“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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SERVANT LEADERSHIP

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…

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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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Detailed Needs Assessments: Success is in Our DNA

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…

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BEFORE YOU CUSTOMIZE YOUR ERP SYSTEM…

Virtually all modern ERP software has the capability for customization.  Some of that capability is internal to the ERP package and requires no special skillset other than a bit of training on that feature subset.  At the most complex level, customizations can be provided by companies that specialize in development…

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