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With 18 million users running more than a billion applets a month, IFTTT wants to become a service that connects pretty much everything 鈥?though some users say it still has room for improvement. Credit: Thinkstock/Pexels Remix Yoursquo;ve no doubt hea
stanley cup rd of software as a service. Those who are deeply into IT will nod their heads in recognition when acronyms such as IaaS infrastructure as a service and PaaS platform as a service are tossed around, too. B
stanley spain ut herersquo one *aaS you might not have heard of yet: everything as a service. And itrsquo the future, according to Linden Tibbets, CEO and co-founder ofIFTTT.But what exactly is IFTTT And how does it relate to the idea of everything as a service Herersquo what you need to know.What is IFTTT IFTTT deriv
stanley cup es its name from the programming conditional statement if this, then that. What the company provides is a software platform that connects apps, devices and services from different developers in order to trigger one or more automations involving those apps, devices and services. Here are just threeif this, then thatautomations you can run with IFTTT:*Ifyou make a call on your Android phone,thena log of that call is added to aGoogle spreadsheet.*Ifyou add a new task to your Amazon Alexa to-dos,thenit will be added to youriOS Reminders app. *Ifthe International Space Station passes over your house,thenyoursquo;ll get asmartphone notificationabout it. Yes, this is an actual IFTTT applet. Zxgg Wi-Fi spurs broadband growth in hotel industry
Inspector general blasts the $116M financial systems upgrade A major upgrade to the core financial systems of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has encountered turbulence from end users and the agencyrsquo inspector gener
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stanley cup uk he $116 million financials upgrade is the cornerstone of a larger project, dubbed the Integrated Enterprise Management Program, which is expected to cost $1.1 billion. The IEMP uses R/3 financial applications from SAP AG, and when completed, itrsquo expected to improve financial, contractual, asset management and other procedures throughout NASA. However, critics claim that five years into the estimated eight-year project, the IEMP has suffered from end-user resistance, data integration problems and
stanley cup a lack of oversight. Last month, NASArsquo Office of the Inspector General found flaws in the management of IEMP contracts and demanded improvement. Despite the criticality of IEMP to the agency, NASArsquo monitoring of the contracts was informal and inadequate to ensure that IEMP products and services were procured in a satisfactory, cost-effective manner, according to the report. For example, the report stated that as of September 2004, five of 14 SAP-related projects, worth $16.5 million, were for services not even officially funded. The inspector generalrsquo office warned that the lack of centralized oversight could impede NASArsquo ability to manage the contracts, a
