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By Tom Raftery on March 18, 2010
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes
As is often the case, someone asks for a written answer to a question, but then fails to use the material. The great thing about blogs is that they make it very easy to make sure such content isn’t [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged greenmonk, Open source, OpenData, OSS, redmonk, Science, Tim O'Reilly, Uncategorized
By Paul Greenberg on March 15, 2010
Image credit: Inside Social
I ordered an iPad last Friday right after Apple finished updating their site so that I could. Just to set the record straight, I’m not a fanboy though I have 2 iMacs, an iPhone and a Macbook Pro 13″ with a solid state drive. But, then again, I’m writing this post on [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, Customer Collective, iPad, Marc Benioff, salesforce.com, sap, Social Media, sugarcrm, Uncategorized
By Jeff Nolan on March 12, 2010
I just spent a week and a half in southern China visiting a range of manufacturing facilities and meeting with senior executives, and the learnings were significant, some of which I want to share with you today. This is the kind of information that is really challenging to get from analysts and journalists simply because [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged China, Exchange rate, Hong Kong, Manufacturing, Uncategorized
By Josh Greenbaum on March 8, 2010
Sometimes the Economist gets is right, sometimes it gets it wrong. Last week one of the last of the authoritative business magazines put its foot in its mouth with a lightweight and poorly considered column about the value of co-CEOs, with a specific reference to SAP’s recent appointment of Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged CEO, Chief executive officer, Co-CEO, Hasso Plattner, Larry Ellison, Management, oracle, sap, Uncategorized
By Tom Raftery on March 5, 2010
HP Named No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List
HP today was ranked No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s (formerly known as CRO Magazine) 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List.
Climbing from fifth place in last year’s rankings, HP gained the No. 1 spot, as a result of its scores in seven [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged green numbers, hp, Porsche, Sustainability, Uncategorized
By R "Ray" Wang on March 2, 2010
Single Instance ERP Harder And Harder To Justify
The holy grail of an ERP implementation used to be the single instance deployment. However, market forces, a move to adopt new disruptive technologies, slow pace of innovation from incumbent vendors, and high maintenance fees have changed many organization’s perspectives. Add a slew of rapidly changing business requirements [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged agresso, analytics, Apps Strategy, AspenTech, baan, best practices, BPCs, Business Models, business requirements, business value, Cincom, CIO, Deltek, disruptive, disruptive technologies, enteprise apps, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, Epicor, erp, geographic requirements, IBS, IFS, industry requirements, Infor, innovation, Intentia, IQMS, JD Edwards, Lawson, Lawson M3, Lawson S3, Maconomy, maintenance fees, MAPICS, Meridian Systems, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Mincom, modernization, netsuite, next gen cio, next gen IT leaders, OpenAir, oracle, PeopleSoft, Planview, Plex, purpose built, QAD, R "Ray" Wang;, regulatory compliance, reporting, ROI, rwang0, SaaS, SAP B1, SAP Business All-In-One, shelfware, single instance erp, Software Insider, SYSPRO, SyteLine, tax requirements, Tenrox, two-tier ERP, Ultimate Software, Uncategorized, Unit4, workday
By Chris Selland on February 21, 2010
Tech is poised for growth in 2010 but it’s increasingly looking like a much better year for the well-established and well-respected tech companies, and a challenging environment for the second-tire companies.
Posted in Business | Tagged $CSCO, $GOOG, AAPL, crm, Dell, HPQ, ibm, MSFT, orcl, S, Uncategorized
By Josh Greenbaum on February 16, 2010
There’s nothing sweeter for a blogger than irony, and the news that Oracle shut down a popular — and perhaps a little too honest — support blog run by an internal Oracle employee provides buckets of blog-worthy irony. Irony is all in the timing, and Oracle couldn’t have picked a worse moment to exercise some [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged blogging, censorship, KPI, oracle, pr, sap, software maintenance, software support, Uncategorized
By Phil Wainewright on February 16, 2010
Published here for the first time, my interview last summer with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka may shed some light on the company’s intentions for SaaS and cloud after its tumultuous management shake-up last week.
Posted in Software | Tagged collaboration, enterprise software, erp, On Demand, sap, social computing, software as a service, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
By R "Ray" Wang on February 11, 2010
New Changes Hint At Hasso’s Priorities
In a not surprising update, SAP makes changes to Executive Board and management. Here are the changes:
Gerhard Oswald becomes COO. Gerhard has experiences in support, consulting, education, custom development, and quality.Gerhard’s contract has been extended till December 31, 2011.Point of View (POV): Gerhard’s been a long-timer at SAP with 30 [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, bill mcdermott, business execs, CEO, Co-CEO, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, erp, Gerhard Owald, Hasso Plattner, innovation, Jim Hagemann Snabe, John Schwarz, Léo Apotheker, license policy, maintenance fees, Maintenance Hike, oracle, Peter Lorenz, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS Integration, sap, SAP Business By Design, SAP Enterprise Support, SoftwareInsider, Uncategorized, user groups, vendor strategy, vishal sika
