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Could SAP be right for you?

September 11, 2009 Featured

I’ve just spent a whirlwind 30 hours in London as the guest of SAP talking to the Business By Design people, SME customers and channel partners. It’s been interesting. Over the next few days I’ll post some videos of customer reactions to using SAP products and services aimed at this segment. As a taster, here’s [...]

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XBRL and the New Four

February 25, 2009 General

If you have any interest at all in reporting then this last week has been a big one for XBRL, the emerging technology that will change the way global reporting is undertaken. I counted 28 pieces on searchTwitter in the last two days alone. However, the most important pieces did not appear in the technical [...]

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Twinfield adds XBRL, snags Deloitte

February 23, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Twinfield was the first saas vendor I looked at in any depth but for whatever reason, I’m darned if I can find the in depth review I conducted Here is the review I conducted some three and a half-ish years ago. Since then, Twinfield has progressed steadily and now boasts 29,853 paying customers, most of [...]

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Leo the ring master

October 20, 2008 General

Leo Apotheker from Dennis Howlett on Vimeo. I spent the last day – yes day – poring over the SAP keynote and subsequent press/analyst/blogger session from last week’s TechEd. I was at both but wanted to be doubly certain I’d heard certain statements correctly. There are many nuggets in co-CEO Leo Apotheker’s tightly packed and [...]

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David Carter's guide to forecasting: avoid

September 19, 2008 General

It is rare that I read something that is so nonsensical as to be misleading but David Carter’s guide to forecasting and budgeting is plain wrong on multiple levels. But let’s start with what he gets at least half right. In reference to forecasting: This specialist task is more concerned with data collection and is [...]

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People who matter: Craig Cmehil and jet lag

August 16, 2008 General

While stuck in Madrid airport, I tuned into the Friday Morning Report (FMR) run by Craig Cmehil. The topic du jour was ‘Jet Lag” and the ensuing conversation was hilarious. It’s one of those ‘you had to be there’ times but even so, the replay should provide enough flavour to get a sense of the [...]

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