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- News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting
- I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles, part is in the belief that accounting systems that reflect a 600 year old methodology are well...
- Tags: Accounting, Small And Medium Enterprise, Advisor, GoBootstrap, GoBootstrap.com, Tax Estimate, General Usability, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Hero of the week: Mike McDerment
- It's rare for me to pick out individuals but Mike McDerment CEO of FreshBooks deserves attention by anyone in the startup game and especially those trying to develop business applications. I first came across Mike some two years ago when FreshBooks had about 70,000 registrants. That number is now over...
- Tags: Start-up, Hero, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
- The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS thinkers and we are honored to have Charlie's insights. Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated, Charlie felt free...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Tweetrush for enterprise?
- Much has already been said about Tweetrush, the service that allows you to get statistics on your personal Twitter usage. I particularly liked Bernie Goldbach's commentary where, among other things, he says: Tweetrush is Sweet Infoporn. I like stats. I like comparing like to like....
- Tags: Analytics, Twitter, Tweetrush, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The Irregular view of all things 'green'
- One of my Irregular colleagues received a pitch from GreenJobInterview.com describing a new video service but using the 'green' moniker as a way of injecting novelty. He wasn't impressed. The first remark: That noise in the background was me throwing up. A job board now positioning themselves as "green?"...
- Tags: Hiring, Job, Toilet, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- News to know: IE 8; Code name of the day; Facebook security; Office 2.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A Microsoft Codename a day: Rouge Dancho Danchev: Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers Twitter's "me too" anti-spam...
- Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Office 2.0
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Office 2.0: 'Conversations' prevent IT failure
- Cultural issues are among the key drivers causing acute IT problems. Project failure rates remain high in large part because these drivers are difficult to identify and diagnose. Many organizations accept information silos as a cost of doing business, despite the clear negative impact of these boundaries...
- Tags: Information Technology, Project Failure, Office 2.0, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
- The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories. Office 2.0 started out as an idea put out into the Enterprise Irregulars'...
- Tags: Innovation, Conference, Office 2.0, Mashup, Unconference Session, Ross, Susan Scrupski, Zoli Erdos, Vinnie Mirchandani, Vinnie, David Tebbutt, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- SAP: show the love your customers crave
- Jim Spath of Black and Decker, an SAP Mentor in the SAP Community and a volunteer on the American SAP User Group ASUG posts this video see above in advance of TechEd 2008. He asks: "If companies make positive contributions, answer other people's questions on SDN, would they be enabled...
- Tags: SAP AG, Free Trade, Corporate Communications, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Intuit: software and services. Are you kidding me?
- I must admit to have been befuddled by Larry Dignan's interpretation of Intuit's current go to market strategy as analogous to Microsoft's software plus services mantra. This is the salient quote from Intuit's Q4 earnings call my emphasis added: We've talked about the fact that our growth for the...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Payroll, Intuit QuickBooks, Service, SaaS Offering, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operational Accounting, Cloud Computing, Payroll Solutions, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Get those ToS sorted
- The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...
- Tags: Terms Of Service, Ning, E-mail, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- News to know: Google; Typosquatting; Apple; IDF
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up? Christopher Dawson: Can Dell compete on cost anymore? Dancho Danchev: Typosquatting the U.S presidential...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Zoho Share(point?)
- If there's one thing I really like it is what I term 'self evident' applications. These are apps that have a clear purpose and which are blindingly simple to use. Zoho Share falls squarely in that category. The company prefers to think of...
- Tags: People Area, Bookmarks, RSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- IKEA's mixed bag of IT investments
- Last evening I read an interesting Gartner case study (registration wall warning.) It tells how IKEA Components, a company that is part of the iconic retailer of flat pack furniture used Lawson Software products to make significant across the board process savings and improvements. The business intelligence/process project makes great...
- Tags: IKEA, Information Technology, IT Investment, David Meerman Scott, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?
- At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for SAP or turning Irregular Enterprise into 'SAPWatch,' I recently learned about a consulting shop that guarantees implementing SAP All-in-One in three months at a fixed price. I was skeptical given that the on-demand Business ByDesign implementations I'm hearing about are taking...
- Tags: SAP AG, Training, Workforce Management, Change Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service
- Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
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