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- Can open source software stop IT failure?
- I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...
- Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Two Perspectives of the HR Technology show
- Some positive surprises - strong attendance Last week, Dr. Katherine Jones and I attended the HR Technology show. Katherine is one the best known HR analysts out there and covered the space for Aberdeen Group for a number of years. Together, we sat down with 21...
- Tags: Human Resources Inc., Katherine, Herewith, HR Tech, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Taleo, Talent Management and What???s Wrong With ERP Spending
- He's not far off.Brian, I blogged and provided details on my blog in 2005 "So, even without factoring in costs of your own staff or incremental hardware you are looking at $7.50 at the low end and $ 21 or more at the high end for every $ 1 dollar...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, talent management, talent, Taleo Corp., ERP
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Taleo, Talent Management and What’s Wrong With ERP Spending
- Is your career worth at least one security patch? This week, Taleo is conducting its user conference in Las Vegas. They are announcing their Taleo 10 product this week to coincide with the show. Rarely do I get to see a software vendor...
- Tags: Talent, Taleo Corp., ERP, Talent Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Workforce Management, Professional Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Career, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Successfactors: Execute, Execute, Execute!
- Successfactors SFSF the Strategic Human Capital Management/people performance software as a service company I last wrote about in June, today expanded their scope to embrace 'Business Execution Software', which is now the strap line under their company logo. As Larry Dignan covered here...
- Tags: Talent, Performance, SuccessFactors Inc., Talent Management, Business Alignment Category, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring
- Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., Restructuring, Senior Executive, Executive, $119mm, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- AOL, Yahoo find value in original online news; eyeing laid-off journalists
- As News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch tries to figure out how to charge for newspaper content and the Associated Press continues to whine about online news aggregators offering up its content, AOL and Yahoo seem to be beefing up their own news operations to provide original content. And,...
- Tags: Journalist, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Document Management, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Stories that warrant watching: SPSS, HP, Acer, Google, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite
- Wedding bells for a Chicago software firm Last week, IBM offered to pay $1.2 billion for SPSS, nee Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. SPSS was one of those niche firms with a lot of brilliant folks on board. They possessed a number of slick apps that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., NetSuite Inc., SPSS Inc., SAP AG, Acer Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Open letter to all HR software vendors
- HR products haven’t really evolved much the last decade. Sure, many have changed their business and delivery models to become SaaS software as a service vendors but the functionality is still little changed from the 1990s. Yes, I know that talent management has seen some changes over the last few...
- Tags: Human Resources, Boss, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Workforce Alignment & Optimization - Bridging the Strategy/Execution Gap
- Here is a two part video discussion with Tom Fisher, VP of Cloud Computing and David Karel, VP of Product Marketing at SuccessFactors I recorded at their SuccessConnect Conference. Successfactors, as I wrote earlier this week, provide an Integrated talent performance management...
- Tags: Optimization, SuccessFactors Inc., Workforce, RESTful Api, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Collaboration, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Your next software buying decision: zero cost?
- Your next software buying decision: zero cost?Open Source it!The beauty of open source technologies and hiring skilled talent not people who want to haul in a bunch of proprietary software the extorts tens of thousands of dollars for nothing on return.Having skills to develop and maintain your own infrastructure is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-05-01
- Open APIs for secure social enterprise computing drive innovation
- * Jennifer Leggio is at RSA Conference Guest editorial by Chet Kapoor and Michael Richardson As the "Chief Innovation Officer" now for most enterprises, the CIO needs a new portfolio of social computing capable methodologies to enable collaboration between empowered users inside and adjacent...
- Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Computing, Collaboration, API, Social Computing, Chet, Social Networking, Leadership, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interested
- Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interestedI hope IBM know what they're doingIf they play chicken with Sun to get a bargain on the yummy pieces, they still risk throwing Java into years of uncertainty and customer defection. And that'll hurt part of IBMs business...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Financial accounting, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, stock
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Service Oriented Communications, debate how dead SOA really is
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition,...
- Tags: Communication, SOA, Service, Architecture, SOC, Communications Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- Can IBM sustain its momentum?
- Can IBM sustain its momentum?detailsso profit and "earnings" are up and margin is high - but can customers and clients count on IBM as a quality deliverer of solutions when those numbers are created through layoffs, resource actions, and payroll cuts? the devil is in the details and all the...
- Tags: Leadership, Operational accounting, Strategy, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- When Windows beats Linux: a cautionary tale
- When Windows beats Linux: a cautionary taleIt's the ticket booking traffic, st...!What they don't tell you, is that the 10 CMS servers were handling the business-critical ticket booking traffic - incl. peaks during special-offer newsletter blasts.RE: When Windows beats Linux: a cautionary taleThis article is clearly biased against Linux."The general...
- Tags: Operating systems, Content management, Groupware, UNIX, Collaboration, OPEN SOURCE, SharePoint Solutions, Linux, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-17
- Trust: the Satyam Partnering Disaster
- The images above, taken from Satyam's website, are now worthy of the fail blog. The shock waves rippling through the markets following Satyam's chairman and co-founder Ramalinga Raju's admissions of accounting fraud are world news, being dubbed 'India's Enron'. You...
- Tags: Satyam, HCL, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- Leadership Training: Three Perspectives on Development Methods That Work
- Three top HR and talent development experts from Continental Automotive Systems, Vail Resorts Management Company, and ArvinMeritor share their insights on: Leadership Training: Three Perspectives on Development Methods That Work
- Tags: Talent, SkillSoft, Workforce Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Google exec joins LinkedIn
- Dipchand "Deep" Nishar, a top Google executive, is leaving the search giant to become vice president of product strategy at LinkedIn. Nishar will start Jan. 5, said a LinkedIn spokeswoman. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nishar will help LinkedIn develop new products and services as the...
- Tags: Google Inc., LinkedIn, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Middleware, Marketing, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
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