I heard a radio ad a few days ago that has been bugging me, so I’m going to riff on it here. Sorry, no links or cat stories this week. In the radio spot, the voiceover guy says in closing, “We do what’s right for the customer, not what’s right for the company.” The second I
Read More...A Clear And Present Danger How often does it happen that an organization moves from an old legacy ERP type system to a new, up-to-date ERP system and it fails to meet expectations and to improve system and business process efficiency? Too often! One of the primary reasons is that the project is way underfunded
Read More...Say what you want about Cuban, but I love his no-BS approach. Here are his 12 rules for startups, and it’s hard to argue with any of them. He comes out of the gate with two I find to be the cornerstone of every successful business: 1. Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and
Read More...2012…what’s in store for you this year? If Santa didn’t leave you an upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.1 under your tree, nor PeopleTools 8.52 in your stocking Christmas morning, you may need to take control of the situation yourself. Whether you are losing support for your current PeopleSoft applications or you finally have managed to set
Read More...Here’s a good example of why the Internet is amazing: experience the restart sequences from a bunch of operating systems, audio and all. No navigation necessary; do it all from a single page. Brings back memories. Workbench, anyone? ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.
Read More...Dan Tynan, writing for CIO.com: For the past decade, ERP has been the poster child for IT projects that overpromise and underdeliver. It was notorious for painfully complex rollouts that took years to implement, required massive customization, and were often only partially realized. Billions of dollars were spent just trying to get ERP systems to work
Read More...Josh Ong, reporting for AppleInsider: Microsoft’s head of software design for Windows Phone has admitted that the company completely redesigned its mobile operating system platform as a response to Apple’s iPhone and the “sea change” it created in the industry. Joe Belfiore, one of the first engineers brought to the new Windows Phone team when
Read More...I came across this article over at CFO.com and couldn’t agree with it more. It illustrates the importance of collaboration between business stakeholders and IT to any successful technology project — a topic we’ve all heard a dozen times. What’s the big deal? We all do things with the best of intentions; nobody ever begins
Read More...It’s clear that 2011 was the year of the cloud, with many traditional enterprise vendors accepting that the cloud is something they can no longer denigrate or ignore. The ‘cloud’ buzzword has been (sometimes annoyingly) tossed around for upwards of two years, but last year is when it hit critical mass in terms of action,
Read More...Here’s Neven Mrgan illustrating what Apple’s iMessage — the new iOS-to-iOS messaging service — did to his text messaging usage: Note the iOS 5 launch line — that’s when iMessage was introduced. This matches my experience directly. Almost everyone I message frequently has an iPhone, and my sending of actual text messages has dropped massively.
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