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Fri, Oct 30, 2009 12:48 EDT
Millennials + Enterprise Software: Doomed to Fail
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Posted by: Thomas Wailgum in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Enterprise Software Unplugged
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We can talk on and on about enterprise software ROI, TCO, upgrades, integration, delivery models, SaaS vs. on-premise, maintenance fees, but we tend to forget about usability. As in, are the
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The 'Process Maven' and reaching employee buy-in
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Posted by: phil_ayres in Best Practices Topic: Applications
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It is hard to get employees to buy-in to any form of change, and process improvement is a really tough one. This strikes at the core of people's working existences and identities, making them resist
Read more »Wed, Oct 21, 2009 12:28 EDT
Comic-Book Software Projects
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Posted by: phil_ayres in Best Practices Topic: Partner/Vendor Management
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If software projects were comic-book characters they would NOT be Dilbert, nor would they be ugly beasts with two heads and dripping slime. Instead they would be insidious, vicious, but mostly
Read more »Mon, Oct 19, 2009 12:02 EDT
Balancing free, subscription and paid software licenses
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Posted by: phil_ayres in Soapbox Topic: Applications
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Laurie McCabe writes an interesting blog about computing for small businesses, though I think that many of his thoughts make a lot of sense to anyone interested in cloud computing, SaaS and online
Read more »Mon, Jul 20, 2009 17:43 EDT
SaaS Solutions Make Customer Service “the Other R&D”
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Posted by: Anonymous in News Topic: Enterprise Management
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The Wall Street Journal recently reported that research and development spending is holding steady in the current economic slump. According to the Journal, companies spent nearly as much on R&D in Q4
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Fortune 500 Finds a Secret Weapon in SaaS-based Contact Centers
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Posted by: vincentdeschamps in News Topic: Enterprise Management
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From a business standpoint, software as a service (SaaS) is all about operating vs. capital cost and rapid time-to-value. Fortune 500 enterprise companies can no longer afford to make steep, up-front
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Dot.Cloud – Business Platform for Our Century
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Posted by: Michael Hugos in Soapbox Topic: Cloud ComputingBlog: Doing Business in Real Time
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For venture capitalists the Cloud means “no more having to build one data center per startup!” In short, the Cloud is a profit center, not an IT cost center. So said Peter Fingar as we talked
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