Two leaders in value measurement join forces to create Mainstay Salire
As of late I have been writing a lot of jQuery scripts for our Advisor Invest framework. jQuery has been a very powerful technique for making our web application faster, cleaner and slicker for the user experience. We are continuously looking at ways to improve performance in all arenas of our Advisor Invest framework. From minifying script and style sheet files to optimizing our server side code. Read more
This article pointed me in the right direction on how to make our products iPad friendly. It includes a few points on what iPad does and does not support. If you are interested in building an iPad friendly site, check out: http://www.messagingnews.com/onmessage/ben-gross/preparing-your-site-ipad
This article describes the benefits of HTML5 as it releates to social media and digital marketing. It focuses more on the benefit of video SEO (Search Engine Optimization) than any other benefits of HTML5. As Salire continues to move toward social media and digital marketing, we know it is important that our video content be optimized with the search engines. http://shankarsoma.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/why-you-should-adopt-html5/
This article helps to understand the benefits of ASP.NET MVC, which is the framework that all Salire tools (Insight, Impact, and Invest) will be built upon. This is an older article so it doesn’t encapsulate some of the latest benefits of ASP.NET MVC such as the ease of HTML 5 migration and mobile browsing, but it does give a good introduction of ASP.NET MVC.
http://code-inside.de/blog-in/2008/11/25/howto-basics-of-aspnet-mvc-or-why-mvc/
Here is an interesting article I came across on Adobe’s blog. I often find myself browsing on how to increase the performance of our framework and have been looking at HTML5 for some time. While this article will show that performance for web video playback really depends on hardware, and the software’s access to that hardware, it was an informative read pitting the two technologies against each other. Read more
Cisco Business Development Manager Jeremy Foster took a top down TCO approach to one of his accounts, a multi-national agricultural biotechnology company. This customer had another primary vendor, but Foster knew that if could show a compelling return on investment, the customer would listen to the Cisco story. Read more
In our business we often work with someone who was ultimately delegated to work with us in order to facilitate our work of completing a financial analysis. The true consumer of the final report is nowhere to be seen. The larger the company the more prevalent this situation is. Read more
Conventional wisdom holds that if you aren’t selling your story to the most senior executives in a business, you won’t win approval for your IT project—whether as a salesperson or an IT executive. While sales people are told to “sell at the C-level” and they often do get the meeting, many times it’s without an appropriate goal or sufficient preparation. They walk out of the C-level meeting high-fiving each other, thinking it was a good meeting, but in reality nothing really has happened. The sales process hasn’t been advanced, they haven’t secured a senior level internal advocate, and they may have actually hurt the cause more than helped it. Read more
When CIOs and other like-minded executives consider the financial impact of a new technology investment, they overwhelmingly look to two metrics: total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI). Although these two terms are sometimes thrown together, they are actually measures of two very different things and which metric is preferable depends on the parameters of your decision.
First of all, let’s clear up the definition of these terms.
TCO or total cost of ownership is a measure of cost. This includes the capital cost to purchase equipment, deploy it, configure it or integrate it with other systems, and the operational costs (sometimes referred to as the run-rate) to operate and administer the equipment over a given period of time. Time is a key component of TCO, as most operating costs are ongoing; therefore, the longer the timeframe, the higher the TCO. If you think of a car as a metaphor for an IT investment, the TCO for your vehicle would certainly consider the price you paid for the car at the dealership, but it would also include the ongoing costs of ownership, like insurance, gas, and maintenance for as long as you owned the car. In the IT world, these ongoing operational costs can sometimes far outweigh the initial capital cost of a technology solution. Read more
