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A couple of years ago, the Harvard Business Review ran an article on Radically Simple IT that noted that the fundamental problem with enterprise IT projects, which continue to be a headache for business leaders, is that these systems are constructed using a cathedral approach. Like the great cathedrals erected in Europe in the middle ages, enterprise IT projects are costly, take a great deal of time, and deliver value only when the project is completed. Furthermore, they yield systems that are inflexible and cement companies into functioning the way their businesses worked several years ago, when the …

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Money’s tight, the recession is still in full swing, everyone’s telling you to get a good deal, you’re starting to fall for “freeconomics”, and that’s a BAD thing. Anderson’s Claim that $0.00 is the Future of Business is false. Just because something, like the cost of software, is trending towards 0, that doesn’t [...]

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Last week, Wired was on a Crowdsourcing kick that was pretty hard to miss if you were even a casual reader. Crowdsourcing, a topic I first tackled in Purchasing Innovation VI, then in Cambrian House: Crowdsourced Software, and more recently Democratizing Innovation Vs. Crowdsourcing is the process of delegating various tasks for which you [...]

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Crowdsourcing, as I noted in CrowdSourcing (Purchasing Innovation VI) and Cambrian House: Crowdsourced Software, which can be defined as the process of delegating various tasks for which you do not have the manpower or expertise from internal production to external entities or affiliations of networked persons with the expertise, access to, or raw capabilities that [...]

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The press-release hits the wire later today, but ISM started yesterday, and thus your chance to see the new version of Coupa’s Enterprise Procurement Platform is here! It’s not only Purchasing Simplified, it’s the next evolution of on-demand procurement for the small and mid-sized enterprise.

The enterprise version of Coupa not only supports the [...]

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I’ve known for awhile now, but wanted to wait for the Press Release to congratulate Don publicly for taking over as CEO of Compiere. Jorg Janke, Founder, has done an amazing job over the years building an ERP system with nothing but blood, sweat, and tears. Now it’s time for them to get big…
Don ran [...]

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As you may recall, Sourcing Innovation was one of the first blogs to bring you a detailed preview of Coupa, the revolutionary new enterprise open-source e-Procurement application from Silicon Valley. One of the most interesting aspects of this technology is that it is being built on Ruby on Rails (RoR), as discussed by co-founder Dave [...]

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ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning – the be-all and end-all of business software – all of your transactional data in one place – everything you need to run your business – only seven figures! That was the promise.
The reality is much different. Seven figures for the software license. Multiples of that for the installation. [...]

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Yesterday I was fortunate enough to have a long chat with Dave Stephens, fellow blogger (Procurement Central) and founder of Coupa. We talked about a number of topics (and I’ll post more when I get the chance), including what Coupa is focusing on for their next enterprise release as they slowly grow (and set up [...]

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I enjoyed a review in VARBusiness on how the US Federal Government is getting behind the open source movement. It’s all about cost – and not just initial acquisition cost but the cost of integration, customization, and ongoing enhancement and maintenance. It’s good to see the US beginning to understand the movement – although in [...]

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