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“Despite investing millions in ERP software to automate business processes, most enterprises are frustrated by inflexible software systems that often hinder real-time visibility into business operations.” Lesson #1: don’t use ERP to automate processes…

Not so threatening here north of the border. The US might want the poor, tired and huddled masses, but up here we want the well-educated and employable.

Wufoo’s form and lightweight database application builder

Does a reasonable job of converting (non-DRM’d) PDFs to Word documents; haven’t tried the image or video conversions yet

Web-based process management — I would have expected to see them at Enterprise 2.0, but their site is pretty quiet these days.

Real-time tracking of commerical and private flights. Useful if you want to know if that flight really has left when the airline tells you that it has.