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Software Hairballs – Edgy but Illustrative
“What the F***, another software hairball?!” Netsuite’s new campaign builds on their theme of integrated suites winning the day. It is a little edgy, but a lot of fun. The gist is that “best of...
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Product Development Process is Key to Cloud Success
An article last week in Managing Automation points out that manufacturers will fight a new war in the coming years. The winners will be those who can provide product updates most rapidly and with the...
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Gartner Gets Smart about SaaS
Wow! Gartner has really turned a corner in its coverage of SaaS. After years of marginalizing the impact of SaaS in the enterprise software space, Gartner is: Predicting robust growth of SaaS in the...
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Specializing to Expand Opportunities
Carving a Niche Many companies find success by creating or exploiting a niche – sometimes inadvertently. A company might, for example, start out as a provider of general-purpose steel bookshelves for...
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Egypt – Pro or Con for SaaS?
The Egyptian authorities have reportedly “shut down the Internet” in Egypt. There is much discussion as to whether that is possible and what the implications are. It appears that they did indeed shut...
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The supply chain is changing – are you ready?
The supply chain is a dynamic thing. Supplier capabilities and prices change. Currency exchange rates fluctuate daily. Commodities have been particularly volatile recently. Transportation costs vary...
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Infor – What Flavor This Month?
The strategy at Infor seems to change as rapidly as it acquires businesses. SOA… SaaS… Microsoft… No, not Microsoft, maybe Java? It seems like just a few months ago that Infor touted SOA...
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Amazon Outage – Too Cloudy?
The much publicized outage at Amazon’s cloud service has many cloud users and potential cloud users wondering about the reliability of cloud-based infrastructure and applications. And rightly so. When...
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Kenandy joins SaaS ERP market for manufacturers
Kenandy is getting huge press as the latest startup in SaaS ERP for manufacturing. I welcome a new competitor wholeheartedly. It is yet another signal that SaaS will make enormous inroads in the...
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ERP accelerates its move to the cloud
Netsuite just reported record Q3 results. They are being touted (mostly by Netsuite) as the next SAP. While that seemed outrageous and overambitious a few years ago, it is now seeming more...
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