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Simplified Management in the Real World with VMware vCenter Operations
With so much of your network becoming virtual, it can be difficult to visualize and manage things. Check out this webcast to learn more about simplified management in a virtualized world.
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NetSuite and SAP: a tale of three development modalities
Vinnie Mirchandani has been giving enterprise vendors a tough time the last year. It has had me scratching my head to provide a cogent response. Here's my first effort.
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SAP's evolving cloud play
Vinnie Mirchandani is hard to please. He says: But if there is plenty of innovation at the edges, the core still seems fairly static. The lightbulb still has not gone on that if on-demand...
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Outages beyond the recent Amazon event
The Amazon outage wasn't the first, nor will it be the last, outage of a major company's IT environment. Few internal outages ever get publicized. Should the focus of this event change?
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Vinnie Mirchandani will be out of action for a while
Vinnie Mirchandandi is unwell. This is to notify people that all Vinnie's engagements are cancelled for the next month.
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Why IT professionals are driving the new 'Renaissance'
If Leonardo da Vinci or Benjamin Franklin were alive today, they would have been IT pros. The multi-disciplinary spirit these visionaries shook the world with so many years ago is coming back. And...
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May the cloud washing begin: Enterprise software giants graze on cloud startups
Large enterprise software vendors are gobbling up smaller cloud computing players. But the burden of cloud computing proof rests with the large enterprise software folks.
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SAP: the challenges ahead
It's started. Speculation around whether SAP ex-CEO Leo Apotheker jumped or was pushed, a trawl through past failures, an implied writing off of SAP because its strategy seems muddled and as for...
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Oracle: let's all play fair
Yesterday evening, Vinnie Mirchandani, Frank Scavo and I had an email exchange about an interesting 'incident.' Responding to this post from Vinnie about Rimini Street and its offering for SAP...
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The SAP Influencer Summit verdict
Te SAP Business Influencer Summit gave us an opportunity to explore a broad range of SAP related strategies and topics. In doing so, I'm not convinced the company is living up to its 'clarity'...
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Anti-SAP? Pfft!!
My Enterprise Advocates colleague Vinnie Mirchandani takes the high ground in a discussion about the forthcoming SAP Influencer Summit conference juxtaposed to the Sapience event. As is often the...
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What happens when TCO meets the cloud
Is it time for total cloud ownership? Vinnie Mirchandani thinks so and there's a good case that cloud computing players will overturn the economics of enterprise IT industry. Mirchandani is...
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Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant
'Tis the season for round robins. On this occasion Frank Scavo pokes a sharp stick in the eye of Gartner's Mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant. Vinnie Mirchandani goes next having a poke at his alma...
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Sustainable change or SOX 2.0?
I had not intended riffing on my colleague Vinnie Mirchandani's piece: How ERP vendors can change the world. Seriously. We'd discussed the topic over the phone earlier in the week and at the time...
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In search of SAP Business ByDesign
Mike Krigsman has a post that seeks to put ByDesign into a hopeful light. Based on his conversations I'm not surprised he came away with a glowing customer report. Customers I've spoken with have...
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SAP software revenue skids in first quarter; Maintenance terms tweaked
SAP's first quarter software revenue---an indicator of maintenance and services health skidded 33 percent due to a "difficult operating environment" and a tough year ago comparison. Meanwhile, SAP...
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The great certification debate
Last year at SAP TechEd, Vinnie Mirchandani, Mike Krigsman and I spent an entertaining 15 minutes verbally abusing challenging Zia Yusef, who runs SAP's ecosystem of developers, SIs and...
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Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories....
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Hammering at cost with open source
Irregular Bob Warfield riffs on Salesforce.com's decision to ditch Sun/Solaris in favor of Dell/Linux. In doing so, Bob makes the point that: ...for a SaaS company, the cost of service delivery is...
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Time to blow up the software industry
Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of...
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Oracle Fusion delay?
Vinnie Mirchandani speculates that Oracle's Fusion applications will be delay through 2009 at the earliest. The first phase of Fusion applications was slated for next year. Vinnie correctly points...
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