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- a product used as a basis for building more complex products or delivering services. For example, a communications network is a platform for delivering knowledge...
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- What the Xbox Tells Us About Market Competition
- Academics are increasingly studying strategy and competition in markets dominated by "platforms." What's a platform? They are products created to be platforms on top of which other companies can sell products and services. Cell phones are a platform -- they provided a multi-billion business for ring...
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Managing Proprietary And Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View
- In a platform-mediated network, users rely on a common platform, provided by one or more intermediaries, that encompasses infrastructure and rules required by users to transact with each other. A fundamental design decision for firms that aspire to develop platform-mediated networks is whether to preserve proprietary control or share their...
- White papers 2007-06-26
- The Industry R&D Survey - Patent Database Link Project
- This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry R&D (Research& Development) Survey conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths...
- White papers 2006-11-13
- Proprietary Vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms And Social Efficiency
- This paper identifies a fundamental economic welfare tradeoff between two-sided open platforms and two-sided proprietary closed platforms connecting consumers and producers. Proprietary platforms create two-sided deadweight losses through monopoly pricing but at the same time, precisely because they set prices in order to maximize profits, they partially internalize two-sided positive...
- White papers 2006-03-14
- Toward a Business Process Platform
- The steady rise in the abstraction level of technical software platforms enabled a similar rise in the abstraction level of programming languages and model-driven development tools. Business process platforms are a new type of platform at an even higher level of abstraction, offering business functionality that sits on top of...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- New Application of Voltage Source Converter (VSC) HVDC to Be Installed on the Gas Platform Troll A
- This paper describes about the design aspects of the electrical drive system for Troll A. Voltage source converter VSC HVDC and cable wound high voltage motor are novel technologies that enable powering of offshore installations with electrical power from shore. On the gas platform Troll A in the North Sea...
- White papers 2004-08-30
- Case History : New Drills Off Old Platforms in EI 338/339 Field
- This paper summarizes the challenges that were faced and the lessons learned in trying to drill both new wells and sidetracks off of several 30 year old platforms. Since there were no empty slots on the platforms the first challenge was to reclaim slots without a rig in 260' of...
- White papers 2003-02-14
- The Platform Driven Organization
- From the executive summary: ‘Leaders of leaders have a different role. They develop a platform upon which an organization and its leaders set the tone, ethic, and direction as well as figure out the best answers to systemic challenges and entire classes of problems an organization can face. If leaders...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- CRISTAL: Further Steps to a Multi-Currency Platform for Payment Monitoring and Liquidity Management
- This white paper provides an overview of the various enhancements Diamis will bring into its CRISTAL platform. Such evolutions will lead CRISTAL to become a multi-currency, multi-channel exchange platform to respond to our customer demand in terms of payments centralization and will place CRISTAL at the heart of a Global...
- White papers 2001-11-05
- Furmanite Gets Cormorant Connected
- The original configuration of pipe-work on the North Cormorant platform of the Otter over Eider project, did not lend itself to the increased flow. The modifications required on the platform incorporated a 45-degree angle tie-in, allowing a 12-inch branch line to be connected to an existing 20-inch flare line, requiring...
- Case studies
- Unique Problem Solving for Petrochemical Industry
- A lubrication malfunction caused a catastrophic failure in a gearbox on one of the offshore gas production platforms. In this application, the gearbox was a compressor drive located between a gas turbine and a gas compressor and was used for pumping material through undersea lines directly to the customer's processing...
- Case studies
- Apple Launching a New Platform War With the Mac
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver another sermon to the Mac faithful at the Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC, but amid all the pyrotechnics about the iPhone, App Store and third party software goodies keep in mind the big picture: There's a platform war about to start. It's...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Platform-As-a-Service Needs an Audience
- Software as a service has turned into platform as a service (as if we needed another "aaS") and as this application battle royale gets underway developers need to think about these efforts in terms of audience. For instance, Bill Appleton, CTO of DreamFactory, which makes cloudware–rich Internet...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
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- Exploration News
- face=+Bold; The Meridian Resource Corp.face=-Bold; , Houston, (NYSE: TMR) reports Delacroix No. 1 in the Bayou Gentilly area southwest of the Biloxi Marshland in Louisiana has been returned to production after repairs to a major pipeline were completed. The well was shut-in during early August when the major...
- Articles 2008-12-17
- Next generation unified communications for better collaboration: communications and collaboration will become critical elements of business success as the next generation of mobile communications devices and platforms link the right people, at the right time, through the most appropriate networks
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS THE world moves towards ubiquitous, seamless data connectivity to support a global economy, most people will have high quality access to almost any information, anywhere, anytime, on any device. However, as barriers to access fall away, one of the key challenges organisations will...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Nonlinear behavior of single piles in jacket tpe offshore platforms using incremental dnamic analysis
- INTRODUCTION Excavation for oil in offshore areas has begun for several years. This industry relies on offshore structures as part of their existence. Steel platforms are one of the most common structural systems currently used for oil exploitation purposes. These structures are generally designed to resist environmental loads...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Experimental modeling of pile-leg interaction in jacket type offshore platforms cyclic inelastic behavior
- INTRODUCTION General: Most of the jackets have foundation piles through each main leg which are welded to the structure at deck level. Modeling the cyclic inelastic behavior of legs and braces is of utmost importance in any nonlinear dynamic analysis of offshore jackets. In the past years, considerable...
- Articles 2008-11-01
- Wants more Zastavas
- I have always appreciated Handgunner for all of the right reasons. It's straightforward, informative, politically incorrect, and most of all has great ads with beautiful women. I direct your attention to the EAA ad on page 39 of the September/October issue about their Zastavas pistols. Do I want to see...
- Articles 2008-11-01
- The GSG fun gun: a rimfire clone of the HK MP-5
- One of the endearing qualities of .22 rimfire firearms is they can be fabricated into just about any form imaginable from miniature Gatling guns to fountain pens. At the head of my current "fun gun" list is German Sport Guns' MP-5 clone, the GSG-5. The details of the design are...
- Articles 2008-11-01
- Chapman's techniques
- The Chapman reload of the semiauto pistol has become standard protocol in police training today. He never put his name on it--it was Jeff Cooper who credited the modest Chapman with developing it--but if anyone ever taught you to eject the spent mag with the gun hand while the support...
- Articles 2008-11-01
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