Bruce Richardson Asks: Are We Ready for Social Supply Chains? (Part 1)
Perhaps the best-known analyst in ERP and supply chain history, Bruce Richardson, is finally independent again after a stint at Infor. Only a couple of months into this newfound freedom, he’s launched a new blog that, well, sounds like…
News Analysis: Infor Launches New Era With Infor 10
After 11 months of behind the scenes work, CEO Charles Phillips and the Infor management team unveiled the launch of Infor 10 in New York City on September 13, 2011, to customers, industry analysts, media, and investment analysts. The new Infor has kept busy with key management team hires, the $1.84 B acquisition of Lawson, [...]
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 [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2011, July and August
July and August Enterprise Software and Solutions news. Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the months of July and August: Apple became the world’s most valuable company, but Steve Jobs resigned due to health issues. Meanwhile, Google bought Motorola’s cell phone business. Salesforce.com promoted its message of Cloud, [...]
Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2011: Some insights from The Greatest (Cloud Computing) Show on Earth!
Ringling Brothers bills itself as “The Greatest Show on Earth,” but Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2011 could easily claim the title of “The Greatest Cloud Computing Show on Earth.” With over 40,000 attendees, dozens of exhibitors, great concerts and parties, and presentations galore, the event was an unqualified success for Salesforce.com, but it also heralded a real [...]
Dreamforce 2011, the Recap
The multitude of clouds floating around on light poles, buses, and buildings in San Francisco are coming down and the sounds of Metallica have stopped echoing in the streets as people (over 40,000 of them) flock to the Bay Areas’…
Infor Loses Bruce Richardson and Still Lacks a Competency in Procurement
Former AMR Research executive Bruce Richardson, one of the most pragmatic, fun and approachable personalities in the supply chain business, made a big splash when he went to Infor to take an executive strategy role less than two y…
Friday Rant: When Will Infor Get Serious About Procurement?
Earlier this week, Infor announced it was acquiring Lawson, a slumping ERP provider with very limited procurement capabilities relative to SAP and Oracle, let alone best-of-breed procurement vendors. Given Infor’s furious acquisit…
Tuesday’s Tip: Dealing With Pesky Software Licensing Audits
Organizations Report Increase In Software Licensing Audits Across the board, the largest complaints about software vendors and their business practices have come from increasingly aggressive software auditing practices. Once thought to be a small possibility, the software vendors now wield this big stick to drive up sales and of course ensure compliance. Given the 32 [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011
Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting their money this way? And after wasting so much money with an ill-advised ERP project?!? Larry Page takes over CEO role at Google, shakes [...]
