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- Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)
- With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...
- Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Google Chrome: The enterprise playbook
- Google is launching a Web browser dubbed Chrome in a move that's garnering a lot of attention--because it conveniently fits with the Microsoft vs. Google plotline--but how much should businesses pay attention to this move? First a quick recap Techmeme, Google will launch the Chrome browser and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dennis Howlett, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Ruminating on Chrome
- On an otherwise non news day, the comic book launch of Chrome by Google has got the digital ether all aglow with excitement. I can only shrug. Despite the thinking this is 'big news' and garnering mainstream media attention at both the WSJ and the UK's Guardian, I can't see...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Chrome, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Targeted spear phishing attacks
- Targeted spear phishing attacksFederal Subpoena email spamIt is kind of a whaling attack targeting big fishes in corporate offices like CEO’s, top executives and managers.“This is one of the best phish e-mails I've seen in the past 6 years” quoted by Mr. Steve Kirsch, a well known Silicon Valley entrepreneurRemember,...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, e-mail, phishing, Abaca Email Protection Gateway, attack
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Targeted spear phishing attacks
- A colleague of mine, Dave Wong, from Ernst & Young's Advanced Security Center in New York, pointed me to a really interesting article on targeted spear phishing attacks by John Markoff of the New York Times.  Phishing has been really interesting to me lately, as I've seen a wave of discussions,...
- Tags: E-mail, Attack, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables
- There's nothing like a conversation to bring out insights and new ideas. Tony Baer and I were chatting on this very pearl of productivity last week, that an open roundtable analyst call always allowed us to move the needle forward in terms of thought leadership in ways that solo writing...
- Tags: Permission, Data, SOA, Cloud, Cloud Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users
- The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...
- Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- The Longtail of IT Governance
- Open source has shown how marketplaces can thrive on doing good, but can whether the same concept be applied to IT governance? Archer Technology hopes so. The risk assessment and compliance company announced Archer Exchange, an open marketplace for governance applications here at its user conference in Orlando. ...
- Tags: Application, IT Governance, Information Technology, IBM Lotus SmartSuite, Archer Exchange, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Productivity software as games?
- Productivity software as games?Gaming SW could make Enterprise SW more Productive"On the other hand, CXOs will tell you that work is about…work…not having fun. Hence the ban of social networking applications like Facebook by companies in the UK and elsewhere."Agree. But whats that got to do with making enterprise ...
- Tags: Games, game
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- Productivity software as games?
- In a thinly veiled swipe at Microsoft, Sam Lawrence, CMO at Jive Software challenges readers to question why productivity software is so clunky: Shouldn't productivity software make us want to work? I mean, it's goal is to make us and our company more productive. Given that, the most goal-oriented...
- Tags: Software, Problem, Enterprise, Productivity Software, Sam Lawrence, Social Networking, Tools & Techniques, Games, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Twitter, Qik, Mogulus: you're all dead
- ...as far as enterprise land is concerned. My Enterprise Irregulars colleagues have been debating the merits of some shiny new toys like Twitter, Qik and Mogulus. The conversation kicked off with the extremely smart Jason Corsello: Maybe this is Scoble specific but I just don't get it. ...
- Tags: Quality, Twitter, Scoble, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Machiavelli's approach to the 'new' IT
- I'm indebted to David Chassels of Procession for this quote from Niccolo Machiavelli:Nothing is more difficult than to introduce a new order, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the newAnd...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, SAP AG, Earnings, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Machiavelli, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-25
- Big iron and the failure of Enterprise 2.0
- All over the blogosphere one hears talk of Enterprise 2.0, in which lightweight software tools are predicted to encroach upon, and perhaps ultimately even replace, big software systems. I suppose it's a sort of "kinder, gentler," consumer-driven ecosystem, where software is cheap, easy to deploy, and avoids the gut-wrenching pain...
- Tags: Software, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-18
- The ERP mess we're in
- Cynthia Rettig's the Trouble with Enterprise Software, published in MIT Sloan Management Review should come as no surprise to those used to commenting on ERP implementations. Ms Rettig draws a gloomy picture asserting that: Whole systems march in lock step, providing synchronized, fully coordinated supply chains, production lines and services,...
- Tags: Performance, Information Technology, ERP, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Show me the Web 2.0 money
- In all the hoopla around Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 applications and services I'm left with an uncomfortable question. Where's the money for the application creator? mySQL has only just broken even after years of pioneering open source with only 1:1,000 downloads leading to any revenue for mySQL. Zoho Office on Facebook is getting...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Gnomedex: not fit for purpose
- One of the key questions that IT decision makers ask themselves: Is this software fit for purpose? Chris Pirillo's 'live' feed from Gnomedex doesn't pass that most basic of tests. At 275 concurrent connections it fails as you can see from the screenshot above.Is it any wonder that CXOs are...
- Tags: Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- Web 2.0 in the enterprise: language matters
- As we approach the second Office 2.0 I find myself troubled by the lack of concrete examples of how Web 2.0 technologies are impacting the enterprise. There are a good number of small, tactical case studies out there but you have to ask if anything is really changing. Dave...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, CIO, SAP AG, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Facebook infltrating the enterprise: the ups and downs
- My colleagues at Enterprise Irregulars are not your typical Facebook demographic. Heck, I can't even make the top end 40-49 age group. But that doesn't stop us from arguing whether Facebook and other forms of social media are appropriate for enterprise usage and if so, where they fit.Some of us...
- Tags: Social networking, Social software, Enterprise applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-29
- Offshore outsourcing rates headed higher
- Offshore outsourcing rates headed higherHope they are enjoying thieir 'bargain' service...That's what you get when you think short-term.Which means its a good time to stop offshoringWith the cost of offshore outsourcing increasing its a good time to reevaluate that position and correct that mistake by bring the work back in...
- Tags: Outsourcing, offshore outsourcing, US/EU
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
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