Education
What is Amazon Quicksight?
If you're looking for a powerful, cloud-based business intelligence service, Amazon QuickSight deserves serious consideration.
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Oracle
The Cloud
What does Metal Toad do?
Welcome to Metal Toad! So you’ve been hired at this cool tech company cal
The Cloud
What is AWS Cloud?
How AWS Cloud works, how AWS got started and how much of the cloud market AWS controls in 2020.
The Cloud
How often should I update my website?
The short answer the the question: how often should I update my website? is every 3 to 5 years. The much longer answer starts with: it depends.
The Cloud
The Impact of the Cloud on Universities
An Executive Interview with Chris Manriquez, Vice President for Information Technology/CIO at California State University, Dominguez Hills I’ve been...
The Cloud
The 5 Core Elements of Technical Advising
I recently had a conversation with someone who was looking for some advice on selecting a technical advisor for their team, and she had some great...
The Cloud
The Impact of the Cloud on Higher Education
Carmen Lidz is the Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer at Los Angeles Community College District, where she shapes the technology vision...
The Cloud
How Cloud became the most important buzzword in business
Cloud is not the first (and probably not the last) disruptor to business via software. Over the past 50 years or so there have been four major epochs...
The Cloud
Cloud + Healthcare
Bridget Barnes has spent over 15 years leading strategic information system architecture at Oregon Health Science University (OHSU)—one of the...
The Cloud
Cloud + Utilities
Charles Eckstrom is the CIO of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. He’s been leading teams that successfully deliver large...
The Cloud
Cloud + Manufacturing
In this interview, Jim gives his take on the future of cloud, the building blocks of evaluating enterprise tech solutions, and his advice for other...
Business
Great Work Is The Floor
Account management is often considered a branch of sales, but in reality great account management involves your entire organization.
The Cloud
Saas vs. Cloud
Discover how the Cloud has disrupted the software industry, from the rise of Open Source to the emergence of SaaS applications. Learn why the Cloud...
Database
Proxying MS SQL connections using PuTTY
Connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server database isn't too hard, most of the time.
Android
Initial Impressions of Android Kotlin
As almost every Android developer has heard of by now, Kotlin is being included as a first class language in Android Studio.
AWS
A Time for Movements
We've written in the past about how to select an ethical software vendor, and our commitment to our customers.
Business
How to Select an Ethical Software Vendor
Many software firms believe that building great software is important. We believe it is important to take it one step further by committing to great...
Artificial Intelligence
CoverOregon goes Open Source
Ten months since my open letter to Oregon Governor Kitzhaber, challenging him to fix CoverOregon and to use more local companies and more open so
Education
Seeing Long Term Technology Adoption as Evolution
Much like an evolutionary tree our goal in technology adoption is too continue to move forward and evolve, rather than getting caught in a dead end....
Artificial Intelligence
ToadCast 022 - Open Source and Cover Oregon
Toadcast 22 hosted an All-Star cast including: Dave Bellous, co-owner of Yellow Pencil, Jacob Redding, Open Source Manager at Accenture's Emerging...
Artificial Intelligence
A Call for an Open Source CoverOregon.com
This is a copy of an open letter written to the Governor of Oregon regarding the Oregon health exchange.
Artificial Intelligence
Drupal vs. WordPress? Who Cares?! They Are Both Open Source.
Every week I hear about someone choosing WordPress over Drupal (or vice versus).