IBM recently announced new PureSystems and PureFlex hardware for inhouse cloud deployment. The good news is, as Frank Scavo notes For some reason, Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM are able to make life easier for small developers. Thus HarrisData achieved certification ... Continue reading
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Cloud, Mobility, and Big Partners
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Cloud Security, Full of Holes and Bugs?
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Maybe not full of holes, but certainly the Cloud requires us to think carefully about what we are doing. Mel Beckman addresses the top 5 vulnerabilities of the cloud: Each of the three cloud service models has at minimum one ... Continue reading
Welcome to a New Partner
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Thank you to Tom Kempster and ABC services for their fine introduction to our new partnership. "Our partnership with HarrisData will free our ERP customers from the chains of their existing ERP software, allowing ABC Services to deliver new high ... Continue reading
Multitenancy: Panacea and Problem
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Multitenancy is a buzzword getting a lot of attention these days. Over at ZDNet, Eric Lai started quite a conversation looking at what he felt were Four Big Problems with Multitenancy from an enterprise application space. Frank Scavo replied that ... Continue reading
The End User Training Arms Race
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
What conclusion should we reach from SAP answering Oracle's investment in training technology? That the big ERP players care about the successful use of their products? While that spin may work for technology and financial analysts, the role of end ... Continue reading
US Labor Costs Lower Than Elsewhere
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
More good news for US manufacturers as per unit of output labor costs decreased by 13% while increasing everywhere else. James Hagerty and Kate Linebaugh (Wall Street Journal, "In U.S., a Cheaper Labor Pool", 1/6/12) report on manufacturing cost trends ... Continue reading
2012 Could be a Good Year
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Boosted by productivity gains and higher costs in competitors, including China, U.S. manufacturing exports have grown at their fastest rate since the late 1980s. As we close out 2011 and start thinking about 2012, US manufacturing is getting positive reviews ... Continue reading
A Skeptic's Take
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Whatever your view of the cloud, a little perspective goes a long way. Cloud computing? "I think it's a lot of hype," he says during a recent interview in the company's midtown Manhattan office. "Time sharing made a lot of ... Continue reading
Thoughts on a Customer Service Rant
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
After having wasted hours on a typically crummy support line of a cloud vendor, I can be quiet no more, I need a moment to rant. A nicely written rant by David Taber got me thinking. Why is it that ... Continue reading
Cloud Computing is not a Pricing Model
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Try searching for "cloud computing is cheaper" and you'll find no shortage of opinions that support the notion that by going to the cloud, you will will save millions of dollars. Cloud Computing is full of hype and marketing over-reach. ... Continue reading
Cutting Through Vendor Noise
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
In a tough economy, software vendors pull out all stops to get your business. As Trevor Perry explains this often results in so much noise that the vendors hurt themselves as much as they hurt your ears. His article is ... Continue reading
Operating for the Benefit of Wall Street is Bad for Customers
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
The lights have gone on for Josh Greenbaum at ematters as he confronts the reality of Oracle at their annual user conference. The problem with the Oracle of today is that the focus of a group of the some of ... Continue reading
Is Enterprise Integration the Next Hurdle for the Cloud?
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Stephanie Neil poses an interesting question on whether SaaS and Cloud solutions create as much work in enterprise integration as they solve in reduced hardware and storage management. Enter software as a service (SaaS) applications, which might seem to be ... Continue reading
PHP on IBM i - Adding new value to old applications fast
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
The IBM Systems Magazine PowerUp blog is talking about PHP on IBM i, a thread started by Laura Ubelhor with her post "There's No Doubt PHP is an Awesome Fit on IBM i". For the average IBM i shop, PHP ... Continue reading
Head in the Clouds
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
ERP analyst Derek Singleton posted a paean to the SaaS variant of cloud computing. With his head firmly in the clouds looking for rainbows covering five points, Derek does trip over one salient feature of modern computing-the user experience should ... Continue reading
ERP Lessons Learned
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Frank Scavo posts an excellent review of the history of and lessons learned from ERP systems over the past 20 years. Both Frank's post, and his keynote video are well worth your time. Some key points from the post: ERP ... Continue reading
Implications of Changes in Investment
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Charles Stewart dives into the numbers behind the economy to focus on gross private domestic investment. The outlook and policy options he presents are bleak - almost anything the government does will lead to reduced employment. However he does offer ... Continue reading
Who is in Charge of Cloud Security?
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Cloud service providers believe their customers are responsible for security, and license accordingly. That is the message cited by David Rosenbaum in his article on security risk and liability in the cloud. "Cloud," says Bruce Lynne, managing partner of Financial ... Continue reading
Ultimate Justification for Cloud ERP
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Chris Chappinelli identifies what may be the most important justification for moving your ERP to the cloud - cyber-security. Given the increasing complexity and frequency of attacks on customer and employee data, many IT departments are ill prepared to face ... Continue reading
Promise of the Cloud
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
What, exactly, is Cloud Computing? Some degree of skepticism about cloud computing is understandable. The marketing hype surrounding it smacks of previous campaigns by consultants and technology companies to lure corporate investment. To wit: Y2K paranoia, dot.com hysteria and fiber ... Continue reading
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