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How to Declare Variables in MS-SQL Server Management Studio

March 17, 2011

Most of the projects I work on have some kind of database interaction and some of them require variables to be the passed to the queries at runtime.I typically test my queries against the database using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and being …

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How to Create Code-Based OpenSpan Solutions

March 17, 2011

OpenSpan Studio and its counterpart MS-Visual Studio plugin do a pretty good job when you have to integrate applications where you don’t have the source code available, service-enabled applications and/or exposed APIs. Having all the properties, even…

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Getting Started with OpenSpan Events (without the server infrastructure)

March 16, 2011

So, you have heard about OpenSpan and its capabilities to collect and manipulate events from the user’s desktop. Well, some people have been asking me if there is any way to start playing with OpenSpan Events without building the whole infrastructure b…

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Monitor the process not the machine

February 19, 2010

Every application logs a varying amount of information about what occurs when users or other systems interact with it. These logs are sent to a database or a file location – it doesn’t really matter which because what you end up with is a silo of data…

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Understand the process

August 11, 2009

From time to time people will ask me what’s the most important thing to get right before you start down the path of automating a process (or part thereof). I’ve finally decided that actually the best thing you can arm yourself with is knowledge of the…

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Automation is key to an optimized work force

July 15, 2009

Without a doubt, many of our customers see significant benefits when they automate their end user tasks. Some customers have seen over $25m a year in time savings in their first automated solution rolled out to their users. This stands to reason though…

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Trial

July 15, 2009

We’ve just announced a new way to try out the OpenSpan software using a cloud based service from Amazon. You can register here and you’ll be given a machine in the cloud that is preconfigured with a the OpenSpan platform and a set of tutorials and fin…

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How quickly can you integrate to Salesforce.com?

July 13, 2009

OpenSpan has built a component that will allow you to integrate to Salesforce in under 5 minutes without writing a single line of code! That’s a big difference compared to the “normal” integration path people take – starting your IDE, creating an empt…

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UI in the Cloud

July 9, 2009

How do you differentiate as to what is a cloud application and what is a client server application (thin client or fat client). Does it really matter?There are so many plug ins for the browsers now, along with so many browser incompatibilities I feel n…

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Accessible and Reliable

June 28, 2009

Recently, Eric asked me to speak at one of our company meetings about the future of the OpenSpan platform. He didn’t want me to speak about releases or features, but rather about the platform as a whole. What is our vision for the OpenSpan platform?Thi…

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