By Thomas Otter on February 27, 2010
My blogging mojo had left the building for a while, but for better or worse it returned today. When I speak to enterprise software vendors they often moan about Excel. They say it is not secure, and that most spreadsheets contain errors. They preach about the dangers of information silos, of decisions made on old […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged design, enterprise software, erp, excel, Facebook, microsoft, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, shelfware, software as a service, Spreadsheet, ui, usability |
By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 26, 2010
Marc Benioff asks “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?”. And Charles Zedlewski of SAP responds a better question should be “Why isn’t all enterprise software like amazon?” Hey, it is good that enterprise software is looking to more consumery…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Consultants, enterprise software, erp, Facebook, innovation, Marc Benioff, microsoft, oracle, ROI, salesforce.com, sap, usability |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 25, 2010
Gains In SaaS Adoption Driven By Speed And Cost Savings
Preliminary data from Q4 earnings data show continued traction among SaaS solutions. Expect SaaS deployments to gain steam in 2010 as organizations finalize their SaaS apps strategies to take advantage of 7 key benefits:
Richer user experience – SaaS apps bring Web 2.0 usability to the enterprise […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Adobe Air, Apps Strategy, benchmark performance, benchmarking, bill of rights, business impact, contract negotiations, contract strategy, cost reduction, CRM, customer bill of rights, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, HTML 5, implementation, information broker, Information On Demand, Information Week, innovation, Microsoft Silverlight, prediction, rapid implementation, SaaS, SaaS Bill of Rights, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, scalability, software as a service, software bill of rights, software contract reviews, software escrow, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, Software Vendors, strategy, subscription pricing, trending, upgrade, usability, User Experience, ux, vendor strategy
By R "Ray" Wang on January 6, 2010
High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1). In addition, rapidly changing business […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 3PM, adobe, ALM, application extension and usability, application life cycle management, Apps Strategy, archiving, CIO, cost reduction, customer experience management, disaster recovery, DR, EMC, enterprise applications, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, ERP-Link, Friday's Feature, GuiXT, HA, Hayes Technology, high availability, Hyperformix, ibm, IBM Optim, IntelliCorp, license management, license policy, license returns, long term apps strategy, maintenance fees, Microsoft integration, Microsoft Office, optimization, partner ecosystems, RainStor, rimini street, sap, SAP Duet, secondary market, shelfware, software bill of rights, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software pricing, Storage, SusenSoftware, Synactive, The SAP Optimization List, Third Party Maintenance, Tidal Software, Tuesday's Tip, ue, ui, upgrades, usability, used software, UsedSoft, User Experience, user interaction, user strategy, users, virtualization, VM Ware, VMware, West Trax, Winshuttle |
By Dennis Moore on November 21, 2009
Usability in Enterprise ApplicationsI recently saw a video of Workday 9, and was not impressed with the apparent usability of one of the highly touted features of this release. I tweeted my impression, and got a quick and friendly response from the te…
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged oracle, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, software as a service, usability, User Experience, workday |
By Jason Busch on November 17, 2009
As someone who considers himself more of a business user and analyst than a developer or technologist — despite some close revenge of the nerd personal run-ins from time-to-time — I?ll confess that I sometimes get more excited than I should about h…
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged IQN, IQN10, iqnavigator, SaaS, sap, software as a service, Spend Management, ui, usability, user interface
By Zoli Erdos on November 7, 2009
Styling and ergonomics don’t always go hand in hand. And sometimes they fail together…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, design, ergonomics, Mac, magic mouse, openoffice, openofficemouse, usability |
