“Last year was the worst for IT services contract activity since 2002,” reported analyst firm Ovum this week. The suspected cause: “The ongoing economic uncertainty afflicting key markets for IT services such as the US and Europe.”
Analyst Curt Monash opines on developing DBMSs and includes his Cardinal Rules of DBMS development. “Rule 1: Developing a good DBMS requires 5-7 years and tens of millions of dollars. Rule 2: You aren’t an exception to Rule 1.”
Like a fire extinguisher, let’s hope you never have to use this advice: ERP consultant Eric Kimberling on how to avoid going to trial over an ERP failure. And while we’re talking about avoiding failure: CIO.com’s Lauren Brousell talks to the experts and delivers five ways to avoid mobile app development failure.
SAP Labs’ Prashanth Padmanabhan uses an interesting customer example to illustrate the role of SAP ERP and HCM in a cloud HCM landscape and the required integration work.
Ya know, just the other day I was wondering…Where is SAP going with NetWeaver? And it was like SAP’s Björn Goerke was literally reading my mind! Behold Björn’s thoughts on that very topic!
Quote of the Week I
The Six Sigma process killed innovation at 3M.
-Geoff Nicholson, former VP for international technical operations at 3M who is also widely regarded as the “father” of 3M’s Post-It note initiative, in an interview with ZDNet.com
Quote of the Week II
We had a million requests internally to take on different configurations. We said ‘no’ to all of them.
-Amonix CEO Pat McCullough, discussing his views on ERP customization and his company’s 10-week Oracle E-Business Suite R12 project (Source: SearchOracle.com interview)
Stat of the Week
41%—the year-over-year increase that SAP’s co-CEOs received in their compensation from 2011 to 2012. (Source: Bloomberg)
Tweets of the Week
@tpowlas: “Excel is the duct tape to the BI world” #BI2013 @wtymiller
@levie: Oracle revenue down year over year. Turns out this whole cloud thing is pretty disruptive after all.
@SteveBogner: A client had #SAP Payroll issue, filed OSS support message Jan 31, have had the run-around since; clients deserve better
@kellygharris: So far this #BI2013 demo has talked about F1, the 49ers, and the NBA. Nothing for the cat lovers and knitters among us?! Fine.
@SAP_Jarret: Why doesnt #SAP HANA have a category on the new Idea Place http://ow.ly/j3Bne ->Seems like a prime area to listen to customers.
@NeilRaden: #bigdata is just like #DW 10-15 years ago. A new approach to #analytics without a clear path to ROI.
@BI_ScottWIS: Ugly dashboard is like a high school pimple you get before the big dance, says @MicoYuk #BI2013 #BIDF
@skeohan: Am I the only person who knows the Gollum is now working on SAP Service Marketplace? http://bit.ly/YcfZ0n
@DrewMcCaskill: 2 years into being CEO of #infor, see why the NY Times is saying @cpinfor is poised to challenge #Oracle and #SAP. http://nyti.ms/WyCSYv
@DaveatWisPubs: How do I know I’ve been at #BI2013 this week? Found myself mentally “optimizing” the “dashboard” on the hotel treadmill this morning.
@Martin_V: I Dunno Why But It’s Sorta Wrong: Can’t wrap my head around the notion of Mark Hurd running Dell. Like hiring Larry Ellison to run Microsoft
