We’ve been mentioning this for the past month or so, but tomorrow’s the big day. Oracle’s 4th annual Maintenance Summit kicks off tomorrow and runs through Wednesday, March 10th, and if you’re interested in PeopleSoft’s EAM solution suite, this show is 2010’s best venue to meet with other Oracle maintenance practitioners. There will be a
Read More...You won’t find any company’s annual report as clearheaded, straightforward and cogent as you do Berkshire’s; they’re truly and terribly refreshing to read. Key excerpts from this year’s letter: Long ago, Charlie laid out his strongest ambition: “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.” That bit
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Read More...If you find yourself eschewing tree-based documentation in favor of the Kindle’s .MOBI format, you can now get your PeopleBooks from OTN for your Kindle. Among the available documentation for the Kindle: PeopleSoft Enterprise Customer Relationship Management 9.1 PeopleBooks PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1 PeopleBooks PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Management System 9.1
Read More...But first, what is Enterprise Asset Management? Good question. There’s always the Wikipedia definition, and then there’s our perspective given what we’re hearing from our customers and prospects. From where we sit, there’s a lot of buzz in the market about EAM, which is logical given the economic conditions we have just experienced. Organizations today,
Read More...“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into
Read More...My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy’s book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader. Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealing that the seeds of the next generation gap have already been planted. She has identified the Kindle as a substitute for words printed on physical pages. I own
Read More...As usual, Schneier is among the clearest heads in the fray when it comes to threat analysis: Despite this, the proposed fixes focus on the details of the plot rather than the broad threat. We’re going to install full-body scanners, even though there are lots of ways to hide PETN — stuff it in a
Read More...As always, Bruce Schneier has some poignant analysis of the attempted terror attack on an aircraft headed from Amsterdam to Detroit over the holidays. Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, the risks to its future stability are much greater than terrorism. Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat.
Read More...We’re going to be quiet here on Unfiltered for the next few days, with posting resuming (sporadically) next week. On behalf of everyone here at MIPRO Consulting, I would like to thank our customers, partners, colleagues, friends and followers for joining us in enduring the harsh economic rains of 2009. It goes to show that
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