“Availability” is in 2012 what we used to call “up time” in the 1900’s. Ideally, you’d like it to be 100%, but it can be affected by a myriad of issues, and those issues are different, depending on whether you’re using cloud or on-premises ERP.
Year end is coming and for most of us, that means a mad scramble to close out the year and to prepare for 2013. For those in Accounting, you will be gearing up for new budget allocations or Q1 adjustments, and possibly preparing for the dreaded tax season. If you are…
You’re an ERP channel partner, or a car dealer, or a solar panel distributor. It doesn’t matter. The fact is that you represent someone else’s products so, to some extent, your quality and relevance as a company is defined by the quality and relevance of your supplier’s products. Everything in…
There’s an interesting marketing effort going on right now, in which cloud publishers like Salesforce and NetSuite characterize their products as “Real Cloud” products, and characterize all the others as the “Fake Cloud”. We recently received a marketing blast from a channel partner, and it said this: “Such has been…
The idea of “servant leadership” became popular in an essay written by Robert Greenleaf in 1970 titled “The Servant Leader”. Although Greenleaf brought life to the concept for today’s leaders, the general concept dates back to 4th century BC when Chanakya authored a book titled Arthashastra and stated: “The king…
This is the third of a three-part blog series in which we highlight what we feel are the most unrealistic expectations and beliefs of ERP buyers, ERP providers, and ERP publishers. We do this in order to shine some light on some of the most common weaknesses in our industry,…
This is the second of a three-part blog series in which we highlight what we feel are the most unrealistic expectations and beliefs of ERP buyers, ERP providers, and ERP publishers. We do this in order to shine some light on some of the most common weaknesses in our industry,…
This is the first of a three-part blog series in which we highlight what we feel are the most unrealistic expectations and beliefs of ERP buyers, ERP providers, and ERP publishers. We do this in order to shine some light on some of the most common weaknesses in our industry,…
Here’s an interesting online article at SearhCIO.com regarding cloud issues. Executives from four top cloud providers — Microsoft, Amazon.com, Rackspace and Salesforce.com — sat down at the recent Gartner Catalyst conference in San Diego to answer questions about what they want customers to know about cloud computing and about what…
If you ask any successful ERP provider, they will tell you that the most important key to their success is their Detailed Needs Assessment (DNA). Implementing a new ERP system for a company is a lot like removing the wings from a flying airplane, and getting the new ones on…
