May 18, 2011 11:34 AM
Posted by: Todd Morrison
Software licensesMost companies buy licenses they don't end up using. The question is, how much?
Down here in Orlando for the Sapphire Now conference, I met Paul Peters, the enterprise architect for the Tesoro corporation, an oil refiner with a number of retail gas stations in the U.S.
Months ago, Tesoro...
May 17, 2011 10:57 AM
Posted by: Todd Morrison
NetSuite announced the winners of its second-annual Hairball awards this past week, which it gives to customers that have "untangled" themselves from unwieldy on-premises ERP applications, and implemented NetSuite instead.
I'd hate to see what a Hairball trophy looks like.
What was...
May 16, 2011 4:28 PM
Posted by: Jacquelyn Howard
After a dramatic morning keynote, which involved actor Gabriel Byrne narrating the evolution of technology with an eye towards the future, I sat down with Ryan Goodman, CEO of Centigon Solutions. You may also know him from his
May 16, 2011 3:52 PM
Posted by: Jacquelyn Howard
At SAPPHIRE NOW this morning, SAP announced the release of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management 10, which "moves EPM best practices beyond the finance department to managers throughout the company."
This release is prepared for SAP HANA and incorporates mobile capabilities. "The...
May 13, 2011 2:36 PM
Posted by: Jacquelyn Howard
With just a few days to go before heading down to SAPPHIRE NOW 2011, it's time to finalize those agendas and set up meetings. SearchSAP will be at the event all week - you can follow the conference live on our
May 9, 2011 2:07 PM
Posted by: Todd Morrison
The lessons to be learned from Marin County's spectacularly failed SAP implementation, and the bitter lawsuit it subsequently filed against SAP and system integrator Deloitte Consulting as a result were the topic of a Wednesday conference call.
One of the takeaways from the call is that while...
