SAP Plays Games with the Analysts, and the Gamification of the Enterprise Begins
I went to a preview showing of a new SAP product last week, and had about the most fun I’ve had an analyst event since….well, if I had more fun than I had at last week’s event, I can’t remember. In the process I got to see the product up close and personal, and it [...]
SAP @ CeBIT and Sales OnDemand
With the introduction of Sales OnDemand at CeBIT today, SAP has made plain its strategy for moving its customers to the cloud or whatever you want to call it. SAP is fundamentally offering a hybrid strategy that enables its customers to dip a toe in the water and migrate over time. Most major vendors with [...]
Power to the People?
Now like never before, transparency is allowing for a shift of power from corporations to the people. – SXSW Agenda What a crock of shit… if anything the regulatory actions that were supposed to lead to more transparency have only created more opaqueness. Has SarbOx created more financial transparency or reduced the prevalence of corporate [...]
Where Next for Web Meetings?
I know I’m not alone in my dissatisfaction with web meetings, because I frequently hear the same sentiments expressed by colleagues and associates. We’re all fed up with dialing in to online meetings, waiting for clunky client software to load…
Is Social the Future of Knowledge? Help Me Find Out
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the role of Knowledge and Knowledge Management in the age of Social. I am not going to offer links here, sorry, since I consider most of the entries out there to be hype-full and wrong. Yes, I am entitled to my opinion. I have not seen [...]
Social Business 2011, An Update
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post that updated our current understanding of social business and in a concept that is evolving very rapidly, it’s important to frequently share what we’ve learned. Lately I’ve worked on an infographic…
2011 ERP survey: New IT failure research and statistics
A new survey of small business ERP projects sheds light on project success and failure.
Learn from the Gmail Fiasco: You Need Redundant Copies of Your Email–Don’t Worry, It’s Painless :-)
A few hundred thousand (numbers range from 150k to 500K) Gmail and Google Apps users had the scary experience of losing ALL their email content yesterday. Their account was accidentally “reset”. Google acknowledged the error, and issued a statement that they are working on restoring “lost” content. Let’s stop and think here a minute. Is [...]
Research Summary: Best Practices – The Case For Two-Tier ERP
Forward And Commentary Legacy optimization remains a key component for funding future innovation. Two-tier ERP emerges as one strategy to optimize existing systems while adding innovation. The report capitalizes on the recent Software Insider survey of 235 companies looking at future strategies. A. Introduction Organizations continue to face an onslaught of business requirements that their [...]
