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Why Sage may never get saas

Ever since I started this weblog the question of whether Sage would ‘get’ saas/on-demand is one that has plagued me. I think I’ve finally worked out the problem courtesy of a chance conversation I had with an ex-Sage senior executive. For some time, I’ve contended that Sage is more interested in keeping its financial analyst [...]

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Throwing Sheep In The Boardroom

The above book is being excerpted on bMighty and in Chapter 14: Enterprise 2.0: Wiki While You Work, the author cites something I wrote a while back: CEOs instinctively know that internal collaboration, whether through rudimentary technologies like blogs and wikis, hold significant efficiency promise. They know the technology is relatively inexpensive compared to other types [...]

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NetBooks rebrands to WorkingPoint, hopes to create waves

The other evening I spoke with Tate Holt, CEO of WorkingPoint, the rebranded NetBooks. He told me that while the concepts behind NetBooks were fine, the execution was less than perfect. As a result, the company has spent the last year going back to the drawing board, figuring out what start up and very small [...]

Never fear transparency

Xero had an outage last evening UK time, 8.15am in New Zealand. The outage lasted 45 minutes and was attributed to data centre issues at Rackspace Dallas, its hosting provider. Xero isn’t alone. The Rackspace issue spread to others. As you can see from the sponsored feeds, the company kept users informed via its blog [...]

PWC: ‘We didn’t audit Satyam’

There are few things that leave me gobsmacked but the above headline from Times of India is up there among stuff that requires a double take. The detail: The questioning of Ramesh Rajan, chairman and CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, India (PwC) by CBI last week, has revealed that the Satyam balance sheets were in fact audited by Lovelock [...]

My Diigo Bookmarks 06/29/2009

Jon Reed on SAP Consulting – Making Sense of Value Scenarios: Lessons from Sapphire 2009 Jon Reed’s analysis is useful for those wishing to understand the difference between advanced service SAP is offering. But I’m not sure we understand the cost implications tags: no_tag Post #e2conf thoughts – installment 2. More thoughts on E2.0 – not sure they’re terribly [...]

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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PST

tecosystems » Is the Hourly Model Broken?
Very badly broken

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT

SAP Users: Support Debate Isn't Over - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
This reflects the kind of thing I am seeing in the conversations I've had with users. The problems isn't going away. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cio.com%2Farticle%2F443602%2FSAP_Users_Support_Debate_Isn_t_Over
SAP: Financials Are Rosy, But Trouble Is Brewing in the Ecosystem | Advice and Opinion
SAP: Financials Are Rosy, But Trouble Is Brewing in the Ecosystem | Advice and Opinion
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fadvice.cio.com%2Fthomas_wailgum%2Fsap_financials_are_rosy_but_trouble_is_brewing_in_the_ecosystem%3Fpage%3D0%252C1
SandHill.com | Opinion : C.K. Prahalad on the New Age of Innovation
Looking up (and down) at the blogosphere’s ivory tower ¦ Online Media Cultist
A case study in myopia - check the highlighted section and my notes. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fonlinemediacultist.com%2F2008%2F08%2F14%2Flooking-up-and-down-at-the-blogospheres-ivory-tower
Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web? - O'Reilly Radar
This really is a bad idea - internal linking is another form of navel gazing Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fradar.oreilly.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fis-linking-to-yourself-the-future-of-the-web.html
Corporate Income Taxes - Gross Stupidity at the NY Times | Venture Chronicles
They do need some accounting types on the job. This really is daft reporting at its most egregious

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Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Businesses deliberately cheating U.S. out of $40 billion in payroll taxes - Financial Week
What surprises me is that the figure isn't higher.

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Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Seth's Blog: Are you in the tribe?
I'm wondering whether Seth has jumped the shark with this stunt
Who Is Your Information Filter? « I’m Not Actually a Geek
Interesting concept but not one with which I wholly concur
SAP: Oracle Software Support from TomorrowNow to End - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
This is ot going away. The industry is in for a torrid time
Congratulations to the OpenWorld Session Winners | Oracle AppsLab
Now this is a bit different - driven by community
HMRC Is Shite: IT Is Not Our Business - PAYE Cock Up
Ken taking the pish - in his own inimitable style
FT.com / Companies / Media
The gruesome reality of being in the public gaze