So it’s been a scant two-and-a-half months since I announced an experimental format change for these Friday Linkology posts, and today I have another announcement: we’re going back to the way things were. Meaning, I will begin every Friday post with a preamble, which likely will make little sense, that will murkily tie together some
Read More...Without getting academic about it, Vinnie Mirchandani breaks up technology markets into old and new, which mean, nutshelled, traditional and innovation-driven revenue, respectively. I’ve often looked at it the same way; in fact, one of the reasons I’m linking to Vinnie’s post is because he articulated my thoughts better than I could. Here it is
Read More...Eric Jackson, writing for Forbes.com, on what questions he would ask RIM co-CEO Jim Balsille over a cup of coffee: Last month, when you reiterated your guidance that you cut yesterday, had you done any “confirmation” of the numbers beforehand? Your excuse for cutting the guidance was because you had recently completed some “confirmation” process
Read More...Joe McKendrick, writing for ZDNet’s Service Oriented: Although its been a challenge to wring benefits out of bottomless pit investments in enterprise software, the study says things are drifting slowly in the right direction. 2010 marked the first year that organizations collectively achieved an average effective usage rate greater than 50%, the survey finds —
Read More...We’re pretty thrilled to see our good friends and partner Blue Dot Solutions highlighted on Bruce Kyle’s MSDN Channel 9 blog demoing their Advanced Mobile 311 solution. Says Kyle: Blue Dot’s Advanced Mobile 311 solution is an innovative crowd-sourcing solution for Public Sector that enables citizens to quickly and easily create non-emergency Service Requests through
Read More...Know This The PlayStation Network was (badly) hacked, and 75M user accounts were compromised. What’s been taken? Passwords, billing information, and likely credit cards. If you our your children game on the PlayStation network, you need to know the details. Here they are. A biologist’s postdoc student wanted to buy a book about flies. In
Read More...Mitch Albom did a story recently that really hit home for me personally and I imagine it will for others as well. It’s entitled, The College That Rejects You May Do You a Favor. Our second daughter is going through the college application/decision process. While our first daughter pretty much knew where she wanted to
Read More...I watched the most recent webinar on Oracle Fusion HCM last week. As someone who works in the trenches of HCM/HRIS every day, I must say I was impressed with what I saw and heard. There are still a number of unanswered questions, but those will likely be explained over the next couple of months
Read More...Oracle has released a brand new white paper discussing how Oracle EPM is the bridge to Fusion applications. While the white paper does not contain a lot of specific details, it does provide a nice foundation to begin to outline a strategy if an organization is considering moving to Fusion and either has Oracle EPM
Read More...“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” — Albert Einstein (via SvN) ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.
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