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Topic: Growth Charts
Good news for those trying to peer through the veil of stealth over VCSY's operations:
New information system will improve service in human resources
By Barbara Black
May 8, 2008 issue
A more reliable, more accessible system should be able to handle many more functions than is possible now. Areas in need of improvement include: position control, tracking time and attendance, automation of forms and processes, and query tools for reporting, among others. Benoit Pantaloni is an actuarial science graduate working at Concordia on a short-term contract as project manager for the implementation of a new HRIS. He has worked in HRIS system development and implementation for more than 10 years in both the private and public sector, notably at hospitals. Under his guidance and that of a steering committee, Concordia will get a new HR system called emPath, version 6.4.
“The licence of the new system was bought at almost no cost in 2007,” Pantaloni told the Journal. “emPath, from Now Solutions, was less expensive than PeopleSoft and Banner-HR. It had better functionalities than Banner and was by far the easiest of the three systems to implement.”
The new system is web-based, which will make it easily accessible from other departments, Pantaloni explained. Because it is built using modern technology and techniques, it will require less frequent customization for our needs.
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How can anybody make money selling services cheap? The secret in this new age of web-based service is volume. The idea is to collect over time rather than a one time shot. Want another opinion?
Try this:
Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software
June 5th, 2008
Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 5:07 pm
After a week of intensive usage last December getting his company’s application to run against Amazon’s SimpleDB cloud database, DreamFactory founder and CTO Bill Appleton wondered how big a bill he’d run up. To his amazement, what had seemed like a week’s heavy usage had cost just a few cents. The discovery was an epiphany both for Appleton and for CEO Eric Rubin. They had stumbled upon what seemed to be a new economic reality for cloud-based application software.
First of all, as Appleton told me in January, “Usage-based pricing is as disruptive to on-demand as on-demand was to enterprise software.” On-demand pricing of anywhere between $30 and $300 per user per month has challenged the high implementation and maintenance costs of conventional on-premise software. But now there’s a new threat to the traditional monthly per-user subscription pricing model for on-demand applications, in which every user pays the same flat (or should that be fat?) all-inclusive price, irrespective of usage.
The second element of DreamFactory’s secret sauce is that its local client architecture means that it has to maintain minimal infrastructure of its own. “We’re using other people’s servers and our customers’ clients and it drives the cost into the ground compared to enterprise applications,” Appleton told me back in January.
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This paragraph from the above article brings to mind the facility of VCSY's patent 7076521 technology which can fill in on client or server to perform the kind of data transport/processing/transactioning necessary to build distributed processing services as typified by products described in the following paragraph:
"What’s really exciting about Gears, DreamFactory, AIR and Silverlight is the ability to use the client’s processing resources instead of exclusively overloading the server side of the infrastructure (the architectural failing that has made Twitter suffer so much of late)."
As you can see, the 521 technology allows something like TPC (Transactional Process Facility) to be built giving the kind of operating system structures that were built into mainframes like the IBM360, but built using the interenet as a transport infrastructure and useing the client computing resources as thought they belonged to the overall computer architecture.
This allows for virtual computer architectures that are unlimited in scope and reach because any resource may be interconnected by the distributed 7076521 agent.
That virtualization of all resources on any platform allows the builder to create computer structures of any size and any complexity limited only by the ability to connect via internet to any platform.
That capability is backed up by the claims in patent 6826744 allowing for distributed frameworks to manage and operate the desired functional nodes.
So, where software makers of the past depended on customers buying the software in successive installations, the new technologies provide for continuous operation and transparent upgrades and usage with identifiable value demonstrated over long periods of uninterrupted time.
Ultimately the monolithic operating system hits a saturation point while distributed operators can always find another point to perform transactions.
Not getting it? Not a surprise. Distributed architectures and the nodal transactioning operations needed to accomplish such are foreign to the average computer user. Even programmers bog down when trying to map out what kinds of operations need to happen locally to integrate with the distributed whole.
Don't see how it's done systemically? Answer? 744. Get used to it, cutie. The world is going to be completely different. This ain't your grandfathers computing platform.
