Integration of Enterprise Portal and Business Intelligence

Preparing a non technical document about the integration of Enterprise Portal and Business Intelligence. The integration allows to have a more complete proposal in different applicative domains.
The document describes goals and benefits of such integration...very interesting!

The Art of the Start

I am started to read the book "The Art of The Start" of Guy Kawasaki.
I think that the following chapters will be very usefull to improve my job:
- chapter 3 "The Art of Pitching"
- chapter 8 "The Art of Partnering"
- chapter 9 "The Art of Branding"
- chapter 10 "The Art of Rainmaking"

Organize Partner Training

Today I have spent my time organizing the training section for a jAPS System Integrator for the next week.
We have defined the required skill, the target audience, the program details and duration.
For the occasion we will prepare also the jAPS T-shirt for the applicants and some gadget that will use also for the CeBIT.

...... usability guidelines

Aesthetic and minimalist design: Dialogues should not contain information which is irrelevant or rarely needed. Every extra unit of information in a dialogue competes with the relevant units of information and diminishes their relative visibility
by Jakob Nielsen

True or false?

The strange world of enterprise portal

The problem sometimes is to understand the characteristic of an Enterprise Portal should have.
Some days ago, a friend ask me if there are available documents, articles or website with analisys about Enterprise Portal to choose the best one.
There are different website to compare CMS but I don't know if there is any one for enterprise Platform.

If you know about it...let me know!

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.... you begin?

Hamlet's indecision: how many website?

Today brainstorming meeting to define the new web portals organization .
But I'm beginning to wonder: how many website do we need?
Perhaps it's too late to make a decision...night brings counsel

Tomorrow we will make a decision...Any suggestions welcome!

Preparing jAPS Brochure and Poster for the Cebit

Also this year jAPS will attend at the CeBIT in Hannover, to be held from 2 to 6 March, with the new Official Mantainer, Tzente S.r.l.

During the CeBIT will promote also the Partners Network with some specific events.

We are preparing all jAPS marketing materials: brochure, poster and gadgets.

It is an hard job also because the marketing for open source project is not yet define.

Visit us at the CeBIT so you could see the result of our job.

The jAPS Community

As of my role of jAPS Community Director my goal is to work, interact and build a community around jAPS 2.0 Project.

I suggest to read the book "The Art of the Community", it is a very interesting.

This book could give me some suggestions to increase collaboration and authenticity and create buzz around of jAPS community to get more people involved.

jAPS t-shirt