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Madison Avenue ooops . . . make that Gartner, names Oracle as a leader in supply chain planning
January 7, 2011
The company was founded in 1979 by Gideon Gartner. Originally a private company, the Gartner Group was launched publicly in the 1980s, then acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi, a London-based advertising agency, and then acquired in 1990 by some of its executives, with funding from Bain Capital and Dun & Bradstreet. In 2001 the name […]
Oracle acquisition of PeopleSoft rated as one of the top 10 hostile takeovers of the decade
December 19, 2010
You have to love the oblivious nature of Enterprise Resource Planning “ERP” vendors who seem to operate in a world of their own without much regard for the clients they serve . . . or don’t serve given the high rate of implementation failures. Take for example Oracle, in which an August 28th, 2009 CIO […]
Jury Orders SAP to Pay Oracle $1.3 Billion: A Discovery Channel Special?
November 24, 2010
This past Sunday on Discovery Channel the first in a series of shows on dinosaurs aired much to the delight of my daughter who, like any child her age, has an active interest (and imagination) regarding these mammoth beasts. In the opening segment, the show focused on the day that the cataclysmic chain reaction of a […]
TomorrowNow Lawsuit Underlines the Fact that to SAP and Oracle, Customers are Nothing More than Chess Pieces in A Wall Street Game
November 9, 2010
TomorrowNow was founded in December 1998 by Andrew Nelson and Seth Ravin, to provide upgrade and technical service to PeopleSoft licensees with large, complex environments. In March 2002, the company changed its business to focus on providing third-party maintenance and support service to companies licensing enterprise software. In January, 2005, TomorrowNow was purchased by SAP […]
A Big Brother with HP, IBM and Oracle Senior Executives?
September 17, 2010
Dear CBS, have I got a great idea for your next Big Brother run . . . execs from HP, IBM and Oracle will bring double crosses, feigned alliances and even a sex scandal to the show. Call me! Related Posts: September 17th, 2010 (Procurement Insights): Drinking the HP Kool-Aid September 17th, 2010 (Procurement Insights): […]
Drinking the HP Kool-Aid
September 17, 2010
ianlevine98 – There is another way to look at this, that HP is only competitor that none of these companies can go head to head with and they are just admitting that working together is the only way they stand a chance to avoid getting run over the by HP train bearing down the tracks […]
The reported detente between Oracle and IBM underlines the true silliness of the industry and suggests a possible Big Brother series!
September 17, 2010
It never ceases to amaze me how ridiculously solipsistic the industry giants can be as they continue to operate in a vacuum of perceived invincibility. Like Hitler in his bunker in the waning days of World War II, the leaders of these organizations continue to plot “market domination” strategies that fail to take into account […]
Interview with Dr. David Wyld reveals that when it comes to SaaS, Oracle’s and SAP’s future will be difficult
September 7, 2010
Posted from the Contracting Intelligence Blog: In today’s PI Window on Business interview “Reversing Attitudes: Why Reverse Auctions May Actually Be Good For Your Purchasing Practice” I had the opportunity to talk with Dr. David Wyld from The Reverse Auction Research Center. During the 60 minute broadcast, which aired live across the Blog Talk Radio […]
While Rome Burns, Jason Busch Talks About Remodelling The City
September 3, 2010
I want to tell you right up front that I do not actually go looking to shoot holes into the concepts or ideas that are presented by the fellow pundits within the purchasing and supply chain world. This is largely due to the fact that being the writer/editor of six blogs (and growing), the number […]
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Will the real Daffy Duck(s) please stand up!
January 21, 2011
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“Let me explain it to you this way Jon,” offered one of my lecturers in a course I was taking . . . “it’s like you are a passenger on the Titanic and after striking the iceberg you run to the Captain’s deck to let him know what happened and discover that the Captain is […]