Why Cloud Computing Is Slowly Winning The Trust War
Seeing skeptical CIOs agree to cloud-based pilots of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other applications is evidence of how cloud computing is slowly winning the trust war. Further evidence can be seen from how skeptical many of these CIOs initially were, and how successful pilots led to their gradual trust. This [...]
Business Process 21C: The Jackhammer Tales
Over the past few months I’ve begun to reflect upon how I arrived here at the intersection of process and innovation in the Enterprise. It occurred to me that everything I learned as a researcher, a writer, and an industry observer in the services provider space (my pre-Internet career) now had great bearing on what [...]
Big Data and the Internet of Things
The physical world (from goods to equipment) is becoming digitally connected through a multitude of sensors. Sensors can be found today in most industrial equipment, from metal presses to airplane engines, shipping containers (RFID), and automobiles (telematics devices). Consumer mobile devices are essentially sensor platforms. These connected devices can automatically provide status updates, performance updates, [...]
Social media’s rocky road in business
Those who track the online discourse on enterprise social media are surely aware that the trough of disillusionment is likely at hand. Yet the dreaded industry trough, brought about by the over-heated promises and inflated expectations bandied about from just about every quarter — including thought leaders, journalists, vendors, and yes, even end-users themselves — [...]
Plex Systems’ CEO Jason Blessing on the Future of ERP and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Last week Plex Systems, a leading provider of SaaS-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems announced enterprise software veteran Jason Blessing has joined their company as CEO. He is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of the company, and has a proven track record in many facets of enterprise software, from new application development to [...]
Moving to the Front Office
Moving to the Front Office For a long time many people have been predicting the demise of ERP and while I share those sentiments, demise takes many forms. The one we all understand well is the crash and burn variety but that’s not the only and perhaps not even the predominant approach. The crash is [...]
ERP, RIP? Cloud financials and revenue management in 2013
What’s the future for ERP in the cloud, if it has one at all? I heard a disarming admission last summer from the CEO of a company that aggressively markets itself as “the #1 cloud ERP software suite.” NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson told a gathering of industry analysts at the company’s SuiteWorld 2012 conference that [...]
ERP implementation benchmark: Comparing SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft
Recent research compares important dimensions of IT project success and failure on ERP systems from SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics.
SAP and Ariba: How Much Has the Business Case for Acquisition Changed Over the Years?
The Spend Matters team is furiously writing and research stories on the SAP and Ariba transaction for publication tomorrow and later in the week (you can read our initial coverage here, here and here). In the process of looking at what…
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 [...]
