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How badly are your business applications performing?

Due for formal release later this week, a study conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Precise at SAP's May 2009 SAPPHIRE reveals some remarkable stats about systems performance and the response times for problem resolution. 695 persons completed the survey. Some key metrics: ...

Tags: Consultant, Performance, Business Application, SAP AG, Consulting, Performance Issue, Transaction Performance Issue, Performance Management, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Additional Resources

Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Jobsworths and Box-Wallahs...

We've all been behind the glass in bureaucratic purgatory at some point. Having waited in line at the department of motor vehicles or similar our number finally comes up and we interact with the bureaucrat, who has some issue with your missing some...

Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Wiki, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-13

How Earnouts are Costing Huron its CEO, CFO and CAO

Earnouts are those interesting residual matters that pop up in some acquisitions. An earnout exists to provide a transition period between some of the acquired firm’s owners and the new owner/management team. Earnouts are certainly valuable for an acquirer when there are key persons in the acquired organization who can...

Tags: Shareholder, Acquisition, Payment, Financial, Performance, Earnouts, Earnout, Huron Consulting Group, Company, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-02

NetSuite + AdaptivePlanning = BPM disruption

This slipped under the radar but on June 10th NetSuite and AdaptivePlanning announced a marketing and integration partnership that will see NetSuite acting as a reseller for AdaptivePlanning's business performance management BPM solution. Why should this matter? So far, the saas/on-demand transaction app...

Tags: BPM, Business Performance Management, NetSuite Inc., Adaptive, Business Intelligence, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Excerpt #2: Customer Experience - Chap 21 from CRM @ The Speed of Light, 4th ed.

I have to be straight with you. I'm entering the head down, grind it, drive to the goal line when it comes to CRM at the Speed of Light's 4th edition.  Which means that in other areas that I'm writing, I'm treading water. So there is a dual purpose to...

Tags: Expectation, Interaction, Customer, Customer Experience, CRM, Strategy, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-04

How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.

Twitter's "Fail Whale" logo is cute, but solving the popular service's availability and scalability issues will be paramount if the web is to rely on it as a communications medium. So, I've been Twittering for a while. I was skeptical of the service...

Tags: Client-server, Scalability, Twitter, IBM Corp., Storage, Mainframes, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Which check to write? when open source means Jack

Which check to write? when open source means JackBut what if it actually costs less to use Windows?I don't know in reality. It seems like most of the analysts out there seem to think it just doesn't matter that much which OS you use - though I would say...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, open source, Microsoft Windows, OSS, WINDOWS BASED

Discussion threads 2008-11-20

Same story for Amazon: Q3 beats, Q4 forecast disappoints

Same story - different company, different day. This time it's Amazon on the hot seat. The company reported third quarter earnings of $118 million, or 27 cents per share, on $4.26 billion in revenue. statement Profits were up 48 percent from the same quarter a year ago...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-22

VMware's R&D chief quits after 9 months

VMware said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development has resigned after nine months on the job. In a terse statement, VMware said that Richard Sarwal quit to go back to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware in December 2007. VMware CEO Paul...

Tags: Stock Option, Security, Amount, R&D, Stock, Employment, Agreement, VMware Inc., Company, RSU, Control, Change, Cause, Person, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Analysis of Application Performance and Its Change Via Representative Application Signatures

Application servers are a core component of a multi-tier architecture that has become the industry standard for building scalable client-server applications. A client communicates with a service deployed as a multi-tier application via request-reply transactions. A typical server reply consists of the web page dynamically generated by the application server....

Tags: Client-server, Performance, Application Server, IEEE, Analysis, Application Servers, Middleware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2008-06-21

From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeDitch all this Cr@p!They need to simply go with Vista Server and MS Access 2008 Server! Problem solved!http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comRE: From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframePlease bear in mind that the 360 came out ten years before the ideas...

Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, maintenance programming, COBOL, CFrom Chapter, data-processing, pianist, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Apple's Grand Central threat to Microsoft

Apple's quiet preview of OS X.6 - Snow Leopard - promises ". . . unrivaled support for multi-core processors . . . " through a "new set of technologies" named Grand Central. What makes Grand Central so powerful - and how can Microsoft respond? Fresh from Google's...

Tags: Performance, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?

Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?Wow then why is Microsoft even doing an whitepaper?Because it's obvious that you have all the answers. What's stunning is that you have all the answers yet none of this is done. Bottom line: This proposal is complicated....

Tags: Microsoft Corp., identity, End-to-End trust vision, stack thing work, thing work, software

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?

Microsoft unveiled its "End to End Trust" security vision and now the real work begins: Will anyone buy into it? At RSA, Microsoft rolled out a whitepaper that at the very least is quite the conversation piece. Reading through the whitepaper--something I encourage everyone...

Tags: Software, Audit, Privacy, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Identity, Accountability, Audit Data, Internet, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Office:mac 2004 on life support

Office:mac 2004 on life supportWow, that's crazy.I have never used Office for Macs. I was stunned that this functionality doesn't exist in it. Every single item you listed is present in the Windows versions of Office, at least in 2007, most of them in earlier versions as well (yes,...

Tags: Apple iWork, Microsoft Office, Office:mac 2004, Apple Macintosh, Match Style, Microsoft Windows, font, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Office 2008

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

BEA responds to Oracle's overtures

BEA issued a statement regarding Oracle's unsolicited bid for $17 per share in cash. The gist of the letter is that the BEA thinks its worth more and doesn't want to give up any competitive information that would compromise its business versus Oracle in the marketplace. As a public...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Board, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-12

SAP's Peter Zencke: Inside Business ByDesign

Peter Zencke, a member of SAP’s Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP TechEd ‘07 and asked about the origins of the product and what will differentiate it...

Tags: Tenant, mySAP, Database, Peter Zencke, Customer, SAP AG, Automation, Business ByDesign, DF, PZ, Storage, AJAX, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-02

NetSuite nightmares

One of the presumptions about SAPs entry to the mid-market on-demand scene with Business ByDesign is that NetSuite will benefit from the halo effect. I'm not so sure. Over the last year, I've heard vague negative mutterings about NetSuite in the UK. Most of the complaints concerned performance and upgrade...

Tags: On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, U.K., Web Site, CRM, Completeness, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags

Since Workday publicly appeared on the scene in January 2006, it has been self-described as a "revolutionary application platform and the next generation of business applications to drive your enterprise's performance," with applications that will be "dramatically easy to use, be responsive to your organization's changing needs and will...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Workday, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-20