20 RedMonk Predictions for 2010
I am sure many of you are already facing prediction fatigue, but I have to take my hat off to Jonny Bentwood, the very model of a modern AR/influencer man, for a. rounding up a bunch of analyst firm predictions for next year. b. helpfully editing three sets of redmonk predictions from Coté, Stephen, and [...]
ERP Rigidity – What Agresso Found Out – Key Factors
When you absolutely must change or upgrade your ERP solution, do you know what sort of risk you put your company in? Why are these systems so hard to change?
Dear Santa : The CXO ERP Xmas Letter
Can Santa help ERP users this holiday season? I doubt it. But, if you believe in Santa, maybe this letter needs to come from your firm.
PG&E smart meter communication failure – lessons for the rest of us
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What we have got here is a failure to communicate
The famous line from legendary movie Cool Hand Luke is the first thing that comes to mind when one hears about the fiasco which PG&E’s smart meter rollout in Bakersfield Ca. has become.
From the report on the SmartMeters.com site:
a class-action lawsuit has been [...]
Conference Spending Matters: Chicago Gets Dumped as a Convention City of Choice
If I were to practice what I preach here on Spend Matters, I should
have probably packed up my bags and left Chicago — not to mention
Illinois — a long time ago. After all, this is the epicenter of
middle-corrupt-spending-America, a place …
IBM buys Austin-based Lombardi – Quick Analysis
IBM acquired what seems like solid BPM technology to help fill-out it’s Smart Planet vision.
IBM Buying Lombardi: A Bauble on their BPM Christmas Tree?
Image via Wikipedia I was on the analyst call this morning to hear about IBM’s acquisition of Lombardi – a pretty significant acquisition in the BPM space. Lombardi is the best known of the mid-range BPMS vendors, and if the economic climate weren’t quite so dreary, I imagine that they’d be doing an IPO rather [...]
Wednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers November/December 2009
PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES*
As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In.
Eliot Axelrod became Senior Account Exec [...]
San Francisco, The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.
Normally I would tweet this but this feature in SF Weekly is so extensive and conclusive that it deserves attention.
It’s time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America. This year’s city budget is an astonishing $6.6 billion — more than twice the budget for [...]
Should you Renew Now With Both Gartner and AMR Research?
At SAP’s Influencer Summit last week, I had the chance to trade
thoughts and notes with a number of colleagues — including fellow
bloggers/former analysts as well as current analysts — about whether
it made sense for companies that current…
