Oracle The Age of Affluence
The economy may be in turmoil, and the national mood is screaming for fiscal conservatism, but for a few days this week there were no “tea parties” in downtown San Francisco.
There was Larry Ellison invoking amazon a few times this week, but w…
German User Groups Stepping Up The Pressure On SAP
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung notes that after the quarrelsome and strained relationship with former CEO Léo Apotheker, starting with but certainly not ending over proposed maintenance hikes, the SAP German User Group – DSAG is experiencing a better relationship with…
Selling Value at Oracle Open World and beyond
Value calculations and perspectives are changing in the world of ERP. See what two integrators were pitching at Oracle Open World as well as other factors your firm may need to consider.
Where is the HR software market disappearing?
I’d like to be in the business card business this year if only to handle all the M&A activity in the HR software space. Better get to the HR Technology Conference next week before a whole bunch of other vendors get snatched up!
Apigee – Brief Notes
Sonoa renames its self to Apigee, simplifying it’s offerings along a freemium model.
Looking for the Oxygen at Oracle Open World: High Tide and Low Tide for Fusion Apps
It’s tough being an apps guy at Oracle Open World, actually it’s tough being anyone at OOW. The biggest tech event in North America (not the world, however, despite Oracle’s claims: that distinction goes to CEBIT, which numbers its attendees in the hundreds of thousands) is just too gargantuan to make sense any more. There [...]
(Part 2) SAP analytics at Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss has been on a long march to bring better business analytics to their decision makers.
Big Enterprise Depends on an Inefficient Market to Give Them Unfair Advantage
Do you follow what I’m saying? Big Enterprise, and the bigger the more it is this way, benefits from and takes advantage of an inefficient market. That would be a market where information is scarce, and in fact artificially scarce. Hence these vendors often want to control the information all the more. Consider: if we [...]
Ariba Supplier Network Alternatives: OB10 (Solution Approach and Integration — Part 2)
For the first installment of this series, which provides a general overview examining OB10, please click here.
In addition to providing document/invoice exchange and related capabilities, OB10 also provides, in their words,…
Outsourcing marriage counselling… with Liz Campbell Evans
If your outsourcing relationship is on the rocks, one person who can provide some tried-and-trusted therapy is EquaTerra’s Liz Campbell Evans
