Tag: ERP
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Say you love business logic without saying “business logic.”
Model Eats the Software: Why the Marginal Cost of Enterprise Software Approaches Zero More on agentic AI changing the software business from Jason Hoffman: Andreessen specifically predicted that Salesforce would disrupt Oracle. Fourteen years later, Oracle is roughly 2.5x the size of Salesforce. Salesforce sells application logic – workflows, configurations, business rules. Oracle sells infrastructure…
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Top EDI Processes You Should Automate With API – Tech never dies. Helpful consequence: take care of it before it takes care of you.
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Digital transformation strategies focus on reducing costs, upskilling – Highlights from Macroeconomic Outlook, Business Trends – ”Digital transformation focuses on employee productivity and automation. Nearly 44% of respondents either have a formal digital transformation strategy (32%) or are planning to develop one (11%). The primary drivers for adopting a digital transformation strategy are improving efficiency…
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GenAI or Die – Big time pro AI for ERP here, with notes of “what’s ERP done for me lately.”
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IT spending soars, generative AI investments barely leave a mark – These forecasts have been confusing in recent years. They’re always increasing, and yet the trends are always cost savings: ‘“Digital business transformations are beginning to morph,” said Lovelock. “IT projects are shifting from a focus on external-facing deliverables such as revenue and customer experience,…
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Link: Twelve IT Project Disasters Demonstrate There are No “Safe” Choices
Laundry list of ERP project failures. Source: Twelve IT Project Disasters Demonstrate There are No “Safe” Choices
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Doing the @bobbrindley. (I asked for extra pickles. The clerk was confused. I asked again, even, “can I pay for them?” And the assistant manager type looked over his shoulder and said a firm “no.” I mean, I don’t want to fuck with McDonald’s global supply chain and bring down their whole ERP system, causing…
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Link: Is CX the new killer app for ERP vendors? I seriously doubt it
All these analytics are nonsense if you don’t actually act on them, especially when it comes to customer service: I’ve filled out countless product registration/warranty cards over the years and only recently has one manufacturer ever reached out to me. Sadly, that outreach was a blatant money grab to sell me an extended warranty and…
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Link: Digital transformation in power generation and delivery
“Over the next decade, the electricity industry is predicted to unlock approximately $1.3 trillion in value through development and digitization of infrastructure, including platforms, devices, as well as cloud and advanced analytics.” With the “greatest opportunities are predicted at the retail (8.5% EBIT improvement) and generation (6.6%) levels.” Original source: Digital transformation in power generation…
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Link: 6 Challenges of Agile at Scale for ERP
The problems with taking an agile approach to outsourcing your COTS projects. Among the problems: “In agile projects, it is more difficult to define risk sharing between the company and vendor. Contracts for large-scale programs tend to be waterfall or deliverable-based, with penalties or incentives driving cost and schedule performance which enables companies to hold…
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ERP is moving to SaaS all the sudden
The proportion of enterprises that have replaced or plan to replace existing ERP systems with SaaS has doubled from 12 to 24 percent in the past year, according to research published this week by industry analyst firm Forrester. In addition, the numbers planning to use SaaS alongside on-premise ERP — for example in ‘two-tier’ ERP…
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SAP Takes It All to the Cloud
“We will do cloud-based ERP on a massive scale,” said Vishal Sikka, a member of SAP’s executive board and one of the people who oversaw the project. Of SAP’s regular product, he said, “At some point in the future, complex implementations should go away. All of our products are moving to HANA.” —SAP Takes It…
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