Social network for CEOs – best practices
The Best & Worst of Business NetworksYesterday, I spoke with Ken Ross, the serial entrepreneur who has launched several successful software firms (e.g.
Software & Services Safari
Many writers explore just one tech sector. Brian looks at the entire tech ecosystem to better understand the often conflicted relationships between software vendors, integrators, outsourcers and more.
Brian Sommer
Brian is currently CEO of TechVentive, a strategy consultancy serving technology providers and other firms. He is also a research analyst with Vital Analysis.
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Reengineering HR Solutions - #3
Case #3 – Jobs2Web(third in a series of pieces discussing why HR solutions need radical reengineering)There is a great maxim in IT circles called Fubini’s Law. It goes like this:“ 1.
SAP, Waste Management and Lawyers
Trashy behavior?Infoworld's got a real treat in this piece on the SAP/Waste Management litigation.
NetSuite vs. SAP – really a question of back office economics
Show me the moneyNetSuite is announcing later this week a program that offers some SAP R/3 users (or potential users) a chance to use NetSuite’s applications at a price point equal to 50% of the maintenance fees SAP would have charged them.Moreover, NetSuite has already got a customer moving onto to its suite.
NetSuite Q3 earnings announced - SaaS still growing
NetSuite makes big Q3 year over year improvement in revenueNetSuite today announced its Q3 financials. The big headline was the increase in Q3 revenues.
GRC in the current economy
Interview with OpenPages executive Gordon BurnesA couple of weeks ago, I ran a blog post concerning the recent Wall Street crisis and the role that compliance legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley had to play in preventing it. I contended that Sarbanes-Oxley failed and that the problem could be laid at the feet of other culprits including the use of special purpose entities.
SAP, Oracle, SaaS - The changing ERP market
The times they are a changingThis InformationWeek article is a must read for any ERP buyer, seller or market watcher. SAP Global Operations CEO Bill McDermott confirms some details about SAP and the hosting for its Business ByDesign product line.
BE (Bearingpoint) - Up for sale?
Insights from a governmental filingCheck out the Bearingpoint 8-K the company filed this week.
Reengineering HR Solutions #2
Case #2 – HRMC’s AcclaimContinuing with the previous post, I ran into another vendor at the Human Resource Executive’s HR Technology Conference & Exposition (I hope Bill Kutik appreciates that I put in the full title to the show this time!) that reaffirmed why older HR processes need to be reengineered.
Reengineering HR Solutions
Case #1 – MrTed’s SmartRecruitersThe recent HR Technology show in Chicago reinforced within me the idea that many automated HR solutions have problems. Most HR products are first-generation attempts to automate the record-keeping, transaction processing and most tedious aspects of human resources.