Vinnie Mirchandani
CEO of Deal Architect, a top advisory boutique recognized in The Black Book of Outsourcing, author of a widely praised book on technology enabled innovation, The New Polymath, prolific blogger, writing about technology-enabled innovation at New Florence, New Renaissance and about waste in technology at Deal Architect. Previously Analyst at Gartner, Partner with PwC Consulting. Keynoted at many business and technology conferences and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and other executive and technology publications.
Life after SAP
For the first time in a while I missed SapphireNow this year, and yet through some unplanned scheduling got to be around a bunch of SAP alums, ex-partners and ex-customers. I was invited to present to SAP alum at the AtelierSAP event which preceded SapphireNow in Orlando. A lunch conversation with Paul Wahl, former US [...]
Its all about the enterprise apps, baby
Silver’s the new green …sang the Taco Bell TV commercial “It’s all about the Roosevelts” as it celebrated dimes to promote its sub $ 1 menu. At SuiteWorld this week I wanted to break out in that rhyme at the celebration of all kinds of enterprise apps. Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, set the tone [...]
SapphireNow, Past and Future
In the run up to SapphireNow this week I have seen several blogs and tweets about SAP’s new (as in last five years) analytical, cloud and mobile products – HANA, SuccessFactors, BYD etc. During the course of the week every announcement around these products will get amplified. The reality is after years of trying, these [...]
HPthe other transformation
With all the negative news swirling around HP, it is easy to lose focus on the complex operations that continue to drive the $120 billion behemoth. Every global supply chain was rocked by the Japanese tsunami and the Iceland volcano explosion impact on European air travel. HP’s mammoth supply chain which produces 2 printers a [...]
Big Data by the numbers
I tend to be a bit wary of vendor surveys of technology trends – they tend to be self serving in the scope of industries/countries they cover. But when I saw this TCS study of Big Data at over 1,200 companies I glanced through it. It’s nicely done with more of a payback, opportunity and [...]
Pause your ERP investment?
Time magazine has a cover story on the bounce back of American manufacturing. Worth a proper read (sub required) but they outline several drivers: a) Smarter products with sensors/software and supported with advanced analytics b) 3D printing c) Energy economics – the US is increasingly benefitting from shale oil and gas whereas global sourcing is [...]
Little Big IT
It’s been interesting watching our daughter’s college talk evolve. As a freshman, there was plenty of “My Big” – as in her big sorority sister. As a sophomore it was more about her “My Little”. Now, Big and Little seem to be equally used. We are going through a phase in IT where Big is [...]
The Hushed Tones around Third Party Maintenance
Watching this Dennis Howlett interview with Ray Wang, it occurred to me how the industry still talks about 3PM as a taboo topic: a) Enterprise software vendors still pretend they have no defections, even though Rimini Street, for one has over 600 customers b) Over a beer, enterprise software executives will agree they should move [...]
The truth about Magic Quadrants, Waves etc
My friends at Horses for Sources are introducing their Blueprint which they position as “not reliant on the arbitrary viewpoint of a single analyst” as say a Gartner Magic Quadrant or a Forrester Wave. I hope they do well with it, but there are some fundamental flaws with the MQ or Wave that I am [...]
Microsoft Enterprise Apps: Good is the enemy of Great
Let me start off by saying if I was walking the halls of Convergence in New Orleans this week, I may have a somewhat more generous point of view. But I am not there so catching up on what colleagues are reporting. And it just reinforces what I have felt for a few years – [...]
