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Appirio tallies the technical debt in your Salesforce instance

Appirio tallies the technical debt in your Salesforce instance

By Phil Wainewright on September 20, 2012

Frequent customization of Salesforce can threaten the business agility of the platform. Appirio’s new tool helps you assess the damage.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged AppExchange, Appirio, df12, Narinder Singh, salesforce.com, technical debt

The Other Debt Crisis

The Other Debt Crisis

By Brian Sommer on November 29, 2011

Not every software vendor is the same. Some meticulously maintain their products and keep customers delighted with current technology. Others let maintenance lapse until it’s almost too late. This technical debt picture gets more woozy when acquisitions, the cloud and other factors enter the picture.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, software as a service, technical debt

The Scourge of HRM Software — Technical Debt

The Scourge of HRM Software — Technical Debt

By Naomi Bloom on November 16, 2011

I spent a very intense week last July in Silicon Valley meeting mostly full days each with Workday, SuccessFactors, Taleo, Saba and SAP, and would like to start this post with a huge and very public thank you to all of these vendors for their time, their preparations, and their hospitality.  I’ve also been doing […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged "Killer" HRMDS Scenarios, Debunking/Calling Out, HRM Software, Models/Modeling, Preferred Architectural Behaviors, SaaS, talent management, technical debt, Vendor Briefings/Demos

The Cloud Keeps Companies and Software Young by Simplifying Complexity

The Cloud Keeps Companies and Software Young by Simplifying Complexity

By Bob Warfield on December 13, 2010

Two of my fellow Enterprise Irregulars, Michael Krigsman and Naomi Bloom recently published dynamite posts that got me thinking.  Michael’s post asks whether Salesforce (and by extension, the rest of the Cloud world) can retain its youthful Mojo, or whether they will, “sacrifice customer delight to features, functions, process, and conformity for its own sake […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Asuret, Cloud, Complexity Debt, Enterprise Irregulars, Legacy Debt, strategy, technical debt

Gartners IT Debt Scare

Gartners IT Debt Scare

By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 26, 2010

Gartner made a name starting in the mid-90s forecasting the estimated cumulative cost of Y2K remediation. I was there – and the big numbers it bandied about helped focus enterprises on the core problem. But it also led to hype, panic buying (and …

Posted in Business | Tagged gartner, IT debt, maintenance, SaaS, Six Sigma, software as a service, technical debt

Walk Away From Your IT Debt With SaaS

Walk Away From Your IT Debt With SaaS

By Phil Wainewright on September 24, 2010

A new report from industry analyst Gartner says that IT departments around the world have deferred a collective half-billion dollars’ worth of projects and upgrades that they really should have done already but didn’t have the time or resources to…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged assetmanagement, economics, gartner, IT debt, SaaS, software as a service, softwareasaservice, technical debt

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