ZDNet’s Phil Wainewright, in an especially interesting post, explores the value of SaaS beyond the standard marketing fare of lower cost and faster time-to-live: Today, I’m at a NetSuite customer event in London and CEO Zach Nelson has just displayed a chart quoting IDC and Gartner data that shows on-demand ERP sales are growing at
Read More...Having practical experience in supply chain, PeopleSoft ERP (SCM) and Business Intelligence (BI), I am naturally drawn to anything that combines the attributes of all three. Oracle BI applications for procurement and spend can do just that. We have spoken previously about how PeopleSoft query tools are BI tools and not a full-on BI enterprise product.
Read More...Before we get to our standard Friday links, a question. This morning, a water cooler conversation broke out that got us talking: what are the best movie scenes you remember? Lots of answers to this, but these are the ones that everyone agreed really stood out. There’s the famous Glengarry Glen Ross monologue, which many
Read More...Catarina Fake on why working hard, while a popular business dogma, is misguided: Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be.
Read More...Something I find many folks don’t know, at least on one level or another: most of today’s business intelligence (BI) solutions have been designed and built with integration into Microsoft Office in mind. Arguably, Excel is the main medium to which most BI information is exported (or in some cases, it can be the BI
Read More...I am going to provide you two sets of links today. One set of links you should not click if you want to be anything resembling productive; the other you can click and still salvage your workday. The first set comes to you courtesy of Jason Kottke, who has decided to post some of the
Read More...Oracle’s Curtiss Barnes on the new Continuous Delivery Model for Campus Solutions: First and foremost, this is an inflection point for us and represents the first (highly visible) move to the next generation of PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions (CS). Several years ago, when Oracle announced Applications Unlimited, we indicated that we would continue the development
Read More...A look at a new settlement method gaining popularity with PeopleSoft Payables users.
Read More...People early in their career should learn from computer science: meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new parts of the terrain, and when you find the highest hill, don’t waste any more time on the current hill no matter how much better the next step up might appear. Great
Read More...But first, a story about a cat. I grew up with four cats, which I cleverly named in matching pairs: Sugar, Spice, Thunder and Lightning. Back then, when I was nine years old, this with the national criteria for genius and the most reliable harbinger for future success (that and creating small musical instruments out
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