On March 16, Billie Johnson, CBAP, spoke to the Austin chapter of IIBA on the "Impacts of Trust on Business Analysis". In particular, she describes the four cores of trust as defined by Stephen M.R. Covey in The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything. These four cores are: Integrity, Intent, Capabilities and…
I’ve always tried to separate passwords from emails containing a username and/or password protected document. When you send a password in the same email as a username and/or password protected document your “security” is useless. Even if you send the password in a separate email it takes the same data path, has the same data…
Fear of public speaking is one of the most common forms of anxiety. Yet most business professionals will be required to make a presentation in front of a live audience at some point in their careers. And as your role within an organization becomes more important and strategic, your presentations will become more frequent and…
When teams develop software, they use products from other vendors to aid them in following their chosen process. Usually data is captured during development that can be used to create reports or do analysis from these other vendors’ products resulting in some insight into capability. We can answer questions like “how long did this bug…
Let’s say that your company wants to prohibit dialing 900-numbers by its employees and visitors. The official name for numbers in this NPA within the North American Numbering Plan is "Premium-Rate Telephone Numbers". Traditionally, you would use Telephony Class of Service to accomplish this goal. With Lync Server 2010, that would entail you making sure…
Enhanced 911 is not merely 911. If your employees never travel, and if they only use desktop phones for calling, then you can route your regular-old 911 calls to a land line or circuit that is already registered at a physical address. This is incredibly simple to implement…but you will send emergency responders to thewrong place if your users move around and…
Sometimes you might like to modify the way that SIP messages are processed on Lync servers. Microsoft SIP Processing Language (MSPL) allows you to do just that. You can write a MSPL "message filter" to filter and route/reroute messages in Lync Server 2010 applications. (HT: Ken Lasko for a really good example of using this feature to…
So the Inaugural Office 365 International User Group meeting has been scheduled! It will be April 24, 2012 at 8pm UTC/GMT, see the time conversion here. This User Group is open to anyone and everyone that has an interest in Office 365. If interested please join our group on Linkedin.com and our mailing list via…
If you work on an application that uses a database, chances are you have to deal with releasing new versions of your software that make changes to it. The SQL language provides comprehensive support for making these types of changes and can access even advanced features of your chosen database platform. Schema changes are made…
One of our Denver clients provides correctional agencies with innovative technology solutions to aid in monitoring offenders. Having based many of these solutions on Microsoft SQL Server, the organization has engaged Catapult Systems to help with their migration from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2012. Catapult Systems leverages the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) product…
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