I've been immersed in the world of technology, IT vendors and business software for nearly 13 years, and there are lots of things to love and lots of things to hate. But there also many bewildering things about the tech world that still make me scratch my head in amazement.
Somali pirates who brazenly attacked container ships in the Indian Ocean have garnered a lot of recent attention. But for companies that source products from Chinese manufacturing partners, there are even greater and longer-term business risks due to pirating attacks on companies' intellectual property and supply chains.<br/>
Think you know everything about ERP? Here are five things to consider:
Most business and IT folks would rather endure a root canal procedure—without Novocain, even—than go through an entire ERP RFP process and negotiations with high-pressure salesfolk from SAP, Oracle or any of the other vendors who pledge "We want to be a partner, not a vendor" and other such disingenuous nonsense.
An exclusive look at a new RSR Research survey of retailers shows serious problems mounting inside today's retail IT shops -- including a vicious cycle with legacy apps that's hurting businesses at a particularly bad time.
If your car says something about you, so does your personal e-mail address. Here's a look at the message -- and perhaps age -- you're projecting.
There is, of course, a lot to love about the high-tech and IT world we all live in now.
Small and midsize businesses that want to roll out ERP technology are paying too much attention to TCO and not enough to ROI, says new research. That could be a costly mistake.
What can master data management software analysis of Bernie Madoff's client list teach businesses about the danger of data silos? Plenty, says MDM vendor DataQualityFirst.
While billions of dollars have flooded into SAP and Oracle, how much innovation—real, ground-breaking types of stuff—have we seen from the incumbent megavendors and their overpriced lines of applications?
Sure, spyware, spam and wireless routers that have the lifespan of a mosquito annoy us all. But what do we really hate about technology?
At its annual shareholders meeting this week, Starbucks executives detailed their strategy for profitable growth amid what Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz called, in what seemed like the understatement of the year, "the challenging economic environment."
As more companies announce mergers, acquisitions and divestitures to survive, the orderliness of their enterprise systems is critical: The "messier" a company's systems, the harder it will be to attract potential buyers. But the more up-to-date a company's systems, the more money they'll fetch.
On Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeastern US, the winds whip faster than they do in Antarctica, the bitter cold will freeze bare skin in seconds, and Steven Welsh tends to the IT infrastructure that meticulously records the mountain's extreme weather conditions.
If this is the decade of corporate responsibility when it comes to "going green" and reducing harmful carbon emissions, then we're all in a smelly garbage heap of trouble.