April 2008

CODA2go almost ready to go

April 30, 2008 General

Yesterday I got a sneak preview of CODA2go, CODA‘s on-demand solution that builds onto Salesforce.com‘s force.com platform. It’s impressive. I’ve written a good amount of detail here but my take for this blog is somewhat different. A bit of history – I’ve known CODA for more years than both of us care to remember. They [...]

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 29th through April 30th

April 30, 2008 Asides

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for April 29th through April 30th: Techdirt: The Smear Campaign Against Larry Lessig And Free Culture – If you care at all about the thinking behind open source then this smear campign is a disgrace. You have to ask who funds these nut jobs. Oh. My. God. Marvel Moves To [...]

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Steve Pipe's take on the best and worst

April 30, 2008 General

When I saw Steve Pipe’s analysis of practice performance my initial reaction was ‘thank goodness, someone gets it.’ Now I’m not quite so sure. Here’s what he said about the worst and best performing practices and action for the future: On the supply side, many firms don’t make full use of leading edge systems and [...]

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C'mon Deloitte, time to pay up

April 29, 2008 General

A Counting School has the full details of three out of the Big Four finally poneying up for overtime they’ve illegally witheld from non-CA staff in Canada – those outside of skinflint Quebec that is. The only firm conspicuous by its absence is Deloitte? Why? You can’t tell me that they’ve been paying up all [...]

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SAP Business ByDesign delayed

April 29, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Just as I am preparing to head off for meetings with SAP at their annual customer conference in Orlando and with representatives at a gathering of Business for Social Responsibility, news has come in that general availability of SAP Business ByDesign is almost certainly going to be delayed through 2009. Details as to why the [...]

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NetSuite on BT Business: will it work?

April 29, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I’m somewhat late on this not that it matters. Stuart Lauchlan has the details of a deal which sees NetSuite (and SugarCRM) get a distribution leg up using BT Business. According to Stuart, Zach Nelson, NetSuite’s CEO is bullish about the arrangement while acknowledging the difficulties of the past: Frankly it was too early for [...]

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Zoho's serious move on Excel

April 28, 2008 General

I’ve written a brief review cum opinion piece about Zoho‘s announcement that it’s added limited support for Visual Basic macros and pivot tables to its spreadsheet service. I’ve also posed a question to Simon Hurst about this over at IT Counts (private registration, sorry) where I ask whether in his opinion these new additions represent [...]

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 28th

April 28, 2008 Asides

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for April 28th: Microsoft Says Yes With Mesh – You need your brain in high gear to fully comprehend what Steve Gillmor's trying to say here. The effort is worth it Morgan Stanley’s March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating – If you have any interest in consumer trends in [...]

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The Janus faces of taxation

April 28, 2008 General

In Roman mythology Janus is the god of doorways and gates. I see him as the epitome of how some people like to argue the ethics of taxation and specifically the non-dom issue. Richard Murphy takes Simon McKie to task over his convoluted logic in applying an ethical dimension to the debate: The significance of [...]

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