The Power Revolution and the Cloud Computing Revolution In the late 1800′s and early 1900′s the power revolution caused people to rethink the way that tasks were performed. Electrical creation, transmission, and delivery standards caused power to become more available and much less expensive. This encouraged the invention of new tools to perform everyday...
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All indicators are that US manufacturing, one of the segments hardest hit by the economic slow down, is having a strong revival in 2011. About the Manufacturing Recovery As reported in the Financial Times, manufacturing is the strongest sector in US economy, with annual estimated rate of 9.1 percent in the first quarter compared...
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Changing Role of the ERP Manager In a traditional ERP deployment all ERP related tasks are performed in house. In this case the ERP Manager is responsible for a team of employees that can manage servers, update software, configure the application, oversee data backups, and other system related tasks. All of these tasks will...
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Good Clouds and Bad Clouds Recent weather events including flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, tornados from Northern California to Oklahoma, thunderstorms from Illinois to New York, and heat alerts in the Southeast have demonstrated the impact of ‘bad clouds’ on business and data availability. I’ve often heard the phrase “you have to...
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Many say that by deploying ERP software on an external cloud, businesses gain on-demand scalability and eliminate server capacity planning. In this post we investigate whether it’s possible to eliminate all capacity planning issues when deploying on an external cloud. Yes, no planning needed With the Cloud, you simply turn on more service as...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently declared that the company is “all in” when it comes to cloud computing technology, announcing plans to update their stable of legacy ERPs to run on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. In this post, I’ll make a few comments to provide the Openbravo perspective. No Big Surprise First, this move...
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