Utterly fantastic article in Fast Company by Farhad Manjoo about the greatest tech showdown of our time, all likely going fully thermonuclear next year. With players like Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon in the mix, this isn’t the minor leagues. Who winds up on top here controls the innovation economy moving forward, and there are
Read More...Recently, I was traveling to Kansas City to give a presentation on using PeopleTools 8.5 to improve business intelligence. Little did I know that my travel would offer me a good opening example to support the presentation. If you are a reader of this blog then you are likely familiar with the statement “ERP systems
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Read More...I was 10. Our subdivision was just being built when we moved in. We were one of the first houses. Every other lot seemed to have a house-in-progress going on, complete with giant piles of dirt in front of each. As miscreant kids (sorry for the redundancy), we didn’t understand anything about the Roofing construction
Read More...The live demonstration below will discuss and demonstrate how to take advantage of native PeopleTools 8.51 and higher to improve business intelligence in your organization. In this video, we show you how to expand business intelligence into PeopleSoft utilizing delivered tools to “configure,” not “customize” your solution and improve the business process with embedded business
Read More...Stories from Italy, Vol. 2 I had a chance to spend a day in Cortona, which aside from being medieval and kinda scary at night, I found to be insanely awesome. I could write an entire travel guide (where by entire I mean ‘laughably incomplete’) about the city, but instead I will just riff on
Read More...A nice slice of life wisdom from Chris Shiflett, who is a studiomate of Tina Roth Eisenberg (who, incidentally, writes swissmiss, one of the best design blogs out there): I always take more pleasure in liking something than in disliking something. That’s not to say there aren’t some things that deserve to be liked and
Read More...Stories from Italy, Vol. 1 The big difference between Italian and American drivers is that Italian drivers are competent and Americans decidedly less so which is why America has a higher need for auto lawyers. The second difference is that Italian roadways don’t suffer idiots. Let me explain. On the Italian superstrade and autostrade —
Read More...Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 Our normal Friday feature usually involves a meandering story followed by some links. I’m going to pass on that today to honor the passing of Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday at 56 years of age. He was a hero to me and many others. He indisputably made the world a better
Read More...Warnings are in order. I have a head cold right now and my sinuses are filled with what I believe is construction glue, and I can focus on things for about 7 seconds before I cough or sniffle or reach for more Sudafed. Plus, I am traveling abroad currently, and this was written in the
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