Now you might be wondering what this blog is doing in the posts here. It is interesting, we like to broadcast helpful stuff people write for other people. These posts in this blog OBIEE DIAGNOSTICS, are from a pro who has been working in the Business Intelligence world for a long time. His aim to write these tips are to help others in his field with time saving methodologies or error fighting tools.

What has been written in these blogs are straight from the horses mouth, that is a real person, having a real problem and solving it with a real solution. Where else would you find these tips for OBIEE, no where but here. Check them out if you are into the Oracle Business Intelligence world.

We all like Google, because of its innovative ideas and its endless money bin. Now Salesforce on the other hand, is a web CRM product, has its bit of competitors and to add it all is almost on the verge of market reach due to saturation.

Now here comes the savior, Google launches its App Engine, kinda like a web application host. What does that have to do with Salesforce, well SF also is hosted CRM application, doesn’t it seem similar now. More on the scoop, Google likes everything to be on the web, so it is but obvious that Google will own all the data if all the applications it hosts are on the web. Salesforce already owns a lot of data, so when Google says its partnering with Salesforce to deliver its documents, gmail, apps through Salesforce, what do you hear….ding….dong…. continued.

Microsoft made a bid for Yahoo, Yahoo is not giving in, it ties up with Google for some search methodologies, only a small percent. Then Yahoo goes to AOL owned by Time Warner, things are still in the air.

Coming back to Google and Saleforce, both of them anounce the Google apps stuff for Salesforce on Friday April 11th. The same day the google apps tab is already in Saleforce. Quick and good work!!!. I am not finished yet, few months ago Marc Benioff of SF was out to try and sell SF out to anybody who would buy at a three fold price of the companies value. Nobody bought into it, now we see Google with its interest and its apps already in SF, ding….dong….. what to you see. Let me not make any wild guesses, but for all of you, we would not be surprised if Google announces the acquisition of Salesforce, it is truly in the making.

You might wonder why I wrote about Microsoft and Yahoo above, well with all these M&A’s (mergers and acquistions) going on I did not want that be left untouched. Talk about Blockbuster and CircuitCity, what a combination, thats for later….

The times are not far as I can see, that we would be sending our checks to one company, the same old days of Monopolies are coming back, hang tight.

An all in one place page. Good for people with specific interests. As I had spoken to the team at GotFirst, they will be introducing customizations in the coming releases.

Have fun GotFirst

Again a good start page for India centric news and gossips. Fun to read when you want to just lighten up your day.

Read on Dhoondde. Also has various flavors in these following names Dhoond.de and Dhund.de

Deyey is a online applications and sharing platform. This is an interesting online application tool. They have a cool namecard designer, you could really come up with awesome designs.

Yacapaca for Teachers. Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more. Discover modify and share assessments
Set work for the whole class with a few mouseclicks. Mark automatically Analyse with tools that improve your teaching.
You have to use it to really understand what it does, but does seem like and interesting concept.

Free music zilla, the first tool specialized for social music downloading, enables you download free music from IMEEM™, Last.fm™, Pandora™, Myspace, eSnips™, Mog™, iJigg™, Radio.blog.club™ and almost all social music services. Enjoy free music.

I am back after a long break, was in school and had to get some projects done. The posts are going to start again. Sit back and read.

Dreamface Interactive provides a revolutionary new way for web-savvy business people to create Web 2.0 Applications that give users a personalized experience. DreamFace Interactive’s unique and innovative concept promotes the do-IT-yourself approach to Web 2.0 applications and encourages and empowers users to play an active role in defining, creating and publishing Dynamic Web Applications. DreamFace fosters a new generation of intuitive, interactive applications leveraging both the Internet and corporate intranets.

This is a pretty cool fun tool.

Now this is what I call a collection of masterpieces in one place. I have used the Zoho creater, it is one piece of application which can be used by anyone, anyone who even does not have any knowledge for HTML or database. This helps create an awesome form which could be connected to a database. This is useful for just creating mockups of screens, if you want to make a prototype.

Some apps are free and some come at a cost, still worth all the bucks.

Web applications and steroids, nowhere to go wrong.

It works good, and looks good too. Depends on how well it scales. WhoDoes is a fresh and intuitive web-based project management software. WhoDoes is designed to assist you and your team in planning projects of different complexity, from the small project to the biggest one.

With WhoDoes you can manage your activities and share information with your team, whether you are in the same office or distributed all over the World.

ChaCha stands out as different and better in a landscape cluttered with common search engines because it uses the World’s most powerful technology - The human brain.

ChaCha’s goal is to provide a better search experience by combining results that are hand-picked by our knowledgeable human guides with the best computer-generated search results. In those cases where you can’t find what you need with their instant results, ChaCha will connect you with a live human guide who will find the information for you through an instant messaging-style search session.