SaaS ERP Migration: Question Is Not When But How?
One of my linkedIn groups is having a discussion about the mass migration to ‘Cloud’ ERP. There have been several good posts that covered everything from control, licensing, security, definition of cloud, etc. It’s the sort of discussion that the EI’s used to have a few years back on a regular basis. We were probably a [...]
ERP cloud wars – Vendor Innovation & Competition Will Benefit Businesses
Events of the last week confirm it: Cloud ERP is a serious space. If you’re still expecting on-premise ERP to rule the day, it won’t. On-premise ERP will have to share the limelight with its newer cousins. The cloud and ERP, especially manufacturing software applications, are definitely in vogue. Vendors, investors and customers are piling [...]
ERP Is Dead — Zuora Chief Says
Is CRM far behind? There was brisk business in associated user group meetings in San Francisco before Dreamforce. For some reason I don’t understand Dreamforce starts in the middle of the week this year which is fortunate for two reasons. Huricane Irene clobbered travel operations up and down the east coast over the weekend and [...]
Friday Rant: It’s Coming, But Should We Blur BPO, Consulting and Software Lines?
I had the opportunity to catch up with an old friend last week, an industry insider in the broader services market. After a summer cocktail, the conversation quickly turned to the blurring of lines between BPO, consulting and soft…
NetSuite User Group Meeting Impresses
A company’s first user group meeting is a kind of coming out party. It validates the faith its customers showed early on in going with a startup and marks an important statement in the company’s maturation process moving it from kid to adult, removing the training wheels and such. So I was eager to see [...]
NorthgateArinso – More than you might suspect….
Dr Pepper (full disclosure – my favorite beverage) had an ad campaign for years claiming their carbonated drink was “so misunderstood“. Over the years, I’ve encountered a number of technology and services firms whose reputation or brand stood for one thing but the company was actually something else altogether. NorthgateArinso (NGA) is somewhat in that camp. [...]
Multi-tiered ERP
In the early 90s I did some work with a multi-national which had SAP at its home country, J.D. Edwards on AS/400 in major country subs, Platinum on LANs in smaller markets and spreadsheets in even smaller markets. Not ideal, but broadband and talent costs justified the tiered strategy. In the 2000s, with telecommunications better [...]
ERP, 20 years ago: the move to go global
ERP in 1991 was a markedly different world than it is today. The sector was undergoing a change that would usher in a new group of software market leaders and send another group to the scrap heap. The shift at that time was to move from green-screen to Unix/Client Server solutions and some newcomers, like [...]
2011 ERP survey: New IT failure research and statistics
A new survey of small business ERP projects sheds light on project success and failure.
Change management and communications for IT success
Change management and poor communications among stakeholder groups on IT projects is a key contributor to failure. Follows these ideas to solve the problem.
