Say what you want about him, but Larry’s never been one to mince words: "The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that
Read More...For anyone still wondering if Oracle has let Fusion go into a black hole and innovation has stalled in the mothership, Joshua Greenbaum emphatically says no: Perhaps the most impressive, due only in part to the huge hype riding behind it, is Fusion Applications. Oracle gave industry analysts a two-hour mind-melting core dump earlier in
Read More...So I’m wrapping up at Oracle OpenWorld with Jim Borne, one of our Client Executives, where I’ve been asked to be the subject matter expert for PeopleSoft Maintenance Management. I’ve been at the Utilities Industry kiosk, and while the name might not get you fired up, there’s been a ton of attention around the Maintenance
Read More...The Story As we approach the year-end preparation season, we’re getting asked a lot about how to close the gap in 1099 reporting compliance. From what we can understand, there are several factors at play that you need to know about and that might re-prioritize 1099 reporting from whatever system you’re using. More specifically, the
Read More...What is the cost of a fumbled upgrade? For J. Crew it was $3MM in unanticipated costs which, according to J. Crew, contributed to their recently announced earnings miss of 4 cents a share. How did Wall Street respond? Typical overcorrection seems to be the response with shares trading 15% down in after hour activity.
Read More...Businessweek recently published a surprisingly negative article about SaaS, saying that its hype can be largely undeserved for a number of reasons. Now, I like BS-calling as much as the next guy (maybe a bit more, actually), but I found Gene Marks’s reasoning to be too generalized and all-encompassing. Marks says: Myth 1: SaaS is
Read More...In our recent newsletter, two of our senior principal consultants wrote a quick bit about the differences in PeopleSoft invoice matching functionality from 8.9 to 9.0. We get asked about this a lot, and for most users, the differences can be somewhat arcane. Because of this, I’d like to share the article. Differences in PeopleSoft
Read More...One of my favorite new business blogs is Deal Architect by Vinnie Mirchandani. It’s become a daily read for me. But here’s the thing: I follow over 100 feeds. I don’t go to any website regularly, even personal favorites like Daring Fireball or kottke.org. I live my digital life, in large part, in a feed
Read More...Dell, in a brilliant display of PR savvy, has tried to trademark “cloud computing”. Per The Standard: After witnessing countless corporate attempts to patent common practices or trademark common terms, and seeing the resulting PR fallout, one would think that companies would just stop trying. Dell, however, seems to think that it should be able
Read More...Quite a bit, actually. This is one that you should look at deeper than the headline. Last week, Appirio announced that it bagged Series B funding upwards of $5M by Sequoia Capital. It’s worth noting that Sequoia is the same firm that underwrote upstarts such as Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and PayPal. The pedigree is Midas-esque
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