Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful…What is likely is that the market will move higher, perhaps substantially so, well before either sentiment or the economy turns up. So if you wait for the robins, spring will be over. —Warren E. Buffett (discussing when to buy) I was at
Read More...If you’re going to HRTech 2008 in Chicago this week, come by and see us. Mainly, we just want to hear how your business is doing. There’s a lot going on in our country right now, and we’re interested in how you’re dealing with your HRIT projects and the demands you’re hearing from your management.
Read More...In the spirit of sharing our business on both general as well as local levels, allow me to take a quick second to announce that MiPro Consulting has won Metropolitan Detroit’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For for the third year in a row. We’re doing our share of high-fiving here in the
Read More...Say what you want about him, but Larry’s never been one to mince words: "The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that
Read More...For anyone still wondering if Oracle has let Fusion go into a black hole and innovation has stalled in the mothership, Joshua Greenbaum emphatically says no: Perhaps the most impressive, due only in part to the huge hype riding behind it, is Fusion Applications. Oracle gave industry analysts a two-hour mind-melting core dump earlier in
Read More...The Story As we approach the year-end preparation season, we’re getting asked a lot about how to close the gap in 1099 reporting compliance. From what we can understand, there are several factors at play that you need to know about and that might re-prioritize 1099 reporting from whatever system you’re using. More specifically, the
Read More...What is the cost of a fumbled upgrade? For J. Crew it was $3MM in unanticipated costs which, according to J. Crew, contributed to their recently announced earnings miss of 4 cents a share. How did Wall Street respond? Typical overcorrection seems to be the response with shares trading 15% down in after hour activity.
Read More...Businessweek recently published a surprisingly negative article about SaaS, saying that its hype can be largely undeserved for a number of reasons. Now, I like BS-calling as much as the next guy (maybe a bit more, actually), but I found Gene Marks’s reasoning to be too generalized and all-encompassing. Marks says: Myth 1: SaaS is
Read More...In our recent newsletter, two of our senior principal consultants wrote a quick bit about the differences in PeopleSoft invoice matching functionality from 8.9 to 9.0. We get asked about this a lot, and for most users, the differences can be somewhat arcane. Because of this, I’d like to share the article. Differences in PeopleSoft
Read More...One of my favorite new business blogs is Deal Architect by Vinnie Mirchandani. It’s become a daily read for me. But here’s the thing: I follow over 100 feeds. I don’t go to any website regularly, even personal favorites like Daring Fireball or kottke.org. I live my digital life, in large part, in a feed
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