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Exploring Solutions

Learn about new information technology, software possibilities and packages, and software solutions.

ThinIdentity addresses rising health care IT costs with virtual desktop technology: Interview with Joe Jaudon

September 10, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

It’s hard to avoid talk about the rising costs of health care these days. And if you are like me, you would love to apply your best business analysis efforts to help solve the problem. But the myriad of organizations, stakeholders, processes, and technologies involved seems so complex and overwhelming that it’s difficult to figure [...]

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Thoughts from an enterprise architect

September 3, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Today we meet with David Brandenburg, an enterprise architect with 15 years of experience in various technology roles. David is also my fiancee, but we cast aside our wedding planning talk to discuss the interrelationships between our respective fields in enterprise architecture and business analysis.
David helps us see how new technologies can enable fancier functionality. [...]

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Pros and Cons of Software-as-a-Service models

April 27, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

With all the hype today, you’d think this article be titled “why you need to get your self some SaaS today”. That may have been a cute title but I’d be doing my visitors a disservice.  The truth is, there are pros and cons of service software models.  Weighed against the options of building or [...]

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When to stop analyzing requirements and start shopping for software solutions

April 20, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

All too often we start shopping for software solutions before we know what we want or, worse yet, we create fully defined specifications (whether written or in our minds) before we start shopping. In either situation either our activities are not efficient and possibly ineffective at finding the best possible technology solution to a real [...]

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What I learned about SaaS requirements while searching for a wedding dress

March 30, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Over the past week and a half, I’ve been to 4 dress shops and tried on at least 50 wedding dresses. Being in the position of unenlightened consumer, working my way through a purchase I have never made before and will never (knock on wood) make again, and really not sure what I wanted but [...]

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Using free software and services to scale a business

March 5, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

It’s no secret that a plethora of free tools and services exist to help you do anything from publish a blog to publish video to manage your email and calendar to doing all kinds of traditional administrative tasks like word processing and spreadsheet management.  But what I learned this past weekend is that it’s possible [...]

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