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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

CIO Business Intelligence

That would have been an enviable situation for many of his contemporaries in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry — “Some have 20 or 30 different ERP solutions,” he says — but for Grayling, the 20% of the business still running on a legacy SAP product remained a source of discomfort, and something he wanted to change.

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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. This type of functionality and scale can be a game-changer for mission-critical applications such as SAP. Faster time to market.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

The company was forced to develop new processes to keep information flowing around the business, and hire a third-party consultant to sort out the ERP system at a cost of $3.8 It managed to salvage just €14 million it had spent on separately developed IT modules that it expected would generate economic benefits in the future.

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A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

» A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds Ross Dawson, February 20, 2007 5:02 AM US PT Hey, how come I read about this on Scobleizer first? Second Life has established itself as the de facto leader in user-created free-form virtual worlds. TD Goodcliffe believes that the space is open for the taking.

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Eight key developments in the global media industry: July 2006 – June 2007 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Developments continue apace – we’ll be keeping track… Industry transactions News Corp offers $5 billion for the Dow Jones, including the Wall Street Journal (finalized July 2007). Hugo Chavez does not renew the license of the popular Radio Caracas TV. Full details in the report. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , the prescient Living Networks , which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). However, massively parallel processing (MPP) database architectures are one example of purpose-built technologies that have been developed to support both OLTP and OLAP data structures at enormous scales up into the petabytes (PB). For example, there is a 50 PB MPP cluster at eBay [3].

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