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- 10 Tips to Consider When Selecting the "Right" System Integrator to Ensure Success of Your Implementation
- One use to think that evaluating and selecting the "Right" enterprise system was the key to success. Well think again! After much industry consolidation, today's options are dominated by Epicor, Infor, Lawson, Oracle, SAP, Sage, and Microsoft Dynamics solutions with a good number of Best of Breed industry-specific choices sprinkled...
- Tags: Consultant, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-11-24
- Works of Albert Einstein. FREE Author's biography & letters in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)
- Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...
- Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference
- Software downloads 2009-09-07
- Gartner financial apps MarketScope
- Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Who's the fairest HR product of them all.......
- Every year, I set aside some budget monies to attend a couple of events/shows. I’m fortunate that some software vendors waive some of the costs if I’m covering the event as a press/analyst person. Events are expensive to attend and hurt my chargeability at the same time. I choose carefully...
- Tags: Software, Human Resources Inc., Registration Site, Tools & Techniques, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- TIBCO and SAP: place your bets
- Yesterday, Larry Dignan asked my opinion of persistent rumors that SAP is in the middle of taking a tilt at acquiring TIBCO. I rolled my digital eyeballs. How many times has this one gone around the block? As Brian Sommer yelled: ONCE A POTENTIAL ACQUISITION IS PASSED ON, IT...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, Brian, Public Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- ERP sales are falling: here's one reason
- I'm on a small project that is typical of many: "I have a modest sized business but our complexities are no different to the Big Boys. Help." So off we trot so see if there's a solution that comes vaguely close to an 80% fit. As a 'day job sometimes'...
- Tags: Solution, Oracle Corp., ERP, Microsoft Corp., ERP Sale, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, Outsourcing, Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Point-counterpoint: Is SCA the limit?
- There's been a blogstorm swirling around Service Component Architecture SCA, and Loraine Lawson has done a great job of summing up both sides of the discussion. To sum up, there are two points of view on the efficacy of SCA: Anti-SCA: "SCA is heavily being driven...
- Tags: Service Component Architecture, Loraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- IT budgets: Shifting by the week?
- The technology earnings season kicks off in earnest Tuesday when Intel reports its second quarter results, but the outlook for the sector may sound like a broken record: Visibility is low and IT budgets fluctuate with everything from CEO mood swings to the stock market. A handful...
- Tags: Revenue, IT Budget, Recovery, Red Hat Inc., Information Technology, CEO, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying Guide
- Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying GuideAmerican Values?In which modern democracy, Israel included, would you find an ad-campaign like this inoffensive to women?You're way off-base there...1) You [i]do[/i] understand the difference between human beings and animals, don't you?2) It was an [i]Internet[/i] ad, launched on Facebook, and in...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Bacardi Ltd., Rum
- Discussion threads 2009-06-21
- Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant
- 'Tis the season for round robins. On this occasion Frank Scavo pokes a sharp stick in the eye of Gartner's Mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant. Vinnie Mirchandani goes next having a poke at his alma mater...Guess what? It's my turn: First...
- Tags: Quadrant, Gartner Inc., ERP, Frank Scavo, Vinnie Mirchandani, SaaS Player, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Managed Hosting, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Software, Sales, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- HP tackles a variety of current IT challenges and advances in free three-day 'virtual conference'
- Given the current economic downturn and tightening budgets, frugal is good and free is better. Hewlett-Packard HP is addressing the new IT value era with a series of complimentary international virtual events that will give IT professionals online access to briefings on business and technology trends from HP executives and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Participants, Data Centers, Podcasts, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Sage and the Economy ??? Two things that should turn around
- Sage and the Economy ??? Two things that should turn aroundtough to coordinateInteresting post, Brian. As a former Sage Abra VAR, I know that the company had challenges because it had so many products aimed at so many different types of organizations. Since I have spent most of the...
- Tags: Sage
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Justifying SOA: 12 key metrics to keep tabs on
- I've had a great discussion going on over at the ebizQ site concerning the importance of measurement to SOA success. (Additional discussion is also taking place in an open forum at ebizQ.) Loraine Lawson joined the discussion, and did a stellar job of summarizing some of the...
- Tags: ROI, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Roi/Tco, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-04-25
- News to know: RSA, AMD; Yahoo; Windows 8; $200 'Mac'
- 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. RSA Conference: Tom Foremski: A conversation with Check Point's Gil Schwed Symantec CEO: The future of security [video] RSA chief calls for...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, RSA Security Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Enterprise software: are customers being pressured so vendors can make their numbers?
- Enterprise software: are customers being pressured so vendors can make their numbers?Did you see?Hi Joe: not sure if you saw but I wrote about Lawson's position as they put it out yesterday in their CUE09 keynotes.Also, I have been arguing this story almost on a weekly basis ever since SAP...
- Tags: enterprise software
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- Lawson Software: Positive first impressions
- I'm currently attending Lawson Software's annual conference, called CUE 09, in San Diego. Since this is my first in-depth exposure to the company, I thought it appropriate to share a few thoughts and comments. Overall, I like the company: the people are nice, they articulate product strategy clearly, and senior management obviously...
- Tags: Lawson Software Inc., Customer Satisfaction, Blogger, Blogging, Product Marketing, Internet, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- News to know: Oracle-Sun, IBM, Apple ads, Windows 7
- 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. Complete coverage of Oracle-Sun news: Larry Dignan: Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Lawson: 'Flat out no to maintenance price reduction but'
- At Lawson Software's CUE09 event, Dean Hagar, Lawson's Senior Vice President, Product Management said that despite the economic recession, the company "Flat out no" will not reduce the company's maintenance charges to its customers. You'd likely resist if it was likely to impact your close to $1 million compensation package....
- Tags: Lawson Software Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Moving SOA beyond 'service oriented integration'
- "All this money is going into ESBs and Web services, and they get a dozen or two integration projects going, but are they getting any business value out of that? I don't see it." -Anne Thomas Manes, quoted in SearchCIO There's been a simmering debate going...
- Tags: SOA, Integration, Torode, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
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