Monthly Archives: January 2011

Make ERP Interesting

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Blimps, like ERP, used to be interesting. Back when only a few were flown a blimp sighting was unusual enough to attract attention, less so today with several different branded blimps and at least one of them flying over just … Continue reading →

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Multi-Tenant ERP Solutions: A Fundamentally Bad Idea

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Lane Nelson

Sometimes, a really good idea gets pushed too far with really bad results. For example, someone once invented a bathroom computer workstation so you can skip the newspaper and roll a computer workstation in front of you and use the … Continue reading →

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Cloud not Cheaper than On Premesis

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Henry Nelson

As the cloud reality replaces the hype machine, sober analysis of costs and benefits is becoming available. Chris Chiappinelli sums it up nicely: A few years ago, there was a rampant assumption that software delivered via cloud computing was automatically … Continue reading →

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Optimizing Dynamics for the Stack

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Microsoft’s latest investment in Dynamics is aimed at developers, not business users. The focus is independent software vendors (ISVs) which build vertical ERPs using Dynamics as a base. The new version, now code-named Microsoft Dynamics AX 6, should reduce the … Continue reading →

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Leader of the Stack

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Henry Nelson

A very interesting post from Josh Greenbaum of ematters frames the ongoing ERP market in terms of the “stack”, the hardware, operating systems, databases, development kits an so on that are behind the curtain of any ERP software product. So, … Continue reading →

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