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In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods takes a look at deep packet inspection, and mentions how GFK, a European market research firm, is using "a programming tool kit from Qosmos to help it analyze anonymized data extracted from routers at telecom providers." More »

This week the JargonSpy examines how "the grand vision of reusable services must be pursued in small steps."

The column first mentions that Anne Thomas Manes has declared SOA dead, having been done in by the recession a "general sense that service-oriented architecture never delivered any significant value." More »

This week the JargonSpy examines ways SAP, Oracle and Microsoft can reduce SaaS software's competitive threat.

The article essentially explores the differences between having on-site vendors and SaaS vendors, and explains the advantages and drawbacks of both kinds of operations.

Three forces are mentioned that that have significantly slowed adoption of SaaS and is allowing software giants SAP, Oracle, Microsoft to catch up SaaS vendors Salesforce.com and NetSuite. More »

ZDNet's Oliver Marks has written a favorable post on his Collaboration 2.0 blog that mentions the Driven to Perform book.

In his post, Marks says "this book, with a focus on performance management to achieve tangible business results, appears to be a good up-to-date primer on how to tune SAP in the enterprise to get the maximum bang for your buck and create a ‘high performance, data-driven culture‘." More »

In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods examines how businesses implementing Lean practices are finding that standard cost accounting stands in the way.

Put simply, the column says that "in a lean process, the demand signals pull the materials through the flow processes and the right number of products is created with as little waste as possible. More »

This week in his JargonSpy column, Dan Woods touches on the subject of the "logic driving energy-efficient programs" and how this logic "could lead to subsidized purchases of SaaS software."

In the column, Woods says that utility companies across the U.S. run energy efficiency programs to encourage investments that will reduce energy usage. More »

SmartBrief, a site that publishes industry-specific e-mail newsletters in partnership with leading trade associations, professional societies, and corporations, has featured a brief look at the JargonSpy's July 14 column on the enterprise software battle. More »

Stephanie Buscemi, of SAP, who is one of the authors of Driven to Perform, is featured in an audiocast on the BeyeNETWORK discussing the book.

According to the item on Beye, Stephanie "demonstrates how performance management can optimize every business unit within an organization, whether it's a community health clinic or a multinational corporation."

To hear the audiocast, go here.

This week's JargonSpy column looks at "the cost savings and usability of SaaS vs. the broad functionality of traditional software.

In the column, Dan Woods says that the "success of the Web as a platform to serve consumers has lead to the realization that in no way, shape or form does the enterprise software that runs the business world match up to the software that runs our lives." More »

The folks at the CRM Outsiders blog have posted a response to the JargonSpy's "Questioning Oracle's Cloud" article, in which they say that Dan Woods "brings up some interesting points about the increasingly elastic definition of cloud computing."

The first point is that the article "continues to drive the notion that private clouds are going to be a large portion of cloud-based deployments." More »