
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…

Gartner’s Social CRM(ish) Magic Quadrant: So….
There’s good and bad in everything. Sometimes the good outweighs the bad, the bad conversely can outweigh the good. Rarely, but occasionally, we have perfect balance. But sometimes, the thing that contains the good or the bad is actually what needs to be judged, not the good or bad within it. Hold this thought. ************************************************************************************ […]

Lightning strike zaps EC2 Ireland
Amazon has told its EC2 customers in Europe some of them could face outages of as long as 24 to 48 hours as the cloud provider struggles to recover from a lightning strike that disrupted power supplies to its Dublin, Ireland data center. It took 3 hours to recover the first of the affected instances […]