I gave this a passing link in our Oracle BI and PeopleSoft post last week, but I’m staring at it again and think it deserves its own post. Here’s Jeff McQuigg, writing for IT Toolbox, on the total costs of Oracle’s BI apps vs. 100% custom: When you add everything up, we estimate about a
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Read More...This was the question asked of over 50 people of different ages, races and occupations in New York’s Times Square. The wide range of answers is fascinating.
Read More...Business Intelligence (BI) is one of those things that we can talk to clients about until our jaws cramp and they still have only a loose impression of what the business value actually looks like. Folks get the concept and the high-level potential, but they struggle to apply the concept to a real business scenario,
Read More...August 14th can’t come fast enough: Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed
Read More...The disruption is here. To sloppily paraphrase Bob Dylan, software companies have to get busy being born or get busy dying. It’s not even about living anymore: if software vendors can’t be reborn into the new market, then they simply won’t survive.
Read More...Catherine Powell: I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks…. you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to work with someone who makes them feel beat down all the time, or
Read More...We previously discussed the basics of business intelligence and why companies – even in a down economy – should choose a BI tool. Today, we will explore a scenario that’s commonly talked about: having PeopleSoft ERP and Oracle BI applications happily coexist and thrive. First, the ERP side. PeopleSoft is a world-class ERP system and
Read More...Dan Frommer for Silicon Alley Insider: Microsoft won’t pay for its employees’ Apple (AAPL) iPhone data service plans anymore, even if they’re used significantly for work purposes. Nor will it pay for Research In Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry service, or a new Palm Pre. Instead, it will only reimburse data plans for Microsoft Windows Mobile-powered smartphones.
Read More...It’s game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals tonight, and our Red Wings have a chance to repeat for the second time in 11 years. So if this post seems haphazard and aimless, it’s because everyone in Detroit is either planning a gigantic party tonight or learning how to tie a respectable noose, depending on
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