ERP News
I KNEW this internet thing was just a fad…just like SaaS
2020 Editors Note: Early summer, 2012, Facebook went through an IPO (Initial Public Stock Offering) and the stock failed to sell for the target price. At the time, Facebook hadn't really hit upon a way to create regular 'revenue' and was mostly cat pictures and Candy...
We do things differently around here
In a recent speech to some ERP customers, I was making the point that when implementing business software - the urge to customize is an opportunity. Not an opportunity to turn your company into a software development house, but an opportunity to improve your...
CDC Software – Happy Days are Here Again?
Don't know if it's time to strike up the band and belt out Happy Days are Here again at CDC Software - but the last few week's news can only be positive. Back in August of last year I'd written some observations under the headline "Watching the Wheels Come Off" about...
Didn’t see THAT coming….
Over the past few years, lots of really big companies have been blindsided by concepts, competitors and market forces that, with all their millions of dollars and thousands of really smart employees, never seemed to see coming. But you have nothing to worry...
ERP – Huge Mistake or Horrible Idea
Editor's note: The following post was published in 2011 - an upcoming book manuscript was in the editing process but had to be scrapped in early 2012, since the book basically said 'financial information in the cloud will never catch on' and about that time all of our...
Watching the Wheels Come Off
From 2005 to 2009, I worked for CDC Software in the Food and Beverage group - worked with a lot of great people, had some great successes, worked with some wonderful clients - but the company fell on hard times. Last week, (Aug 8) things at CDC hit bottom. The...