Zen and the Art of Enterprise Maintenance
Surreptitiously, while I was inspired to write this post, I heard Garrison Keillor on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac do a short birthday piece on Robert Persig, author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” For other Hippie 2.0′s out there, “Zen” occupies essential shelf space on the permanent library. (GenY’rs: read it.) Persig, a philosopher [...]
Consultant travel revisited
Rawn Shah just started reading my book and came across a section I title “empty calories in infotech”. One of my roughly 20 examples of low-payback spend is IT consultant travel. Rawn works for IBM’s software group, but has plenty of colleagues on the services side (IBM, after all is the largest outsourcer in the [...]
SAP and Bristlecone Partner on a Fixed-Price Spend Performance Management Bundle (Part 1)
When most people think about installed SAP software, they nearly always jump to the uncertainty of the total cost associated with a given deployment, customization and roll-out (not to mention ongoing support). Yet as we all know,…
Why isnt enterprise software more like BMW? And National Hurricane Center?
Marc Benioff asks “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?”. And Charles Zedlewski of SAP responds a better question should be “Why isn’t all enterprise software like amazon?” Hey, it is good that enterprise software is looking to more consumery…
SAPs $ 2 trillion college education
If you add up all the systems integration, hosting, upgrade and application/basis management costs around SAP in the last 25 years – that done by its partners or its customer staff, I estimate it has been over $ 2 trillion…
Oracle Layoffs and On-premise Software Margins
It is being reported online that Oracle has started a significant RIF (reduction in force) process in their consulting division. ZDnet’s Irregular Enterprise has a post about it today that brings up some good points. As a former Oracle consultant I wanted to weigh in as I think this is a worthwile subject to understand [...]
SAP’s View — The Making of a Good Implementation and Technology Partner (Part 2)
In my first post examining attributes SAP perceives to be important in the making of a good implementation and technology partner, I noted a number of observations from SAP’s Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group, and ZDNet’s Brian Sommer….
SAP’s View — The Making of a Good Implementation and Technology Partner (Part 1)
Earlier in the week, I found some useful commentary over on Brian Sommer’s blog, Software and Services Safari, about what SAP values in its SI, channel and software partners. Brian based his analysis on a conversation he had at TechEd with SAP’s Zia …
The IT Industry’s Shame
By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 9, 2010
The last few months have been joyful. I have had a chance to mingle with a number of innovators as I wrote my book. Many are focused on the Grand Challenges the word faces – environmental, engineering etc. It is…
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