This is my annual "personal" blog post, which I permit myself because I live near where the U.S. Thanksgiving tradition began. But if you make it to the end of this post, you will find there i... More >
An interesting survey called the InfoWorld 2008 Top 100 IT Projects has been released. Life goes on, of course, but two of the projects were done by Fannie Mae and Lehman’s. Apparently not wantin... More >
Well, now that I have your attention, Webmasters and marketers everywhere, let me talk to you about Flowgram. Flowgram is both a company and a Web site that lets amateurs like myself quickly put toge... More >
Since the politicians began discussing securitized mortgages, credit default swaps, and financial instruments so complex that even their investors didn't understand them, I have been wondering what t... More >
This interesting post popped up this morning in my Google alert: Oracle vs. SAP Smackdown: Who Has the Better ERP Applications Strategy? Since my recent two-part series about how you could/should... More >
Last month, I compared the annual Software 500 listing from this year with the same source in 1997 to see the physical evidence of consolidation in the software industry. This affects you because... More >
It used to be a big deal when SAP rolled out major new changes in R/3. Those in the know kept track of the differences between 3.0B in January 1996 and Release 4 in 1999. Then there was the confusing... More >
Year-end reviews are on the horizon, so I have started interviewing and researching what's hot and what's not in ERP. One of those interviews took me back to the future. It was a talk with John Cinga... More >
Having looked at some of the challenges President-elect Obama faces in the transition from campaign to government, it's time to lay out his technology platform and see what it means to IT manager... More >
As a market researcher, I think it's great to see that statistically significant polling was accurate. So how about the transition from the Obama/Biden campaign to an Obama/Biden administration, look... More >
The November 4 announcement that Francisco Partners has successfully spun out the old Hummingbird-Solution 6 brands of CABS, CMS/Data, Elite, Keystone, Lawpoint, and Novient professional services E... More >

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