What
is ITscout?
Web-based interactive version of the Flashmap Roadmap
wall posters.
- Category descriptions
- Direct hyperlinks to product pages
- Direct hyperlinks to vendor web sites
- One-click context-sensitive Google searches
- 1-person, 1-vote democratic grading of products
- Additional categories and products
- Supplemental information
ITscout is targeted to visitors doing 'self-service' IT research.
My name is Jeff Tash. I’m the ITscout. I'm the person responsible for choosing everything that goes onto the Flashmap Roadmap wall posters and everything that appears on this ITscout web site. My promise is to deliver ITscout with a strong keel that will allow visitors to set their own course based on unbiased compass readings.
I develop cognitive roadmaps -- visual taxonomies -- that provide at-a-glance views of IT. I collect, organize, classify, and categorize all kinds of information that I discover as I surf the Web. ITscout is where I share my research. I invite you to come visit, discover, explore and learn. ITscout is totally commercial free.
Registration Required
ITscout visitors are identified
by their e-mail address. All visitors are required to register.
I promise not to sell or share your private information, especially
your e-mail address, with any outside third party. Shortly
after registering, a password will be sent to your e-mail address.
Please use that password for subsequent logins.
You can change your password by selecting the USER PROFILE
tab. If you forget your password, or if you never receive
an e-mail after registration, then click below the Log In button
on the link labeled Forgot Password?, and a new password will
be sent to your e-mail address.
After successfully logging in, visitors have the option of
saving a cookie. Visitors using cookies never have to
manually re-login to ITscout again unless they explicitly logout
using the ITscout LOGOUT tab.
Getting Started
ITscout's home page is the same as the
ITscout FLASHMAPS tab. It includes a search option where you
can enter one or more search words into the input box on the
top right portion of the page. The default search is
Any Match. To specify Exact Wording, click the check
box. Your objective is to find your bearings
on the Flashmap Roadmaps. From there, you can
discover and explore.
The ITscout FLASHMAPS tab also presents graphical
models representing the Flashmap Roadmaps. Roll your mouse
over the graphics and hover. Click to drill-down.
On the line just below the tab bar, is the
path bar. The path bar always shows your current position
inside the Flashmap Roadmap taxonomies. The labels comprising
the path are themselves hyperlinks. One way to navigate ITscout
is by clicking on the elements making up the path bar.
On the FLASHMAPS tab, the path bar indicates your login identifier.
Click on the HELP tab for additional information.
What’s the Gimmick? Why is ITscout
free?
ITscout exposes people,
like you, to a modified version of FlashAtlas and the ITscout
Roadmaps. If you like what you see, then perhaps you might
want to request a "click-along-with-Lois" FlashAtlas
demo. Or, maybe you'd like to buy a Flashmap Roadmap
wall poster. They make great stocking stuffers!
CAUTION: Although based on FlashAtlas, ITscout uses only a portion of FlashAtlas’ functionality.
- FlashAtlas is NOT ITscout
- ITscout
is NOT FlashAtlas.
To learn more about features in FlashAtlas
beyond what’s demonstrated in ITscout, please contact Lois
Aronson. She can show you how your IT organization can
use FlashAtlas to manage, communicate and enforce standards,
architectures and strategies related to your infrastructure
and applications technology portfolio.
I make no claims regarding ITscout’s completeness,
fairness, accuracy, or anything else. ITscout is simply my
modest attempt to model the entire IT industry. ITscout is
a mile wide and in a few places more than an inch deep.
I welcome feedback of any kind -- corrections
or additions -- suggestions on how to improve this site.
When you're visiting ITscout, you're never more than one click
away from sending me e-mail. That's what the FEEDBACK
tab is for. I look forward to hearing from you.
I hope you're satisfied with ITscout and that you find the
Flashmap Roadmap taxonomies useful. Please come back
again soon and tell your friends about ITscout.
If you have any questions regarding ITscout,
Flashmap Roadmaps, Flashmap Systems, FlashAtlas, or anything
else -- please contact Lois Aronson.
[ web site design | logo & animation | map illustrations
| by dave frank ]
[
Dave Frank Creative ]
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