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...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...If you take this blog’s RSS feed and drop it into Wordle, you get a neat word cloud composed of oft-used words found in the feed’s RSS data. The cloud for Unfiltered looks like this (click to enlarge): Nice idea for a web app, and good design aspects too. All you need for Wordle to
Read More...One of the most difficult things to do is to walk away from an opportunity. Even though you know in your heart it’s the right thing to do, it is always difficult. A few weeks ago we made a tough decision that only recently demonstrated that it was the right course of action. One of
Read More...Let’s have some long weekend fun. As we approach the holiday break (at least here in the US), I’d like your thoughts on the ongoing iPhone vs. BlackBerry debate. I ask mainly for my own purposes, but I know for a fact there are others out there considering a similar move, so I hope this
Read More...I’d like to share with you page 59 of Andy Sernovitz’s excellent book Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking, because it’s the page that’s worth the entire price of the book. Back when I tried to explain what this blog was all about — and by extension, what our company is
Read More...Here’s an interesting breakdown, because this is a topic MiPro gets asked about constantly. Even with SaaS maturing and rapidly approaching its commercial tipping point, there is still some resistance out there. According to Forrester Research, here are the top eight reasons. (via Jason Averbook)
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