ForresterWave SAP Service Providers Q2, 2011
The fact because some business are going to other place.
Trends
Chemical Industry Outlook – May 2011 (By Zacks Equity Research)
I have these reports on my reader feed, they are so useful: Share Chemicals are generally used to make a wide variety of consumer goods and are also used in agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and service industries. The chemical industry itself consumes 26% of its own output. Major industrial customers include rubber and plastic products, textiles, … Read more
Why Lotus Notes will die and Cobol will survey?
Just some notes to be read on future. Lotus Notes will die because: The volumes capacities that the companies require cannot be stored by LN. The workflows these applications manage are being moved There are so much companies that are migrating to Exchange. There are not big new customers on LN since some years. What … Read more
Smoke Computing?
Cloud computing? smoke computing? Take care, there are so much people selling smoke computing out there.
Move to a new version
To the question: When companies decide to move to a new version? Some sellers’ reply: when a new version is released, companies love, need, appreciate new features and capabilities of new versions. In other case, they can be loose competitive advantage. Some buyers’ reply: when the current version we have is not supported by the … Read more
MOSS + SAP
I have finished some research where I’m looking for the use of an hybrid solution between SAP + MS-SharePoint.There are so many documentation available in our internal collaborative environment. In addition, to do not limit it to the “my company point of view”. I have found some interesting documents: 1.- SAP workflow approval in BPOS … Read more
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms
Some reading for my summer time: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms There are interesting details that helped me to understand the position of Microsoft in this area and the evolution Business Objects is taking. Open source solutions as Pentaho and Jaspersoft are mentioned but not ranked becuase they do not reach the minimum … Read more
Open source Vs non critical applications
For the critical applications of a portfolio, you usually have a clear strategy at short, medium and long term. Clear strategy and probably an assigned budget aligned with the needs. For those non-critical applications you have in the portfolio the solution is not always good, standard, cheap or simple. You probably have a set of … Read more
Pentaho & BusinessObjects
Somebody told me that try to compare both tools. I don’t know how to compare Pentaho with BusinessObjects, I think that is not an useful exercise, you can find tons of functional comparatives. From my modest knowledge, Pentaho is this type of open source tools that have an excellent growth and that reachs a level … Read more
IT Support evolution
I had some time and a notebook and I wrote this thinking about the IT service support trends. It seems to be a stupid exercise, but it’s funny to see that the concepts offered yesterday, today and probably tomorrow, all are the same. With the risks and fears of the client, it’s more or less … Read more