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By Tom Foydel on February 11, 2010
I had to laugh out loud today as I caught up with an old business acquaintance, now CEO of a good sized firm, and heard the story of how the founder’s son is running the IT department. I have heard this story so many times that I asked, without really thinking about, “Why do so many [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Business, Consulting, IT, Management team, small business, Technology for the Small to Medium Enterprise
By Tom Foydel on February 8, 2010
Over the weekend I met a fellow in a local hardware who was looking for some very unusual screws. We got to talking and I found out that he supplements his retirement pension by re-conditioning dental chairs, of all things. Evidently it’s a decent money maker for him and he enjoys the hobby.
The conversation started me [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged erp, harvesting, netsuite, on-premise software, oracle, SaaS, sap, software as a service
By Tom Foydel on December 17, 2009
Every once in a while I write a post that’s crazier than most. These normally happen late at night when my internal defenses have given way to a glass of wine. This post is along those lines. The basic question that I’ll try to answer is “Will the Cloud and SaaS save the current roster of Enterprise [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged code block, erp, ibm, implementation, netsuite, NetSuite and NetSuite Consulting, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, software as a service
By Tom Foydel on December 8, 2009
There, done. It had to be said and now it has been said. I no more liked saying it than you liked hearing it, but the truth will out, and now it’s done. Take a deep breath.
By not only having a financial software company write a new version of their software on the force.com platform [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged integrated suite, NetSuite and NetSuite Consulting, SaaS, small and medium enterprise, Technology for the Small to Medium Enterprise
By Tom Foydel on November 20, 2009
Thomas Wailgum writes some good articles and is frankly one of the few writers on the subject of ERP and enterprise software who appears to have some real knowledge of this market. His most recent piece on The Future of ERP is a sound reporting of the happenings of the last year since the world’s asset [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged all-in-one, best of breed, erp, integration, netsuite, SaaS, sap, smb, sme, Web service
By Tom Foydel on November 16, 2009
It is being reported online that Oracle has started a significant RIF (reduction in force) process in their consulting division. ZDnet’s Irregular Enterprise has a post about it today that brings up some good points. As a former Oracle consultant I wanted to weigh in as I think this is a worthwile subject to understand [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Consultants, Consulting, consulting margins, implementation, layoff, netsuite, on-premise, on-premise software, oracle, SaaS, si, small and medium enterprise, smb, software margins, systems integrator, Technology for the Small to Medium Enterprise
By Tom Foydel on November 2, 2009
Last week we talked about the idea of the SaaS to SaaS integration and how this network phenomenon could not be duplicated by on-premise software vendors where the same integration has to be built over and over again. Today, we turn our attention to application upgrades and updates, bug fixes, additional new functions, both large and [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged on-premise software, SaaS, Software release life cycle, traditional software, Uncategorized, upgrade, Windows 7
By Tom Foydel on October 29, 2009
Brian Sommer at Software and Services Safari has an excellent article today which I have summed up in the title. My takeaway is simply that as cloud based software services open integrations to other clouds and manage those integrations, they multiply the power of their individual clouds and create a computing environment that the on-premise [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged netsuite, NetSuite and NetSuite Consulting, OpenAir, SaaS, SaaS Integration, SaaS Network Effect, salesforce.com, software as a service, Technology for the Small to Medium Enterprise
By Tom Foydel on October 19, 2009
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Recently one of our NetSuite clients called with a big problem. They are continuing operations in the UK, but the US operations are being put on hold as they wait out this ugly recession. The US ops run on NetSuite and they needed to trim costs as much as possible while keeping a [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged erp, netsuite, NetSuite and NetSuite Consulting, sap, Technology for the Small to Medium Enterprise
By Tom Foydel on September 24, 2009
Like one of those old TV police shows where the preferred method of killing your enemy was to cut the brake cable on their car, I awoke yesterday to a snapped Emergency brake cable on my vehicle. Could not therefore release the emergency brake and had to have the car towed over to my mechanic at [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged independent consultancy, netsuite, NetSuite and NetSuite Consulting, netsuite implementation
