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The End of One Era and the Beginning of Another

by Jim Holincheck | December 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

As I reflect on SAP’s agreement to acquire SuccessFactors, it takes me back to 2004. At the end of that year, after a long, bitter takeover battle, Oracle finally acquired PeopleSoft. Everything felt different. It was the end of an era. No longer did we have the JBLOPS (J.D, Edwards, Baan, Lawson, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and [...]

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Category: SAP Software as a Service Talent Management Application Suites Uncategorized Tags: Enterprise Software, ERP, SaaS, SAP

Business Software Innovation – Not One Size Fits All

by Jim Holincheck | February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

Vinnie Mirchandani’s post got me thinking about business application innovation. In my mind, the first step to identify where innovation is most appropriate. Geoffrey Moore does a great job defining "Core" vs. "Context" in his books. Core are the processes that provide competitive differentiation. Context is pretty much everything else. What is Core vs. Context [...]

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Category: Uncategorized Tags: ERP

Certification of Implementation Consultants

by Jim Holincheck | January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments

Let me state up front that this post is my personal opinion, not a Gartner opinion. Dennis Howlett posted on ZDNet about a debate on certification of consultants. There is a good discussion there of some of the viewpoints. I believe certification has some value in some cases, but customers should not rely on certifications [...]

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Category: Uncategorized Tags: ERP, Systems Integrators

The Changing Face (and Needs) of Enterprise Application Users

by Jim Holincheck | October 15, 2008 | Comments Off

I did a presentation yesterday Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo about how to align IT with ERP, CRM, and SCM users. I thought I made a pretty compelling case. Most CIOs think that IT does not lacks the flexibility to respond to business change, that it could do more to deliver technology innovations needed by the business, and [...]

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Category: Human Capital Management Tags: CRM, ERP, HCM, SCM