A lucid read from AMR Research (I found this by way of The ERP Graveyard), which nicely discusses issues involved in enterprise software consolidation. I’m linking to this because I just mentioned in my previous post, the notion that the Infors (Golden Gate Capitals) of the world may be buying all the enterprise software vendors [...]
I just read Alex Fletcher’s first piece of the Open Source Software Bedrock. He delineates three layers, namely, evaluation, adoption, and integration. Evaluation is what the other layers get stacked upon and altogether these make what he’s described as a supporting foundation for the policies, practices, and standards of the software’s life cycle. It seems [...]
Martin Schneider at The 451 Group commented on whether the collective “we” can be too jaded regarding some proprietary vendors’ apparent embrace of open source methods. This was in response to a piece by Dave Rosenberg and Matt Asay about subverting open source for sake of certain marketing purposes. Rosenberg and Asay essentially say that [...]
Today, I had a conversation with a consulting firm that works with TEC‘s decision support tools and knowledge bases (KBs) on enterprise software. In this case, they were engaged in an ERP selection project. The consulting firm was asking me about the data accuracy (in our KB) regarding the functionality of some of the vendors [...]
Niall at NetDimensions Insights wrote up two nice pieces pointing out a few ways that people seeking a learning management system can use low-cost tools to compare the different offerings out there. He mentioned both the Brandon Hall feature comparison document as well as the LMS RFI templates that Technology Evaluation Centers offers–this is what [...]
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