The purpose of this application is to create a simple Notification application (ala Instant Messenger). Upon receiving an alert, the application will display some "toast" in the lower right-hand corner of your desktop. The alert will display a message and will execute an action when clicked on.
http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/myalerts.asp
Comments/Feedback Welcome.
A recent study by the Yankee group gave some interesting insight into the disconnect between what customers want and what major software vendors (i.e. Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, etc) are delivering.
The reason for customer dissatisfaction can be found in the disconnect between those attributes the study's subjects listed as most important for the "perfect" ERP vendor and those associated with software makers.
Many of the vendors, especially Oracle and PeopleSoft, were seen as cutting edge in technology and vision. But the study's subjects listed those attributes on the bottom; the most important were high integrity, fast return on investment, inexpensive operation, easy implementation, and excellent service.
"You have this disjoint where vendors are marketing speeds and feeds, pushing technology innovation in the marketplace; and buyers aren't interested in those attributes," Yankee Group analyst Jon Derome said. "They're interested in practicalities such as 'understanding my business' and 'delivering what you promised.'"
The study is referenced in the following articles:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17301674
http://crm-daily.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=ERP_Vendors_Suffer_Disconnect_with_Customers&story_id=23002
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17301944
Should this be a wake up call for Application Vendors? Could the same thinking be applied to non-ERP applications? Any thoughts?
via http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/emerging0204.asp
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Looks like Amazon.com are on a hiring spree ... see the reference in the following article ...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1455334,00.asp
“Much of Killalea's keynote amounted to a thinly veiled recruiting pitch for additional developers.“
http://www.amazon.com/jobs
Interesting article over at eWeek ... http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1455334,00.asp
The following quote makes me wonder about the “Simple” in SOAP ...
“In June 2002, Amazon made many of its Web services interfaces public as a software developer kit; the services provide access to the data within Amazon's entire product catalog and much of the functionality of the site used by both customers and merchants who sell through Amazon. The services can be accessed via both Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST), two XML-based Web services standards; Killalea said that about 80 percent of developers have thus far opted for the REST approach to building sites based on Amazon's services.“