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Getting IT Together
Source: CRM Magazine Published: May 1993 Integration is a four-letter word in the world of CRM, but it doesn't have to be. What follows are the real issues behind integrating CRM solutions with an enterprise's existing systems, and how to simplify what could otherwise grind CRM initiatives to a halt. With phrases like real-time enterprise, 360-degree view of the customer, and single instance of truth floating around the business world, there seems to be a lot more talk than actual substance to many of the claims that companies can access ERP, CRM, and other systems instantly from one interface.
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Rightsizing: Time Waits for no Technology
Source: Netware Connection Published: May 1993 Rightsizing, downsizing, smartsizing, resizing-you can't open a network trade magazine these days without running across one or the other of these trendy buzzwords. So what is this phenomenon all about?
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Distributed and Client/Server DBMS: Underpinning for Downsizing
Source: George Schussel and Stacey Griffin Published: Aug 1992 In this white paper, Schussel and Griffin give a comprehensive overview of distributed databases, client/server computing and downsizing. In particular, a detailed discussion of the difference between distributed databases and client/server computing database servers is provided.
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Mainframe Moaners
Source: Computing Canada Published: Mar 1992 Speaking at a conference in Toronto, George Schussel said “At many downsizing conferences and seminars, I have had opportunities to meet IS staffers dealing with the issue of downsizing. Among this audience, there is typically a group of old friends: the mainframe bigots. These folks are absolutely against any movement towards distributing and downsizing applications; they love their "Big Iron."
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The three LANs of our time: Microsoft, Banyan and Novell
Source: Computing Canada Published: Feb 1992 For a technology that began with a modest goal, it's now apparent that the local-area network (LAN) operating system (O/S) is one of downsizing's critical enabling technologies. The LAN O/S was originally created to function as a collection of utilities capable of sharing files and support services among PCs.
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Downsizing has arrived; MIS forced to change in effort to cut costs
Source: Software Magazine Published: Nov 1991 Some call the process downsizing. Others label it rightsizing. Whatever the process is called, observers say, the age of network and distributed computing has arrived. The long-expected shift from time-shared mainframe-class computers to network-based computing with clients and servers has finally become a major industry trend during the 1990s.
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Downsizing: A Review of the Enabling Technologies
Source: American Programmer Published: Aug 1991 By the summer of 1991, the idea of moving applications from mainframe computers to PC/LANs was starting to take hold. DCI’s Downsizing Expo and Conference played a major role in providing explanations and expertise to companies making this move. This article by George Schussel, appearing in the influential newspaper, American Programmer, discussed IT downsizing technologies.
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Distributing: How To Take Advantage of the SQL Environment
Source: 370/390 DATA BASE MANAGEMENT Published: Apr 1991 George Schussel discusses how the emergence of SQL helped distributed computing become real. Comments from the article follow: Distributed DBMS technology provides the highest level of services for supporting distributed processing. Specific advantages from the use of this technology include:
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Letter to Editor predicting triumph of Windows over OS/2
Source: SAA Age Published: Apr 1991 In 1991 IBM and Microsoft had started to compete aggressively with each other over the future of the PC. IBM was touting its OS/2, a new and full function operating system for its latest generation of PC’s. Microsoft was pushing Windows 3.0, its add on to DOS. Windows was easier to install and use, but less capable than OS/2. This competition, with Microsoft winning, defined the computer industry for the remainder of the 90’s decade. George Schussel, a user of both DOS/Windows and OS/2 had the vision to correctly predict the outcome of this operating system war.
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HOST BUSTERS! – A VISIT TO PACIFIC IBM EMPLOYEES FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Source: LAN Times Published: Mar 1991 On his way to deliver the keynote at a downsizing conference, George Schussel took a side trip to visit Pacific IBM Employees Federal Credit Union (PACIBM) in San Jose. This visit to PACIBM, a mid sized, full service bank, allowed him to see a very successful example of downsizing a mainframe application to a PC/LAN environment. The project’s goals were very aggressive and successful.
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Users Suggest Upbeat Future for Downsizing
Source: Information Week Published: Jan 1991 This news article is about an early 1991 trend setting conference with 400 attendees held in San Francisco on the topic of downsizing computer systems to the PC/LAN environment. A number of case studies were presented by MIS managers who had successfully moved to the PC/LAN environment.
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Downsizing With Client/server Computing
Source: Oracle Magazine Published: Jul 1990 An early champion of client/server computing, George Schussel explains how this technology can improve benefits and lower costs at the same time. Excerpts follow: One of the best ways to downsize is by using the new generation of SQLbased client-server computing technologies from vendors such as Oracle, Sybase, Gupta and Novell.
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