Oracle On Demand expert Nick Hall, will discuss how customers can migrate to Oracle On Demand; upgrade to R12; and get there faster, at lower cost, and with less risk.
Where can I learn more about pros/cons of various pricing models for software development? Proponents of agile methodology suggest approaches such as multi-stage contracts, target cost contracts, target schedule contracts, shared benefit contracts, variable scope contracts (http://poppendieck.com/agilecontracts.htm). I'm looking for opinions, experience, case studies or informed discussion of these approaches.
Where can I learn more about pros/cons of various pricing models for software development? Proponents of agile methodology suggest approaches such as multi-stage contracts, target cost contracts, target schedule contracts, shared benefit contracts, variable scope contracts (http://poppendieck.com/agilecontracts.htm). I'm looking for opinions, experience, case studies or informed discussion of these approaches.
By spotting anomalies before they incur large losses and limiting exposure to fraud and wastage, organizations save on time and cost spent on errors and remediation, prevent the escalation of risk, and optimize business performance. The session will unveil the latest capabilities offered by Oracle's GRC Applications that help companies grow from managing compliance to optimizing business performance.
I've looked into a number of video hosting options, but none seem to provide a .mp4 link to your uploaded video, which I require for use in a project using BigVideo.js. The only service I've found to provide this functionality so far is VimeoPro, which I can't afford.
Is there any way to do this for free in YouTube? Or, otherwise, are there any other (preferably low- or no-cost) video hosting providers that will provide a .mp4 link?
Many people who are just beginning to think about ways to start an online business don't have a lot of extra cash just laying around. After all, they want an online business to make money, not cost them money they may not be able to spare. So they look for ways they can make a website for free.
As an illustration of the potential cost of accidental breaches, the US Dept of Health and Human Services recently fined a hospital $1m for losing documents relating to some of its patients. Allegedly, the documents were left on the subway by a hospital employee. For incidents in the UK, several local government bodies have been fined between £60k and £100k. Evidently, the watchdogs are taking an increasingly firm position.
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The Java SE platform allows you to adapt (localize) your applications to various languages and regions easily, cost-effectively, and without having to re-engineer the software.
Outsourcing became quite popular in the 1990's as companies raced to reduce costs by moving non-essential functions out of the corporate cost structure. One of the main methods for doing this was to outsource. The basic business case to move any function to a subcontract was quite simple. Subcontractors that focus only on one thing have probably developed a deeper technical understanding of the process and are more effective. Economies of scale allow the outsourcer to provide the same (or higher quality) service at a lower price.
<b>Phoronix:</b> "This surprised many so we published another article entitled The Cost Of Running Compiz where we showed the performance penalties of a compositing window manager with different hardware and drivers. This led some to ask whether the performance of KWin also causes the OpenGL frame-rate to drop, so here are those KDE benchmarks."
(This question was inspired by the most-voted answer here)
How do you go about explaining refactoring (and technical debt) to a non-technical person (typically a PHB or customer)? ("What, it's going to cost me a month of your work with no visible difference?!")
UPDATE Thanks for all the answers so far, I think this list will provide several useful analogies to which we can point the appropriate people (though editing out references to PHBs may be wise!)
One of the biggest mistakes people make when they are trying to get more visitors to their site is the fact that they try and hire out SEO firms to do all the work for them. In this article I want to show you why this is a bad idea that can cost you a lot of money.
Sometimes I have heard that Exalogic is just a bunch of servers connected using infiniband, something that you can easily build yourself at a lower cost.
That comments misses completely 2 things:
1) What is the idea behind an Oracle engineered system, and the back that Oracle provides for them
2) What is Exalogic
This amazing 5 minute presentation explains Exalogic potential:
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
This highway is traversed everyday by roughly 338 million Chinese Internet users. With the largest population in the world of 1.3 billion, the increase of Chinese Internet users in the next years would undoubtedly be viably incremental. Reaching out to an established and growing target market of that size and potential at a relatively lower cost of advertising makes for a lucrative ratio.
Using relevant keywords in your heading tags along with inserting anchor text links as an internal linking structure you are optimizing your website for better search results (SERPs). I think we all understand the value in a page one ranking of an internet search that cost you nothing.
The OPM Actual Costing Analyzer is a script which you can use proactively at any time to review Setups and pieces of data which are known to affect either the performance or the accuracy of either the OPM Actual Cost process, or Lot Costing.Each topic reviewed by this report has been specifically selected because it points to the solution used to resolve at least two Service Requests during a recent 3-month period.
You can download this script from Doc ID 1629384.1, OPM Actual Costing Analyzer Diagnostic Script.
With multiple people attending the classes, the cost for training is usually spread out among the participants. While there may be extra costs associated with hosting a workshop, usually workshop pricing is significantly cheaper than one-on-one training.
In an effort to save on costs and to ensure that the process is done to their liking, a lot of company websites are engaging in doing their own search engine optimization (SEO) analysis as well as the search engine optimization themselves. There is a positive and negative side to this cost saving aspect.
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "At this rate, it will not be long before you have no choice at all, and when alternatives disappear that offer something different -- lower cost, higher performance, better reliability -- it's bound to be bad news."
The price models are sky rocking and you find yourself questioning the whole system. Are thousands of dollars a justified cost? What kind of SEO services can you expect? Can you do some of the things yourself?
Game development is a large process. In your experience, how are the total hours for releasing a game divided over the following major areas. I believe this is useful because few people (none?) are really good at all the areas, so this helps me balance the cost of items I'm not so good at when estimating the complexity of creating a game.
Modeling and raw asset creation (textures, audio)
Level design
Gameplay design
Programming
Testing
Marketing
Search engine optimization or SEO is the best way to guide targeted traffic to your internet site. This maximizes the benefits of a correctly optimized web site will yield lots of income for the internet marketer. Conversely, optimizing your internet site might cost you 1000's of dollars if you are not skilled in this area.
When creating a library for a simple program, is it more cost effective to make it thread safe or is there a way to detect the program's use in a multithreaded program and ASSERT() or otherwise determine (preferably at compile or link time) that it may create problems.
Related help for this question would be automated tool support for finding potential problems with thread safety, programming language features that enforce it,