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- Business ByDesign: the irregular verdict
- Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdictYou make some good pointsThere is much in BBD that could be delivered as a standard accounting package to replace those mid-tier accounting packages like Great Plains the functionality for basic accounting is already there. Your point about putting this into the market is a valid...
- Tags: accounting, Irregular, Business ByDesign, accounting package
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
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- Workday: a tipping point?
- Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...
- Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- La Super Profette d'Anglais 2050 (zip)
- Learn English with Super Profette. The French Super Profette is greatly appreciated by both individual users as well as by schools and educational institutions. Over the years, this product has kept up with the times and has been continually evolving. It comes with numerous exercises which vary in difficulty from...
- Tags: Exercise, Lesson, Pithon Philippe, French Super Profette
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- HP to take out EDS: does it make sense?
- We've heard these rumors before but this time it seems HP is in serious hunting mode with EDS as the target. Larry Dignan offers his take on the rationale behind the story. Fellow Irregular Vinnie Mirchandani adds to the debate suggesting both pluses and minuses: HP could use a...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Business ByDesign: the irregular verdict
- I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...
- Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- The four horsemen of SaaS
- Taleo's acquisition of Vurv, announced today, is a clear play by the SaaS vendor for breakout leadership of the people management sector — one of the hottest segments of the enterprise SaaS landscape, populated by fast-growing startups such as recent Nasdaq entrant SuccessFactors along with privately held Authoria, Cornerstone OnDemand,...
- Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., Vurv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- SAP: Security keeps it off Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone for now
- SAP has forged an agreement with Research in Motion to run its customer relationship management software on the BlackBerry platform. Just don't expect SAP to roll out to other platforms anytime soon. In an interview with the Enterprise Irregular blogging group Monday, Bob Stutz, SAP's executive vice...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, SAP AG, Microsoft Windows, Symbian Inc., Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led to delay
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker says that Business ByDesign, the application giant's high-profile software as a service product, was delayed because of its total cost of ownership for the company. That's a fancy way of saying SAP hasn't figured out how to make money at its $149 per...
- Tags: SAP AG, TCO, Leo Apotheker, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Instrumenting social responsibility
- As I'm sitting in an Orlando hotel idly flicking through RSS, I come across this guest post by Stacey Monk on Go Big Always. To cut a long story short: After all, I'm the perhaps crazy person who, after a trip to Africa last year, left a really successful...
- Tags: SAP AG, Stacey Monk, EpicChange, Web 2.0, Corporate Social Responsibility, Internet, Leadership, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren't taking social software seriously. They can't. Not even if they...
- Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Value Chain, Vendor, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Sam, Austin Ventures, Dan, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- CNBC: SAP America's president should offer media training
- During an interview on CNBC, SAP's CEO Bill McDermott, said customers buy his software to accomplish three goals: Making money Cost reductions Maintaining compliance In a moment of what some might consider to be irrational exuberance, McDermott described SAP as the only...
- Tags: CNBC, Media Training, SAP AG, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!
- Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!Bogus Cat Toy PatentMy favorite is a patented method of using a laser pointer to excercise your cat or any curious animal. Lawyers can turn anything into a pile of cat-box-contents.Title: Method of exercising a catDocument Type and Number: United States Patent...
- Tags: laser, Seagate Technology LLC
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Twitter outages and Forrester predictions
- In my last post about Forrester's predictions, I suggested that Enterprise 2.0 won't pan out the way they suggest. On one prediction, I think they're spot on but for different reasons: Consumer services like Blogger, Facebook, Netvibes, and Twitter are aimed squarely at consumers, and they typically offer free...
- Tags: Outage, Twitter, Forrester Research Inc., Manufacturing, Web 2.0, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- MSDict Oxford Crossword Dictionary (30)
- This Palm edition of the highly successful Oxford Crossword Dictionary will provide crossword lovers with everything there is to know about how to solve crosswords. There are over 250,000 entries, alphabetically arranged by word-length for easy look-up, and the list of words has been fully updated for this edition to...
- Tags: Mobile System, Clue, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-17
- MSDict Professional Dictionary Bundle (English) (30)
- MSDict Professional Dictionary English is a software suite comprising the universal dictionary viewer MSDict and five English dictionaries. The extensive databases included make this bundle the perfect reference tool for a wide range of users - from beginner English learners to professionals, for who the English language is a vocation....
- Tags: Mobile System
- Software downloads 2008-04-17
- Zoho can come second and still win
- Earlier in the week I spoke with Raju Vegesna, evangelist with Zoho about the upcoming Zoho CRM for Enterprise. Larry Dignan has all the key facts and correctly surmises: Let's be clear about Zoho's motives: It wants to take on Salesforce.com's CRM, which Zoho portrays as bloated. I...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, Zoho CRM, Com, Raju, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Traditional software licensing: Why you pay more and a look at your options
- It's hard to believe that some of the most profitable software companies in the world--Oracle, Microsoft and SAP--are sitting on a licensing model that is untenable in the long run and will increasingly irk customers. But there may be a revolution in the cards that could tip the balance of...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Open Source, Software Company, Margin, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Want Surface but not the cost? Try wii'ing
- Courtesy of Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow and another of my Irregular colleagues, I stumbled across this awesome demonstration of using Wiimotes and light pens as an alternative to the $10,000 Surface device. There is none of the hoop-la that accompanies Surface demonstrations but a simple, matter...
- Tags: Demonstration, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Seesmic, Twhirl, Newsgang: whereto for RSS?
- Yesterday's announcement that Seesmic has acquired Twhirl is no surprise. Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic was muttering something about it when we met last month but asked me to keep quiet. What is far more interesting to me is the long term impact on desktop client applications like Twhirl to...
- Tags: Twitter, Twhirl, Video App, Goodness, RSS, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
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