Author Archives: Henry Nelson

ERP Lessons Learned

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Frank Scavo posts an excellent review of the history of and lessons learned from ERP systems over the past 20 years. Both Frank’s post, and his keynote video are well worth your time. Some key points from the post: ERP … Continue reading →

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Head in the Clouds

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Henry Nelson

ERP analyst Derek Singleton posted a paean to the SaaS variant of cloud computing. With his head firmly in the clouds looking for rainbows covering five points, Derek does trip over one salient feature of modern computing—the user experience should … Continue reading →

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Is Enterprise Integration the Next Hurdle for the Cloud?

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Stephanie Neil poses an interesting question on whether SaaS and Cloud solutions create as much work in enterprise integration as they solve in reduced hardware and storage management. Enter software as a service (SaaS) applications, which might seem to be … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Justification for Cloud ERP

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Chris Chappinelli identifies what may be the most important justification for moving your ERP to the cloud – cyber-security. Given the increasing complexity and frequency of attacks on customer and employee data, many IT departments are ill prepared to face … Continue reading →

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Promise of the Cloud

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Henry Nelson

What, exactly, is Cloud Computing? Some degree of skepticism about cloud computing is understandable. The marketing hype surrounding it smacks of previous campaigns by consultants and technology companies to lure corporate investment. To wit: Y2K paranoia, dot.com hysteria and fiber … Continue reading →

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Reliability of Cloud vs On-Premises Software

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Lauren Carlson at Software Advice makes the point that the cloud reliability problems we have seen lately should not be considered in isolation. That is a very helpful point. She holds up the service level agreement as guarantor of cloud … Continue reading →

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Some Problems Don’t Change

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Henry Nelson

[ed. this is the CEO presentation from the HarrisData User Conference of May 22-25]. Logistics: The Soldier’s Perspective “Troops in action should never have to turn their backs on the enemy to fetch further supplies” “Troops should not be encumbered … Continue reading →

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Cloud Reliability Stumbles

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Henry Nelson

Some big names in the cloud world tripped up over the past few weeks, raising questions of how reliable cloud delivery of enterprise software actually is. How big a deal were these outages? First to stumble was Amazon.com’s cloud services … Continue reading →

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Bureaucracy Blamed for Bad Decisions

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Henry Nelson

As Einstein famously stated, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” According to a Wall Street Journal article this morning (Don Clark and; Shara Tibken, “Cisco to Reduce Its Bureaucracy”) Cisco CEO John Chambers … Continue reading →

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When Do Anecdotes become a Trend?

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Henry Nelson

It is dangerous to extrapolate a trend from isolated reports, especially in a volatile environment such as the current world economy. It may be just as dangerous to ignore anecdotes concerning a change in a major trend. Fortunately, Auric Goldfinger … Continue reading →

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