Quick update: MIPRO Consulting will be at the Ohio RUG this upcoming Thursday (4-8). If you are a regular Ohio RUG attendee, please note that the venue has changed. Here’s the information: University Plaza Hotel and Conference Center 3110 Olentangy River Road Columbus, OH 43202 Phone (614) 267-7461 Hope you or a representative from your
Read More...Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, writing a guest column over at TechCrunch entitled Hello iPad. Hello, Cloud 2: I’m sentimental this week, and thinking about the past, because I have seen the future. The future is not a Mac, or even a PC. Its father created a lot of the computers I’ve loved: Apple IIe, Mac,
Read More...First some administrivia: we’ve had a pretty big spike in readership this month, so I’d like to say hello and thank you to all our new readers. This place would just be an empty echo chamber without you, so we appreciate your readership and RSS subscriptions. If you’d like to follow us on Twitter and
Read More...Matt over at SvN points me to the keynote address from this year’s MIT Sports Analytics Conference, which, on the surface, probably isn’t the first thing you’ll be Googling for in the morning. But despite it being moderated by Michael Lewis and featuring an a pretty good panel, it gets very interesting at about 20
Read More...Oracle has been on an acquisition hunt for the last four years and I thought it would be a good idea to talk about how some of these acquisitions are impacting the PeopleSoft customers we talk to every day, as well as to make others aware of some products that are now available to complement
Read More...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,
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