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Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett has been providing comment and analysis on enterprise software since 1991 in a variety of European trade and professional journals including CFO Magazine, The Economist and Information Week. Today, apart from being a full time blogger on innovation for professional services organisations, he is a founding member of Enterprise Irregulars and an investor in a European start-up. Prior to, Dennis was technology and tax partner in a British firm of Chartered Accountants for 10 years. Prior to that held various senior finance roles across a broad range of industries.

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  • SAP reports healthier Q2 2010

    By Dennis Howlett | July 27, 2010, 12:04am PDT

    SAP is slowly returning to double digit growth but its Q2 2010 results represent a mixed picture. High growth in the Americas was offset by sluggishness in other territories. Cost control remains...

  • Ray Wang: the analyst firm of the future?

    By Dennis Howlett | July 26, 2010, 9:26am PDT

    Ray Wang has laid out his vision of the future analyst firm: Personal Log: The 7 Tenets Of Building A “Star Analyst” Firm. It’s an interesting read because in posing the question, Ray is in...

  • Did Oracle hand Charles Phillips a PR written pink slip?

    By Dennis Howlett | July 23, 2010, 2:33pm PDT

    Charles Phillips claims $70bn acquisitions the next five years. Oracle denies. Did he just hand himself a pink slip?

  • The social why of project failures

    By Dennis Howlett | July 22, 2010, 5:46pm PDT

    Understanding the why of project failure should give answers for the future. But too often they don’t. Is there a cure? Maybe.

  • Friday rant: words that should be expunged from IT speak

    By Dennis Howlett | July 16, 2010, 8:00am PDT

    Whenever reading about technology, it seems that PR and marketers can’t help themselves. They seem to find a need to insert one or all of the following words in order to grab interest...

  • Siemens goes with NetSuite

    By Dennis Howlett | July 14, 2010, 8:00am PDT

    In this video extract (4 mins 54 secs) from a presentation as part of a NetSuite event, Beat Neuhaus, VP global services operations, Siemens explains how an SAP centric organization introduced a...

  • The cloud changes service delivery

    By Dennis Howlett | July 12, 2010, 8:00am PDT

    Last week I had the opportunity to hear Saideep Raj, partner Accenture global SaaS practice explain how cloud computing is changing service delivery. In this short (4 min 08 sec) video extract,...

  • NetSuite pushes up market with SRP

    By Dennis Howlett | July 8, 2010, 5:05pm PDT

    NetSuite is pushing further up the food chain. Customers now include the likes of Siemens and Software AG, both of which are SAP customers and suppliers.

  • Gartner walks into SAS 70 SNAFU - or does it?

    By Dennis Howlett | July 6, 2010, 10:15am PDT

    Gartner opens up a discussion around SAS 70. It’s high time but I disagree with the author’s conclusions.

  • Cloud security: Google won't like the enterprise view, neither will Facebook

    By Dennis Howlett | July 6, 2010, 6:00am PDT

    Security and privacy remain significant concerns to large European enterprises. Discover why from a summary of panel sessions I ran at the Cloud Computing World Forum

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