Dovetail Daily Links 2008-04-17

Dovetail Software — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:15:00 GMT

ERP Implementation Surprises and How To Deal With Them

"The amount of time and expense required to eliminate all surprises is unjustified. An organization has thousands of business procedures. The new software has millions of lines of code. Design and Testing are important, but my rule of thumb is after two test cycles, the cost of the test cycle outweighs the benefit."

Thought Leadership Grows Around Advancing ‘WOA Plus SOA’ as Enterprise-cloud Duo

"The logic is not to supplant or dismiss Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but rather to examine how WOA — also known as lightweight, Web 2.0 applications development and deployment — should provide an onramp to and stepping stone for SOA generally. WOA and SOA together — in a harmony that unlocks both the power of cloud computing and of traditional enterprise architectures — presents a very interesting future indeed."

Business Systems for a Faster, Flatter World

"Business decision-makers in today’s highly connected world feel a pressing need to have access to accurate, real-time data when they make decisions, and conventional midmarket business software doesn’t give them that, especially if they operate internationally or across multiple business units. Only the largest multinationals have the resources to fix those integration challenges with costly consolidations of their SAP or Oracle infrastructures."

How To Choose Among The Four Bright Lights Of BI

"Last year, it was about massive consolidation in the business intelligence market. This year, it's about making decisions. The four largest vendors are promising the world: 'Need an entire infrastructure for all of your BI and data management needs? We've got it. Want to give hundreds more employees the power of business intelligence? We can do that, too.' They each want you to buy their vision of a BI platform. Understanding their strategies will help you decide whether to listen or walk away."

Marketers Missing the Boat on Customer Data

"'The bottom line for us is there are many ways to grow your business, and in an economically constrained environment, you've got to become a lot smarter,' Neale-May said. 'You need to keep customers and monetize customers. To do that, it's not about spending money on media, it's about spending money on customer engagement, customer loyalty, customer affinity and customer word of mouth.'"

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Dovetail Daily Links 2008-04-17