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Product Review: Google+, Consumerization of IT, and Crossing The Chasm For Enterprise Social Business

Published on July 3, 2011 by R "Ray" Wang

Timing of Google+ Bodes Well For Enterprise Users And Google

Lately, one could say Google’s been a bit absent from the social business party.  The premature launch of Google Wave exposed a canvas looking for a masterpiece painting.  Failing fast and learning from the Google Wave lesson, Google’s latest offering, Google+ shows promise in bringing similar disruptive technology concepts to market, yet packaged in easier to adopt metaphors such as activity streams, walls, hangouts, and circles (see Figure 1).

As part of Google’s aspirations to deliver enterprise offerings, it’s flagship Google Apps continues to gain traction in enterprises despite a market position that places the product between a very strong pro-sumer play and an almost enterprise app.  The good news – a constant stream of incremental changes shows an evolution to an enterprise class offering built from a strong consumer bent.  As of this posting, Google Apps isn’t integrated with G+, but Google’s enterprise ambitions have been strengthened with the new offering.

Figure 1.  Logging Into Google+

Convergence And Shift To A P2P World Enables GooglePlus To Go After Both Consumers And Enterprises

Google+ launch comes at an exciting time of convergence among the mega trends for the decade: social business, mobile enterprise, cloud computing, and unified communications.  The five pillars of Consumerization of IT (CoIT) fall in Google’s favor as consumer users rapidly seek to bring these innovations into their enterprises.  Subsequently, Google+ already takes advantage of Google’s assets to:

  • Unify the communications channels. Enterprises spend millions trying to get their fragmented communications systems to work, let alone integrate.  Google+ takes chats, emails, tweets, voice, mobile, and video and rolls it all up neatly into one offering.  More importantly, it works off of one login and its integrated.  Key video features such as Hangouts allow for impromptu video con calls without the hassle of most other video conferencing systems.
  • Provide an initial alternative to Facebook for the enterprise offerings. Procurement managers and line of business buyers face Cloud/SaaS best of breed hell as a flurry of purpose built solutions attack the enterprise IT landscape.  Should Google stream line convergent offerings for the enterprise, it will be poised to dethrone many incumbents.  Google can only succeed if they can match functional parity over the next 12 to 18 months.  Keep in mind, the long-term goal goes beyond Facebook for the enterprise.
  • Aggregate the user’s social sphere. Facing near term social networking overload, enterprise users can’t possibly fathom another social networking service.  Aggregation by a major player makes sense from a market position and user convenience. Google’s initial list allows users to notate key services in their profiles through connected accounts from Facebook, Yahoo!, Flickr, LinkedIn, Quaora, Twitter, Yelp, Hotmail, and Plaxo (see Figure 2). A quick look into the codes shows that these connection services potentially can support a Microsoft Outlook email, an SAP feed, or Salesforce.com Chatter stream and may potentially support direct integrations in future road maps.

Figure 2.  Google+ Delivers Social Sphere Aggregation With Ease

Adding Connections on GooglePlus

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Monday’s Musings: Reflections On Obama And The False Hope For A Tech Halo

Published on February 21, 2011 by R "Ray" Wang

President Obama’s Visit Reflects The Importance Of Silicon Valley To The US Economy
By now everyone’s seen and re-seen the photo showing the tech-centric dinner at John Doerr’s house in Woodside, CA on February 17th, 2011 (see Figure 1).  With a guest list that included most of the “Captains of the Tech Industry” it would have been great to be a fly on the wall that night to hear what was the secret to innovation and how we could improve education.  On many levels, the dinner and the publicity surrounding the visit did emphasize:

  • The President’s desire to rub off the tech halo. For the White House, here was a chance to highlight an area of the economy that has managed to survive the global meltdown by out innovating the competition.  President Obama’s State of the Union talked about how a tech led job creation would be a key component of recovery.  The valley served as a great backdrop to show where this was already happening.
  • How lobbying does pay off for the Valley. For tech leaders in the valley, here was a chance to bend the President’s ear on a number of policies and reap the benefits of all the money spent lobbying.  In fact, among the 10 guests, MAPlight.org showed $735,000 given to the President’s party among the overall $913,000 contributed to all political candidates.  I would expect more official economic delegations and trade missions to come from the renewed focus on tech.  Many tech firms pondering the need for strong government affairs teams regained religion.
  • The state of Steve Jobs’ health. Good news!  Steve seemed healthy enough to dine with the President. After all the trash talk in the papers, a picture proved enough to quiet the critics.  Yes, that wasn’t a stunt double like Kim Jong Il!  In fact, the picture quelled all rumors.

Figure 1. President Obama’s Tech Centric Dinner Photo Op

Credits: White House Press Office.  Attendees include: Carol Bartz, President and CEO, Yahoo!; John Chambers, CEO and Chairman, Cisco Systems; Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter; John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Larry Ellison, Co-Founder and CEO, Oracle; Reed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix; John Hennessy, President, Stanford University; Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO, Apple; Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO, Genentech; Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google; Steve Westly, Managing Partner and Founder, The Westly Group; Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, President, and CEO, Facebook

Success In The Valley Stems From The Hard Work And Investment From…<GASP> Other Countries

One can only imagine the reasons punted around that night on why Silicon Valley is successful in delivering on concept to cash.  It’s true – the valley enjoys many of the assets that bring out innovation and helps the US lead with high tech jobs.  We have a top notch workforce.  We have several great universities.  We have a history of entrepreneurship.  We have access to funding and capital.  Many would think these elements were endemic to Silicon Valley.  Unfortunately, that’s not true.

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Research Report: Microsoft Partners – Before Adopting Azure, Understand the 12 Benefits And Risks

Published on July 11, 2010 by R "Ray" Wang

It’s All About The Cloud At WPC10

Attendees at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C. already expect Windows Azure development to be a key theme throughout this annual pilgrimage.  Microsoft has made significant investments into the cloud.   Many executives from the Redmond, WA, software giant have publicly stated that 90% of its development will be focused on the Cloud by 2012.  Delivery of the Cloud begins with the Azure platform which includes three main offerings:

  1. Microsoft Windows Azure
  2. Microsoft SQL Azure (formerly SQL Services)
  3. Microsoft Windows Azure Platform: AppFabric (formerly .NET Services).

Therefore, Microsoft partners must determine their strategy based on what part of the cloud they plan to compete in and which Azure services to leverage.  As with any cloud platform, the four layers include infrastructure, orchestration, creation, and consumption (see Figure 1):

  • Infrastructure. At a minimum, Windows Azure provides the infrastructure as a service.  Data center investments and the related capital expense (capex) is replace with oeprational expenses (opex).  Most partners will take advantage of Azure at the infrastructure level or consider alternatives such as Amazon EC2 or even self provision hosting on partner servers and hardware.
  • Orchestration. Microsoft Windows Azure Platform: AppFabric delivers the key “middleware” layers.  AppFabric includes an enterprise service bus to connect across network and organizational boundaries.  AppFabric also delivers access control security for federated authorization.  Most partners will leverage these PaaS tools.  However, non-Microsoft tools could include advanced SaaS integration, complex event processing, business process management, and richer BI tools.  The Windows AppFabric July release now supports Adobe Flash and Microsoft SilverLight.
  • Creation. Most partners will build solutions via VisualStudio and Microsoft SQL Azure (formerly SQL Services).  Other creation tools could include Windows Phone7 and even Java.  Most partners expect to use the majority of tools from Microsoft and augment with third party solutions as needed.
  • Consumption. Here’s where partners will create value added solutions for sale to customers.  Partners must build applications that create market driven differentiators.  For most partners, the value added solutions in the consumption layer will provide the highest margin and return on investment (ROI).

.NET:.NET (tongue and cheek here) – Microsoft partners and developers can transfer existing skill sets and move to the cloud with ease, once Microsoft irons out the business model for partners on Azure.

Figure 1. Partners Must Determine Which Layer To Place Strategic Bets

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Wednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers – January 2010

Published on January 26, 2010 by R "Ray" Wang

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES*

As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In.

Roger Bottum became VP of Marketing at SpringCM, a SaaS content management player this past November.  Roger formerly served as Acresso Software’s SVP of Marketing. Other senior marketing roles include work for companies such as Axentis, Endeavor Information Systems, and Arrowsight.  Other companies include  System Software Associates, Accenture, and Pansophic Systems.

David Buckholtz has been promoted from Vice President, Enterprise Technology & Quality at Sony Pictures Entertainment to Vice-President, Divisional CIO of Enterprise & Corporate Technology at Sony Pictures. Previous roles include Senior Architect at GXS and Chief Architect and Six Sigma Blackbelt at General Electric.

Gerard Corbett, APR, Fellow, PRSA is now Board Director at ADP Technology (Asia) Ltd and Secretary and Member of the Board of Directors at Public Relations Society of America. Corbett brings significant PR experience with work as the Co-Chair, The 2008 International Conference at Public Relations Society of America, and VP and Genera Manager at Hitachi America, Ltd.

Michael Corkery was appointed as CFO for Deltek.  Previous roles include serving as the CFO and Acting CEO for ICO Global Communications.  Corkery’s experience reflects a telecommunications technology background with other executive roles at Current Group, LLC; Nextel Communications; Berliner Communications, XO Communications, and AT&T Wireless

Stephen DePooter is now Chief Information Officer at Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs. He brings significant IT and healthcare experience from serving as a System Director, Applications at Memorial Health System, IT Security Analyst at Horace Mann, IT Security Consultant at MSF&W, and various roles at Emory Healthcare.

Justin Floyd became the CEO and Co founder of RedCloud Bank in October 2009.  Former roles include serving as an Investor at CCL Group plc and Investor and Chairman/CEO at Vecta

Bill Geist became President at Turning Point Management LLC in October 2009 after serving as COO, Global Services at  CDC Software.com.  Other former positions include CEO at Application Partners LLC; Senior Vice President at Headstrong, Inc.; Partner, Southeast Region at Wavebend Solutions, LLC (BDO Seidman consultancy); Partner, Branch Manager at Whittman-Hart; Director, Group Manager at Cambridge Technology Partners; VP, Information Technology & Services at Scientific Atlanta; and VP, Information Services at Reichhold.

Glenn Gruber is now AVP, Market Development, Travel Technologies at Ness Technologies.  Glenn has served many marketing roles including AVP, Strategic Marketing at Symphony Services Corp.; Product Line Manager at Parlex Corporation; Director of Marketing – RFID/Smart Cards at Power Paper, Inc.;VP, Sales and Marketing at Golden Screens Interactive; and Director of Marketing and Business Development at Kyocera Electronics, Inc.

Alexis Karlin is now Digital Marketing Specialist at Neolane. Prior to Neolane, Alexis served as Web Producer from 2007 to 2009.  Former roles include work as an Interactive Developer at Feinstein Kean Healthcare and Web Adminstrator at Cognos

Andrew Kisslo has an updated current title: Sr. Product Manager, Competitive Strategy, Software as a Service at Microsoft

Marina Kosmatos is now Marketing Communications Manager at Tagged.   Her former roles include significant travel experience roles as Managing Editor at Offbeat Guides and Commissioning Editor- Caribbean Islands and Jamaica at Lonely Planet.

Joanne McCool became Executive Director at Gloucester County Chamber of Commerce in December 2009.  McCool brings a track record of getting  “projects” done.  She’s served as an Advisory Board Member at PSVillage; Chief Operating Officer at Ternary Software; VP / General Manager (Evolve) at Primavera Systems, Inc.; and VP Human Resources at Primavera Systems.

Tamara Mendelsohn was promoted to Director of Marketing at Eventbrite.   She brings tech marketing experiences from Apple and her work as an Senior Analyst at Forrester Research.

Michael O’Kelly rejoins as IT Director at International Aid in December 2009.  Please make donations if you care to.

Jessie Paul is now CEO at PaulWriter.  After a 5 year career as CMO of Wipro and 15 years in the corporate environment, Jessie’s teamed with Paul Writer to start her new venture.  The new concern will build on her deep marketing experiences that include Head of Worldwide Marketing at iGATE Global Solutions; Global Brand Manager at Infosys Technologies; and account executive at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising

GV Rao has become Global Head – Oracle Alliances & BD at Mahindra Satyam

Bruce Richardson joins Infor as Chief Strategy Officer.  The legendary IT analyst from AMR Research brings unparalleled experience as Infor makes major shifts in 2010.

Pascal Sero has updated his current title to VP Oracle Asia R&D Centers.  He’s been with Oracle for more than 2 decades.

Joseph Stanhope is now Senior Analyst at Forrester Research.  Stanhope brings various experiences from Alterian where he served as VP of Platform Strategy, Director of Global Product Marketing, and Director of Marketing.  Other roles include VP of Marketing at MarketerNet, LLC and Senior Product Manager at Experian

Bob Suh is now Founder and CEO at OnCorps.  Bob brings heavy technology expertise with past roles such as Chief Technology Strategist at Accenture; President, Consulting and SI at Perot Systems Corporation; and Managing Director at CSC Index

Jari Tavi became Head of Operations and Innovation at Loyalty Agent Ltd. ,a stealthy startup, in October 2009.  Past roles include CEO and Partner at Hotelzon Technologies and Development; Head of Technology at Berling Capital; and CTO at BasWare. Jari brings a passion for new ideas and crucial startup thinking.

John Taschek has an updated current title to Vice President, Strategy at Salesforce.com

Anders Trolle-Schultz is now Chairman of the board at Eurocloud, Denmark.  Anders has taken his passion for SaaS to another level and builds on experiences as a Sales Director at Crayon; Nordic Marketing & Business Development Manager at Norsoft A/S; and Management Consultant & Partner at Fornebu Consulting A/S

Mitch Wagner is now Principal at Mitch Wagner Communications. Mitch brings over 25 years of tech media experiences including many of the initial web and social initiatives at United Business Media/CMP.

Zia Yusuf is now an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at both Sutter Hill Ventures and  Norwest Venture Partners. Zia brings a wealth of experiences including a 10 year career at SAP and experiences at the WorldBank.

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Wednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers November/December 2009

Published on December 16, 2009 by R "Ray" Wang

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES*

As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In.

Eliot Axelrod became Senior Account Exec at Graybow Communications Group in September 2009.  Eliot’s served a variety of account executive roles at technology companies such as  Unimax Systems, Saratoga Systems, Aurigin Systems, Lotus/IBM, and Apple Computer

Michelle Blackmer has updated her current title to Senior Director, Marketing – Healthcare at Initiate Systems .  Prior to Initiate, Michelle served as a marketing manager and project manager at GE Healthcare.

Scott Bonneau has updated their current title to VP IT, Service Management at Dr Pepper Snapple Group. Past positions have leveraged his management consulting skills and include VP Global IT PMO at Cadbury Schweppes plc, Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting.

Anirban Chakraborty has updated his current title to Analyst Relations, Strategic Marketing at Wipro Technologies. Anirban has worked as a consultant at IBM and served as a Systems Analyst at TCS

Eric Christiansen became a Director at BlackRock.  Previous roles include an 8 year stint in various architecture and technology roles at Barclays Global Investors. Eric brings extensive experience in software architecture with roles at ITT Gilfillan, Rockwell International, TRW, and Digital Equipment Corporation

Jeff Comport has become a Senior Vice President with Lawson Software for Product Management.  Jeff will be responsible for overseeing all of Lawson‘s product lines.  Jeff brings to Lawson over 16 years of industry analyst experiences and software management expertise from Integral Systems, Inc (application software) and Criterion Incorporated (application software).C

Ridgely Evers is now on the Board of Directors at SCORE. Ridgely has been focused on helping small businesses succeed.  His current roles include serving as a Managing Partner at Establishment Capital Partners and Tapit Partners.  Previously, he founded NetBooks and worked at Intuit building out QuickBooks and their Online Financial System.

Deb Fitzgerald new CIO for Deltek.  Deb joins Deltek from Verisign where she served as the VP of Information Technology.

Justin Floyd became the CEO of InvestChange.com in October.  The cloud startup focuses on emerging and developing markets.  He founded the company in May 2009.  Previous executive roles include Investor and Chairman at CCL Group plc and Investor and Chairman/CEO at Vecta.

Chuck Gillespie is now Adjunct Professor at IUPUI.  He also serves as the President of Vigor and has focused on the HR technology space as VP of HR Technology at Peoplebase.

Stephen Harvey left his role as a Country Manager for datango.  Havey joined DNA Stream and builds on his management experiences at Sword DDS LTD and Crestec UK LTd.

Laurie Henneborn became Global Research Lead for Technology at Accenture in September 2009.  Previous roles include Global Research Lead for Outsourcing at Accenture, Information Specialist – Banking Channels at AT Kearney, Head Information Specialist at Bates Advertising, and Legal Research Assistant at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison

Michael Hickins has joined as a News Editor at the WSJ.com at Dow Jones. Michael brings significant technology media experience as the Executive Editor at eWeek, Executive Editor at Ziff Davis Enterprise, Senior Editor at Jupitermedia, Senior editor at Thomson Legal & Regulatory, Editorial Director at Multex, Senior editor at Fairchild Publications, and others.

Lauren Hong was promoted from Account Development Manager to an Account Manager at Forrester Research.

Robert Humphrey was named Infor’s Chief Marketing Officer in November.  Humphrey brings 30 years of marketing and tech experience.  He most recenlty served as Senior Vice-President of WorldWide Field Marketing at McAfee.  Other roles include executive positions at Citadel Security Solutions, i2 Technologies, and OpenDesign, Inc.

Charlie Isaacs became President at SOA Press in October 2009.  Prior to this role, Charlie served as the Chief Customer Officer and Chief Technology for KANA, CTO at Primus Knowledge Solutions, VP/GM Help Desk Lab at Computer Associates (formerly Platinum Technology, and VP of Engineering atGTE Government Systems.

Joseph Loveless joined the Board of Directors at Clear Stake Capital, LLC in August 2009.  He’s currently CEO of Clear Stake, an energy management and carbon abatement concern.  Previous experiences include roles at Product Marketing for Deltek, Product Marketing / Field Marketing Director for CA, Inc., and Director, Professional Services for Entex Information Svcs / Siemens.

Jim Lundy left Gartner to join Saba Software as their VP and GM for Collaboration Software.  Jim previoulsy served roles as Managing Vice President and VP, Distinguished Analyst at Gartner.

Ed Maguire is now Senior Analyst at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets / CALYON Securities (USA) Inc. Ed’s served previous roles including the Director of Technology Investment Banking and Senior Director at Merrill Lynch.

Subraya Mallya became Advisory Board Member at Sage Scholars Program, UC Berkeley in August 2009

Hellen Omwando became General Manager Light & Health Venture at Philips in June 2009

John Tae Park became a Senior Business Systems Analyst at Toshiba America Medical Systems in December.  JT has served various roles including Oracle Delivery Consultant at IBM Global Services, Sr. Product Manager at Oracle Corporation, and Consultant at Accenture.

Sanjay Poonen is now EVP & GM of Business User Sales at SAP. Sanjay brings expensive managerial and operational experience from previous roles as EVP & GM of Performance Optimization Apps at SAP, Vice President of Line of Business Operations at Symantec Corporation, Vice President of Strategic Operations at VERITAS, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Corporate Officer at Informatica Corporation, and Director of Product Marketing and Strategy, Founder at Alphablox Corporation

Daniel Seaman became Director at Mongoose Cricket in September 2009.  Seaman previously headed product management at WGSN and worked in Marketing Strategy & Product Management at Forrester Research

Stefan Schulz is being promoted to chief financial officer of Lawson Software Jan. 1, 2010.  He succeeds Robert Schriesheim.

Robert Schriesheim, departs Lawson to become CFO of Illinois-based Hewitt Associates, Inc.  Schriesheim will continue to serve on the Lawson board as a non-employee director.

Kevin Schmidt became Director, Product Marketing/Management, Application Platform at Sun Microsystems in August 2009.  Kevin has extensive experience in Master Data Management and other infrastructure technologies.

David Stanley is now Vice President, Business Development and Sales at Altimeter Group.  Previous roles include VP, Sales at ARInsights, Regional Director at MX Logic, and Director, Business Development, Managed Services at Synergy International

Sriram Venkat became Practice Head, CRM at Wipro Technologies in October 2009.  Sriram has served as a practice manager for SAP CRM among his many roles over the past decade at Wipro.

Thomas Wailgum has updated his current title to Senior Editor | CIO.com at IDG Enterprise.  Tom brings over a decade of experience covering business and technology issues for the enterprise.

Jonathan Zhu is now Vice President, Asia at Ken Clark International.  Jonathan brings extensive financial services and Chinese market experiences with senior positions at HORIBA International, Asia Pacific at The EOP Group Inc, and Allied Irish Bank

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Friday’s Feature: Snapshots In Enterprise 2.0 UX/UI – IFS Applications

Published on February 13, 2009 by R "Ray" Wang

Usability and User Experience Matter in Enterprise 2.0 Apps

Welcome to the second in a series of Friday’s Features showcasing the latest and greatest in enterprise apps usability. Many ERP software vendors including Epicor, IFS, Infor, Lawson, Microsoft Dynamics, and Syspro have made significant progress in improving usability as they progress to Enterprise 2.0 apps. As mentioned in a December 29th, 2008 post, customer expectations for Enterprise 2.0 apps include users rich user experiences, actionable insight, and business process orientation. The impact of overall user experience and user interaction often tie back to seven key Enterprise 2.0 characteristics:

  1. Richer user experiences - role based scenarios across various usability paradigms
  2. Business process orientation – support for end to end business processes
  3. Configurable change – designing with flexible models and rules instead of customizations
  4. Actionable insight – pulling all the key information to make a decision in the context of business process and user role
  5. Collaboration – providing secure private interactions and open and innovative connection with stakeholders
  6. Intelligent response – responding to contextual models and business events
  7. Hybrid deployment – deploying all models from on-premise, hosted, instance virtualization, multi-tenant SaaS, and cloud based BPO.

Part 2: IFS Brings Consumer IT Elements to Enterprise 2.0

In October 2007, IFS introduced Project Aurora at the IFS World Conference in Berlin. Key elements included a revamped user experience based on two themes: innovation and evolution. Aurora is a Rich Internet Application deployed using .NET. To date, benefits of the new Rich Internet Application (RIA) UI include faster response times, web protocols, security sandbox, less network traffic, and local desktop integration. The project focused on breaking down barriers to productivity and delivered inter-application navigation and enterprise search. Technologies behind the RIA innovations rely on AJAX – script run time, Java FX – Java VM, Flash – Flash run-time, Curl – Curl RTE, and WinForms, WPF – .NET CLR

  • Design elements inspired by Apple’s iPod. The interface uses a range of new navigation technologies such as adaptable link pages, contextual breadcrumb navigation, and visual recent screens. From the left column, users are treated to strong design elements such as inter- application navigation, iPod like short cut icons, and quick entry data widgets.
  • Personalized portals support a role based view. Aurora supports role based personalization capabilities and widgets. Users see relevant information as needed for a persona. Recent navigation screens provide visual design elements to navigate between recent screens. Right hand column elements include information rich alert bulletins, common actions, and status updates.
  • Enterprise search addresses requirements for non-structured data. New search features help customers uncover lost assets, discounts, and other information.
  • Built in analytics drive actionable insight. IFS Analytics tie to XL through Microsoft Office Business Applications concept.

Software Insiders Point of View Photo Stream (click image for details)

(Source: IFS )

Your POV.

Do you like how your apps UI currently look? Will user experience lead to cost savings for you? Is this enough to make you want to switch? What do you think of IFS’ UI? Post your thoughts or send me a private email to rwang0@gmail.com.

Friday’s Feature: Snapshots in Enterprise 2.0 UX/UI

  1. Epicor 9
  2. Eshbel Priority 13
  3. IFS Applications 7.5
  4. Lawson SmartOffice 9.0x
  5. Microsoft Dynamics AX and NAV

Next Friday’s Feature: Epicor 9

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