Check out the new Economist.com screensaver. We’ve been working with the great team over at Economist.com for a while, and were set the challenge to help re-invent their previously phenomenally successful screensaver from several years back.
The 3D globe screensaver showcases 66 of the world’s major economies, drawing on the 2007 edition of The Economist’s […]

Stuart Brown’s recent interesting blog post on passwords revealed the top ten most commonly used passwords. Not revealing which, one of the passwords from the list is often a launch password we provide clients with so that they can initially remember the password when they first start using back end or extranet functionality. […]

Not literally but technically, here’s a delightful site for the technical savy art loving tourist about to hit Paris.  Google Maps continue to power the mash up arena with this art lover’s blog providing a doubly visual offering of what’s being exhibited in Paris now!
http://www.artscape.fr/map.php
All they need is a download to blackberry functionality so that […]

Most companies appreciate the complexity of back-end processes when it comes to ecommerce offerings. But how many pay as much attention when no money’s changing hands? Will you risk building a site that doesn’t connect with the rest of your organisation working behind the scenes?
If you were in the planning stages of building a […]

I found an old text book which I studied in 1990 in my first year of Accounting Information Systems and found a chapter on the pros and cons of Custom Solutions versus ‘off-the-shelf’ packages.
The advantages of Custom Solutions are unchanged and are obvious: No compromises : you get exactly […]

I am interested to see whether you have any formal training in Excel?

My guess is you are no different from me: self-taught to use most of the software that empowers our lives. I remember teaching myself Lotus 123 – that trusty old “/” command. I am still convinced […]

There - I got your attention! Don’t worry I won’t take Excel away from you! - I don’t have anything against it- it’s a powerful tool, but it’s more that I accuse its’ users of relying on it for the wrong purpose. We are forced to use Excel as a tool to […]

I used to redesign business processes before the Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP gurus were wheeled in to perform their package implementations.
The level of customisation that these ERP packages afforded multi-national businesses was revolutionary and gave them a distinct competitive advantage.
Why shouldn’t SME’s gain competitive edge using bespoke software? In the late 90’s […]