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
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Surviving the Drop in Business Investment
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
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
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
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
Reliability of Cloud vs On-Premises Software
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
Lauren Carlson at Software Advice makes the point that the cloud reliability problems we have seen lately should not be considered in isolation. That is a very helpful point. She holds up the service level agreement as guarantor of cloud ... 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
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
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
Too Big to Succeed
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
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
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
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
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
Bureaucracy Blamed for Bad Decisions
Categories: Strategy and Leadership
As Einstein famously stated, â??Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.â?? According to a Wall Street Journal article this morning (Don Clark and; Shara Tibken, â??Cisco to Reduce Its Bureaucracyâ??) Cisco CEO John Chambers … 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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