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Who’s to blame for "Excel hell?"

Who’s to blame for “Excel hell?”

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 | 9 Responses

Why isnt enterprise software more like BMW? And National Hurricane Center?

Why isnt enterprise software more like BMW? And National Hurricane Center?

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 | 1 Response

Monday’s Musing: The Hidden Value In SaaS Deployments

Monday’s Musing: The Hidden Value In SaaS Deployments

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

Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List - Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know

Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List – Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know

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 | 3 Responses

Usability in enterprise Apps: Workday 9

Usability in enterprise Apps: Workday 9

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 | 1 Response

Services Spend App Watch: IQNavigator Launches New UI Leaving Them No Excuses

Services Spend App Watch: IQNavigator Launches New UI Leaving Them No Excuses

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

When Design Meets Ergonomics – And When They Fail Together

When Design Meets Ergonomics – And When They Fail Together

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 | 2 Responses

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