“If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.” — Henry Ford This is from a book by Clayton Christensen called How Will You Measure Your Life, in a section discussing full costs vs. marginal costs. In our experience, this
Read More...Here’s Henry Blodget, writing for Business Insider: Over the past few days, the latest round of purported pictures of Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 5 have hit the web. And I can’t be the only potential customer who is deflated by what they see. In fact, I’ll go far enough to say that, if the iPhone 5
Read More...In prior posts, we have generically discussed utilizing PeopleTools 8.5x to improve business intelligence within PeopleSoft. Our message is definitely resonating with our customers as they are now looking for unique ways to take advantage of these powerful enhancements. For example, we worked with a customer to create a buyer homepage dashboard. This dashboard is
Read More...Buckle up, you guys. This is a long one. Right up front, let me be clear about bias, because that’s a word that can get tossed around after posts like this: I am an unabashed iOS/OSX user. My technology sprawl includes two 27 inch iMacs, a Thunderbolt Cinema Display, a MacBook Air, an iPad ‘3’
Read More...I have spent 25 years in the software implementation business. I have two principles for success that I’ve told each of my clients: Trial and error is not an implementation strategy, and Don’t do a terrific job customizing the new software to work the way your old software does. If you can follow these, you
Read More...Heads up in case you missed this: here’s a fantastic blog post by Oracle’s Mark Rosenberg talking about what happens when IT respects the users, the co-existence of PeopleSoft and Fusion and how next-gen business intelligence is the key to the future. Frankly, this is one of Oracle’s best blog posts, across any of its
Read More...Good information from Greg Kelly over at the PeopleSoft Technology Blog: The Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.53 Release Value Proposition (RVP) can be found here. [NOTE: Oracle login required.] The PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.53 release continues Oracle’s commitment to protect and extend the value of your PeopleSoft implementation, provide additional technology options and enhancements that reduce ongoing operating costs
Read More...Imagine this. An adviser tells an employer that by introducing a working practice they could cut costs, reduce their carbon footprint, improve productivity and make life better for their workforce. Should the employer listen hard and think how to make it work for the organization? Or should they say, ’It sounds like a good idea,
Read More...Previously, we have discussed the real power of BI — making business decisions out of the oodles (that’s a technical term for a lot) of data within organizations), embedding BI into the business process and processing that data extremely quickly and efficiently. So, while we have talked about it and tried to explain the concepts and
Read More...We’re seeing this more and more: as Oracle’s OBIEE platform gains steam, many organizations are making the move to convert existing reports from Crystal, Actuate or Oracle Reports to BI Publisher. Report conversion can be a daunting task, not necessarily from the technology move, but moreso from simply understanding, cataloging and consolidating the current collection
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