To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
[CEO presentation at this year’s user conference, ed.] Charting a new course Where to go? How to get there? As CEO, my focus is on leading HarrisData and our customers to a successful future. That...
View ArticleHype, Mixed Messages, Snark, and Cover-up
The convergence of cloud, mobility, and consumerization of business technology make a competitive environment for ERP applications even tougher. No vendor can deploy all the answers today. This leads...
View ArticleThe Pendulum Swings
Anecdotal evidence of a US manufacturing rebound has been building for the past two years. Here and there manufacturers “reshored” production to address problems encountered in the rush to low labor...
View ArticleTablets Mean Changes for the Enterprise
Plenty of hype has been offered as tablet computers (first the iPhone, then the iPad) arrived, sold in enormous numbers, and slowed PC sales. Software vendors were quick to deliver Apps – partly to...
View ArticleSurviving the Drop in Business Investment
Truly amazing news as the UK’s National Museum of Computing keeps the WITCH online — mechanical relays, paper tape and all! The computer’s “flashing lights and clattering printers and readers provides...
View ArticleBookmark, Link, Search
[Highlights of CEO Keynote at HarrisData’s 2013 User Conference.] Step away from the vendor hype wars over cloud computing and look at what the cloud means to users. Anything a user wants to do will be...
View ArticleWhat is Modern?
Rumors have SAP joining the stampede to HTML5 based user interfaces. To get there, SAP will build a new platform, replacing the $4 billion platform underneath Business-By-Design. HTML5 is the current...
View ArticleA Modern Transaction Architecture
Consider the Payroll application as typically designed. The object is to convert hours worked into paychecks while calculating taxes, benefit deductions, and garnishments. The work flow is broken into...
View ArticleCloud Vendors Spend Too Much on Sales and Marketing
Look anywhere, and it seems the cloud is the answer you were looking for. How much of this is real, how much venture capital hype? Phil Wainewright interviewed Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu and found evidence...
View ArticleYou Can’t See What’s Behind the Cloud
Cloud: 3. a dim or obscure area in something otherwise clear or transparent. The entire information technology industry is moving to the cloud. What, if anything, have they done differently once they...
View ArticleHow to Triple Your Productivity without Hiring Additional Staff and Similar...
Improved productivity is a given of marketing claims in technology. The marketers rarely make clear what the basis is for the claimed improvement. Saying you are three times as productive calculating...
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