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Lane Nelson — Tue, 28 May 2013 16:10:08 GMT

[Highlights of CEO Keynote at HarrisData's 1013 User Conference.] Step away from the vendor hype wars over cloud computing and look at what the cloud means to users. Anything a user wants to do will be reached by a bookmark, ... Continue reading →

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Too Big to Succeed

Lane Nelson — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:10:10 GMT

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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Implementation Risk

Lane Nelson — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:11:11 GMT

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 →

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Surviving the Drop in Business Investment

Lane Nelson — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:11:01 GMT

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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Tablets Mean Changes for the Enterprise

Lane Nelson — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:12:05 GMT

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 →

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The Pendulum Swings

Lane Nelson — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:11:37 GMT

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 →

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