Why Lotus Notes will die and Cobol will survey?

Just some notes to be read on future. Lotus Notes will die because: The volumes capacities that the companies require cannot be stored by LN. The workflows these applications manage are being moved There are so much companies that are migrating to Exchange. There are not big new customers on LN since some years. What … Read more

Test Strategy

I have been doing a test strategy (or test plan) document for a project. It has been a funny exercise to help the project manager to do it. I like project management activities and take care of things like this now that I do not manage projects officially is something that makes me be happy. … Read more

Business Needs, where are they?

During these last 2 months I have done 5 proposals, 3 business cases, and some presentations to the customer attending some potential needs they have. The result? Zero contracts. Last week an old database were causing problems on production due to a change on the amount of redundant users they now are enabling. We have a … Read more

Judge people by their feet, not their mouth

3M chief warns Obama over business regulation. George Buckley, chief executive and chairman of 3M: “judge people by their feet, not their mouth” http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd9b4100-429b-11e0-8b34-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058#axzz1FFSfnQ3Y Regulation on the chemical industry is business as usual. Depending of the type of measure, there are companies agreed with those initiatives, there are others than no. For those they reject … Read more

Business Intelligence Site in SharePoint 2010

The BI site in SharePoint 2010 provides you reports, monitor key performance indicators and allows you to create dashboards that provide a consolidated view of business data. The business problem that my client requests me is to allow the end-user to provide feedback to the SQL database. There are about 50 fields that are updated … Read more

Danish EPA surveys chemicals in cleaning products

The consequences of the Reach data analysis is starting to have benefits on the European citicens: The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has published a survey of chemical substances in cleaning products for ovens, cookers and ceramic cooktops. The study determined the ingredients of 21 products and further analysed 14 to measure the level of organic … Read more

ECHA Summary of Work Programme 2011

A summary of key objectives for 2011. ECHA key objectives: First, the Agency needs to publish online the information from REACH registrations and CLP notifi cations. It is an enormous task to make scientifi c information as accessible as possible. Second, ECHA will evaluate the quality of the data of at least 5% of the … Read more