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 [...]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 10, 2010
Best piece of advice Bob at Information Week gives Hasso Plattner in an “open letter” is quit the asinine focus on Oracle as “primary competitor”. That is aiming way too low. He says: “Rather, SAP’s top competitor is cloud computing…
Posted in Business | Tagged enterprise software, erp, microsoft, netsuite, oracle, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SuccessFactors, workday
By Dennis Moore on December 26, 2009
I feel very honored to be a member of the Enterprise Irregulars group – a very plugged group of people, with lots of hands-on knowledge and experience. I asked them what advice they’d like to give to enterprise solutions company CEO’s, and I got the f…
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 22, 2009
Keep In Mind Basic Rules Still Apply Regardless Of Deployment Option
The proliferation of SaaS solutions provides organizations with a myriad of sorely needed point and disruptive solutions. Good news – business users can rapidly procure and deploy, while innovating with minimal budget and IT team constraints. Bad news – users must depend more on their [...]
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By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on December 1, 2009
In the wake of the long-running massive industry consolidation in the Enterprise Software industry that reached its zenith with the acquisitions of Business Intelligence market leaders Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects in 2007, one could certainly have been forgiven for being less than optimistic about the prospects of innovation in the Analytics, Business Intelligence, and [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged 2010 predictions, analytics, business intelligence, Business Objects, cognos, Enterprise resource planning, excel, hadoop, hyperion, ibm, mashups, master data management, ms excel, performance management, predictive analysis, SaaS, salesforce.com, sharepoint, spss, varicent, virtualization, workday
By Dennis Moore on November 21, 2009
Usability in Enterprise ApplicationsI recently saw a video of Workday 9, and was not impressed with the apparent usability of one of the highly touted features of this release. I tweeted my impression, and got a quick and friendly response from the te…
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged oracle, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, software as a service, usability, User Experience, workday
By R "Ray" Wang on November 9, 2009
Rapid SaaS Adoption Will Lead To A Repeat Of 1990’s Best Of Breed Integration Challenges
The proliferation and rapid adoption of SaaS solutions stems from 7 key benefits: richer user experience, rapid implementation, frequent cycles of innovation, minimal upgrade hassles, always on deployment, subscription pricing, and scalability (see Figure 1). Despite these benefits, organizations head full [...]
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By Jason Corsello on October 15, 2009
Today was a long anticipated day in the most recent chapter of Oracle applications. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, announced “code completion” of Oracle Fusion Applications in his keynote speech at Oracle’s annual OpenWorld Conference. While Ellison’s announcement was much anticipated and has begun to answer many questions, many questions still remain.
How To Interpret Today’s [...]
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By Jason Corsello on June 30, 2009
I have written a lot about the advantages and disadvantages of the SaaS model over the past years. As many of you know, I am a huge advocate for SaaS done right and by all indications (including some forthcoming research) the use of SaaS is continuing to increase at significant rates.
The branding of “SaaS” [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business-to-Business, knowledge infusion, SaaS, software as a service, SuccessFactors, taleo Performance, workday
