I have spent the last 25 years of my career either managing implementations or working with customers to ensure a successful implementation. During that time, my most prominent theory for the use of consultants is that ‘trial and error is not an implementation methodology’. It’s true. Many companies consider the use of consultants for various
Read More...Here’s the coolest — and strangest — video you’ll watch all day. The moral: physics is amazing. Let’s get this week rolling, shall we?
Read More...Today’s post is about a camera. So, photography geeks, grab a coffee, because we’re gonna get our nerd on. Backstory For almost two years, I’ve been looking for a camera that can serve as a travel/everyday backup to my big-rig Canon 5D Mark III DSLR, until Chris Schmitt Photography was able to help me out
Read More...Mark your calendars! Join MIPRO Consulting and over 1,500 attendees at the OHUG Global Conference. This will be the place to meet up with old friends and colleagues — and to make plenty of new ones! With over 200 user-lead sessions, you’ll have the chance to interact one-on-one with Oracle representatives who develop and manage
Read More...Might it be a good time to optimize your current system and/or business processes? What is the true state of your system? Consider these: Is your organization considering changing to a different system? If so, is it possible that, by executing a system optimization initiative and/or functional upgrade with your current system, that you might
Read More...It’s that time again, and I’m sorry to do this to you. Not so sorry not to do it, however. Good luck deciphering that ambivalence. I indeed have an absolute bucketload of tabs open in my browser that I want to share, but that don’t quite warrant their own posts. I’ve done these linkposts before,
Read More...MIPRO had quite a crew at Alliance 2013 in Indianapolis a few weeks ago, with four of our team members working our Silver Sponsor booth. And, as expected, the Higher Education User Group (HEUG) and the public sector industry made a solid appearance. A combination of PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions, Financials and HCM customers were
Read More...Do these terms sound familiar: SaaS, on-premise, off-shoring, on-shoring, the cloud, Big Data, mobile computing? I’m betting that not only have you heard of them, but you’re inundated with them. Customers today are flooded with choices on how they should or shouldn’t operate their enterprise systems. And naturally, the IT vendors in the marketplace are
Read More...A couple weeks ago, a video of goats yelling like humans dominated the Internet. If you haven’t seen it, here it is. I have to warn you: it’s more entertaining than you think it is. Don’t skip over this; it’s required viewing if you want the rest of this post to make sense. So naturally,
Read More...In the past few weeks there seems to be increased interest in the Real Estate Management applications, which I guess makes me wonder, “What took so long?” For the last 20 years, the PeopleSoft applications have offered us an opportunity to eliminate point solutions and replace them with integrated PeopleSoft modules. I believe the saying
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