HotSpot - A Blog by Teraeon CEO Moe Yassine

Teraeon Consulting, an internet consulting firm based in Dearborn Michigan, has launched a web-enabled software suite for Non Profits and associates called Kollaborate Suite™.   Kollaborate™ gives organizations a unified framework to use in building membership, managing conferences including online registration an exhibitor tools as well as content management tools for their website. 

“Kollaborate™ helps increase efficiency in organizations by integrating many of the day to day tasks that are done manually.”   Said Moe  Yassine, Teraeon Consulting President and CEO.  “What we’ve done is try to identify where organizations are all the same, but give ourselves the freedom to customize and modify Kollaborate™ so that it fits an organization perfectly.”

Kollaborate™ is based on the .NET framework with back-end processes to help manage and maintain membership, conference proposals/exhibitors, e-Registrations all integrated in an easy to use UI.

About Teraeon

As a Michigan based company Teraeon Consulting, Inc is an IT consulting firm dedicated to providing secure, scalable and reliable solutions for business needs. Teraeon specializes in Enterprise Solutions through the use of web application development to help businesses cut costs and run more efficiently.

For more information visit: http://www.teraeon.com  Or Call 313-584-6309 for an online demo.

Now that I caught your attention with the strange title of this post, I will explain to you what flannel programming means.  Any good developer and/or consultant should have some way of separating their applications into different layers.  This is usually called a “Pattern”. I usually apply the term “Flannel” to the pattern we use in our applications at Teraeon Consulting. Read the rest of this entry »

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.” Galls Law

The first step in creating a lean enterprise is to first assess all your systems. Find out where these systems overlap and then see if these can be integrated. You would be surprised how much functionality and data is duplicated across your enterprise environment. In some cases the duplication is needed, but in the vast majority of cases the processes can be streamlined through either automated processes or removing the duplicate areas altogether.

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Many companies are looking to weather the current economic downturn.  We’ve all heard the politicians talk about creating jobs, or giving stimulus.  We’ve heard about the countless number of reasons as to why we’re in this mess.  What we haven’t heard is what can companies and people do right now to help the economy get back on it’s feet.  Read the rest of this entry »

Teraeon Consulting today announced plans to overhaul its flagship Content Management System, Ordinal CMS.  Scheduled for release in the third quarter of 2009, Ordinal Content Management System 2.0 will include a complete overhaul of the Content Management Server as well as the User interface and design portions.

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Teraeon Consulting has launched it’s e-Registration & Conference management System, RegMill™. RegMill gives organizations the full capabilities of managing large conferences with ease, helping cut time and increase registrations with an easy to use interface.

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IBM plans major security initiative - Yahoo! News

BOSTON - IBM Corp. plans to announce Thursday that it will boost what it spends developing computer security products to $1.5 billion in 2008, reflecting an intensifying focus for the company.
IBM executives would not say how much they used to spend. But analyst Charles King of Pund-IT Research said he believes $1.5 billion would be twice what IBM traditionally spends on security research and product development each year. Read the rest of this entry »

I was listening to NPR the other day after the 15 billion valuation of facebook. The commentator and guest on the show were questioning . First the valuation came from a Microsoft investment of 240 million dollars for 1.6% of the company.

In any case why is the 15 billion dollar valuation important? Well it’s mainly because some people say that facebook is just a fad, which may be true. However I contend that it is a wise investment for Microsoft considering their need to be a bigger player in the online advertising arena.

The power of social networking is just starting to be realized I believe, the idea that we’re all connected by 6 degrees of separation is what drives the model. Recently I was with a good friend of mine who runs a non profit here in Dearborn and we were discussing their annual fundraising Gala which they hold to basically keep them going for the next year. I suggested to him he post an event on Facebook since he already has an account, so he did and within 5 minutes there were 200 people invited to the event. With those kinds of results, and statistics that show the average Facebook user stays online for almost 6 hours a month (that’s 12 1/2 hour Television shows) I think that a $15 billion is actually fair.

After much delay and anticipation we’ve launched our new corporate website. It’s sad to say but our old one was not updated very much. We’ve managed have this one very much driven by the content and data driven so it will be constantly updated atleast on a weekly baisis.

The new site should give us a better prescence on the web. Hope you guys like it!

http://www.teraeon.com

By: Dan Fisher 2/5/2007

Society of Consulting Psychology has launched it’s new website - www.div13.org. The new website has multiple new capabilities including:

• A Password Protected Members Only Section
• A Consultant Locator that enables the public to search for Div 13 members by
  their specialization. (You’ll need to add yourself to this locator from the “My Profile” section.
• A Membership Directory where members can search for other members.
• Automated job posting
• An online bookstore via Amazon.com that will also help to raise revenue for
  SCP. Please purchase all Amazon products through our portal to help support SCP.
• The ability to register for Division 13 online using a credit card
• The ability to register for Distance Learning Programs onlne using a credit card
• A members only forum/bulletin board that is integrated into the
  actual website (compared to current online forum that is separate from
  website)

Programming and design for the new website has been provided by Teraeon Consulting Corp - http://www.teraeon.com