Collaborating with a 4-Year-Old
Artist Mica Angela Hendricks terms up with her 4-year-old daughter for some portrait artwork, and the results are fantastic and surreal.
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On Finding the Balance Between ERP and SaaS
Recently, Naomi Bloom commented via Twitter on our blog post entitled, 7 Ingredients That Make or Break a PeopleSoft Upgrade: We felt it deserved a longer reply than Twitter affords, so here is our President’s response: Your comment implies that everyone is SaaS-ready or willing to ignore the investments they have made over decades. If
Read More...Why Apple’s iOS 7 Is Its Most Important Product This Fall
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...7 Ingredients That Make or Break a PeopleSoft Upgrade
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...On Yahoo’s New Logo
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...Casual Friday: Dissecting This Week’s iPhone Event
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...OracleDirect Organization Hosts Successful Charity Event
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...Oracle Unveils Oracle’s PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery to Help Customers Improve Project Performance
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...NEWS: Impact of & Solutions for FASB Changes to Financial Reporting
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...Location Services for Dummies
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
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