I’m writing the first draft of this post on Wednesday, September 18, a few hours before Apple releases its most important product this fall. The product will cost absolutely nothing, and some might not even know about it until they see a friend with it, but within months, every iPhone, iPad and iPod touch user
Read More...It’s a question that will make a room fall silent: what’s the difference between a successful upgrade and one that fails? We have seen two completely opposite ends of the spectrum between effective PeopleSoft projects and ones that have not succeeded. Historically, we’ve been asked to come in to try to remedy a number of
Read More...Stephen Coles, contributing to Fonts In Use: In describing the new Yahoo! logo that launched today, CEO Marissa Mayer said it is based on “a sans serif font with scallops”. That font is Optima. The ‘O’s come straight from Herman Zapf’s typeface, while the other letters are derived from it. Setting aside the question of whether Optima is a good choice
Read More...Apple announced on Tuesday what the its leaking supply chain has been saying for weeks. There were no surprises, and this is a bad thing. On the whole, leaks-made-good aside, Apple made some good business moves today. The 5C will be legitimate second-tier phone, the MacBook Air to the iPhone 5S’s MacBook Pro. Nobody really
Read More...The OracleDirect organization hosted the second annual OracleDirect Charity Golf Event on Wednesday, September 4th for the benefit of the Angel Foundation in Minneapolis, MN. The event held annually in Minneapolis, led by Oracle executive sponsor, Paul Macura, raised over $30,000 for the local foundation that provides much needed assistance for families fighting cancer. Those
Read More...This Oracle press release is getting picked up all over the place. The summary: Projects often fail due to cost overruns, inadequate resources, improper staffing and lack of visibility. Oracle has introduced Oracle’s PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery to help customers avoid project failures by proactively providing visibility into projects and resources. By taking advantage of the extreme
Read More...What do the FASB changes mean for your business? Industries affected: Manufacturing, Utilities, Healthcare, Financial As the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) move forward with plans to alter the way that leases are accounted for on financial statements, organizations will need to change their lease accounting processes for everything
Read More...Today, I received one of the most interesting signature blocks I have ever seen. Some people just include their name. Some include their full mailing address. Some include a witty saying that seems to capture their personality. And a few put it all together in a full social media statement. I tend to take the
Read More...Oracle’s John Webb, writing for PeopleSoft Apps Strategy: The PeopleSoft Customer Advisory Boards met last week at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores. Over 180 customer attendees representing 113 member companies participated as well as our partner sponsors for the CAB: Accenture, Grey Heller, Infosys, MIPRO and SmartERP. The CAB included three days of
Read More...Dave Smith, writing for International Business Times: By storing items randomly instead of categorically, the warehouse has a much better flow of material. Even without robots or automation, Amazon can compile a “picking list” that locates where each item needs to be taken off the shelf and scanned again before it can be shipped. The
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