Yammer and Ultimate Software: Building out the Enterprise Social Network
Last week Yammer and Ultimate Software announced a partnership that combines the Yammer enterprise social network with Ultimate’s UltiPro HCM. Combining the deep employee profile from the corporate HCM system with a real time social collaboration tool is an important…
News Analysis: Spinnaker Expands JD Edwards Support With Versytec Acquisition
Versytec Acquisition Addresses Growing Demand For JD Edwards Support Denver, Colorado based Spinnaker Management announced on March 6th, 2012 its acquisition of its competitor Versytec. For those who remember their third party maintenance (3PM) history, Versytec was among the first firms to announce third-party maintenance services within a year after PeopleSoft acquired JD Edwards in [...]
The New Technology Elite – Author Interview
Exclusive: An interview with the author of the new book: The New Technology Elite. Brian Sommer fires off a number of questions about Vinnie’s book, innovation and where is ERP in all this.
Is outsourcing success an oxymoron?
Phil Fersht and his team wrote a pretty stern column recently : “Let’s cut to the chase here – “outsourcing”, for most buyers, is like purchasing a wedding dress – a one-time transaction followed by seven years of relationship struggles and future legal wrangles.” I have been married 22 years and it’s so easy to [...]
Government Pork of a Different Variety: When Chinese State-Run Companies Bring Home the Bacon
Over on our sister-site MetalMiner, Stuart Burns breaks the story (courtesy of the FT) that Chinese steel manufacturers are diversifying into pig farming. Yes, you read that correctly. Stuart writes that “faced with falling profits but…
Notes from Convergence 2012
Note to self: Write something nice about Microsoft Convergence 2012. They did a great job in Houston and most importantly you can really see the CRM focus coming together with social, mobile, analytics, back office and a lot more. It’s taken a long time because there are a lot of moving parts for Microsoft but [...]
How Pinterest Became What Flickr Failed To
Like a lot of people I have been fascinated by the explosive growth that Pinterest has experienced. At first curiosity, Pinterest is now a full blown phenomena that has jumped from women planning their weddings, or wishing they were planning a wedding, and foodies to mainstream consciousness. Businesses are openly embracing Pinterest and media organizations [...]
Reprise — The Road From HRM To Business Results Is Littered With Misguided Metrics
[I published a post addressing this topic right after I launched my blog 11/9/2009, and I never expected to address this topic again. Surely by now, I would have thought that we'd have broad agreement on how to measure the impact of HRM on business outcomes. But I had few readers in the beginning, and there's [...]
Microsoft – Convergence at Last?
Microsoft has reached a turning point – and made the turn. They are launching their “dynamic businesses” strategy with a confidence that they haven’t shown for several years and it suits them well. With their commitment to their new …
Social Government?
I spent time last week at an IBM / Federal Computer Week Social Business event for the Federal Government. I tend to focus most of my time researching commercial uses of social tools, not public sector, so I was very interested to hear what government agencies were doing. In addition I hoped to get a [...]
