But first, what is Enterprise Asset Management? Good question. There’s always the Wikipedia definition, and then there’s our perspective given what we’re hearing from our customers and prospects. From where we sit, there’s a lot of buzz in the market about EAM, which is logical given the economic conditions we have just experienced. Organizations today,
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Read More...Ignoring the fact that I just ended a headline with a preposition while asking what we should write about, I’d like to know what you’re working on or researching. This blog has grown in readership considerably since its launch in mid-2008. Since that time, we’ve written over 140 posts covering PeopleSoft, Business Intelligence (BI) and
Read More...Of course, life just wouldn’t make sense if I didn’t include a bevy of iPad links: Stephen Fry’s excellent iPad About. He gets the iPad’s weight in the future of computing. Stephen Fry again, this time on his personal blog, with one of the smartest essays about the iPad I’ve seen anywhere. This is top-grade
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Read More...Fred Wilson is a VC and principal of Union Square Ventures. As a VC, he points out a consistent error made by entrepreneurs pitching their business plans: As I look over the business plans and projections that these entrepreneurs share with us, one thing I constantly see is a lack of sophistication in calculating the
Read More...How not to say what you mean in business. Why some comedy writers aren’t laughing at Jay Leno. Speaking of Leno, I’ve seen this all over the place lately, making its way around the ‘tubes. Baratunde Thurston speculates how MLK Jr. might have used Twitter. (“Who is Chuck Norris, and why is everyone tweeting about
Read More...Incredible visualization of Crayola’s colors from 1903 until today, created by Weather Sealed. All of you Edward Tufte fans should dig this. Crayola’s Law: “The number of hues doubles every 28 years.” (Via Neven Mrgan)
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