http://www.prashanta.com/archive/ http://www.prashanta.com/intranet-and-km/ <h4>Leveraging Technology to Streamline Intranet Strategies was the topic of our presentation at an IIR in 2002.<br /></h4> <h4>Back then we wrote that "Most organisations are striving to reduce the cost of doing business to deal with the pressure of a highly competitive, global marketplace". We opined that in this context Intranets have emerged to be an<br />essential tool for increased profitability, improved workforce morale and improved customer relationship.<br /></h4> <h4>Well the drivers have not changed and we think you will find the presentation and paper even more relevant today. The <a href="http://www.prashanta.com/assets/Uploads/Opinion-Assets/PaperIIRIntranetKMMay2002.pdf" target="_blank" title="IIR KM 2002 Paper">paper</a> is here and the presentation is <a href="http://www.prashanta.com/assets/Uploads/Opinion-Assets/PresentationIIRIntranetandKMMay2002.pdf" target="_blank" title="IIR KM 2002 Preso">here</a></h4> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:54:00 +1200 http://www.prashanta.com/intranet-and-km/ http://www.prashanta.com/broadband-thought-leadership/ <h4>I will make a statement now: "Broadband is an industry, in fact it is a super-industry &ndash; it will be bigger, more pervasive, than electricity and roads, the last two superindustries."</h4> <h4>... thus we wrote in the InfoTech Weekly - way back on 19th November 2001.</h4> <h4>We continued ... Yes, for the first time since the advent of civilisation we have an economic&nbsp; infrastructure that "virtually" extends the human being in real time and demonstrates electricity and road-like characteristics in its potential impact on civilisation.</h4> <h4>I will make a statement now: "Broadband is an industry, in fact it is a super-industry &ndash; it will be bigger, more pervasive, than electricity and roads, the last two superindustries."</h4> <h4>We are proud to have forseen the role of Broadband in human society and feel good that it is now mainstreamed and we continue to contribute to realise the benefits for all New Zealanders.</h4> <h4>Good to note that Government, Business and Society have come to see what we saw way back then.</h4> <h4>Hope you enjoy the <a href="http://www.prashanta.com/assets/Uploads/Opinion-Assets/InfotechopiniononBroadband19Nov2001.pdf" target="_blank" title="Infotech 2001">article.</a><br /></h4> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:36:00 +1200 http://www.prashanta.com/broadband-thought-leadership/ http://www.prashanta.com/web-services-setting-the-agenda/ <h4><span class="body">Way back in 2002 Web Services were in their infancy, sun was shining on SUN! and we were there leading the thought and action on Web Services.</span></h4> <h4><span class="body">The presentations here were delivered to a packed audience at Wellington and Auckland as a guest of Sun. </span></h4> <h4><br /><a href="http://www.prashanta.com/assets/Uploads/Opinion-Assets/AucklandWebServicesSunOne22May-2002.pdf" target="_blank" title="Akl Web Services 2002">Auckland Presentation</a></h4> <h4><a href="http://www.prashanta.com/assets/Uploads/Opinion-Assets/WellingtonWebServicesSunOne21May-2002.pdf" target="_blank" title="Wel Web Services 2002">Wellington Presentation</a></h4> <h4>An allied opinion on the matter was a <a href="http://www.prashanta.com/assets/Uploads/Opinion-Assets/UDDIat-Vic-UniSep26thSep2000.pdf" target="_blank" title="VuW UDDI 2000">lecture</a> on UDDI to a Vic Uni class in 2000.<br /></h4> <h4>Today we talk about mashups and those in the know realise that web services are at the heart of what is happening - hope this information of use to you.</h4> <h4>Most things in this business have not changed, the slides have now come alive and become real and oh yes - even Microsoft does web service now.<br /></h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:23:00 +1200 http://www.prashanta.com/web-services-setting-the-agenda/ http://www.prashanta.com/e-business-govis-200/ <h4>Our Principal Project Managed and implemented a major, early, innovative e-business project for Public Trust in 2000-2001. We were privileged that our client (IBM client at the time) Public Trust agreed to share the stage with us at the GOVIS 2002 conference to share our lessons from that project.</h4> <h4>It may appear a bit dated, however it was moment of truth in the integration and exposing a complex corporate application to the "Cloud" and given that in 2002 the phrase Cloud Computing was not even invented - we are proud to have been involved with using the INTERnet for serious industrial strength corporate IT way back then.</h4> <h4>We still use the learnings from this project and hope you find this useful for your work.<br /></h4> <h4>You will find the presentation in pdf format <a href="http://www.prashanta.com/assets/Uploads/Opinion-Assets/CopyForDistributionforGOVISJuly2.pdf" target="_blank" title="PT Govis Preso">here</a>.<br /></h4> Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:02:00 +1200 http://www.prashanta.com/e-business-govis-200/