Good candidates are: Foxpro, SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL for a backend. I use Oracle, and it is licensed by type and number of CPUs. That is what Oracle is increasingly doing even with its own products like Oracle’s Enterprise Resource Planning suite (ERP). They have it set up and instead of companies setting up the software and infrastructure themselves, they simply pay Oracle for access, and have what appears to be their own private system. MORE
Whether we''re talking about Oracle, IBM, or a charitable organization, how you deploy your human resources is the key to success. What does digital strategy look like in your organization? We asked, and nearly 500 individuals from nonprofit organizations responded! MORE
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The Oracle at Delphi told Oedipus “Know thyself!” If the Oracle were speaking to nonprofits today, it might say “Know thy supporters!”. For nonprofits interested in engaging supporters in online advocacy, this is especially true. MORE
AI at Work Study: Future Workplace, partnered with Oracle to interview 1,320 U.S. Here is a recent roundup of articles, blog posts, and research on the “Age of Automation” and what it means for nonprofits. MORE
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You can choose to sell Model 1 and Model 4, which is what Oracle did. emphasis mine] This may be another Timothy Chou but it’s highly unlikely that an article that talks about Software as a Service and basically namechecks Timothy Chou’s past business relations (he works for Oracle, shilled for Callidus and again, is on Blackbaud’s board) is not going to be written by him. MORE
Oracle and PostgreSQL are the most powerful and popular object-relational DBMS. However, PostgreSQL has important benefit compared to Oracle: it is open source and has more liberal license than another database management system. Export Oracle data into CSV files (one file per table). MORE
There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.??? Back in November when Open Social was announced, we had a round of discussions in the NpTech space that summarized on my blog. Just saw a press release from Yahoo, Google, and MySpace about OpenSocial Foundation. MORE
Oracle/PeopleSoft. I thought it might be useful to compile a list of all of the commercial donor databases I’m aware of. This list came from my head, my bookmarks, and lists compiled by NTEN and Idealware for their donor management software surveys (and I’m not certain all of these are actually donor databases). It does not include custom systems, of which there are many. I am not planning to keep this list updated — that sounds like a full-time job. MORE
I think of the Sea Change posts as communications from the Oracle at Delphi - rich in meaning, posing more questions than answers, with the goal of getting you to think about the question in relation to your strategy, rather than spoon-feeding you the answers. Published on Wordpress and Typepad and others Insights from nonprofit sisters and brothers Keeping my online strategy from going to the dogs These are a few of my favorite blogs. It's Friday! MORE
After graduating from MIT, Wan Lik Lee served as a manager in Oracle Systems Limited and a project team leader in Versant Corporation (formerly Versant Object Technology Corp.) Nonprofit board members share a solid commitment to a common cause. MORE
If that's the case, you'll need an enterprise package tailored to your specific needs, such as Oracle’s JD Edwards World Financial Management , Microsoft Dynamics AX or Lawson Software. PublishDate: July 2011. Author: Laura S. Quinn. Jay Leslie. Is tax season a time of time of stress, chaos and panic, or a relatively trouble-free period? MORE
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. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. MORE
I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same. funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’). ’). MORE
Here are some cool jobs, hand-picked by me, that you can find via the SocialFish job board ! We focus on jobs in social media , marketing , communications , PR , advocacy , and digital. MORE
First they might have to deal with Oracle from here on, and second because the service is so bad! MORE
However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. Sun bought MySQL AB (the company behind MySQL) last year for $1 Billion dollars, and therefore, MySQL AB now becomes a part of Oracle, it’s primary competition. Tags: Open Source Software Technology Zen database mysql nptech oracle sun In general, the activities of the big tech corporations have somewhat limited and indirect effect on nonprofit technology. MORE
Forward thinking traditional software vendors such as Oracle and Blackbaud have invested in technologies to deploy their solutions over the web by providing hosting services, often called “OnDemand” services, while retaining the ability to offer full-featured, customizable, and data rich solutions. The technology world is full of buzz words that make up a language all their own. MORE
Oracle Education Foundation. I compiled this list using the same methodology I used for my October 2007 list. Unfortunately, I still can’t compile a list of nonprofits outside the US. Quantcast and compete.com don’t do a good job of checking out international sites so I’m still limited by their inability to go outside US borders. Check out the list after the jump… Site URL. Monthly Traffic (in millions). Change (if available). Organization. Status. wikipedia.org. MORE
Foundation opens volunteerism Web site to nonprofits - Harwich, MA - Harwich Oracle: "Cape Cod —Cape Cod Volunteers, a Web site-based service that will link nonprofit agencies with potential volunteers, is open to nonprofits to post their volunteer opportunities. MORE
It talks to all-comers: Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Access, ODBC, yada yada yada. Email — you may be addicted to it, you may hate it, abuse it, love it, or eschew it. MORE
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. I’ve already been using LibreOffice, and intend to stick with it, since IMHO, a good bet is that anything FOSS will flounder and probably die in Oracle’s hands. MORE
Our CEO Jed Alpert recently sat down with Oracle’s Profit magazine to discuss how a mobile campaign can extend an organization’s existing communications – and what companies are doing wrong. He also gave some introductory thoughts for executives who are thinking of launching their own mobile campaigns: First, look at all the preexisting ways your brand touches customers. Think about how you can make these touches actionable. MORE
Robinson has over 19 years of information technology and marketing experience including a 13 year tenure at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and marketing roles most recently as the vice president of corporate marketing where he led the company's global marketing programs. MORE
What hardware, operating system, RAM, DRAM, SAN, UPS, NAS, SSD, IPV6, Ubuntu, Linux, Windows, SQL, MySQL, SAP, Oracle (and any other acronym you wish to come up with that I don't give a twopenny stuff about) do we need? MORE
He (and it’s almost always a he) is an oracle of business judgment with superhuman confidence, a brilliant strategist who shapes the reality in his path. MORE
And Apple is catching it as much as Microsoft, Oracle and other hold-outs of the last decade. On Microsoft’s Bing what’s new in web search: By all accounts, Microsoft has a success with its re-crafted bing search site. I posted something about it mainly to say, competition can re-emerge even in a market as dominated as web search. MORE
For those of us that depend on MySQL everyday, the buyout of Sun (which had bought MySQL) by Oracle did not bode well. A decidedly biased survey by the folks behind PostgreSQL suggests that many people worry about the health of MySQL in Oracle’s hands. I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. MORE
Good candidates are: Foxpro, SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL for a backend. As you may have guessed, I have seen the demo of Mpower Open and I was very pleased. So pleased, in fact, that it’s now on the Leaderboard. MORE
So Microsoft holds a unique position -- like SAP, or Oracle, they offer a class of integrated products that can run your business. Unlike SAP or Oracle, they're pretty much what they are - you can customize and integrate them, at a cost, but you can't, for instance, extend Microsoft's Dynamics HR package into a Client Management System. This is the final post in a three part series on Microsoft. MORE
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In September, they ran their 3rd social media challenge, in this case, the Oracle Online Action Challenge. Oracle made donations for all online actions (likes, comments, RTs, photos, etc) during Hunger Action Month , reaching a maximum donation of $25,000. MORE
frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" MORE
or from basically almost any database type out there: SQL, Azure, Access, Oracle, and more. Office 2016 includes powerful new Excel features. Here are three you should check out today. Try the New Chart Types. What's new with Excel charts? MORE
Robinson has over 19 years of information technology and marketing experience including a 13 year tenure at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and marketing roles most recently as the vice president of corporate marketing where he led the company's global marketing programs. MORE
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). MORE
Perhaps you are like me and are wondering if the Paul the oracle octopus will be right on his prediction for Spain to win the World Cup. Author: Amber Wobschall. I’m a huge NPR fan and not afraid to admit it. MORE
Former Oracle exec: ‘We will destroy Oracle’ [link] Kingsley Joseph | Monday, 02 October 2006 at 9:42 am What do I get, if after the keynote, you do think that that statement was warranted? MORE
Austin, Texas: Oracle | NetSuite For Nonprofits. National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. MORE
Allan Benamer says : Obviously, Blackbaud is taking a page out of Oracle’s playbook and applying it to themselves. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. MORE
MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition: “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data.” What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization? Without a doubt big data is one of the most talked about topics in nonprofit technology and IT in general this year. It was last year as well. MORE
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AUGUST 9, 2018
Oracle and PostgreSQL are the most powerful and popular object-relational DBMS. However, PostgreSQL has important benefit compared to Oracle: it is open source and has more liberal license than another database management system. Export Oracle data into CSV files (one file per table).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 20, 2009
However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. Sun bought MySQL AB (the company behind MySQL) last year for $1 Billion dollars, and therefore, MySQL AB now becomes a part of Oracle, it’s primary competition. Tags: Open Source Software Technology Zen database mysql nptech oracle sun In general, the activities of the big tech corporations have somewhat limited and indirect effect on nonprofit technology.
AFP Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
Foundation opens volunteerism Web site to nonprofits - Harwich, MA - Harwich Oracle: "Cape Cod —Cape Cod Volunteers, a Web site-based service that will link nonprofit agencies with potential volunteers, is open to nonprofits to post their volunteer opportunities.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 14, 2011
For those of us that depend on MySQL everyday, the buyout of Sun (which had bought MySQL) by Oracle did not bode well. A decidedly biased survey by the folks behind PostgreSQL suggests that many people worry about the health of MySQL in Oracle’s hands. I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
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. I’ve already been using LibreOffice, and intend to stick with it, since IMHO, a good bet is that anything FOSS will flounder and probably die in Oracle’s hands.
Connection Cafe
JULY 9, 2018
Places like the Stanford Design School’s approaches to journey mapping were adopted by companies like Oracle and Microsoft and this ‘structured empathy’ approach make incredible improvements to the customer journey. “A mind is like a parachute.
Connection Cafe
JULY 9, 2010
Perhaps you are like me and are wondering if the Paul the oracle octopus will be right on his prediction for Spain to win the World Cup. Author: Amber Wobschall. I’m a huge NPR fan and not afraid to admit it.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 7, 2011
I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same. funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’). ’).
Mobile Commons
MARCH 22, 2012
Our CEO Jed Alpert recently sat down with Oracle’s Profit magazine to discuss how a mobile campaign can extend an organization’s existing communications – and what companies are doing wrong. He also gave some introductory thoughts for executives who are thinking of launching their own mobile campaigns: First, look at all the preexisting ways your brand touches customers. Think about how you can make these touches actionable.
gokubi.com
OCTOBER 2, 2006
Former Oracle exec: ‘We will destroy Oracle’ [link] Kingsley Joseph | Monday, 02 October 2006 at 9:42 am What do I get, if after the keynote, you do think that that statement was warranted?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 20, 2012
In September, they ran their 3rd social media challenge, in this case, the Oracle Online Action Challenge. Oracle made donations for all online actions (likes, comments, RTs, photos, etc) during Hunger Action Month , reaching a maximum donation of $25,000.
Connection Cafe
APRIL 17, 2009
I think of the Sea Change posts as communications from the Oracle at Delphi - rich in meaning, posing more questions than answers, with the goal of getting you to think about the question in relation to your strategy, rather than spoon-feeding you the answers. Published on Wordpress and Typepad and others Insights from nonprofit sisters and brothers Keeping my online strategy from going to the dogs These are a few of my favorite blogs. It's Friday!
SocialFish
APRIL 19, 2017
Here are some cool jobs, hand-picked by me, that you can find via the SocialFish job board ! We focus on jobs in social media , marketing , communications , PR , advocacy , and digital.
gokubi.com
FEBRUARY 11, 2008
First they might have to deal with Oracle from here on, and second because the service is so bad!
NTEN
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
Whether we''re talking about Oracle, IBM, or a charitable organization, how you deploy your human resources is the key to success. What does digital strategy look like in your organization? We asked, and nearly 500 individuals from nonprofit organizations responded!
NetWits
MAY 23, 2008
Forward thinking traditional software vendors such as Oracle and Blackbaud have invested in technologies to deploy their solutions over the web by providing hosting services, often called “OnDemand” services, while retaining the ability to offer full-featured, customizable, and data rich solutions. The technology world is full of buzz words that make up a language all their own.
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2015
or from basically almost any database type out there: SQL, Azure, Access, Oracle, and more. Office 2016 includes powerful new Excel features. Here are three you should check out today. Try the New Chart Types. What's new with Excel charts?
Eric Jacobsen Blog
APRIL 4, 2018
He (and it’s almost always a he) is an oracle of business judgment with superhuman confidence, a brilliant strategist who shapes the reality in his path.
Robert Weiner
JANUARY 11, 2009
Oracle/PeopleSoft. I thought it might be useful to compile a list of all of the commercial donor databases I’m aware of. This list came from my head, my bookmarks, and lists compiled by NTEN and Idealware for their donor management software surveys (and I’m not certain all of these are actually donor databases). It does not include custom systems, of which there are many. I am not planning to keep this list updated — that sounds like a full-time job.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 1, 2017
Austin, Texas: Oracle | NetSuite For Nonprofits. National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. He has seen it all.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 4, 2016
After graduating from MIT, Wan Lik Lee served as a manager in Oracle Systems Limited and a project team leader in Versant Corporation (formerly Versant Object Technology Corp.) Nonprofit board members share a solid commitment to a common cause.
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 14, 2011
Robinson has over 19 years of information technology and marketing experience including a 13 year tenure at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and marketing roles most recently as the vice president of corporate marketing where he led the company's global marketing programs.
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 14, 2011
Robinson has over 19 years of information technology and marketing experience including a 13 year tenure at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and marketing roles most recently as the vice president of corporate marketing where he led the company's global marketing programs.
Tech Soup Blog
APRIL 26, 2013
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).
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
DECEMBER 18, 2008
Oracle Education Foundation. I compiled this list using the same methodology I used for my October 2007 list. Unfortunately, I still can’t compile a list of nonprofits outside the US. Quantcast and compete.com don’t do a good job of checking out international sites so I’m still limited by their inability to go outside US borders. Check out the list after the jump… Site URL. Monthly Traffic (in millions). Change (if available). Organization. Status. wikipedia.org.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
Good candidates are: Foxpro, SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL for a backend. I use Oracle, and it is licensed by type and number of CPUs. That is what Oracle is increasingly doing even with its own products like Oracle’s Enterprise Resource Planning suite (ERP). They have it set up and instead of companies setting up the software and infrastructure themselves, they simply pay Oracle for access, and have what appears to be their own private system.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 15, 2007
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. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
Good candidates are: Foxpro, SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL for a backend. As you may have guessed, I have seen the demo of Mpower Open and I was very pleased. So pleased, in fact, that it’s now on the Leaderboard.
Idealware
OCTOBER 30, 2008
So Microsoft holds a unique position -- like SAP, or Oracle, they offer a class of integrated products that can run your business. Unlike SAP or Oracle, they're pretty much what they are - you can customize and integrate them, at a cost, but you can't, for instance, extend Microsoft's Dynamics HR package into a Client Management System. This is the final post in a three part series on Microsoft.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 25, 2008
There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.??? Back in November when Open Social was announced, we had a round of discussions in the NpTech space that summarized on my blog. Just saw a press release from Yahoo, Google, and MySpace about OpenSocial Foundation.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 6, 2007
Allan Benamer says : Obviously, Blackbaud is taking a page out of Oracle’s playbook and applying it to themselves. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry.
Gavin's Digital Diner
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
It talks to all-comers: Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Access, ODBC, yada yada yada. Email — you may be addicted to it, you may hate it, abuse it, love it, or eschew it.
Idealware
AUGUST 15, 2009
And Apple is catching it as much as Microsoft, Oracle and other hold-outs of the last decade. On Microsoft’s Bing what’s new in web search: By all accounts, Microsoft has a success with its re-crafted bing search site. I posted something about it mainly to say, competition can re-emerge even in a market as dominated as web search.
Frogloop
MAY 29, 2007
frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"
Frogloop
MAY 17, 2007
frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
JULY 23, 2008
You can choose to sell Model 1 and Model 4, which is what Oracle did. emphasis mine] This may be another Timothy Chou but it’s highly unlikely that an article that talks about Software as a Service and basically namechecks Timothy Chou’s past business relations (he works for Oracle, shilled for Callidus and again, is on Blackbaud’s board) is not going to be written by him.
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2011
What hardware, operating system, RAM, DRAM, SAN, UPS, NAS, SSD, IPV6, Ubuntu, Linux, Windows, SQL, MySQL, SAP, Oracle (and any other acronym you wish to come up with that I don't give a twopenny stuff about) do we need?
gokubi.com
SEPTEMBER 1, 2006
While at Oracle, Benioff was in charge of a philanthropy project to give away $10 million in computer hardware. Benioff left Oracle and started Salesforce.com in the mid 1990′s. If Oracle/Google/Microsoft bought Salesforce.com would the donation program go away?
Idealware
JULY 14, 2011
If that's the case, you'll need an enterprise package tailored to your specific needs, such as Oracle’s JD Edwards World Financial Management , Microsoft Dynamics AX or Lawson Software. PublishDate: July 2011. Author: Laura S. Quinn. Jay Leslie. Is tax season a time of time of stress, chaos and panic, or a relatively trouble-free period?
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