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TV and Internet: Customer Retention Games You Must Play
I have two main ‘entertainment’ providers at home – my live casino uk, which ironically I don’t use for TV, just internet, and my TV provider, which provides satellite TV. And before you say something: yes, I know I can get both from my cable company, but trust me when I say the picture is
Read More...Are We Close to a Cashless Society?
I can remember my parents telling me that someday we would not use cash. I can remember people telling me that pennies would be obsolete (I can also remember my accounting teacher telling me that every penny counts). Yet these all seemed about as far away as some of the things I saw in an
Read More...Is Your Online Presence Consistent or Better than a “Live Customer Experience?”
Call it the Amazon effect, but the service and experience online is fast surpassing what we get when we actually enter a physical retail location. If you’ve shopped online in the last 2-5 years, you understand what I am talking about. The selection, shopping and check out experience you receive when buying online has reached
Read More...Assorted Links to Get You Through the Weekend
Here are some links to help you shake off the nasty cold spell the whole country seems to have endured. In fact, this weekend here in Michigan, it’s going to be downright balmy for a change: highs in the low 20s to high teens. Bust out the BBQs! Have you seen the funniest thing
Read More...How Does ERP in Fiji Sound?
My flight from L.A. to Detroit via Las Vegas with a non-scheduled fuel stop in Milwaukee took about twice as long as planned. Some people said I could have flown to New York and beyond in that time. I said in another hour and a half I could have been in Fiji if I’d been
Read More...Before You Buy a New Hard Drive, Don’t Miss These Excellent Stats From Backblaze
If you’re about to buy a new hard drive for whatever reason, Backblaze (the online backup company…which I highly recommend, by the way) has published an excellent roundup of hard drive deployment and reliability data. It attempts to answer the question, “What hard drive should I buy?” and succeeds spectacularly. Because Backblaze has a history
Read More...You Won’t Believe What We’re About to Do to Our Headlines. Spoiler: Not Really.
Upworthy.com (and, now, copycat sites) has become known for dramatic, click-grabbing headlines. As I write this, here’s what’s scattered across Upworthy.com’s main page: Remember When Music Videos Used To Mean Something? Some Still Do. About. Damn. Time. A Sports Network Takes On What No One Wants To Talk About In Locker Rooms. Oh Snap! Cat
Read More...NEWS: Oracle Adds Capabilities for PeopleSoft 9.2 in Update Image 4
Marc Weintraub, writing for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Apps Strategy blog, about the new PeopleSoft 9.2 Update Image 4. Here’s the summary of the release: Continuous Delivery of PeopleSoft Releases Provides Expanded Mobility and Business Process Excellence Continued investment in Oracle’s PeopleSoft solutions results in the delivery of the PeopleSoft 9.2 Update Image 4. This deliverable increases
Read More...Eating the PeopleSoft 9.2 Upgrade Elephant
PeopleSoft 9.2 is here. It’s been out for a few several months now. Oracle has committed to innovation on the PeopleSoft platform through 2027 so the vision for the future of your PeopleSoft system is coming into focus. There will be new functionality. There will be enhancements. There will be opportunities to reduce customizations and
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