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EMatters a blog by Joshua Greenbaum of Enterprise Applications Consulting, takes the customer’s point of view on topics related to business, technology and strategic go-to-market activities around the total enterprise software experience.
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2y ago
I’m serious. The more I look into the problems of technology in service of the enterprise, the more I see the insidious hand of siloed technology, siloed business processes, and siloed employees wreaking havoc across the business world. We dream ..read more
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2y ago
The starting point for this post was a conversation with an industry veteran about innovation, in which he opined: “SAP doesn’t innovate anymore. How come they don’t have something like HoloLens?” I’ve been pondering that declaration for a while. I ..read more
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2y ago
One of my beefs with the enterprise software industry is the pretense that a particular app vendor “owns” a customer and, by implication, has a footprint at said customer all the way from the C-suite to cubicle-land. Reality, for the ..read more
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2y ago
This week’s keynote for SAP’s SAPPHIRE conference was intended as a teaser for several ensuing weeks of content, an embarrassment of riches that will be hard for any single individual to navigate successfully. So with all due respect to the ..read more
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2y ago
I’ve been an independent industry analyst since 1991, a niche I began to carve out for myself when I was based in Europe as a freelance journalist and turned into a full time job by the time I returned to ..read more
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2y ago
SAP’s big RISE announcement this month was billed as a watershed event, and indeed it was. Moving big enterprises dependent on old technology onto modern cloud platforms that support modern processes is a laudable goal, to say the least. That ..read more
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2y ago
Some 15 years ago I wrote the blog post below as a column for a magazine long-since defunct, ironically killed by the impact of the Web 2.0 forces I describe on print media. I think I got it right in ..read more
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2y ago
I’m posting this in the aftermath of a week-long Twitter detox, in which I spent an entire week NOT opening Twitter on any device. Ever. It was surprisingly easy, and, not surprisingly, a very positive experience for my mental health ..read more
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2y ago
Last week I removed the penultimate vestige of a relationship with Amazon that has lasted 15 years: my Echo Dot was summarily retired, and in its place I installed a Bluetooth receiver for my old but awesome circa-1990s stereo. I ..read more
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2y ago
One of my secret nerdy activities is to peruse the Uline catalog. In case you never have, this 800-plus page catalog is a compendium of “shipping, industrial, and packaging materials” that fundamentally defines what it takes to be a manufacturer ..read more