It seems perverse that anyone would consider this a remotely reasonable plan.
The article doesn't look at the technical side of doing this at all, but its pretty obvious that todo what they are talking about doing here, it means restructuring the data for hundreds if not thousands of applications that are in use now.
Why is the UK government so gung-ho on these 'MegaIT Projects'?
Lets hope this dosen't get traction, but as with most things 'New Labour', I can only imagine this is signed and sealed now that the public are being made aware
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the capture, storage and analysis of customer information.
There are three aspects of CRM which can each be implemented in isolation from each other:
Operational CRM- automation or support of customer processes that include a company's sales or service representative
Collaborative CRM- direct communication with customers that does not include a company's sales or service representative ("self service")
Analytical CRM- analysis of customer data for a broad range of purposes
At least in the instance of hosted applications, it's an opportunity for online application vendors to rub their shoulders with the huge vendors such as microsoft.
We've already begun using online spreadsheet tools to replace (almost) a few office applications, but the scope for apps like a centralised CRM database rooted in a b2b myspace style mashup is on the cards now - should be very interesting to see who gets there first.
It's so gross to see a company pulling off this whole "we're not a bank" lark.
I think its about time that paypal were held accountable in a more regulated way, not saying it would stop this from happening, but you'd be sure as hell they wouldn't have phone monkeys telling customers there account was frozen because of a technicality on the signup form - I imagine the FSA would look pretty unkindly on a bank for saying "its just policy sir".
I've used paypal a bunch of times for merchant facilities, but decided it's not worth it after our first encounter with the supposed support people
On behalf of my own web development company, and in turn, our clients, I would like to pose these three questions to you.
As the authors of the most abundant internet focused rendering software, how have you made yourselves accountable to the consumers of the underlying technology? (developers/business)
In an ideal world, the specifications produced by the W3C would be 100% implemented, and additional features would dictate the success of any browser. Do you feel that Microsoft has not provided the financial/executive support to achieve this?
What can we as a community do to aid the adoption of WC3 specifications in Internet Explorer?
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I can't see any reason we couldn't have an aggregate service where you can do that, and have that data sent downstream to the specific places.
The point is
It seems perverse that anyone would consider this a remotely reasonable plan.
The article doesn't look at the technical side of doing this at all, but its pretty obvious that todo what they are talking about doing here, it means restructuring the data for hundreds if not thousands of applications that are in use now.
Why is the UK government so gung-ho on these 'MegaIT Projects'?
Lets hope this dosen't get traction, but as with most things 'New Labour', I can only imagine this is signed and sealed now that the public are being made aware
From Wikipedia
Full ArticleCustomer Relationship Management.
At least in the instance of hosted applications, it's an opportunity for online application vendors to rub their shoulders with the huge vendors such as microsoft.
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We've already begun using online spreadsheet tools to replace (almost) a few office applications, but the scope for apps like a centralised CRM database rooted in a b2b myspace style mashup is on the cards now - should be very interesting to see who gets there first.
me first me first!
erm hmmm... Web 3.0 anyone?
It's so gross to see a company pulling off this whole "we're not a bank" lark.
I think its about time that paypal were held accountable in a more regulated way, not saying it would stop this from happening, but you'd be sure as hell they wouldn't have phone monkeys telling customers there account was frozen because of a technicality on the signup form - I imagine the FSA would look pretty unkindly on a bank for saying "its just policy sir".
I've used paypal a bunch of times for merchant facilities, but decided it's not worth it after our first encounter with the supposed support people
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hahaha - you sir, are a baboon.
I love when the lawyers come and mix it up with the /. crowd
The NanoFork will be yours, absolutely free!
On behalf of my own web development company, and in turn, our clients, I would like to pose these three questions to you.
- As the authors of the most abundant internet focused rendering software, how have you made yourselves accountable to the consumers of the underlying technology? (developers/business)
- In an ideal world, the specifications produced by the W3C would be 100% implemented, and additional features would dictate the success of any browser. Do you feel that Microsoft has not provided the financial/executive support to achieve this?
- What can we as a community do to aid the adoption of WC3 specifications in Internet Explorer?
Kind Regards, Henry