HotSpot – A Blog by Teraeon CEO Moe Yassine

Dearborn, Michigan — December 21, 2010 — Teraeon Consulting Corporation, a premier IT consulting firm dedicated to providing secure, scalable and reliable solutions for business needs, today announced it has finalized a joint development and marketing partnership with AIMS, Inc., the Louisiana-based leader in accounting & management software for the wholesale petroleum distribution industry.

The partnership will offer all petroleum marketers, especially AIMS clients, an industry specific Customer Information Portal for publishing customer information directly from their financial software systems – providing customers with 24×7 self-service access to their data and reducing customer calls.

”A truly successful customer information portal offers marketers a differentiating value for their customers – improving customer service while reducing costs, all with a focus on putting marketers ahead of their competition” said David Dorries, Director of Sales & Marketing for AIMS, Inc.

The Customer Information Portal, built on Microsoft .NET framework technology, will deliver highly scalable business process driven portals for petroleum marketers. “This is just the beginning. In the future we expect to offer our customers innovative portal solutions that far exceed their current experiences and deliver exclusive content, events and services wherever and whenever they want them,” Moe Yassine, President of Teraeon stated.

“AIMS, Inc. has been committed to enhancing Petroleum Marketers productivity and profitability for over 35 years.  We pride ourselves on developing innovative software and solutions that improve our customers’ businesses. The need for a customer information portal was obvious, as was the decision to select Teraeon as a strategic partner.  They understand our business and embrace AIMS’ desire to provide customer centric and profitable solutions for today’s Marketer,” said Robert Canterbury, President of AIMS Inc.

Founded in 2004, Teraeon Consulting Corporation has led the way in offering the latest in Internet consulting and development services, software development, and e-commerce services. Specializing in Enterprise Solutions through the use of web application development, Teraeon’s paramount focus is helping businesses of all sizes cut costs and run more efficiently through the utilization of their web-based technologies.

Note to editors: If you are interested in viewing additional information on Teraeon, please visit the Teraeon web page at: http://www.teraeon.com. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Teraeon’s marketing department at (877) 837-2366. If you are interested in viewing additional information on AIMS, please visit the AIMS web page at: http://www.aims1.com. Journalists and analysts may contact AIMS at (318) 807-9310.

Intel was able to halve the thickness of the current generation of netbooks with their new Canoe Lake “innovation platform,” which employs thermal cooling for Pine Trail netbooks instead of the traditional fans. The end result: a super-slim form factor that also runs less hot than today's models. It's important to keep in mind that this is just a reference design, and that we're likely a long ways off from actually seeing a 14mm netbook on a Best Buy shelf.

via Intel Trims Netbooks To Just Half an Inch Thick, Adds Dual-Core Atom CPUs.

This is a belated reaction to the court decision that the FCC lacked authority to enforce Net Neutrality, I’ve been meaning to write on it for quite some time but we’ve been hard at work here and haven’t had much time for anything outside of coding.  In any case the concept of Net Neutrality is somewhat obsceure, not many people understand what it means.  The standard definition is that all traffic should be treated equally.  What that really means is that the YouTube you love to watch, the Google you love to search, the Yahoo you love to browse cannot be blocked, given different priority, or sold to you by your ISP.

Your ISP though has another idea, the ISP says that since they control the lines that give you the web they should be able to control the traffic you want to see.  Now in all fairness, most people probably wouldn’t use an ISP that requires you to pay for YouTube when another ISP will give you access for free, not now at least…  I know many gamers who switched from Comcast to Wide Open West specifically because Comcast restricted gamers use of bandwidth.

It’s easy to see the reason that Net Neutrality is important to defend, the web’s at it’s core has been a great equalizer in the world because of net neutrality.  It’s the reason why Meg Whitmann could start ebay in her house and have her business available to millions instantly, or the reason Larry Page could create a search engine that overtakes big guys like Yahoo and Microsoft from a garage in Silicon Valley.  It represents everything that makes web great, it gives the new entrepreneur the ability to market the same way that big companies can without having to have deep pockets to do so.

Imagine a web where someone like Larry Page and Sergey Brin decide they had a good idea for a search engine but found that they had to pay a fee to bring it to market the same way that you would if you wanted to create a tv station that’s carried by cable. In fact it’s because of Net Neutrality you are able to create channel’s on YouTube free of charge and you have access to the complete market.  Imagine a web where you could only buy from one music store depending on who your ISP was, restricting what devices you could buy and what you can listen to.  I am one of the (very) few people who own a Zune, I love my Zune but lets face it if my ISP had a deal with iTunes they could effectively kill my ability to get music from the Zune Marketplace if it wasn’t for Net Neutrality.

On the other side the notion is that you cannot restrict what a company does with it’s own lines.  The court’s verdict reflected this view in the FCC case.  If you are of the view that companies would be committing suicide by restricting access think of your cell phone companies.  It only takes one guy to test the waters out by offering cheap service that doesn’t allow you to go to bandwidth sucking sites, once enough people buy the service other companies will follow then they will get rid of their unlimited plans and we’ll be stuck paying for minutes like in the old AOL day’s.  Cell plans followed the same path, in 1999 I had an unlimited nextel plan for $59 a month.  In 2001 I restarted cell phone service with the same company but found that for that price I could only get 500 minutes with incoming for free.  In 2004 I switched to another provider and could only get 500 any time minutes and free night and weekends starting at 9:00, and now I pay over twice that amount for my unlimited plan on my smart phone.

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 »