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In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part Two

September 5, 2012

Business

cloud computing, cloudability, erp, foundry group, Information technology, jason mendelson, Series A round, Trinity Ventures

In part one of this post I talked about the lack of insight that currently exists over ROI for users of cloud computing. I actually contend that this is an underlying problem for IT generally and not just for…

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SuiteCommerce and the Value of End To End

May 21, 2012

Business

#NSW12, Electronic commerce, Enterprise resource planning, erp, netsuite, SuiteCommerce, user interface, zach nelson

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld event recently [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend] the company announced SuiteCommerce an end-to-end solution that ties back end ERP functionality with customer facing e-commerce solutions that are optimized across any endpoint –…

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Cloudwashing from SAP. Sigh

January 10, 2012

Business

Enterprise resource planning, erp, SAP, SAP AG, SAP Business ByDesign

“With SAP Business ByDesign, SAP was (and still is) the first company to release an ERP suite that users access and work with through the Internet.” Stuff like this frankly really peeves me. How long ago was it that…

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Nimsoft Monitors SAP Environments

September 21, 2011

Business

ABAP, erp, Nimsoft, SAP, SAP AG, SAP ECC, SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver

Nimsoft, the company that provides IT management as a service (more on them here) today rolled out monitoring for a range of SAP products and services. The aim here is for Nimsoft Monitor to become the default monitoring service…

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Reporting Season–NetSuite and Intacct go Stratospheric

July 29, 2011

Business

accounting, erp, Fiscal year, intacct, netsuite, Software as a Service

In these strained economic times with businesses retrenching and pulling back on non-essential projects, one could have expected to see the reported numbers for software companies also trend downwards. Right? Well not if a couple of recent results from…

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NetSuite and Informatica Team Up to Preempt SAP

March 1, 2011

Business

Data integration, Enterprise resource planning, erp, Informatica, netsuite, SAP AG, SAP R/3

News today that NetSuite and Informatica are partnering in an effort to provide what they’re calling a “two teir approach” to delivering subsidiary ERP solutions for large businesses. A tacit acceptance of the fact that for these largest of…

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NetSuite – Sales Success, Keeping the Ecosystem Happy and a Hint of Future Moves

October 10, 2010

Business

bydesign, cloudcamp, erp, netsuite, SAP, suitecloud, zach nelson

I’m in Sydney en route to a CloudCamp in Canberra and taking in a day of the inaugural NetSuite APAC SuiteCloud event. Over lunch with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, APAC MD Chris Schafer and a bunch of customers and…

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SaaS Implementation. A Case Study and a Call for a Deeper Needs Analysis…

February 23, 2010

Business

accy2, acumatica, brainsell, erp

I spend a lot of time hand waving about the joys of SaaS accounting, I thought it’d be an idea to write some stories of successful implementations – kind of a case-study-lite type series. If you’re a vendor with…

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Microsoft Flicks the Switch on Azure, Acumatica Standing By

November 18, 2009

Business

accy, acumatica, azure, erp, Microsoft, netsuite, PaaS

Yesterday at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference the switch will finally be flicked on Microsoft’s long awaited cloud computing offering Azure. Of course spinning up an infrastructure offering is one thing, having products and services to run on it…

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Enterprise software adding value – or not

July 14, 2008

Business, Efficiency, IT, Manufacturing, Strategy

erp, levi strauss

I was a little flummoxed to read that Levi Strauss, the venerable Jeans maker, reported a 98% drop in quarterly net profit last week. Well I wasn’t flummoxed about the drop in profit – these are difficult times after…

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SuiteCommerce and the Value of End To End

Cloudwashing from SAP. Sigh

Nimsoft Monitors SAP Environments

Reporting Season–NetSuite and Intacct go Stratospheric

NetSuite and Informatica Team Up to Preempt SAP

NetSuite – Sales Success, Keeping the Ecosystem Happy and a Hint of Future Moves

SaaS Implementation. A Case Study and a Call for a Deeper Needs Analysis…

Microsoft Flicks the Switch on Azure, Acumatica Standing By

Enterprise software adding value – or not

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