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In search of SAP Business ByDesign

Mike Krigsman has a post that seeks to put ByDesign into a hopeful light. Based on his conversations I'm not surprised he came away with a glowing customer report. Customers I've spoken with have been rightfully delighted with what SAP is offering and the roadmap they're presenting. As...

Tags: SAP AG, Mike Krigsman, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Data Centers, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Oracle's double standards

Oracle has allegedly invited 30 bloggers to its Oracle OpenWorld event. Yay - they get the value of independent analysis...or do they? Check Jake Kuramoto's blog on the topic: Oracle has extended an invitation to leaders in the blogging community, who can come experience the pageantry of an entire...

Tags: Back Story, Blogger, Blogging, Conversation, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett, Internet, Jeff, Marketing, Mike Krigsman, Oracle Corp., Public Relations, SAP AG, Standards

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Additional Resources

Chatter: Amplified

Last evening, fellow ZDNet'ers Mike Krigsman, Dion Hinchcliffe, Tom Foremski, Brian Sommer along with fellow Enterprise Advocate Vinnie Mirchandani and I sat down with Parker Harris, co-founder Salesforce.com to get a deep dive into the rationale behind Chatter, what it's really about and where it's going. ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!

Running Cover-it-Live has produced some interesting commentary about this morning's announcement of Salesforce.com Chatter. Best summed up by Nenshad Bardoliwalla: The length of this keynote has turned "Chatter" into "Splatter" IMHO A three and a quarter hour keynote marathon, laced with the kind of hyperbole we've come to...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Running Cover-it-Live, Saesforce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Enterprise 2.0: what a crock

I've been following the so-called Enterprise 2.0 meme for some time and you know what? It's a crock. Forget Dion Hinchcliffe's pretty failure pictures or Mike Krigsman's guest post of failure. Examine the basics and look back at history. Some years back I was a hack attending...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-26

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

Your implementation is killing us

When I think about the enterprise apps landscape, it seems almost impossible to get away from MISO's addiction to multi-million dollar implementations. Those days are gone and yet financial analysts seem obsessed with the notion that somehow, some day they will return. Oracle continues to wow the...

Tags: Implementation, SAP AG, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Enterprise 2.0 ROI Metrics: One Size Doesn't Fit All

'The ROI of Online Customer Service communities' by Forrester customer experience and relationship management analyst Natalie Petouhoff is a $US 1,999 'Total Economic Impactâ„¢ Analysis' TEI report. Mike Krigsman over at his 'IT failures' blog here on ZD Net seems impressed by the...

Tags: Customer Service, ROI, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Natalie Petouhoff, Mike, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-06

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

News to know: Firefox 3.5; Lenovo; Blackberry Tour; Chambers

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. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Benchmarking Firefox 3.5 Testing Firefox 3.5 ... mind your add-ons! Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.5 released, more...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Surviving and thriving: or why MISO has it (mostly) wrong

Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle collectively make up what Irregulars call MISO. Harsher critics might think they are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Whichever your chosen position I am coming to the view that the way they are going to market is wrong for the conditions in which we...

Tags: CIO, Oracle Corp., Social Computing, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO, Vendor Response, David Dobrin, Vertica, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-21

UK Companies House: an end user nightmare

In the UK, limited liability companies have to file a ream of documents with Companies House. In very much the same way the SEC works. Only Companies House electronic filing system - just like many UK public sector  IT projects - is an unholy mess. So common is the problem...

Tags: Companies House, Jake, Card Detail, Document Management, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Twitter is Dangerous: revista

I'm probably miles behind some tech complaint curve everyone else knows about, but having spent four hours trying to gain control of my Twitter account I'm at the point of pulling what's left of my hair out. Here's what's happened. The last few days I noticed the...

Tags: Twitter, Scoble, Autoresponders, E-mail, Sales Force Management, Security, Online Communications, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Getting inside a CIO's head

I was disappointed to see that our nation's first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, is having some major distractions, with the FBI raiding the District of Columbia CIO's office he was overseeing. According to this report from ZDNet's Sam Diaz, Kundra has not been linked to the raid, which stemmed...

Tags: Job, CIO, SOA, Mike, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Recruitment & Selection, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Social silly season

I'm often asked whether getting into the fashion for all things social is something enterprises should contemplate. Given the volume of noise coming from the likes of Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester analyst and other social media/brand mavens, it's hardly a surprise. Enterprise reality though is an altogether different thing from the...

Tags: SAP AG, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-17

The certification timebomb

I wish I had been a fly on the wall at yesterday's meeting between some of my Irregular colleagues and SAP's Leo Apotheker. I've been in some of those 'tense' meetings. While it was ongoing, Larry Skyped me to say that Vinnie Mirchandani was giving Leo a tough time. ...

Tags: Certification, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Devil, Allerton, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-05

When will we learn?

When I wrote my tongue in cheek How to be less stupid in 2009, I picked on Mike Krigsman when I said: Get an RSS device implanted with Mike Krigsman’s IT Project Failures blog. Have you ever known anyone who could get a long running blog based on the...

Tags: Buyer, Dennis Howlett, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Eric Kimberling, ERP, Mike, Panorama Consulting Group, Software

Blog posts 2009-01-29

The great certification debate

Last year at SAP TechEd, Vinnie Mirchandani, Mike Krigsman and  I spent an entertaining 15 minutes verbally abusing challenging Zia Yusef, who runs SAP's ecosystem of developers, SIs and partners. The thrust of our argument was that SAP's inability to control its ecosystem means that projects often run over time...

Tags: Certification, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-23

How to be less stupid in 2009

The title of this post was going to be 'How to be more smart in 2009' but three things changed my mind. First up several of my Twitter followers 'voted' for the 'less stupid' title, second several posts I saw in catching up on New Year reading had me groaning...

Tags: Information Technology, Geek, Tool, Mike, Production Deployment, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-06