligence (BI) is Crucial to Profitable Decision Making

This begs the question as to whether or not self-service BI is the answer for capital and manpower constrained small businesses or is this option just another temptation leading ultimately to yet another cash-drain, effort distraction and problem in waiting. The following are extracts from … Continue reading

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