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		<title><![CDATA[10 Tips to Consider When Selecting the "Right" System Integrator to Ensure Success of Your Implementation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1197247]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Works of Albert Einstein. FREE Author&apos;s biography & letters in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1160779]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gartner financial apps MarketScope]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1205]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:54:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who's the fairest HR product of them all.......]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/sommer/?p=580]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, I set aside some budget monies to attend a couple of events/shows. Iâ€™m fortunate that some software vendors waive some of the costs if Iâ€™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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:31:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TIBCO and SAP: place your bets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1174]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:00:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ERP sales are falling: here's one reason]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1154]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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'...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:30:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Point-counterpoint: Is SCA the limit?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=2506]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:45:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IT budgets: Shifting by the week?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=21036]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:45:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1079]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:43:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying Guide]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-17924-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=65912&messageID=1237389&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:57:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=985]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    '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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:59:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HP tackles a variety of current IT challenges and advances in free three-day 'virtual conference']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2967]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:41:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sage and the Economy ??? Two things that should turn around]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 13:19:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Justifying SOA: 12 key metrics to keep tabs on]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1950]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:12:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[News to know: RSA, AMD; Yahoo; Windows 8; $200 'Mac']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16767]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are todayâ€™s notable headlines. You can get News To KnowÂ via email alertÂ andÂ RSS daily.Â  For continuous updates see BNETâ€™sÂ around-the-Web tech coverage.    RSA Conference:    	Tom Foremski:Â A conversation with Check Point's Gil Schwed  	Symantec CEO: The future of security [video]  	RSA chief calls for...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprise software: are customers being pressured so vendors can make their numbers?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lawson Software: Positive first impressions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=3058]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm currentlyÂ attending Lawson Software's annual conference, called CUE 09, in San Diego. Since this is my first in-depth exposure to the company,Â I thought it appropriateÂ to shareÂ a few thoughts and comments.    Overall, I like the company: the people are nice, they articulate product strategy clearly, and senior managementÂ obviously...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:48:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16686]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are todayâ€™s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.Â  For continuous updates see BNETâ€™s around-the-Web tech coverage.    Complete coverage of Oracle-Sun news:     Larry Dignan: Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:00:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lawson: 'Flat out no to maintenance price reduction but']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=860]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:01:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Moving SOA beyond 'service oriented integration']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1873]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:05:15 -0700</pubDate>
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