Package tech support calls as fortune cookie fortunes.
Like this:
At one time p/q020 had issues with NAT so they were both unNAT’d. We later wanted to get all servers back to being NAT’d and reNAT’d the q020 server. Unfortunately there was either no one to test the app or the testing was unsuccessful, so we didn’t move forward and reNAT p020.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
General Info - Ride Industry Leader's Coat Tails
BEZ Systems "predictive performance management" and is featured at oracle.com as a partner because they provide a monitoring plug-in to OEM.
BEZ says they have received venture capital.
Do they have a great product, or does the product help them sell professional services and consulting?
The OEM plug-in listed on Oracle's web site provides nice publicitly and implicit validation of their product and services. This technique of riding the leader's coat tails could be applied in other areas.
BEZ says they have received venture capital.
Do they have a great product, or does the product help them sell professional services and consulting?
The OEM plug-in listed on Oracle's web site provides nice publicitly and implicit validation of their product and services. This technique of riding the leader's coat tails could be applied in other areas.
General Info - Get Publicized
Visit soundmoneytips.com for the entire article.
1) Fast Pitch Network - These releases get seen by at least 20,000 other Fast Pitch Network members, generally small businesses and consultants.
2) Newswire Today
3) Free Press Release - This is a small service that buys a lot of Google ads. But a recent check of it seemed to show major corporations using it as another of their alternative distribution platforms. If it's good enough for CA, it's good enough for me.
4) SanePR
5) PRBuzz
6) MyFreePR
7) The Open Press
8) Pressbox - UK-based service.
9) AddPR
1) Fast Pitch Network - These releases get seen by at least 20,000 other Fast Pitch Network members, generally small businesses and consultants.
2) Newswire Today
3) Free Press Release - This is a small service that buys a lot of Google ads. But a recent check of it seemed to show major corporations using it as another of their alternative distribution platforms. If it's good enough for CA, it's good enough for me.
4) SanePR
5) PRBuzz
6) MyFreePR
7) The Open Press
8) Pressbox - UK-based service.
9) AddPR
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Saturday, March 17, 2007
mySimon For Health Insurance
eHealth, Inc. is the parent company of eHealthInsurance Services Inc., the leading online source of health insurance for individuals, families and small businesses. eHealthInsurance presents complex health insurance information in an objective, user-friendly format, enabling the research, analysis, comparison and purchase of health insurance products that best meet consumers' needs.
Targeted Web Community Site
Wiki, community content, mobile content.
A mom's group web site.
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2007 04 13:
Christian web community. Unclear how it will make money.
GodSpace is an online social community with a focus on the Christian faith. As community is a critical aspect of our faith, it is important for us to have the ability to find that community, interact with it and continue our shared Christian experience together. This is what GodSpace provides.
Well, I don't know if I've failed just yet, but we're close. My lesson has everything to do with money as well. Our website was designed to be innovative in terms of the real world marketing potential social networks offer. Unfortunately, I do not have any programming experience, so we needed to raise money in order to move the company forward.
So my first lesson was: Be able to produce your core product (in this case, the website) either on your own or with a friend...in essence, do it cheap. Second, I learned that bootstrapping may be the way to go when you are in the circumstance that does not allow you to produce your core product yourself. Third, we had an issue with maintaining the vision of the company once the angel investors showed up. The issue was not maintaining a rigid posture towards the mission statement and vision early on in the development of the company.
In summary: Either go out hard and get a LOT of money early, or bootstrap. There is no in between. If you get angel money, make sure it's enough to really get you where you need to/want to be and quickly.
As a result of not doing this, the investor confidence plummeted and a month after launching our site we are looking to sell it for cheap, get it off the books and move on. It's disappointing because the vision wasn't realized, as the business model is still very viable and the site is still growing successfully with minimal marketing efforts...maybe we haven't failed yet, but we're very, very close.
A mom's group web site.
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2007 04 13:
Christian web community. Unclear how it will make money.
GodSpace is an online social community with a focus on the Christian faith. As community is a critical aspect of our faith, it is important for us to have the ability to find that community, interact with it and continue our shared Christian experience together. This is what GodSpace provides.
Well, I don't know if I've failed just yet, but we're close. My lesson has everything to do with money as well. Our website was designed to be innovative in terms of the real world marketing potential social networks offer. Unfortunately, I do not have any programming experience, so we needed to raise money in order to move the company forward.
So my first lesson was: Be able to produce your core product (in this case, the website) either on your own or with a friend...in essence, do it cheap. Second, I learned that bootstrapping may be the way to go when you are in the circumstance that does not allow you to produce your core product yourself. Third, we had an issue with maintaining the vision of the company once the angel investors showed up. The issue was not maintaining a rigid posture towards the mission statement and vision early on in the development of the company.
In summary: Either go out hard and get a LOT of money early, or bootstrap. There is no in between. If you get angel money, make sure it's enough to really get you where you need to/want to be and quickly.
As a result of not doing this, the investor confidence plummeted and a month after launching our site we are looking to sell it for cheap, get it off the books and move on. It's disappointing because the vision wasn't realized, as the business model is still very viable and the site is still growing successfully with minimal marketing efforts...maybe we haven't failed yet, but we're very, very close.
Consumer ID Theft Monitoring
Services for consumers to monitor credit.
TrustedID $8/month
LifeLock $10/month
KnightsBridge Castle $20/month
TrustedID $8/month
LifeLock $10/month
KnightsBridge Castle $20/month
Control Change Management
Many shops struggle with software and OS change management.
S3 Control: Adding Control to Change Management
Most IT organizations today recognize the centrality of change to their operational effectiveness. Many have invested in process automation tools such as a Change Management system or a Service Desk. Yet, a gap persists between actual change activity and the documented Change Management process. This change control gap results in manual activity by IT departments to control and minimize the costs of change.
Solidcore S3 Control bridges this gap by adding control to change management. This is accomplished by providing customers with realtime visibility of changes being made, accountability to validate change activity and technology-based enforcement of change policy. Solidcore S3 Control is easily configurable to increase the availability of IT services, accelerate the successful implementation of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) projects, and reduce the cost of compliance initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley or PCI.
Tripwire Enterprise enables configuration auditing and control by detecting all change across the IT infrastructure, automatically correlating change with multiple acceptance criteria and generating actionable change reports. Tripwire Enterprise detects and analyzes changes to millions of elements (e.g. files, directories, registry settings, directory server objects, and configuration files) on servers, databases, network devices, desktops and directory servers. It improves configuration control by alerting you of any change and enabling quick remediation.
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Tripwire Enterprise provides complete control of virtual and physical IT configurations, combining configuration assessment with change auditing in a single software solution for enterprise configuration control.
Configuration assessment policies shipped with Tripwire Enterprise proactively assess and validate IT configurations against internal policies, compliance standards and security best practices, reporting on out-of-policy settings and providing detailed remediation guidance.
Once IT gets configurations into a known, good state, Tripwire's proven change auditing helps them maintain it, detecting and alerting IT to improper change. And rich reporting provides immediate visual feedback on IT infrastructure health, supports drilldown to change details, assists in remediation efforts and provides evidence for an audit.
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iSecurity Change Tracker
Automatic Auditing of Program and File Changes on IBM i
Change Tracker is dedicated to automatically monitoring and logging object changes, especially those made to production libraries, at both the source and object levels. Since Change Tracker relies solely on the actual updates within a library, no manual intervention is required.
Based on the QAUDJRN system journal, Change Tracker provides a robust and comprehensive solution that cannot be bypassed. Working in real-time, it can automatically record every revision and collect all information relevant to the modifications made, including object attributes, source code, changes to file structures and more!
S3 Control: Adding Control to Change Management
Most IT organizations today recognize the centrality of change to their operational effectiveness. Many have invested in process automation tools such as a Change Management system or a Service Desk. Yet, a gap persists between actual change activity and the documented Change Management process. This change control gap results in manual activity by IT departments to control and minimize the costs of change.
Solidcore S3 Control bridges this gap by adding control to change management. This is accomplished by providing customers with realtime visibility of changes being made, accountability to validate change activity and technology-based enforcement of change policy. Solidcore S3 Control is easily configurable to increase the availability of IT services, accelerate the successful implementation of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) projects, and reduce the cost of compliance initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley or PCI.
Tripwire Enterprise enables configuration auditing and control by detecting all change across the IT infrastructure, automatically correlating change with multiple acceptance criteria and generating actionable change reports. Tripwire Enterprise detects and analyzes changes to millions of elements (e.g. files, directories, registry settings, directory server objects, and configuration files) on servers, databases, network devices, desktops and directory servers. It improves configuration control by alerting you of any change and enabling quick remediation.
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Tripwire Enterprise provides complete control of virtual and physical IT configurations, combining configuration assessment with change auditing in a single software solution for enterprise configuration control.
Configuration assessment policies shipped with Tripwire Enterprise proactively assess and validate IT configurations against internal policies, compliance standards and security best practices, reporting on out-of-policy settings and providing detailed remediation guidance.
Once IT gets configurations into a known, good state, Tripwire's proven change auditing helps them maintain it, detecting and alerting IT to improper change. And rich reporting provides immediate visual feedback on IT infrastructure health, supports drilldown to change details, assists in remediation efforts and provides evidence for an audit.
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iSecurity Change Tracker
Automatic Auditing of Program and File Changes on IBM i
Change Tracker is dedicated to automatically monitoring and logging object changes, especially those made to production libraries, at both the source and object levels. Since Change Tracker relies solely on the actual updates within a library, no manual intervention is required.
Based on the QAUDJRN system journal, Change Tracker provides a robust and comprehensive solution that cannot be bypassed. Working in real-time, it can automatically record every revision and collect all information relevant to the modifications made, including object attributes, source code, changes to file structures and more!
SOA Test Automation
Make a hardware device packaged to do this?
http://parasoft.com/jsp/products/home.jsp?product=SOAP
Parasoft SOAtest is a comprehensive, collaborative test and analysis tool suite designed specifically for test and validation of Service Oriented Architectures. Parasoft SOAtest streamlines the process of rapidly constructing robust regression suites. It features the following major benefits:
* Delivers a "quality" process NOT solely dependent on QA
* Makes SOA quality assets valuable to the entire organization
* Drives SOA consistency
* Rapidly generates and manages robust regression suites
* Saves time and ensures project success
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General computer automation including web and mouse clicks. $700-$7000
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2012.07
regression test . com
More devices are accessing websites. Mobile phone, laptop, tablet, TV. They each may have multiple browsers, and some browsers allow going through compression gateway. Device proliferation makes complete testing of devices more time-consuming.
A service to allow easy programming, load/concurrency testing, and easy scheduling and control of running test cases.
Charge a base monthly fee to sign up, then charge to start a test case and charge for (run time, data consumption, etc.).
http://parasoft.com/jsp/products/home.jsp?product=SOAP
Parasoft SOAtest is a comprehensive, collaborative test and analysis tool suite designed specifically for test and validation of Service Oriented Architectures. Parasoft SOAtest streamlines the process of rapidly constructing robust regression suites. It features the following major benefits:
* Delivers a "quality" process NOT solely dependent on QA
* Makes SOA quality assets valuable to the entire organization
* Drives SOA consistency
* Rapidly generates and manages robust regression suites
* Saves time and ensures project success
_____________________________________________________________
201108
General computer automation including web and mouse clicks. $700-$7000
_____________________________________________________________
2012.07
regression test . com
More devices are accessing websites. Mobile phone, laptop, tablet, TV. They each may have multiple browsers, and some browsers allow going through compression gateway. Device proliferation makes complete testing of devices more time-consuming.
A service to allow easy programming, load/concurrency testing, and easy scheduling and control of running test cases.
Charge a base monthly fee to sign up, then charge to start a test case and charge for (run time, data consumption, etc.).
Automate Complex IT Processes
Tap into the power of automation today with iConclude's innovative Run Book Automation platform. iConclude OpsForce empowers IT Operations teams to automate the triage, troubleshooting, and repair of incidents and alerts, as well as change and configuration management or repetitive maintenance tasks. iConclude products allow you to:
* Automate resolution for recurring alerts and incidents
* Orchestrate change and configuration management
* Significantly reduce support costs
* Empower frontline IT to resolve more issues
* Decrease MTTR from hours or days to just minutes
* Automate routine maintenance procedures and tasks
* Schedule periodic maintenance and health checks against complex server infrastructure
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iConclude's OpsForce platform transforms IT Service Management processes by empowering IT Operations teams to automate the triage, troubleshooting, and repair of incidents and alerts, as well as change and configuration management or repetitive maintenance tasks. The solution delivers comprehensive automation, audit-trail, reporting, scheduling, security and integration capabilities.
Opsware Adds IT Process Automation With iConclude Acquisition
Merger marries iConclude's automation engine to Opsware's configuration-, change- and compliance-management technology.
Mar 8, 2007 - By Amy Larsen DeCarlo
Opsware this week inked a $30 million deal to buy iConclude, a maker of software that automates the complicated processes that keep data centers running.
...
* Automate resolution for recurring alerts and incidents
* Orchestrate change and configuration management
* Significantly reduce support costs
* Empower frontline IT to resolve more issues
* Decrease MTTR from hours or days to just minutes
* Automate routine maintenance procedures and tasks
* Schedule periodic maintenance and health checks against complex server infrastructure
...
iConclude's OpsForce platform transforms IT Service Management processes by empowering IT Operations teams to automate the triage, troubleshooting, and repair of incidents and alerts, as well as change and configuration management or repetitive maintenance tasks. The solution delivers comprehensive automation, audit-trail, reporting, scheduling, security and integration capabilities.
Opsware Adds IT Process Automation With iConclude Acquisition
Merger marries iConclude's automation engine to Opsware's configuration-, change- and compliance-management technology.
Mar 8, 2007 - By Amy Larsen DeCarlo
Opsware this week inked a $30 million deal to buy iConclude, a maker of software that automates the complicated processes that keep data centers running.
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General Info - Small slices of very big pies
Small slices of very big pies. Watch the deal-makers in investment banks, private-equity managers, mortgage lenders, CEOs, commercial banks and fast-food franchises. Imagine getting a mere 0.1% finder's fee (or better yet, a 0.1% annual "management" fee) in the $45 billion Texas Power Company deal! Or maybe the average $2.4 million salary paid today's CEOs, plus options and bonuses. And you can even do a crappy job and get fired, like the Home Depot boss, and still get severance of $240 million.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Hosting Automation Software
Product-based solution provides fastest deployment time. Ensim Unify comes with pre-built Service Managers for hosted IP and applications. With Ensim Unify, you can quickly and easily bundle and deploy any combination of new or existing services, and maintain operational efficiency by delivering multiple offerings through a single platform.
What does this do?
What does this do?
Reading List
Users can store auther/title of books they read, with the date and their comments. Add in some social networking elements, and it could become an online social book club.
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April 05, 2007
LibraryThing is reinventing the reading group by offering bibliophiles a peek at everyone else's bookshelves.
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April 05, 2007
LibraryThing is reinventing the reading group by offering bibliophiles a peek at everyone else's bookshelves.
Customer Retention (soft sell)
Track client birthdays. Several flat client products. Save $30.00 on CardWare Regular Price $129.95, Now only $99.95 (download version)
Public Relations Software
Our on-demand software addresses the critical functions of public relations, including media relations, news distribution and news monitoring. By automating and integrating the essential elements of PR functions, our solutions help organizations of all sizes communicate directly with key reporters and with the public, identify and analyze relevant news stories and manage relationships with the media and other key stakeholders.
Electronic Document Storage
Similar to household item tracking, this would have less features and would storage document images.
Users could store scans or pictures of their important documents such as a deed, passport, credit cards, or insurance policies.
Users may have concern about the security of their documents.
Commerce Bank has The Vault service with this functionality.
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2007.05.15
Allow people to upload important documents to an online account. Not a picture sharing site as much as an electronic document vault for important papers (car title, deeds, wills, medical, pic of passport, pic of credit card, account numbers, insurance).
Allow encryption on web site via their password. For those not trusting that method, allow encryption & upload from a small MSWindows application that includes an open source encryption ability.
Basics:
User account creation.
Crappy LAMP-based photo upload/display.
Specific tagging for items.
Mark items as "removed" or just delete them.
Create report/CD of all items for insurance/recovery purposes.
Revenue from displaying ads. Maybe premium subscription for encryption or extra storage.
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2007.06.05
What can I do with Clipperz?
* Store and manage your passwords and online credentials.
* Log in to your web services without entering any username or password.
* Protect any other sensitive textual information: confidential notes, codes for burglar alarms, software serial numbers, PINs and credit card details, …
* Share secrets with family members and associates. (Coming soon)
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2007.06.06
For business, Catalyst does secure document workflow:
Products
Our web-based systems help professional teams manage electronic documents and work together on legal, financial and compliance matters.
Clients use our repositories to search and review millions of pages of documents--email, images, and native files. They use our collaboration systems to share files and manage cases and insurance claims. They also use them to coordinate financial transactions, for due diligence review, and to ensure regulatory compliance.
Catalyst CR: Scalable search, review and litigation support system.
Catalyst XE: Content collaboration for cases, claims and cross-enterprise document management.
Deal and Data Rooms: For M&A, due diligence and other complex regulatory and financial transactions.
Catalyst Review: Document-review workflow systems for corporate and insurance.
Our systems help corporations, insurers and their law firms share files and work together on complex legal matters. Benefits include savings, efficiency, convenience and the ability to coordinate teams across multiple organizations.
Click here for more information about Cross-Enterprise Litigation Management.
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2007.06.09
Could offer as a branded service to:
lawyers who do wills to provide will to person/family
financial planners for their client's paperwork
firms that do software source code safe-keeping.
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2007.08.23
source code escrow
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2007.09.28
Secure doc storage/transmission with accountants. Limited workflow could be useful.
Santa Monica, CA-based VaultStreet has raised an undisclosed amount of angel funding. The pre-launch, invite-only site allows users to manage and share their various financial documents with tax preparers, financial planners, etc.
Founded in June 2006, the startup's CMO says they were able to reach their year 1 goals of just under $1.8M in revenue. He also says that VaultStreet plans to release its first product out of beta within 90 days aimed at partnerships with financial services providers such as brokerages and banking institutions.
Vice President of Business Development / Sales at Docuthentic LLC
Location: Los Angeles / San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco Bay Area)
URL: http://www.vaultstreet.com
Posted:
September 25, 2007
Description
Startup venture funded by angel investors is building the next standard Web-based financial tool and service, much like online banking, online brokerage services and ATM cards. The Company plans to release its first product within 90 days aimed at partnerships with financial services providers such as brokerages and banking institutions.
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Online secure storage specifically for lawyers.
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Workflow to allow access by other people based on time/events.
Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of death or disability.
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2012 02
Features for specific docs such as credit cards:
Users could store scans or pictures of their important documents such as a deed, passport, credit cards, or insurance policies.
Users may have concern about the security of their documents.
Commerce Bank has The Vault service with this functionality.
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2007.05.15
Allow people to upload important documents to an online account. Not a picture sharing site as much as an electronic document vault for important papers (car title, deeds, wills, medical, pic of passport, pic of credit card, account numbers, insurance).
Allow encryption on web site via their password. For those not trusting that method, allow encryption & upload from a small MSWindows application that includes an open source encryption ability.
Basics:
User account creation.
Crappy LAMP-based photo upload/display.
Specific tagging for items.
Mark items as "removed" or just delete them.
Create report/CD of all items for insurance/recovery purposes.
Revenue from displaying ads. Maybe premium subscription for encryption or extra storage.
============================
2007.06.05
What can I do with Clipperz?
* Store and manage your passwords and online credentials.
* Log in to your web services without entering any username or password.
* Protect any other sensitive textual information: confidential notes, codes for burglar alarms, software serial numbers, PINs and credit card details, …
* Share secrets with family members and associates. (Coming soon)
============================
2007.06.06
For business, Catalyst does secure document workflow:
Products
Our web-based systems help professional teams manage electronic documents and work together on legal, financial and compliance matters.
Clients use our repositories to search and review millions of pages of documents--email, images, and native files. They use our collaboration systems to share files and manage cases and insurance claims. They also use them to coordinate financial transactions, for due diligence review, and to ensure regulatory compliance.
Catalyst CR: Scalable search, review and litigation support system.
Catalyst XE: Content collaboration for cases, claims and cross-enterprise document management.
Deal and Data Rooms: For M&A, due diligence and other complex regulatory and financial transactions.
Catalyst Review: Document-review workflow systems for corporate and insurance.
Our systems help corporations, insurers and their law firms share files and work together on complex legal matters. Benefits include savings, efficiency, convenience and the ability to coordinate teams across multiple organizations.
Click here for more information about Cross-Enterprise Litigation Management.
======================================
2007.06.09
Could offer as a branded service to:
lawyers who do wills to provide will to person/family
financial planners for their client's paperwork
firms that do software source code safe-keeping.
======================================
2007.08.23
source code escrow
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2007.09.28
Secure doc storage/transmission with accountants. Limited workflow could be useful.
Santa Monica, CA-based VaultStreet has raised an undisclosed amount of angel funding. The pre-launch, invite-only site allows users to manage and share their various financial documents with tax preparers, financial planners, etc.
Founded in June 2006, the startup's CMO says they were able to reach their year 1 goals of just under $1.8M in revenue. He also says that VaultStreet plans to release its first product out of beta within 90 days aimed at partnerships with financial services providers such as brokerages and banking institutions.
Vice President of Business Development / Sales at Docuthentic LLC
Location: Los Angeles / San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco Bay Area)
URL: http://www.vaultstreet.com
Posted:
September 25, 2007
Description
Startup venture funded by angel investors is building the next standard Web-based financial tool and service, much like online banking, online brokerage services and ATM cards. The Company plans to release its first product within 90 days aimed at partnerships with financial services providers such as brokerages and banking institutions.
=============================================
Online secure storage specifically for lawyers.
============================
Workflow to allow access by other people based on time/events.
Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of death or disability.
============================
2012 02
Features for specific docs such as credit cards:
... credit card registration allows you to register up to ten numbers of your credit cards, debit cards, gas cards and similar payment cards in a secure location and easily recall them in the event of loss or theft. In addition, the credit card registration benefit includes Lost and Stolen assistance. Simply call PrivacyGuard's toll-free credit card registry hotline if your cards are lost or stolen, and PrivacyGuard will promptly contact your financial institutions to cancel the affected cards and request replacements ...
Office Purchasing
SMBs and possibly some departments of large companies could track office purchasing via an online tool.
Coupa's Web-based software to allow employees to see online what they have permissions to buy and to make requests for other purchases. It also gives controllers screens so that they can do their job online rather than on spreadsheets.
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The company's CEO Dave Stephens is a grizzled Oracle vet who says he spent nearly a decade building Oracle's procurement applications and with Coupa is looking to offer Oracle level functionality to smaller companies.
There is a link for an open source edition, which requires registration.
Coupa's Web-based software to allow employees to see online what they have permissions to buy and to make requests for other purchases. It also gives controllers screens so that they can do their job online rather than on spreadsheets.
...
The company's CEO Dave Stephens is a grizzled Oracle vet who says he spent nearly a decade building Oracle's procurement applications and with Coupa is looking to offer Oracle level functionality to smaller companies.
There is a link for an open source edition, which requires registration.
Survey Tool
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Post-purchase satisfaction survey links are printed on home depot and lowes receipts. Is anything similar done for services such as roto-rooter, appliance installs, furniture delivery?
A subscription model might be possible for revenue from the company providing the service to be rated.
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2007.05:
CIO Help Desk Services Customer Satisfaction Survey
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Post-purchase satisfaction survey links are printed on home depot and lowes receipts. Is anything similar done for services such as roto-rooter, appliance installs, furniture delivery?
A subscription model might be possible for revenue from the company providing the service to be rated.
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
Online/Web Service Monitor
This type of service has been around for years, and is commoditized. Can be expanded to include DNS checks, multiple locations, etc.
Web site monitoring
You can be notified if your web site is down.
With frequent monitoring of your web site you can be notified within minutes if your site is down. You'll get notification by e-mail that you can forward to you SMS phone or your text pager. With our service your site can be monitored as frequently as every 5 minutes. Our packages include 1, 4 or 12 times an hour monitors to any web address. It can be your homepage, the main form on your shopping cart or your registration page.
Pricing:
Monitoring Subscription Price (USD) Monthly equivalent
Frequency Period for the whole period
every 5 minutes 1 year $ 199 $ 16.58
every 5 minutes 6 months $ 119 $ 19.83
every 5 minutes 3 months $ 69 $ 23.00
every 15 minutes 1 year $ 99 $ 8.25
every 15 minutes 6 months $ 59 $ 9.83
every 15 minutes 3 months $ 39 $ 13.00
every 60 minutes 1 year $ 29 $ 2.42
every 60 minutes 6 months $ 19 $ 3.17
every 60 minutes 3 months $ 15 $ 5.00
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2007.05.02
Domain name whois monitoring, name suggestions, reverse IP lookup, and monitoring.
Membership Level Minimum Units Cost/Month Cost/Year
Silver Membership 10 $15.00 $149.00 (save 17%)
Gold Membership 25 $30.00 (save 20%) $292.50 (save 32%)
Elite Membership 300 $300.00 (save 33%) $2700.00 (save 50%)
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20070602
Free web site uptime check twice an hour.
Free account features:
• Free account activation, no costs involved.
• Ability to monitor web servers, email servers and FTP servers.
• Monitoring intervals of 30 or 60 minutes.
• No software to install or maintain.
• Monitoring from multiple locations eliminates false alarms.
• Access alert reports and statistics for your website online.
• Uptime reports include average response time by Year, Month and Day.
• Publicly viewable statistics summary.
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20070823
The free, easy-to-use Spiceworks offers small-business IT admins a powerful tool for creating and updating an inventory of end-point devices such as printers and network nodes.
Free, intuitive, and supported by a helpful community.
Displays ads. Doesn't scale well for larger businesses.
Spiceworks IT Desktop is designed for:
1. IT Pros who have admin rights on their network.
2. Organizations with less than 250 devices on their network. It will work with more but it won't be as fast.
3. Running on a PC. It discovers Windows, OS X, Linux and Unix but you need to run it from a PC on your network.
We've packed a ton of features into this tiny 6 MB download but there's room for more! Use Spiceworks and then tell us what new features you would like.
System Requirements
* Windows XP Pro SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server (latest service packs recommended)
* 700 MHz Pentium class processor
* 512 MB RAM
Browser Requirements
* Firefox 1.5 - 2.0
* Internet Explorer 6.0 - 7.0
200709: Blurb in wall street journal says they target business with 20-200 emplyees, launched in july 2006, have 120,000 registered users, raised $8M in series B.
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2007.08.27
Press Release Source: IPCheckpoint
IPCheckpoint, a New Contender in Website Monitoring
Monday August 27, 10:00 am ET
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IPCheckpoint (www.ipcheckpoint.com) announced today their website monitoring, reporting and alerting service. IPCheckpoint allows customers to understand exactly how their website is performing from their customers' perspective. They plan to differentiate themselves by providing an extremely feature rich solution at a very competitive price.
"We like to think of our monitoring servers as e-mystery users across the internet. Just like real users, performing real transactions, evaluating website performance, testing integration with third party services like payment gateways and so on. They can also test email, FTP and other online services." Wayne Toddun, CEO, IPCheckpoint. IPCheckpoint immediately informs customers of downtime or lack of performance, via SMS, pager or email.
"But it's not just about being reactive," says Wayne. Continuous improvement begins with measurement, and IPCheckpoint allows testing, benchmarking, reporting and optimization over the longer term, which in turn will enhance online user experience, and allow delivery of a superior overall online solution. "We want our customers to have a competitive online advantage."
"We are so confident of our capability we give our service away for free for 30 days. Not a cut down version or less frequent polling, the full service. We also give free expert assistance during the trial, a real person to help with setting up IPCheckpoint which is especially useful for setting up more complex synthetic transactions. We want our customers to make the most of their free trial so they can understand the value of our service.
...
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20071213
Power Navigator is for AIX.
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20080505
Advanced Availability Monitoring
Link inaccuracies, missing content, 404 pages, maxed time and service disruptions all become more than annoyances to your users. They become reasons for them to take their business elsewhere. Making sure your hardware is running optimally is step one to optimizing your end user experience. Step two, an important one, is making sure your services are behaving the way you need them to. And it's why we offer and support URL Synthetic Transaction Monitoring and Content Monitoring.
While our standard port monitoring is a good start, it's not foolproof. A port can show it's available even though the site isn't functioning for your end-users. Advanced Availability Monitoring goes beyond monitoring basic port availability. It routinely checks your critical web pages and services to make sure they're working properly. And then quickly lets us know when they're not, so then we can start working on solving your problems immediately.
FTP Retrieval
Checks FTP site availability then attempts to retrieve a specified file.
Mail Send/Receive
Tests whether a mail user can send and receive email.
URL Content Monitoring
Checks a single URL for its availability (not just pinging a port), and then continues to search the page for a predefined string of text.
URL Synthetic Transaction Monitoring
Verifies that your visitors can complete a necessary series of steps successfully and without any site errors. We work with you to create a script of up to five steps that mimics how a user would typically interact with your site.
Historical Reporting
The ability to view historical reporting for each Advanced Availability Monitor through our customer portal. Default reporting will be for 72 hours, and as recent as the last polling interval.
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20080421
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Simple page looks like:
Is ____ down for everyone or just me?
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2009.02
Pingdom Website monitoring made easy
We can monitor your website and servers and let you know right away when anything goes wrong. Get the facts and stay on top of things with Pingdom.
Plans at $10 and $40 per month.
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201101
Internet monitoring company Renesys. They do it all, worldwide.
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201101
whichloadsfaster.com has simple web page for user to pick two websites. It then starts a race between the sites to find which site loads faster.
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201104
ipMonitor shows you what's up on your network by delivering up/down monitoring for your network devices, servers, & apps - at a price any IT team can afford! Plus, SolarWinds ipMonitor installs in minutes and is easy to use!
"Only $1995"
Web site monitoring
You can be notified if your web site is down.
With frequent monitoring of your web site you can be notified within minutes if your site is down. You'll get notification by e-mail that you can forward to you SMS phone or your text pager. With our service your site can be monitored as frequently as every 5 minutes. Our packages include 1, 4 or 12 times an hour monitors to any web address. It can be your homepage, the main form on your shopping cart or your registration page.
Pricing:
Monitoring Subscription Price (USD) Monthly equivalent
Frequency Period for the whole period
every 5 minutes 1 year $ 199 $ 16.58
every 5 minutes 6 months $ 119 $ 19.83
every 5 minutes 3 months $ 69 $ 23.00
every 15 minutes 1 year $ 99 $ 8.25
every 15 minutes 6 months $ 59 $ 9.83
every 15 minutes 3 months $ 39 $ 13.00
every 60 minutes 1 year $ 29 $ 2.42
every 60 minutes 6 months $ 19 $ 3.17
every 60 minutes 3 months $ 15 $ 5.00
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2007.05.02
Domain name whois monitoring, name suggestions, reverse IP lookup, and monitoring.
Membership Level Minimum Units Cost/Month Cost/Year
Silver Membership 10 $15.00 $149.00 (save 17%)
Gold Membership 25 $30.00 (save 20%) $292.50 (save 32%)
Elite Membership 300 $300.00 (save 33%) $2700.00 (save 50%)
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20070602
Free web site uptime check twice an hour.
Free account features:
• Free account activation, no costs involved.
• Ability to monitor web servers, email servers and FTP servers.
• Monitoring intervals of 30 or 60 minutes.
• No software to install or maintain.
• Monitoring from multiple locations eliminates false alarms.
• Access alert reports and statistics for your website online.
• Uptime reports include average response time by Year, Month and Day.
• Publicly viewable statistics summary.
=====================================
20070823
The free, easy-to-use Spiceworks offers small-business IT admins a powerful tool for creating and updating an inventory of end-point devices such as printers and network nodes.
Free, intuitive, and supported by a helpful community.
Displays ads. Doesn't scale well for larger businesses.
Spiceworks IT Desktop is designed for:
1. IT Pros who have admin rights on their network.
2. Organizations with less than 250 devices on their network. It will work with more but it won't be as fast.
3. Running on a PC. It discovers Windows, OS X, Linux and Unix but you need to run it from a PC on your network.
We've packed a ton of features into this tiny 6 MB download but there's room for more! Use Spiceworks and then tell us what new features you would like.
System Requirements
* Windows XP Pro SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server (latest service packs recommended)
* 700 MHz Pentium class processor
* 512 MB RAM
Browser Requirements
* Firefox 1.5 - 2.0
* Internet Explorer 6.0 - 7.0
200709: Blurb in wall street journal says they target business with 20-200 emplyees, launched in july 2006, have 120,000 registered users, raised $8M in series B.
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2007.08.27
Press Release Source: IPCheckpoint
IPCheckpoint, a New Contender in Website Monitoring
Monday August 27, 10:00 am ET
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IPCheckpoint (www.ipcheckpoint.com) announced today their website monitoring, reporting and alerting service. IPCheckpoint allows customers to understand exactly how their website is performing from their customers' perspective. They plan to differentiate themselves by providing an extremely feature rich solution at a very competitive price.
"We like to think of our monitoring servers as e-mystery users across the internet. Just like real users, performing real transactions, evaluating website performance, testing integration with third party services like payment gateways and so on. They can also test email, FTP and other online services." Wayne Toddun, CEO, IPCheckpoint. IPCheckpoint immediately informs customers of downtime or lack of performance, via SMS, pager or email.
"But it's not just about being reactive," says Wayne. Continuous improvement begins with measurement, and IPCheckpoint allows testing, benchmarking, reporting and optimization over the longer term, which in turn will enhance online user experience, and allow delivery of a superior overall online solution. "We want our customers to have a competitive online advantage."
"We are so confident of our capability we give our service away for free for 30 days. Not a cut down version or less frequent polling, the full service. We also give free expert assistance during the trial, a real person to help with setting up IPCheckpoint which is especially useful for setting up more complex synthetic transactions. We want our customers to make the most of their free trial so they can understand the value of our service.
...
========================================
20071213
Power Navigator is for AIX.
========================================
20080505
Advanced Availability Monitoring
Link inaccuracies, missing content, 404 pages, maxed time and service disruptions all become more than annoyances to your users. They become reasons for them to take their business elsewhere. Making sure your hardware is running optimally is step one to optimizing your end user experience. Step two, an important one, is making sure your services are behaving the way you need them to. And it's why we offer and support URL Synthetic Transaction Monitoring and Content Monitoring.
While our standard port monitoring is a good start, it's not foolproof. A port can show it's available even though the site isn't functioning for your end-users. Advanced Availability Monitoring goes beyond monitoring basic port availability. It routinely checks your critical web pages and services to make sure they're working properly. And then quickly lets us know when they're not, so then we can start working on solving your problems immediately.
FTP Retrieval
Checks FTP site availability then attempts to retrieve a specified file.
Mail Send/Receive
Tests whether a mail user can send and receive email.
URL Content Monitoring
Checks a single URL for its availability (not just pinging a port), and then continues to search the page for a predefined string of text.
URL Synthetic Transaction Monitoring
Verifies that your visitors can complete a necessary series of steps successfully and without any site errors. We work with you to create a script of up to five steps that mimics how a user would typically interact with your site.
Historical Reporting
The ability to view historical reporting for each Advanced Availability Monitor through our customer portal. Default reporting will be for 72 hours, and as recent as the last polling interval.
========================================
20080421
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Simple page looks like:
Is ____ down for everyone or just me?
========================================
2009.02
Pingdom Website monitoring made easy
We can monitor your website and servers and let you know right away when anything goes wrong. Get the facts and stay on top of things with Pingdom.
Plans at $10 and $40 per month.
========================================
201101
Internet monitoring company Renesys. They do it all, worldwide.
========================================
201101
whichloadsfaster.com has simple web page for user to pick two websites. It then starts a race between the sites to find which site loads faster.
=====================================
201104
ipMonitor shows you what's up on your network by delivering up/down monitoring for your network devices, servers, & apps - at a price any IT team can afford! Plus, SolarWinds ipMonitor installs in minutes and is easy to use!
"Only $1995"
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