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Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?

Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?Jesper AndersonUh-oh PeopleSoft customers! Get ready for Fusion apps with no PTools, PCode, etc....RE: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?As a former leader among the Fusion Applications technology group I can assure you that Jesper...

Tags: Leadership, vertical play, Andersen, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Fatal Attractions: technology, judgement, and the big four

Fatal Attractions: technology, judgement, and the big fourLaurence Peter might have predicted itIt's really a variant of what he called "computerized incompetence". I wonder what percentage of senior managers are hired from outside, since it's clear that real accountants at the lower levels are strongly encouraged to go elsewhere.Andersen:...

Tags: Andersen

Discussion threads 2007-07-20

Supreme Court nixes Andersen's Enron conviction

Supreme Court nixes Andersen's Enron convictionIncrediblehttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,193520,00.html" Just four days before Enron disclosed a stunning $618 million loss for the third quarter—its first public disclosure of its financial woes—workers who audited the company's books for Arthur Andersen, the big accounting firm, received an extraordinary instruction from one of the company's lawyers....

Tags: Enron Corp., Andersen, accounting, Arthur Andersen, worker

Discussion threads 2005-05-31

Additional Resources

The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?

The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?Trust IBM!?Having witnessed first hand PWC's work on implementing SAP, and IBM's capabilities as an IT outsourcing expert, the trust is gone.Not a new concept, and not isolated to IBMThe concept of providing business services that fall...

Tags: Outsourcing, services game, business problem, tech company, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Is That Non-Compete Too Broad?

Interesting Calif. Case Involving Arthur Andersen (Yes, That's Not a Typo!) You really ought to check out this court filing involving that fascinating business/employee contract: the non-compete. This case is about an Arthur Andersen Tax professional whose group was being sold to another firm...

Tags: Arthur Andersen, Firm, Agreement, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-16

News to know: Oracle's Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot times

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices ...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Portals, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Software, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?

I have seen an internal Oracle email that confirms persistent rumors that Jespers Andersen, SVP Application Development at Oracle has left for Cisco. The email says: "You may well have heard today, the rumour mill has been very busy that Jesper has resigned from Oracle. ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Jesper, Team Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarterWhoa Nellie.....Through the magic of Google alerts I discovered something I said five (count 'em 5) years ago was used to bolster the notion that an ERP implementation SAP specifically was the cause of Levi-Strauss' revenue problems in Q2 2008.I really would have loved...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sarbanes-Oxley, Cultural Change, SAP AG, Levi Strauss, ERP

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

Will Enterprise 2.0 be a wash?

Next week sees the start of Enterprise 2.0 in Boston. You'd think that given the line up of rock star speakers that it would be a magnet for eager buyers looking to find out what's likely to be new, fresh and shiny in the wonderful world of all things social....

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case

Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas caseI don't buy the argument......that a copyright holder should have to prove an actual distribution took place. Given the circumstances it's obvious to anyone who isn't clouded by RIAA hatred the files were there to be copied by anyone. Does this mean...

Tags: Copiers, RIAA, actual distribution

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

EDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projects

EDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projectsEDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projectsThis is a pretty good reason why outsourcing your IT doesn't work. Way too many complications and its just not as efficient. Don't get me wrong, outsourcing works to some degree, like hiring cable monkeys to...

Tags: Strategy, Outsourcing, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Navy/EDS NMCI, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?

Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?Merchantability is implied in any...product. It can not be written out in a contract or license. It is time for IT vendors, software or hardware or any combination, to be held financially accountable for their actions. Everyone else in the world is held...

Tags: Outsourcing, Malpractice, MERCHANTABILITY, malpractice, Andersen Consulting, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-03

Walker's four point health reform plan

David Walker, the nation's Comptroller General right offered a four-point plan for our health care system in recent Senate testimony. Walker is one of the few government officials you might consider bias-free, because the Comptroller General serves a single 15-year term. In other words,...

Tags: Health Care, Proposal, Walker, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Oregon AG office to RIAA: 10 things we want to know about how you find file-sharing students

If you think the Recording Institute Association of America is going too far in its prosecution (or should that be persecution?) of college students who file-share from time to time, you'll love the news that Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers is adding meat to the University...

Tags: RIAA, File-sharing, Myers, Lindor, Peer To Peer (P2P), Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Oracle's wall-to-wall software suite

Oracle massive software suite, important components of which were assembled during the company's aggressive acquisition strategy (41 companies over the last 45 months), has yielded an impressive product road map. Oracle presented its grand vision to the 43,000 attendees of OpenWorld, its annual user conference which was held this past...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Product Suite, Brian, Strategy, Middleware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-17

IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spend

IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spendWill not succeed...There is no way this will work. I have it on authority from my rep that IBM focuses too much on dinosaur technologies like AIX and Linux. Therefore, security cannot be obtained. I on the other hand stand...

Tags: Outsourcing, IBM Corp., security

Discussion threads 2007-11-01

Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy

Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policyconfidentiality agreementEvery deal has a side deal in countries like England where the population still thinks its government not corruptible and more like parental units that would never harm the citizenry. The colonists in America split off from England for that exact reason. We...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

SAP's Business ByDesign go to market

One of the niggling questions about SAP's Business ByDesign is just how the heck it is going to reach the numbers it says it wants to achieve. 10,000 new customers a year by 2010, many coming from this market, is ambitious. To date, SAP has been fuzzy about how that...

Tags: SAP AG, Steve Mann, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Frame Relay, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Management, Sales, Networking, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-02

Lawsuit asserts violation of GPL

The Software Freedom Law Center will file its first lawsuit alleging violation of the GPL General Public License. The suit is against Monsoon Multimedia on behalf of the open-source BusyBox project. BusyBox is accusing Monsoon of failing to fulfill the license's copyleft obligations by including BusyBox in the firmware...

Tags: GPL, Lawsuit, BusyBox, Open Source, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-21

Accenture inks Microsoft as BPO customer

Accenture inks Microsoft as BPO customerThat's oddI thought MSFT's core processes were running on SAP. If so then this must be a change of tack.Ballmer was until Sarb Ox on Accenture's BoardBecause Ballmer was until recently on Accenture's board of directors, I find this news distressing. The arrangement does not...

Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, Microsoft Office, Accenture Ltd., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., BPO

Discussion threads 2007-09-13