Red Kettle Campaign
It’s Christmas and that means, among other things, a ringing bell next to a big red kettle. I did this last year and was so happy to see that people stepped up to help me surpass my modest goal, so this year I am upping the goal and asking that even in this economy people [...]
Tuesday’s Tip: 2010 Apps Strategies Should Start With Business Value
Begin Apps Strategy Projects With Bite-Sized Entry Points
Complexity often plagues today’s apps strategies. With tight budgets, limited resources, and little time, organizations need to find bite-sized entry points. The need to meet ever changing complex business requirements requires a four-step, basic (A,B,C,D) approach:
Align your business requirements with the hierarchy of business needs. Every project [...]
Twitter in the Enterprise – Round 9037472947
SAP has provided a Virtual Environment, where analysts, media, bloggers can interactively participate – right now I am watching a live video on their On Demand Strategy (hm.. how appropriate – watching the On-Demand session on-demand). The Virtual Environment includes Twitter tools, including sentiment analysis based on SAP’s Business Objects technology:
SAP Influencer event: First impressions
SAP’s 2009 Influencer Summit is in full-swing. Here are first impressions.
SAP Business Influencers Summit – Technology Strategy Dr. Vishal Sikka (SAP Labs)
Dr. Sikka begins by talking about what SAP is calling “Timeless software” First up, In Memory Computing THe idea is to incorporate column stores in main memory with use of multi-core processors…
The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The…
One Vote in Favor of Group Purchasing Organizations for Simple Categories
In the debate over group purchasing organizations (GPOs), I’m still
not entirely convinced that they represent a good investment outside
of a handful of select spend areas — at least for most companies.
After all, the payoff for doing sourc…
SAP Business Influencers Summit 2009 – Attempts at Live Blogging
I’m going to attempt to live blog this to some degree because I can’t tweet due to really bad wifi and a dead power strip too. More on my gripes later. Jim Snabe, for Product Strategy (Jim Snabe is…
The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet….
FinancialForce Validates NetSuite
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 [...]
Why is Oracle Thinking Small When it Comes to Procurement Partners Like e-Three?
In a column earlier this week, I examined how boutique e-sourcing
providers like e-Three are gaining strong adherents in the sourcing
world from procurement leaders attracted to the cost, flexibility, and
expertise that smaller firms offer, …
