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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But then … Oracle bought Sun. And just like the fears that many in the MySQL community have had about the future of MySQL under Oracle’s watch (Oracle shut down the OpenSolaris project, for example), people were worried about the future of OpenOffice.org. And they did. of OpenOffice.org, and called it LibreOffice.

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Measuring Your Nonprofit’s Success with Business Intelligence 

Qgiv

According to Oracle Corporation : Business intelligence (BI) refers to capabilities that enable organizations to make better decisions, take informed actions, and implement more efficient business processes. Document these performance expectations and report plan versus actual at least once a month.

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Remember Paint by Number? SAP Visual Intelligence: A Visual Treat for Reporting Data

Tech Soup

Start off in SAP Visual Intelligence by pulling data from a broad range of sources: Excel spreadsheets ("personal data sources") as well as many types of databases (for example, Access, Oracle, SAP HANA, BusinessObjects). Another option is to copy and paste them into Microsoft Office documents or other documents.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual property, and other issues related to the evolution of the OpenSocial platform, while also ensuring all stakeholders share influence over its future direction. s not easy!

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. The API is SOAP.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Successful open source projects are increasingly emphasizing and devoting resources towards usability improvements, documentation, and ease of installation and upgrades. This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008).

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Senior Salesforce Developer in the USA or Canada

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Travel: Maximum 20% Qualifications and Education Requirements Minimum of three years Salesforce developer experience, including Apex classes and triggers, batch and scheduled jobs, API integration (REST and SOAP), Visualforce, and Aura (Lightning) components Javascript knowledge and experience with Lightning Web Components preferred Applied (..)

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