“REAL CLOUD” VS. “FAKE CLOUD”

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…

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FIVE MOST UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS OF AN ERP PROVIDER (CHANNEL PARTNER) (Part 2)

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,…

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CLOUD SECURITY AND OUTAGES

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…

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