In a recent blog post , I asked you to suggest some IT and enterprise software claims you would like me to look into. Send me an e-mail or post a comment to get on the list. To kick off the process,... More >
I blog about IT and enterprise software because there is so much misinformation out there about IT that needs to be corrected. I know. Between 1969 and 1989, I was responsible for much of it, spreadi... More >
No 2008-lookback/2009-lookahead relating to IT can avoid mentioning green. There is even a Web site, Greener Computing . I won’t pretend I spent a lot of time studying the issue, but it sure looks t... More >
The article on software market consolidation that I mentioned in November is up on the IT Business Edge site. Trying to figure out if your favored enterprise software supplier will be subject to ... More >
The enterprise software blogosphere is full of end-of-year surveys and findings every December. One of the more interesting I’ve seen is the CIO Insight listing of the value of an eclectic mix of ... More >
A good number of the year-end retrospectives about the comings and goings of enterprise software revolve around some mythical conflict between ERP software and Software as a Service (SaaS). This blo... More >
On Dec. 15, Savvis — the supplier of outsourced managed computing and network infrastructure for information technology (IT) applications — and GTSI, a provider of solutions to the U.S. federal gove... More >
In the process of finishing an upcoming IT Business Edge article on software-market consolidation and beginning a similar article on the ERP market at year-end, I hit a two-fer interview affecting bo... More >
Josh Greenbaum’s December 8 prescription for what enterprise software suppliers should do for the IT community during the recession is interesting but a little too Three Musketeerish for me. ... More >
Increasingly in this space in the new year I am going to introduce you to new and renewed enterprise-software technologies and products about which I am previewed on an almost daily basis. For exampl... More >
This article by Eric Lai of Computerworld , Is SaaS and Recession Killing Perpetual Software Licenses, introduces a couple of strains of thought for IT staff and management to follow as you contin... More >
Another European-Union (EU)-based front group is out this week with the latest in a long string of EU-centric Open-World/Open-Standard/Open-Interface/Open-you-pick-it proposals that abuse the open so... More >
The Dec. 2 press release by SAP touting its leadership in wholesale distribution ERP illustrates the importance of selecting enterprise software that was designed or later optimized for your indust... More >
Back in August I wrote How Come We Buy 21st Century Enterprise Software the Same Way We Did in the 20th Century? The catalyst for the post was the fact that the British government-associated educat... More >
Thanks to my fellow ebizQ blogger Ronan Bradley for pointing me at this blog post on Bankervision by James Gardner. Ronan specializes in financial services IT issues on ebizQ. The intent of Ro... More >

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