You might think that in our fragile economy companies that target the huge, amorphous mid-market would be thriving. You’d be wrong. The ‘mushy’ middle market — served by brands like Sony, Dell, GM and others — is getting cannibalized at the high end by brands like Apple and Hermes, and at the low end by
Read More...I have to start with this: if you’re not following us on Twitter, please do. We also have an active Facebook page. We use those to share smaller bits of information and engage in community conversations, so you should follow us and become a fan if you’re interested in such things. Consider each of these
Read More...A bit of anticipated news today: Oracle has now officially released the upgrade scripts for PeopleSoft FSCM versions 8.8, 8.9, 9.0 to version 9.1. If you are considering doing an upgrade from one of these releases you are now able to download the upgrade templates from My Oracle Support. A tip: To find the upgrade
Read More...“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” — Henry Ford
Read More...After a long week, nothing says relaxing quite like seeing what the underbelly of the internet looks like (no, not that underbelly). Most Fridays, we do the digging so you don’t have to. So, enjoy the following links and knowing that the relentless effort it takes to uncover and save them isn’t giving you ADHD,
Read More...Susan Cramm, writing for HarvardBusiness.org: We have an opportunity to help business leaders manage IT as an organizational asset — not simply an organizational structure. Technology will fall far short of expectations if business leaders continue to try to operate IT via remote control. Emerging technologies — such as social media, business intelligence, business process
Read More...Interested in Oracle/PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)? Attending this year’s Oracle Maintenance Summit and looking for more information about asset maintenance and reliability? Given that EAM is our specialty, below are our top posts about EAM/PeopleSoft Maintenance Management, as decided by (a) pageviews and (b) inbound search terms. Hopefully you find them useful as you
Read More...We’ve been mentioning this for the past month or so, but tomorrow’s the big day. Oracle’s 4th annual Maintenance Summit kicks off tomorrow and runs through Wednesday, March 10th, and if you’re interested in PeopleSoft’s EAM solution suite, this show is 2010’s best venue to meet with other Oracle maintenance practitioners. There will be a
Read More...You won’t find any company’s annual report as clearheaded, straightforward and cogent as you do Berkshire’s; they’re truly and terribly refreshing to read. Key excerpts from this year’s letter: Long ago, Charlie laid out his strongest ambition: “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.” That bit
Read More...Steven Levy, writing for Wired: This is the hard-won realization from inside the Google search engine, culled from the data generated by billions of searches: a rock is a rock. It’s also a stone, and it could be a boulder. Spell it “rokc” and it’s still a rock. But put “little” in front of it
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