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I didn't get that memo

August 20, 2009 Innovation

My pitching partner on all things maintenance Vinnie Mirchandani tells me “It’s Time to Get the Accountants in the Data Center.” Harrumph – I didn’t get that memo not that it is something many CFO/FD types would find particularly interesting. At least not until they’ve taken Vinnie’s refresher course in how data centres can suck [...]

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Beware cloudy fashion trends

March 30, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I see that Intacct’s Daniel Druker is noodling ‘The Cloud’ I’ve been having lots of meetings with thought leaders from the accounting profession lately – in one last week I heard that Intacct should start talking about “cloud computing” instead of SaaS or on-demand or Internet and in the other that the best way to [...]

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What is SAP afraid of?

January 29, 2009 General

Yesterday’s news that SAP hit its targets for growth etc in 2008 while announcing 3,000 job cuts was largely well received. For my part, I see this as a time for opportunity. SAP has Business ByDesign hanging in the wind and seems to have few plans for its future. I don’t understand this. My estimate [...]

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Why I've blown the PR gaff

December 4, 2008 General

Danny Bradbury took the time to shoot a well thought through response to my ‘PR is so over‘ rant. (And thanks to all who agreed or not, often making reasonable points.) It suddenly dawned on me why I was saying what I was, which goes way beyond my ire at the PR industry. Rather than [...]

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