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- San Diego fires Axon over ERP implementation problems
- San Diego fires Axon over ERP implementation problemsPopularity vs competence ?The reason this seems to happen regularly to government is that upper management is elected based on popularity and not competence to manage. Unfortunately as we have seen in the last few years, substituting "private initiatives" does not solve...
- Tags: Product marketing, San Diego fires Axon, ERP Implementation, product development
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- 7 ERP failure analogies
- ERP implementations sometimes feel like pulling teeth. Keeping alive this spirit of suffering, the ERP and More! blog has assembled a list of seven analogies for ERP. Truth be told, I suspect the dude has a bit too much time on his hands,...
- Tags: ERP, ERP Implementation, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- ERP implementations and outsourcing: The white board rarely reflects reality
- ERP implementations and outsourcing: The white board rarely reflects realityMyriad of errors, but...the IT failure itself can only be blamed on IBM. And it is possible for your IT to break you. Whether it did or not will probably be decided by 12 people in a jury box......
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), outsourcing, IBM Corp., white board, ERP Implementation, Yahoo! Inc., ERP, ALF, board
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier?
- VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier?On PRD?Does this mean SAP will soon support Production environment on VM, or just QAS/Test and Development?In PRD!Yes, SAP supports VMware in production on Windows and Linux!
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Storage management, Utility computing, SAP AG, VMware Inc., PRD, ERP Implementation, ERP, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
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- Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?
- Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...
- Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-23
- RightNow Technologies CIO talks datacenters, ERP and Windows 7
- While attending Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009, I spoke with Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow Technologies, about the company's IT plans for 2010. Olson discussed RightNow's plans to consolidate and rework its datacenters, an upcoming ERP implementation, and the company's migration to Windows 7. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Data Center, ERP, RightNow Technologies, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Microsoft Windows, Storage, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- CRM, ERP, BI, and IT Investment - Where Do You Find the Business Benefit?
- Most companies want to use CRM applications as a way to "Supercharge" their sales forces. They want to gain some advantage with customer retention and acquisition, to manage the sales pipeline and to have better market insight. But few companies realize these goals. After going through some of the academic...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Information Technology, IT Investment, Benefit, ERP, CRM, R3Now.com, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Software, Sales
- White papers 2009-10-22
- Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0
- Managing Change is the Biggest Challenge for Enterprise 2.0 & Social MediaGreat post Paul- and agreed that congrats are in order. What is often missed in deploying new technologies or old standards is the degree to which it changes how people do their job, what their daily life looks like-...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Leadership, Enterprise software, Dion, Managing Change, Enterprise 2.0, CRM
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Mitigation of SAP Authorization Risks
- SAP ERP systems are the core of many medium and large businesses these days. These systems administer Finance, Payroll, Customer Relationship Management, Human Resources and so on. Control of these systems is handled by a concept called SAP Authorizations also referred to as authorizations or authorization objects. These authorizations establish...
- Tags: Authorization, SAP AG, SECUDE, SAP ERP System
- White papers 2009-10-02
- Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design
- Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...
- Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- ERP Implementation: A Complete Guide
- ERP implementations in the South Asian countries, are comparatively different, harder and financially very expensive than the other parts of the worlds. This is because of different socio-economic conditions, working style of businesses, their operation methods and low currency comparative to international currencies. Most of the well renowned ERP solutions...
- Tags: Third World, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-09-14
- Siemens cans SAP support
- Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Siemens plans to ditch SAP for its ERP support. The story goes that Siemens had become fatigued with the situation. A recent heavy hint should have come from Siemens signing off a massive deal with SuccessFactors. A report in...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Customer, SAP AG, Ray Wang, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-12
- 6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors
- GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...
- Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Performance Monitor: ERP at the Speed of Light
- A successful accelerated implementation will provide a client the power of ERP in the fastest way possible while causing the least disruption of existing business operations
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, ERP, Performance Monitoring, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2009-09-01
- TV Guide Magazine Facilitates Swift Company Transition With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
- TV Guide Magazine wanted to facilitate the swift deployment of a new Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution to meet the nine-week deadline for the company to operate as an independent entity and maintain capabilities from the previous IT platform to ensure continuity of business operations across the enterprise. The challenge...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., TV Guide Magazine, Oracle E-Business Suite, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- The clouds are gathering for Coupa
- Sometimes I read something and it makes me smile from ear to ear, most often because it generates another of those ah-ha moments that keep tech people motivated. Reading Vinnie Mirchandani's SCARS: SaaS and Cloud Allowance Rebate System was one of those moments. Much as I am tempted...
- Tags: E-procurement, Procurement, Coupa, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- News to know: Office 2010; Dell; Moon tech; Apple; Software buyer's bill of rights
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Office 2010 makes splashy debut Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to deliver tech preview build of Office 2010...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Digital Camera, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Digital Cameras, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Your implementation is killing us
- When I think about the enterprise apps landscape, it seems almost impossible to get away from MISO's addiction to multi-million dollar implementations. Those days are gone and yet financial analysts seem obsessed with the notion that somehow, some day they will return. Oracle continues to wow the...
- Tags: Implementation, SAP AG, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- SAP to bounce?
- Larry Dignan pinged me to say the financial analysts are showing renewed interest in SAP with several positive comments on the likely outcome to its Q2 results, due for release on July, 29th: That take is a mixed bag in the things are less worse camp. The biggest argument...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Management, Finance, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
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