Cyprus is in the news as the world wrestles with insolvent banks in that country. The challenge is that a failure of the Cypriot banks would lead to wider failures across the world. The underlying idea is that banks can ... Continue reading
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Too Big to Succeed
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Implementation Risk
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Another day, another ERP vendor sued over an implementation failure. The customer did not achieve success implementing core ERP software and naturally blamed the vendor for inadequate support. You would think that by now someone somewhere would understand what it ... Continue reading
Surviving the Drop in Business Investment
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Truly amazing news as the UK's National Museum of Computing keeps the WITCH online - mechanical relays, paper tape and all! The computer's "flashing lights and clattering printers and readers provides an awe-inspiring display for visiting school groups and the ... Continue reading
Tablets Mean Changes for the Enterprise
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Plenty of hype has been offered as tablet computers (first the iPhone, then the iPad) arrived, sold in enormous numbers, and slowed PC sales. Software vendors were quick to deliver Apps - partly to ride the new wave and partly ... Continue reading
The Pendulum Swings
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Anecdotal evidence of a US manufacturing rebound has been building for the past two years. Here and there manufacturers "reshored" production to address problems encountered in the rush to low labor costs in China and elsewhere. New statistical evidence supports ... Continue reading
Storm vs Cloud
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Once again, Mother Nature dashes the best laid plans of men. The Friday storm took down Amazon's cloud data center in Virginia (once again). The storm disrupted power supplies for much of the greater DC area, including Amazon's US-East-1 region. ... Continue reading
Hype, Mixed Messages, Snark, and Cover-up
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
The convergence of cloud, mobility, and consumerization of business technology make a competitive environment for ERP applications even tougher. No vendor can deploy all the answers today. This leads to exaggerated claims and snarky counter claims by the big ERP ... Continue reading
To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
[CEO presentation at this year's user conference, ed.] Charting a new course Where to go? How to get there? As CEO, my focus is on leading HarrisData and our customers to a successful future. That requires answering a couple basic ... Continue reading
Cloud, Mobility, and Big Partners
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
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
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
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