So today is 83 and it seems cool. That’s because the last few days have been nearly 100, the exact temperature at which human beings will readily cook on a sidewalk. It seems Spring got trumped something fierce and Summer showed up and took all the money. Spring just got a book deal for a
Read More...(click to enlarge) Requirements gathering. So many organizations don’t realize this is often where success in a Business Intelligence (BI) deployment lives or dies. When it comes to BI, we have all heard that BI is more than just simple reporting. That’s become the BI vendor’s mantra. However, the challenge we see all the time
Read More...“If there’s one quality of successful people, they’re unreasonable in their expectations of themselves, not so much other people, but themselves. Unreasonable in what they expect, unreasonable in the demands they make, unreasonable in how much they give. He’s [Nelson Mandela] completely unreasonable. And those are the people that rule the world. For a woman
Read More...Last week we dove into the Real Estate Management module included within PeopleSoft’s ALM product suite. This week I’m going to dig into another module within the ALM product suite — Maintenance Management (MM). For anyone interested in asset maintenance and reliability, this one’s for you. Given the rough sledding in the economy right now,
Read More...I gave this a passing link in our Oracle BI and PeopleSoft post last week, but I’m staring at it again and think it deserves its own post. Here’s Jeff McQuigg, writing for IT Toolbox, on the total costs of Oracle’s BI apps vs. 100% custom: When you add everything up, we estimate about a
Read More...This was the question asked of over 50 people of different ages, races and occupations in New York’s Times Square. The wide range of answers is fascinating.
Read More...August 14th can’t come fast enough: Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed
Read More...Business Intelligence (BI) is one of those things that we can talk to clients about until our jaws cramp and they still have only a loose impression of what the business value actually looks like. Folks get the concept and the high-level potential, but they struggle to apply the concept to a real business scenario,
Read More...Catherine Powell: I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks…. you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to work with someone who makes them feel beat down all the time, or
Read More...The disruption is here. To sloppily paraphrase Bob Dylan, software companies have to get busy being born or get busy dying. It’s not even about living anymore: if software vendors can’t be reborn into the new market, then they simply won’t survive.
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