From Oracle’s PeopleSoft Apps Strategy blog: Almost a year after their decision to re-expose proposals for a common leasing standard, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have reached a key decision regarding the recognition of lease expenses. At their June 13, 2012 meeting, the IASB and FASB agreed
Read More...For years — insert dramatic music here! — I’ve been trying to find the right task management solution. I’ve tried quite a few: Google Tasks, Omnifocus, Things, Taskpaper, Clear, Wunderlist and even this new analog thing called pen and paper. Nothing stuck. I find a lot of these systems – some of which are modeled
Read More...“If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.” — Henry Ford This is from a book by Clayton Christensen called How Will You Measure Your Life, in a section discussing full costs vs. marginal costs. In our experience, this
Read More...A few weeks ago, we were written up by The Oakland Press. The gist of the article was how our company was born following PeopleSoft layoffs in Southfield, Michigan, and how it grew from there. But part I want to highlight is this bit, found on page two of the story: [MIPRO Managing Partner] Micallef
Read More...“It was a lot more than I could afford, but a lot less than he deserved.” ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and LinkedIn. About this blog.
Read More...Here’s Henry Blodget, writing for Business Insider: Over the past few days, the latest round of purported pictures of Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 5 have hit the web. And I can’t be the only potential customer who is deflated by what they see. In fact, I’ll go far enough to say that, if the iPhone 5
Read More...Buckle up, you guys. This is a long one. Right up front, let me be clear about bias, because that’s a word that can get tossed around after posts like this: I am an unabashed iOS/OSX user. My technology sprawl includes two 27 inch iMacs, a Thunderbolt Cinema Display, a MacBook Air, an iPad ‘3’
Read More...Heads up in case you missed this: here’s a fantastic blog post by Oracle’s Mark Rosenberg talking about what happens when IT respects the users, the co-existence of PeopleSoft and Fusion and how next-gen business intelligence is the key to the future. Frankly, this is one of Oracle’s best blog posts, across any of its
Read More...Good information from Greg Kelly over at the PeopleSoft Technology Blog: The Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.53 Release Value Proposition (RVP) can be found here. [NOTE: Oracle login required.] The PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.53 release continues Oracle’s commitment to protect and extend the value of your PeopleSoft implementation, provide additional technology options and enhancements that reduce ongoing operating costs
Read More...Slate’s Farhad Manjoo discusses the conceptual zenith of internet retailing: It’s hard to overstate how thoroughly this move will shake up the retail industry. Same-day delivery has long been the holy grail of Internet retailers, something that dozens of startups have tried and failed to accomplish. (Remember Kozmo.com?) But Amazon is investing billions to make
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