Those kinds of companies have thrived on the conventional software approach that RightNow execs tend to criticize.
This is in sharp contrast to the software-only approach at Google, Yahoo's hotter and younger rival.
Providing protection to a diverse online world requires a fundamentally new approach involving software, hardware and services.
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This proactive rather than reactive approach to software security holds a lot of promise in our view.
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Interestingly enough, some of the top minds in the cloud industry are veterans of the old-school approach to software.
Datamark, a start-up in London, has begun offering a more big-brotherish approach with software designed for use by picture libraries.
In short, AnaTango positions itself to executives as a provider of a management methodology that offers software to institutionalize the approach once the company sees its benefits.
This approach to software development was codified in a meeting in February 2001 in Utah when a group of programmers declared its allegiance to doing things quickly, using common sense and simplicity.
With Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft takes a fundamentally different approach to phone software.
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Apple has a singular market position, thanks to its polished software and a sleek design approach.
Consider the approach to building software (not just the products but the companies themselves).
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Because of Apple's "walled garden" approach, the software available on its App Store is relatively protected from government-sponsored malware, in contrast to the Android operating system.
With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications.
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That could hurt Microsoft as many companies refashion themselves for the era of "cloud" computing, a Google-backed approach in which software is easily accessed online and sold as a subscription product, rather than installed on companies' computers.
This approach of having a software agent negotiate trust with the web site for you requires some new technical innovations.
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No, Ballmer knew he needed to try something very different from what Microsoft has traditionally done, so he decided to mimic not only Oracle but also Apple in pursuing the engineered-systems approach of hardware and software designed together from the ground up.
In the OpenStack space companies like Mirantis, Piston Cloud, CloudScaling, Nebula and even IBM, Canonical and Red Hat are begining to benefit from this new consultant centric view of IT rather then the more traditional one size fits all approach of data center software popularized by VMware.
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The easy approach is to use ABC software in conjunction with a company's existing accounting system.
All this has led many companies to develop a much more pragmatic approach to open-source software.
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In Phase I, teams are expected to produce an initial design and demonstrate in software the crucial capabilities that validate their approach.
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Chad Bockius, CEO at Socialware, a social media compliance software company, said a purely technical approach such as linking the the APIs at social media providers, can catch about 70 percent of the data.
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The kiosk-based approach means that compared with other software retailers, SoftWide's shops sell an entirely different range of software to an entirely different type of customer.
While chess programs have played at a world-class level for two decades, backgammon software based on the same brute-force approach has never achieved more than a weak intermediate level of play.
This "application lifecycle management"--or ALM--approach reflects the ways in which software has entered more parts of the company over the past decade, and how non-IT managers must also take on software-project responsibilities.
After cleaning up its accounting scandals, Dell next decided to enter other businesses like providing turnkey software packages to major corporations, copying the approach of major tech firms like IBM, by buying Perot systems.
The firewall has long been emblematic of the enterprise's approach to information security, and software solutions have imposed rigid processes and limited licenses to employees to minimize the risk of the wrong information ending up in the wrong hands.
In our research we aim to be able to emulate this approach in a new kind of software that can provide significant benefits in improving the efficiency of traffic flow, hence improving road space utilisation, reducing journey times and potentially, improving fuel efficiency.
No doubt, this high-touch approach has been effective for other great software companies.
Such approach to the use and development of software encourages innovation and skills-building.
The approach aligns with the trend toward SDN (software-defined networking) and NFV (network function virtualization) among telecommunications operators, thanks to its elastic and virtualization-friendly cloud architecture.
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