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Latest Enterprise Software PostsSpeaking Cloud and ClearThursday, November 24th, 2011
Let us breathe, then, and draw in some of the new language this upheaval has brought into our revised realities. (more…) 
Go Cloud, Save the WorldFriday, October 14th, 2011
With more and more organizations opting to store their data on cloud computing systems rather than under their own roofs, outsourcing data centres are springing up like mushrooms to answer the demand. (more…)
There’s Safety in the Cloud After AllFriday, October 7th, 2011It’s not unheard of, the idea of people embracing the very thing that once sent them into spirited flight. Consider the broccoli example. Consider, too, the very prickly subject of cloud security, heretofore much maligned for its apparently inherently contained contradiction but, in a recent show of enlightenment, perhaps rewritten as saviour rather than villain. Big Picture Author In this Wall Street Journal article, a big-picture pundit introduces the extraordinary idea that the cloud may in fact be the safest place to store our data, the deafening cries that have long argued the opposite notwithstanding. (more…)
10 Things You Need to Know About PSOs, PSAs and CRMsWednesday, September 28th, 2011 10 Things you need to know about PSOs 1. The global PSA software market will hit a staggering $7.63 billion by the year 2017, according to new research from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. The news is surprising, considering the hit this market took during the recent global economic dip, as those companies purchasing such products opted to hold back their purse in infrastructure-enhancing purchases. 2. The tide is turning on this front in a significant way. Indeed, PSA software suites are increasingly emerging as bona-fide recession-proofers for corporate IT department principals inside professional services organizations anxious not to suffer the same shortfalls again. (more…)
Cloud Standards 101Monday, September 12th, 2011 Are a new set of cloud standards starting to form? So it is with the developing shape of cloud computing. Definition is starting to emerge in the skies with the establishment of a set of standards seeking to best facilitate its adoption. Will they eliminate the confusion that currently shrouds the stuff? It’s a subject that’s scored a whack of attention from folks anxious to corral usability within manageable parameters. We take a look at some of the organizations trying to set the tone for this game changer. (more…)
Of Postal Strikes and ProgressFriday, June 3rd, 2011
So Canada Post employees have gone on strike. Having failed to reach a deal with the crown corporation, the postal union workers have elected to walk off the job in a revolving series of walkouts that began midnight Thursday in Winnipeg. Big fat, hairy deal. Without meaning to sound cavalier, the fact of the matter is that the reality of a postal strike in 2011 is a far cry from the reality of a postal strike in, say, 1991. Back then, such an event would have been cause for genuine concern, as a whole host of integral business functions would grind to an unavoidable halt. (more…)
Do Your Homework Before Choosing a CRM SystemFriday, May 20th, 2011
A recent article in industry trade journal CRM Buyer got us thinking. In it, the author tackles the surprisingly complicated subject of CRM systems. He wisely argues in favour of a comprehensive approach that acknowledges the importance of treating this business essential with kid gloves. We couldn’t agree more. The decision-making process that provides the steep and rocky path to CRM certainty is rife with potential for error. (more…)
ERP: Time 2 Recover from Y2KWednesday, May 18th, 2011
Remember Y2K, the much-anticipated and wildly-feared turn of the millennium that sent us all filling our bathtubs and plundering the grocery stores for canned goods? If your ERP system does too, it may be time for an overhaul. (more…)
Cloud Cover Thickens with Microsoft AnnouncementThursday, April 21st, 2011
After much terrestrial dithering, Microsoft has at last elected to put its head in the clouds. Such was the announcement delivered last week at Convergence 2011, a big-ass annual event in Atlanta where the Microsoft Dynamics customer and partner business communities share the rarified air of a common convention centre. (more…)
The Great Debate: ERP vs. Accounting PackagesFriday, March 18th, 2011
Aspirations of greatness notwithstanding, you’re still a fairly small organization at this point in your development. Your employee count is modest, your daily operations straightforward, your technical requirements few. Only the big guys, surely, stand to benefit from the complex computerized infrastructures that come by way of installing sophisticated ERP systems. Or so you tell yourself as you start yet another day with the technical support of nothing grander than a basic accounting program. (more…)
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Sometimes, a revolution takes hold of a situation with such commanding force and resolve that its witnesses are barely able to catch their breath in the maelstrom—let alone get a handle on the terminology. So it has been with the all-consuming and increasingly endowed miracle that is the cloud.
According to clean tech market research and consulting firm Pike Research, the delirious reassignment of corporations’ computing operations from in-house equipment to the cloud could well prove a boon to more than just the bottom line of the business in question.
