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- Is your supply chain gonna kill you?
- Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
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- Frugal Friday: Barbecue! Apple 2009 iPod refresh, CodePlex Foundation, Microsoft Best Buy Shenanigans, Schooner Information Technology
- Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I talk about the joys of Carolina and Texas Barbecue, the Fall 2009 Apple iPod launch event, the new Microsoft-created CodePlex Foundation, the recent exposure of Microsoft's Best Buy 2009 retail marketing plans for Windows 7 and speak with Dr. John...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Sourcing offshore: Cultural hurdles abound
- Update below: Do IT need managers need a crash course in India and China culture? My hunch is that they will as companies increasingly source to India and China. And the consensus appears to be that culture is a major hang-up. With that in mind here are...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- SAP SRM, another brick from the wall
- The contrast could not be more stark between yesterday's launch of Coupa's Amazon-hosted SaaS e-procurement system and SAP's decision on Friday to cancel the upcoming release of its spend management product. Another beneficiary of SAP's misfortune is SaaS vendor Ketera, which earlier this month added a new supplier management application...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- SAP spend management product in disarray
- Spend management expert and fellow Irregular Jason Busch has the skinny but it seems SAP is planning to can SRM 6.0 for those customers not already in the release 6.0 ramp program. SRM 6.0 is also known as SRM 2007. This is a disaster for SAP and opens a 12...
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Ketera tames the supply chain's long tail
- One area of opportunity for SaaS vendors that can help them differentiate themselves from their on-premises rivals is the ability to offer services that combine software with other shared resources. It's often the case that software alone falls short of a complete solution to a business pain point, and needs...
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- SAP license and price negotiation dynamics
- ERP software represents a major financial and operational investment for any organization implementing such systems. Given the long-term impacts of an ERP purchase, license and pricing negotiations with an ERP vendor take on real significance, and should be handled with the care reserved for other large, capital purchases. ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-16
- Simplifying the enterprise: the next big thing
- One of the key messages to come out of the recent Workday financials launch is the notion of modeling the business from the business reality perspective rather than the accounting oriented approach that typified many so-called ERP implementations of the 1990s and early 2000s. In the ensuing discussion among my...
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Stop enterprise software hype: send me your stories
- It's time to take a cold, hard look at enterprise software vendor hype.You know what I'm talking about: vague, empty promises that don't come true. Sometimes it's a sales pitch promising fast, easy, and cheap implementations; other times, it's a killer feature that never seems to work as promised. In...
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- 10 ways implementation teams destroy IT projects
- Fellow Enterprise Irregular, Brian Sommer, is a superb blogger; everything he writes is noteworthy. In his latest missive, Brian's Software Safari blog offers ten common ways that IT implementation project teams contribute to their own failure. From Brian's post: No one in our firm can make a decision -...
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Pigs Might Fly in Iowa
- According to the Hawk Eye, Iowa has the distinction of joining Nevada and Wisconsin on our list of recent state government project failures. In this case, A.T. Kearney was hired for $3.4 million and saved the state $2.9 million. From the article: “When [the project] started, the payment to...
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Outlook 2007 upgrade blues
- Jason Busch reports on his unpleasant experience trying to get Vista and Office 2007 to work on a new $2,800 Dell M1210 notebook systems with 2GB of memory that came preloaded with the new operating system and office suite. His issue: The problem -- which is absolutely inexcusable -- is...
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- The Web grows up
- The Web grows upWhat about your fellow Irregulars coverage?Phil,Glad to see you add some meat to the bones. But let's not forget that Jason Busch and yours truly also covered the announcement. JMore Like: Welcome to the Dumbed Down WebThe Web isn't growing up. It's being replaced...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- 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,...
- Blog posts 2006-10-13
- Productized Services - AT Kearny
- Jason Busch at the SpendMatters blog has a great post describing AT Kearnys procurement-related consulting offerings. His description of AT Kearnys services is instructive for anyone interested in packaged services: Procurement Solutions is focused on creating repeatable, expert solutions to Spend Management versus a more traditional...
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- SAP's services roadmap
- Since I'm frequently less than kind to SAP, for once let me hand out some plaudits to the company on the heels of its acquisition of Frictionless Commerce last week. Its pragmatic approach to software services may not be one that I agree with, but if I were running SAP,...
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- Feds target alternative media Web site
- Feds target alternative media Web siteCrackdown on independent mediaThese are dangerous times we live in when a secret government can issue a secret court order and close down an independant media site without recourse to legal challenges, and all the ISP is allowed to say is that they can't say...
- Discussion threads 2004-10-09
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