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- Implementation
- The carrying out or physical realization of something. The phrase "there are various implementations of the protocol" means that there are several software products that execute that protocol. ...
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- Did Levi's use failed IT as a 'convenient scapegoat'?
- Several observers have suggested Levi Strauss used IT failure as an excuse to deflect attention away from deeper and more significant financial challenges. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Financial, Implementation, Information Technology, ERP, Levi Strauss, Software Deployment, Francine, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Live Webcast: Is Rapid ERP Implementation Right for Me?
- Rapid Enterprise Resource Planning ERP implementations are very much in vogue today, especially for midsize enterprises with limited resources and budgets. Rapid ERP implementations are generally completed in weeks, not months or years, as in the past. Rapid ERP implementations decrease the risk associated with disruption...
- Tags: Webcast, Implementation, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-03-06
- Implementation Costs: Oblivious to the Obvious
- Big4Guy describes costs when implementing SAP or Oracle. The cost elements he describes more or less hold true when implementing any enterprise software, not just big ERP systems. Here is his list of implementation cost components which I have paraphrased: 1. License cost 2. Legacy data migration...
- Tags: Implementation
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Chewing on software and service pricing
- One of the perennial discussion points among my colleagues is business software pricing and its relationship to services. This topic is problematic at all sorts of levels. We're seeing on-demand/saas putting pressure on both incumbent on-premise vendor pricing and within the on-demand world. Deep discounting is rife among enterprise vendors...
- Tags: implementation, Enterprise applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Implementation Failures and ROI
- All too often, enterprise software buyers pay insufficient attention to examining the likely achievable ROI of technology they are about to purchase. Wisconsin Technology Network interviewed Leslie Hearn, vice president and CIO of TDS Telecom, on the subject of establishing a strong business case when purchasing software. From the article:Hearn...
- Tags: Implementation
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Four Questions for Selecting Mission-Critical Software
- The Evolving Excellence blog has a strongly-worded article against implementing SAP at a particular company with $5M in annual revenue. The argument basically says that a simpler, less expensive, system would work just as well for a business of that relatively small size. While the truth of this perspective is...
- Tags: Vendor relationships, Project strategy, Implementation
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Dynamic Resource Provisioning of Multi-Tier Applications
- The multi-tier implementation has become the industry standard for developing scalable client-server enterprise applications. Since these applications are performance sensitive, effective models for dynamic resource provisioning and for delivering quality of service to these applications become critical. Workloads in such environments are characterized by client sessions of interdependent requests with...
- Tags: Client-server, Implementation, Regression, Provisioning, IEEE, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-16
- Rapid Implementation: Creating Competitive Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers
- You don't hear nearly as many horror stories about long, protracted, and expensive ERP implementations the way you did just a few years ago. Has something changed?
- Tags: SAP AG, Competitive Advantage, Implementation
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Avoiding SOA Failure
- CXOtoday reports on an IDC study offering advice for successful SOA projects. Some choice quotes from the article:Majority of the early SOA adopters also cited the re-engineering of existing business processes as their top SOA implementation challenge. The ideal approach necessitates a "re look" at existing business processes, because without...
- Tags: SOA, Implementation
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Failed Aspirations at Project Aspire
- According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, Floridas Project Aspire has been stopped in mid-track. From the article:A top Florida official has suspended work on Project Aspire, a proposed financial management system for state government. Alex Sink, the states chief financial officer, said in a release that the project was...
- Tags: Project failures, Implementation, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- More on Simplification at SAP (Sapphire Vienna)
- A comment to this recent interview with Pascal Brosset got me thinking about implementation complexity. The commenter states: Hopefully the simplification will reduce implementation projects to a more human scale, making success more likely and less expensive. When Pascal refers to prescriptive solutions , I believe he is referring to exactly...
- Tags: Sapphire07, Interview, Implementation
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- "Custom Code Over My Dead Body" (Sapphire, Vienna)
- SAP is actively supporting a group of bloggers here at Sapphire in Vienna. Yesterday I engaged in a lengthy discussion between a half dozen bloggers and Pascal Brosset, Senior Vice President of Market Strategy for SAP.The conversation was wide-ranging, with Pascal describing his overall goals and the mandate of his...
- Tags: Sapphire07, Implementation
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Evaluating DHT Implementations in Complex Environments by Network Emulator
- This paper proposes an evaluation method of large-scale distributed hash tables by network emulator that allows evaluating not only Distributed Hash Table DHT algorithms but also DHT implementations. Evaluating DHT implementations is important for DHT application developers since it influences how an application utilizes a DHT. The authors built a...
- Tags: Network, Implementation, Environment, Emulator
- White papers 2007-01-23
- Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network for Intelligent Light Control
- This paper presents the design and implementation of the Illuminator, a preliminary sensor network-based intelligent light control system for entertainment and media production. Unlike most sensor network applications, which focus on sensing alone, a distinctive aspect of Illuminator is that it closes the loop from light sensing to lighting control....
- Tags: Network, Implementation, Sensor, Association For Computing Machinery, Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing
- White papers 2006-12-07
- Reducing Consulting Costs with Productized Content
- High-priced, open-ended consulting deals often fuel enterprise software implementation failures. As a result, a trend has developed among consulting companies and software vendors to package services into pre-defined, discrete units, decreasing risk and lowering costs for the customer. As examples, see here (pre-configured content shipping with software), here packaged services,...
- Tags: Packaged Services, Implementation
- Blog posts 2006-10-13
- PeopleSoft - 70% Disappointment in Oracle Services
- Jason Corsello writes about a PeopleSoft User Panel at the recent HR Technology Conference. Generally, the PeopleSoft customers were satisfied, except in one important area: Oracle service and support. This was probably the most interesting part of the session. Each of the panelists stated they were generally...
- Tags: Vendor relationships, Implementation
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- Reducing Services Costs
- Vinnie Mirchandani posts on IBMs strategy to productize services. Almost a year ago, Vinnie posed this challenge: IBMs SI/outsourcing groups do not think like its software group. They want to sell more bodies, not automation. If they allowed the same software team which is working on self-healing systems management to...
- Tags: Packaged Services, Implementation
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Productized Consulting Services
- Hourly billing arrangements are typical on IT projects. However, open-ended billing can create an incentive for consultants to work lots of hours, potentially increasing project duration and cost beyond what may strictly be required. In fact, unbounded billing arrangements are often a real contributor to the failures described in this...
- Tags: Packaged Services, Implementation, Consulting
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- Reducing Implementation Costs
- Vinnie Mirchandani posted an insightful comment on this blog related to software implementation time and cost. He correctly points out that even so-called successful implementations often run substantially over-budget. In most fields, a project that has run 2-3 times over-budget would be considered a failure, but the expectations around software...
- Tags: Implementation
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- A Software Architecture for Cross-Layer Wireless Network Adaptations
- Conventional data networks are based on a layered architecture. The introduction of wireless networks has created a need to violate this layered discipline to create cross-layer designs or adaptations. Ad-hoc implementations of such cross-layer adaptations reduce the level of modularity and abstraction in the network's implementation, giving rise to a...
- Tags: Software, Network, Implementation, Adaptation, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2006-09-08
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