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- Debating Forrester Research: Service providers and failure
- A Forrester Research blog post pushing virtually all blame for IT failures onto technology buyers caught me by surprise because it doesn't correspond to real world complexities of why IT projects fail. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Project, Consultant, Information Technology, Service Provider, Forrester Research Inc., IT Devil, Business Services, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- LA school district and Deloitte in $18m failure settlement
- Implementation consulting firm, Deloitte, will pay the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD $8.25m and forgo $10m in unpaid invoices to settle a long-standing dispute over payroll problems arising during an SAP implementation. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Deloitte LLP, Settlement, Payroll, IT Devil, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
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- Saas? We're too busy making ERP work
- It's sometimes good to be reminded that while the industry hype is around saas/cloud/on-demand that there is still another world out there where customers are wrestling with more traditional approaches to computing. The other evening I had a conversation with Erick Kimberling, CEO of Panorama Consulting. Panorama...
- Tags: ERP, Panorama Consulting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- AMD: Creating the building blocks for cloud computing
- AMD: Creating the building blocks for cloud computingCloud is going to be mainly vapor.Not vapor ware as such, but I see cloud computing as a waste of money and time. It appears to be not much more than SAS in it's latest PR spin. I firmly believe that...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?
- What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?I'd eat a Klondik Bar! nt.RE: What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?"I?ve given up all hope of publishing anything meaningful on ZDNet"Really? I didn't know you'd started.Easy one.Run Vista unpatched... on a scrap machine.Feel Your PainYou could...
- Tags: Smart phones, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G S, iPile, Apple iPhone 3G, Give Up
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- How mad are iPhone customers at AT&T? The ways are counted!
- How mad are iPhone customers at AT&T? The ways are counted!About as *un*scientific as it gets...I'm not really an Apple fan, but the poll just sounds like a ham-fisted way to get some attention, and not a barometer of how people feel about AT&T or their iPhone.Each poll question starts...
- Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, iPhone customer
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud services
- The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud servicesThe difference being[i]However, the same type of thing could happen to any data center whether it is your own or in the cloud.[/i]If your servers are down due to lightning, so are your PC's, I would imagine. The frustrating thing...
- Tags: Data centers, Amazon EC2, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Semantic Web: To be or not to be
- Semantic Web: To be or not to beSemantic web - choose your vendors carefullyI am all for the semantic web and the development of a layer of consciousness over it for full interoperability and new application mashups. I've heard of a number of publishers thinking about jumping on the...
- Tags: Zemanta, Calais, Semantic Web, Thomson Reuters Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Invisible Linux
- Invisible LinuxLinux on the mobile "desktop"Many/most of the major smartphone/mobile OSes are based on Linix: Android, WebOS, LiMo, Moblin, Maemo, Ubuntu, .... The iPhone OS is based on FreeBSD, a cousin of Linux.Thus, Linux/*nix is already entering the "desktop" of the average user, through the use of mobile devices. And,...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Invisible Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- News to know: FTC vs. botnets; Microsoft; Apple WWDC; Twitter
- 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. Ryan Naraine: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP. FTC statement Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical Windows, IE fixes coming Typo'd Google domains in Top...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, WWDC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., FTC, NEC Corp., Twitter, Darwin, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telephony, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Monitors & Displays, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Reviewing Sapphire, user interfaces, the Devil's Triangle, and IT success
- This is a guest post was written by SAP expert, Jon Reed, describing a podcast interview he conducted with me following SAP's recent Sapphire conference. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, SAP AG, Podcasts, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- IBM: IT failure and social media disaster
- IBM's recent DB2 fiasco in the Philippines is a textbook case combining Devil's Triangle failure and Twitter disaster. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Social Media, IBM Corp., Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- News to know: Windows 7; Google Wave in enterprise; SaaS in Europe; Wordcamp;
- 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. Andrew Mager: Live: Wordcamp 2009 Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter Edition Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft sees sense,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- IBM's Devil's Triangle: An enterprise software soap opera
- IBM's Devil's Triangle: An enterprise software soap operaWhere's the architect?Who is the person that modeled the today and future capacity - and thought that 256Gb tables were adequate? Obviously in 2006 the tables were not this big and things ran fine until 2008 when the tables started exceeding this threshold.Nothing...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Triangle, enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2009-05-30
- Botnet exploiting MS0867 flaws (Inside the botnets that never make the news)
- Botnet exploiting MS0867 flaws Inside the botnets that never make the newsBlock IRC traffic completelyThat's the solution. IRC traffic has no place in business environments.Image 5...Did you do the obfuscating? If not, how do you know they're all on the same server?How pray tell?You're forgetting, any type of...
- Tags: Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Stateful Packet Inspection, IRC traffic, IRC, BotNet
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?It is too early to say, there are a lot of issues to solveA hydrogen economy is still just a dream on a sheet of paper. Making this a reality is probably 10 to 20 years away, given that we don't find a better...
- Tags: Hydrogen car, Obama, hydrogen economy, Hydrogen Production, Diesel Engine, hydrogen, hydrogen car, car
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Veggie food v. global warming
- Veggie food v. global warmingWhat is next breathing......ENOUGH already, I am sick to death of hearing about this made up lie to control what people drive, what they eat, how much energy they use to now meat!Good grief, there is NO proof of any of this except an agenda being...
- Tags: global warming, Veggie food, Veggie, meat, food
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Pirate Bay defendant urges DDo$ attack on lawyer
- Pirate Bay defendant urges DDo$ attack on lawyerBrave but silly manHe has yet to realise the golden rule in life, **NEVER** go up against lawyers.Especially, if they have just smacked you down in court.Revenge is sweete, except it will be the lawyer taking it all.. Yeah, sounds like Pirate Bay...
- Tags: Piracy, SECURITY, Revenge, Pirate Bay, DDo$ attack, DDo$, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Is green living just for the rich?
- When a clebrity celebrates green living, one standard reply: I can't afford it. Is the slow food movement only for latte-sipping Prius drivers? Here in my semi-rural part of Oregon the locally-produced, organic cheeses cost at least double what the mass produced cheeses cost at the big chain...
- Tags: Food, Cheese, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalition
- ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalitionObamaCare sneaks a foot in the doorExisting insurance companies and health care providers worry about the government plan because it is the pre-ordained winner on the path to single payer, not because a government plan would be inherently superior.Any Democrat worth their credentials...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Healthcare reform, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, game plan, health care, single payer, ObamaCare, ObamaCare opponent
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
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