Dell and Perot: What this means
Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan’s detailed post...
View ArticleThe troubling thoughts re: outsourcing
Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...
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Sustainability: Hard for business, harder for ERP vendors
Image via Wikipedia “Everyone, we’’re currently meeting with customers to see what sort of requirements they might have in the sustainability space. With this input, we hope to someday craft a...
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Cloud-to-Cloud Integration – Another Big ERP Challenge!
Image by dahowlett via Flickr If Your ERP Provider can’t to multi-tenancy, How can they do this???? This week’s been interesting so far. SAP announced earnings this week and the figures aren’t a cause...
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A Tale of Two Software Worlds: Old ERP vs. SaaS
Image via Wikipedia Watching the train wreck as SaaS continues its assault on the on-premise software world Charles Dickens began his famous book “A Tale of Two Cities” with this opening statement:...
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Dreamforce post#2: Chatter, Events, REA and the Future of Management
I got chatted up yesterday – so should you Salesforce.com announced its Chatter capability today. In essence, they’ve married instant communication services like Twitter, social networks like Facebook...
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Accenture: ‘Branded’ by the Tiger Woods mess
When you build your brand on the shoulders of another, make sure their brand remains solid I’ve sat on this post all week. Until today, I thought I was the only one who thought Accenture (ACN) (the...
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H-1B Visas, the AFL-CIO and the Need for Change
Get a cup of coffee and read this report. The AFL-CIO has weighed in on the U.S. visa situation (i.e., the situation involving L-1, H-1B and other work permits). They have produced a report titled,...
View ArticlePanaya – A different kind of ERP third party maintenance provider
“The opposite of Rimini Street” Many users of third party maintenance solutions for their ERP software are looking for a low-cost provider that will keep their working, stable ERP software current with...
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The Changing Software Partner Ecosystem
(aka When SaaS Hits the Channel) If you are an Application Software Partner or Application Partner Reseller, your world is changing. The days when you could walk into a prospect and help them automate...
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Where next for Shared Services and Operational Excellence?
Image credit: Write On! For the last couple of decades, businesses have been doing a lot to improve their internal operations. They’ve ticked off an impressive array of programs that have driven...
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NetSuite’s Revenue in light of the bigger ERP revenue question
Are SaaS products starting to hurt On-Premise vendor revenues? Thursday, NetSuite announced its fourth quarter earnings. In recent weeks, we’ve seen Oracle and SAP do likewise. What we all should be...
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iPad musings – How big is the market for this anyway?
Back in my college days, I worked with a fellow at an auto parts warehouse. He asked me “Man, how many books do you read in a year?” I gave a number in the dozens. That produced a scoff from my...
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The scary side of freelancing: the inadvertent freelancer
Photo credit: Freelance journalistiek I was at a meeting the other day when two former executives from a major consultancy started chatting with me. It seems they were in the freelancing space these...
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The Cost Difference Between On-Premise and SaaS
A couple of weeks ago, I did a televised webinar with Bob Evans of InformationWeek and two major CIOs: Andy Schlei of Sony Pictures Entertainment and Kate Bass of Valspar. Workday, a SaaS HR and...
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The Expanding Gap Between On-Premise and SaaS Solutions
Check out the continuing evolution underway On-premise vendors that are trying to play in the SaaS world (and I use the word ‘trying’ on purpose) are moving at a glacial pace and falling ever further...
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Three Kinds of IT – Which is right post-recession?
Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema knocked out a great book (The Discipline of Market Leaders) a few years back. In short, they opined that great companies make one of the following their defining...
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On-Premise ERP vendors: Your Partners are Abandoning You
Big Trouble Brewing for On-Premise ERP Firms Last night, NetSuite made a number of announcements at their SuiteCloud 2010 event here in San Francisco. Specifically, these announcements covered a number...
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SaaS-querade: When On-Premise Vendors Try to Pass as SaaS Vendors
Customers who don’t see through the fakery will get stuck with old, expensive solutions Lately, my phone and calendar are getting filled with calls from vendors who want to tell me all about their...
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VMForce – What CIOs and others really need to think about
Sometime big changes are initiated by interesting events Little is being written about the fundamental changes that are occurring to a subset of those in the IT industry. I am speaking of the in-house...
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