As a boutique/specialist consulting firm, one of the nice things about breaking the mold of big-box companies is that we have an opportunity to create our own culture. A lot of that affects how our employees experience working for us (something we're proud to say we've done pretty well), but also how our clients experience working with us.
Read More...Stephen Jannise over at Software Advice has an interesting take on where Oracle might go next with its M&A activity. Some of these (RIM, for instance) are pie-in-the-sky plays, but they do make some sense in the larger enterprise space when you consider the most emergent trends.
Read More...It’s Friday the 13th, and I need to show you something terrifying. Behold: (Click to enlarge.) What you’re looking at is a 6 foot tall plant with a flower as big as an NBA player’s head. It’s not cute. It’s not amazing. It’s awful and terrible and horrible, and I’m pretty sure you can watch
Read More...Every Friday morning, I get up early to read every single page on the Internet and bring you the very best. It’s a lot of work, but I love my readers. Here’s this week’s bounty.
Read More...There is a nice reporting tool in PeopleSoft which is seldom used or not used enough. That tool is PeopleSoft XML Publisher.
Read More...Zach Golden, copywriter, has some really fantastic ads for TiVo: Very clever. And if you’re a TiVo user, you know they’re bang-on accurate. (Via SvN) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing in PeopleSoft Enterprise (particularly Enterprise Asset Management), Workday and Business Intelligence. You’re reading MIPRO Unfiltered, its blog. If you’d like to
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Read More...Attending OHUG in Las Vegas last month was educational and full of smart folks, as it always is. In particular, I noticed talent management and its HCM-related integrations generated a lot of buzz. People are looking for a low-cost, quick time-to-value way to do this without having to go whole hog on wholesale system upgrades.
Read More...The compulsions of an infovore dictate that we must process, form judgments on and share inbound information quickly. This is a demand of the attention economy as well as the realtime nature of the tools web workers use. And it’s sad, because adult issues aren’t always cute sound bites and often need extensive research to understand and editorialize.
Read More...Let’s be honest: we all get way too much email. In professional communication, it’s all too common to send an email only to find that days later, the recipient didn’t take the time to read it or – worse – deleted it. Before you blame them, ask yourself: did I make it easy for them
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