Analyzing the Social Media Phenomenon: SAS Weighs In
SAS Institute put a stake in the sand recently with the announcement of its SAS Social Media Analytics service. It’s an important addition to the social media revolution and our ability to utilize the exaflood of data coming at companies from the many new social media sources now enlightening and bedeviling our businesses. In case [...]
Business Partner Optimization: The Third Pillar of Social Business Design
We choose business partners because of their competency, resources and reliability. They become a critical lynchpin in delivering value to the customer. Whether it is a strategic R&D partner or an independent truck driver moving your good across the continent, isn’t it time to think about those relationships in a Social Business Design light? Some [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 04/23/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: Like Sept.11, volcano plane ban may hold climate clue | Reuters Plane-free skies over Europe during Iceland’s volcanic eruption may yield rare clues about how flights stoke climate change, adding to evidence from a closure of U.S. airspace after September 11, 2001, experts say tags: airplane, aviation, iceland, [...]
Enterprise Irregulars: Behind the scenes with NetSuite CEO
The Enterprise Irregulars is an invitation only group comprised of top-tier enterprise analysts, observers, industry veterans, and executives. Listen to a podcast briefing with NetSuite’s CEO.
Friday Rant: It’s Off to ISM We Go — But for How Much Longer?
Along with hundreds of other practitioners headed to ISM this weekend or next week, I’m going to attend (and speak at) an event that has long been considered the single most important annual corporate gathering for North American procurement managers. Like all large events, such shows are always what you make of them. There’s no [...]
Wiring the Web
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for tying together the disparate pages and services that most of know as ‘the web’ – and the identities, preferences and profiles of those who use and browse it. Facebook’s announcements this past week have rightfully gotten tremendous attention, Twitter has been busy, and Salesforce.com made an equally important – if less-understood – move with its acquisition of Jigsaw. The battle for owning identity across the web – and mobile as well – is in high gear. What do Google, Apple and Microsoft have planned?
My “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” presentation
Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices Conference organising company iQuest contacted me last year to ask me to deliver a keynote presentation at their Green IT Summit. The event took place in Dublin yesterday and my keynote talk entitled “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” [...]
The Future Of HRM Software: Effective Dating
Tempus Fugit! Did you think this was going to be a guide to finding the man/woman of your dreams? Wrong! If you ask any HRM software vendor or BPO provider if their software is effective-dated, the universal response will be yes. And they’re telling the truth. Even the sorriest HRM software allows for the effective-dating [...]
Friday Rant: SaaS and Data Integration is Not a Walk in the Park
Starting a few months ago, I began to receive a surprising number of calls and notes from different providers, consultants and practitioners who were concerned with some of the challenges they were seeing with integrating SaaS P2P solutions (primarily from Ariba) with disparate non-ERP systems, primarily in the services procurement and VMS space. In particular, [...]
