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Asset Lifecycle Management and Real Estate

As Oracle Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) continues to proliferate and the value of these modules become realized, one stands out as the last to be adopted by the marketplace: Property Manager (PM). As a customer-facing member of an organization that implements ALM, I am seeing more interest in PM as an integrated solution addition to

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Can Open Source ERP Succeed?

Derek Singleton, writing for Software Advice: Open source has been a great success for infrastructure software such as Linux, Apache and MySQL. Here at Software Advice, we’ve made use of all three. We’ve also made extensive use of open source development libraries like jQuery. For apps, however, we have either rolled our own or deployed

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Why Does College Cost So Much?

Here’s a smart and compelling analysis of the college cost situation by Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen, who comments on a dialogue between Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman.  Cowen’s comments: David Leonhardt serves up a dialogue with Robert B. Archibald, and also David H. Feldman.  Archibald starts by citing the cost disease and also the

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/18/11

I’m going to experiment with a new format for our Friday posts for a while.  Instead of jamming a collection of links into a list to let you sort out, mainly through clicking on them, I’m going to jam a collection of links into a list with section headers because it looks much more impressive. 

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Technology: The Taketh and the Giveth

Taketh Recently, my daughter and I were sitting on the floor in her bedroom going through a huge bag of notes she saved from high school. There were notes from her girlfriends, boys who were ‘just friends’ and yes, the dreaded boyfriend too. They had been stuffed in her closet for the past 14 years!

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Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management

In previous blog posts (see here and here) and our Business Intelligence Manifesto whitepaper we have discussed the importance of aligning metrics and goals from top to bottom in the organization. Aligning metrics and goals allow the organization to measure its performance consistently against the key objectives of the entire organization. This means that every

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QUOTE: On Staying True to Fundamentals

“I didn’t go along with the cash-shredding of [the dot-com boom]. I didn’t take venture capital, hire 200 people, and spend money like crazy. I had the mentality of, “I don’t care if I’m running a lemonade stand or a dot-com, it’s the same thing. How much do the lemons cost and how much are

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/11/11

Just think: only nine more months until I can type 11/11/11 in the title of a Friday Linkology blog post.  Isn’t that exciting? No?  In fact, you say, it’s the exact opposite of exciting? I actually agree, but I went with it because I usually lead into the Friday links with some sort of pointless

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