From CIO Insight: A survey of 300 senior IT professionals corroborated something we’ve been seeing for the past few years: most ERP systems are dramatically underutilized in terms of functionality. The survey, conducted by Accenture and targeted at senior IT pros across North America and the UK, yielded some interesting facts: Most organizations use only
Read More...If you can remember last week through the Pre and iPhone hype, you’ll recall I discussed PeopleSoft’s ALM product suite at an introductory level. This week we’ll take a deeper dive into Real Estate Management (REM), one of the modules included within the ALM suite. At the 10,000 foot level, PeopleSoft REM enables organizations to
Read More...After the iPhone 3GS was announced and the blogs went either insane with lust or became more embittered that Apple didn’t deliver <insert feature here>, one story emerged from the keynote aftermath: the state of the relationship between Apple and AT&T. AT&T was notably absent on more than one carrier-focused presentation slide at WWDC, and
Read More...“The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.” — Raymond Chandler (Thx Signal vs. Noise)
Read More...I’ll begin with Bud Caddell’s smart Venn diagram illustrating how to be happy in business: …to which Caddell appends the following: Over the years, I’ve found myself facing the following scenarios. (and I’ve added my two cents on how to move forward) We can’t determine how to make enough money from the things we want
Read More...Looks like the iPhone had better bring its game face to WWDC and OS 3.0, because the Pre isn’t kidding around. It gets high marks for its WebOS, which allows real app multitasking, and reviewers unanimously praise its OS speed, browser, screen and overall user interface/experience. It gets nicked for a fairly poor keyboard, some
Read More...DigiTimes reports that Steven Guggenheimer, General Manager of the Application Platform & Development Marketing Division at Microsoft, plans to re-brand “netbooks” as “low cost small notebook PCs”. Guggenheimer pointed out on June 2 in Taipei during Computex 2009 that since some of the mini-notebooks already feature capabilities more than just purely Internet browsing – which
Read More...Vinnie Mirchandani has some interesting ideas about how ERP vendors could be truly disruptive and create thriving, adjunct markets around the concept of sustainability. There’s a truism underpinning Mirchandani’s post, which I have mirrored in its entirety below. The truism is that sustainability and energy science is one of the emerging, global, multi-billion dollar industries
Read More...We’re asked very frequently about PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM), so perhaps it’s time to lay down a few primer posts about what ALM is and why enterprises are becoming so interested in it. This post, the first of four parts, will discuss PeopleSoft’s ALM solution suite. As a general intro, the product was released
Read More...Community backlash is building against a routine .NET Framework update for Microsoft Windows that quietly installs a browser add-on for user who surf the Web with Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser. From WaPo’s Brian Krebs: I’m here to report a small side effect from installing this service pack that I was not aware of until just
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