Cloud ERP: Use RACB to separate the apples and oranges
May 17, 2013IT leaders are quickly getting up to speed with the ABCs of cloud computing. It’s not the ABCs, however, that are causing grief; it’s the ERPs. Cloud-based ERP is rapidly becoming an area of key interest for IT leaders and … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged Cloud ERP, enterprise resource planning, ERP, Hosted ERP, NetSuite, Oracle Fusion Applications, SaaS ERP, SAP Business ByDesign | Leave a comment
Eloqua told: “Ho! Ho! Ho-Oracle! Merry aquisiti-mas!”
December 21, 2012The longest day of the year did not bring the end of the world. It did, however, bring an exciting announcement from that consistent purveyor of acquisition news: Oracle. Oracle is acquiring Eloqua for $871-million in cash.The move marks Oracle’s commitment to … Continue reading
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The Evolution of Web Content Management: A tool for both IT and marketing professionals
December 11, 2012Web Content Management (WCM) was the darling technology of the late 1990s. It was positioned as a tool to help IT overcome the complexities of hand-coding web pages and publishing them to the web. The use case for WCM has … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged content-management, lma, marketing, wcm, web experience management, web-content-management, wem | Comments Off
Q: “How Do I Manage my Email?”
September 24, 2012I was recently discussing email management with a member of the Info-Tech community. She asked: “Well, what do you do about email?” It’s always dangerous to ask an analyst an open question! Email dependence is a bad thing. We are … Continue reading
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Zoos and Radio Control Collars: Revisiting In-place Indexing and Classification
September 12, 2012It all began six years ago. I wrote a note about the pain of managing content and commented that there were two distinct approaches. The first way is to build a highly structured and controlled repository with SharePoint or from … Continue reading
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