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Talking to an Emptoris Exec Post-Empower 2011 (and Pre-IBM 2012)
February 11th, 2012
I recently published a TEC article about my attendance of this past fall. What follows now is my deep-dive interview with Terrence Curley, Senior Vice President (SVP) of Product Strategy and Development at Emptoris, with the idea of developing some of the main messages from the conference.
During this past year, with the acquisition of Rivermine, the telecom expense management (TEM) solution provider, and of Xcitec, the supplier lifecycle management (SLM) solution provider, Emptoris remained focused and opportunistic on expanding in ways that should benefit its global customers and expand its solution capabilities in strategic supply management (SSM).
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Fancy Master Detail or how to Highlight Related Detail Records
February 8th, 2012
Last week I a had a rather interesting question: Is it possible to highlight related data that is in different af:table components ? Sure you can, so I decided to write a simple example application, and share the knowledge in this post
The use Case. After selecting a row in one table I need to highlight related rows in another table.
The implementation. To implement this, I create a page based on ADF Business Components for Countries and Locations, both from the HR schema. Note that, in order to make these tables behave independently, I do not use a viewlink between countries and locations.
Tags: Highlight Related, Related
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Best Tech and Gadget Gifts Under $200
January 20th, 2012
Our gift guides are chock full of awesome tech, gadgets, and accessories. And I poked through all of them to find the best products under $200.
The Kindle Fire isnt the only worthwhile gadget to be had at this price point. Whether the people on your list love media, want to organize a vast photo collection, aim to get slim after the new year, or just play games all day, theres a gift for them here.
You should also check out our other Best Gifts Under guides for accessories and gadgets under $25, $50, $75, $100, and more.
Amazon Kindle Fire
The Kindle Fire wants to steal the iPad 2s thunder with its $199 price tag.
The Kindle Fire became a best-seller the moment Amazon opened up for pre-orders, making it one of the most popular devices of the season.
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Software for analyzing digital pathology images proving its usefulness
January 18th, 2012
In bladder cancer test case, a new software tool developed at U-M separates malignancy from background tissue.
In a new study, a program known as Spatially Invariant Vector Quantization (SIVQ) was able to separate malignancy from background tissue in digital slides of micropapillary urothelial carcinoma, a type of bladder cancer whose features can vary widely from case to case and that presents diagnostic challenges even for experts.
The findings by U-M and Rutgers University researchers were published online in Analytical Cellular Pathology ahead of print publication.
“Being able to pick out cancer from background tissue is a key test for this type of software tool,” says U-M informatics fellow Jason Hipp, M.D., Ph.D., who shares lead authorship of the paper with resident Steven Christopher Smith, M.D., Ph.D.
Tags: Software, Software Analyzing
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Summarizing PTC’s Decades of Fervent In-House Innovation (and Acquisitions) – Part 4
January 1st, 2012
Part 1 of this blog series introduced Needham, Massachusetts, United States (US)-based Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC, NASDAQ: PMTC), which is an over $1 billion (USD) large software company that develops, markets, and supports software solutions and related services. The article analyzed the company’s genesis from its inception in 1985 until the mid-2000s.
Part 2 then analyzed the more recent acquisitions of the products that have meanwhile been turned into integrated modules for the idea concept and product design phases of the product lifecycle within PTC Windchill 10.0, which started shipping in April 2011 (see TEC’s ). The ar
Tags: Innovation Acquisitions, Part
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