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Five ERP Project Team Archetypes
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Implementing ERP software can have many benefits but do most ERP implementations actually achieve these expected benefits? Professors Kenneth Benne and Paul Sheats published a study, Functional Roles of Group Members, in which they identified key personality traits that contribute to strong teams. Following are five of those personality archetypes that may be particularly useful in ERP project teams.
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BPR, BPM and ERP
I had a customer ask me about the relationship between BPM and ERP. Does ERP implement BPM or do you need to have BPM before ERP? Is an ERP implementation a BPR project? Who’s on first? As the ERP industry evolves it has become evident that additional disciplines like Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR) must be employed for a successful ERP experience.
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Enterprise Software Musings: Why SAP acquired hybris Software
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This is a busy week of acquisitions - with IBM's Softlayer and salesforce's Exact Target already happened, SAP didn't stay on the sidelines with announcing the hybris software acquisition today. Not all transaction values were disclosed this week - but my estimate is, that north of 6B US$ were moved this week in the enterprise software market.
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CIOs Are Stepping Up As Business Innovators At Long Last
I have been writing about the need for CIOs and technology executives to step up and demonstrate through their ideas and leadership how technology can be used to transform their organization.
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How I Taught Myself to Code in Eight Weeks
To a lot of non-developers, learning to code seems like an impossibly daunting task. However, thanks to a number of great resources that have recently been put online for free— teaching yourself to code has never been easier. I started learning to code earlier this year and can say from experience that learning enough to build your own prototype is not as hard as it seems. In fact, if you want to have a functioning prototype within two months without taking a day off work, it’s completely doable..
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SAP buys e-commerce vendor Hybris in strike back at Oracle, Salesforce.com
SAP is buying privately held Hybris in a bid to build out an e-commerce software offering that connects with customers across multiple "channels, devices and touch points." Terms of the deal, which was announced Wednesday, were not disclosed. It is expected to close in the third quarter of this year. Hybris, which is based in Switzerland, is the fastest-growing e-commerce software vendor in the world, according to SAP's announcement.
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Ten Mobile BI Strategy Questions: Design
When the term design is used in mobile business intelligence (BI), it often refers to the user interface (UI). However, when I consider the question of design in developing a mobile BI strategy, I go beyond what a report or dashboard looks like.
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CRM Optimization: Purge Your Data To Avoid Information Overload
Even if a piece of data in your CRM isn't helping, it can't hurt, right? Wrong. You need to regularly purge your CRM to clear the haystack and find the needle.
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Four New Skills CIOs Need To Be An IT-as-a-Service Provider
For the first time, corporate IT is facing real competition. Business users are deploying increasingly sophisticated SaaS applications on their own. Developers continue to look first to public cloud IaaS and PaaS platforms for new application development, reducing the need for internal infrastructure.
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The State of Mobile Apps – at SAP and Beyond (with John Moy)
Mobile challenges continue to abound, says “Mr. Mobile” himself, John Moy, co-founder of BlueT. And there’s no easy path to a successful solution. If there were, everyone would be there by now. Dennis caught up with John at the Mastering SAP Technologies 2013 to get a better feel for what’s changed on the enterprise mobile landscape. And, just as importantly, what’s gotten more complicated.
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Rapid Deployment Packages: Proof That The Best Things Come In Smart Packages
Rapid Deployment Packages are software packages that allow businesses to solve their immediate IT needs quickly and affordably.
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Dalgaard, former SuccessFactors chief, joins Andreessen Horowitz
Just days after SAP announced a cloud reorg, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard landed at one of Silicon Valley's leading enterprise VCs.
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ERP Trends: Mobile Apps and Integrated Processes
When it comes to ERP, best-of-breed is out as trends clearly move toward integrated solutions. According to a recent study, mobile BI and managed services are also becoming increasingly popular.
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50 Top Tips for Analytics
Like so many other technologies, business intelligence is steadily becoming democratised. A few years ago, BI was the province of IT specialists and business analysts – a relatively niche, expert community. Today, it’s recognised that analytical insight is far more powerful when placed directly into the hands of everyday folk making everyday business decisions.
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How Cloud Integration Is Defining The Future of CRM
Gaining a clear, contextually-based view of customers isn’t easy. Fine-tuning system integration to understand the nuances of customers, gain greater insights and infusing customer intelligence through a company requires more than APIs and cloud platform integration. It requires a precise strategy of integration to align customer data to ongoing strategies.
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What Constitutes an ERP Failure?
It’s often been said that 80% or more of ERP implementations are considered failures. In fact, one of the findings of our 2013 ERP Report is that most ERP projects take longer than expected, cost more than expected, and fail to deliver expected business benefits.
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Restructuring at SAP
SAP has announced important management changes. Vishal Sikka takes charge of all development, Lars Dalgaard, former head CEO of SuccessFactors which was acquired by SAP in February 2012 is out and Bob Calderoni, former CEO Ariba, another acquired company is promoted to global go-to-market for all cloud solutions. All of this is good news for customers. None of this is a surprise.
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Mendix CEO Derek Roos Says “Think Radical” at ABN AMRO’s Entrepreneurship Event
Last week ABN AMRO, one of the largest banks in Western Europe, held a technology entrepreneurship event that aimed to inspire young entrepreneurs to take their businesses to the next level, which in many cases, means to a global scale. Derek should know he won the E&Y Entreprenuer of the year.
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Adopting new mining technology: Finding a balance between leading and bleeding
The mine of the future is coming. It will be digital, more constrained, and it will require a greater investment in leading edge technology. "The good times are gone," said Barloworld Equipment Information Bureau Officer, JP Briggs, who outlined how mines of the future would have to drill deeper, under increased safety and environmental regulations.
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Can ERP Systems be Used to Drive Innovation?
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Organizations that have implemented ERP systems have long complained that deployments are too costly, time consuming and risky, so it is pretty rare that organizations look at ways to leverage enterprise software to drive innovation. Indeed, without the right expertise and guidance, ERP implementations can be difficult, even without the grand ambition of driving innovation.
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SAP Commits to Driving Skills Development and Job Creation in Africa
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Coinciding with Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe's visit to Johannesburg, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the launch of a formal skills development program in SAP Africa. The "Skills for Africa" program is aimed at developing information and communications technology (ICT) skills in Africa as part of SAP's global mission to help the world run better and improve people's lives. SAP's social investment strategy is focused on promoting education and entrepreneurship.
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Oracle preps for cloud ‘fiscal cliff’
Financial analysts have long predicted that the transition to a cloud revenue model for many traditional software companies is likely to be a messy affair. Moving from a license-based revenue model, where customers pay upfront and then a percentage of that as annual maintenance, to a subscription model based on steady monthly payments, inevitably involves something of a fall off a ‘fiscal cliff’ – unless, of course, there’s a formula in place to offset the more painful aspects of that transition.
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Pick of the bunch for Finance from Sapphirenow 2013
It was a memorable SAPPHIRENOW last week with everyone - SAP executives and managers; partners and most importantly customers, confident that strategy of in-memory; mobile and cloud was proving to be a remarkable success that was delivering success after success that everyone was happy to share and celebrate. The keynotes were awesome as ever; but here's my pick of the Finance sessions that I witnessed over the three days of the event.
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Sapphire Now 2013 report card
I'm awarding SAP high marks for clarifying HANA options and a passing grade for talking about a modern user interface badged Fiori. Not approved for graduation? The cloud platform story.
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