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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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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

Invacare faces long wait and increased cost for health care ERP intervention Invacare, a manufacturer of medical devices, has put its ailing SAP upgrade into a coma, temporarily stopping the project — but not the bills. But the merged company made the fateful choice to go with a new provider, SAP HANA, by December 2016.

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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.

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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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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. As well, the more data you have, the more physical or virtual compute resources you may need.

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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

Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[ more ] ABC TV interview: The future of direct selling (1) James wrote:Ross,I have followed your work fo.[ more ] Six ways technology is transforming small business (1) Greytip Online wrote:When we talk about productivity and.[

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Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[ more ] ABC TV interview: The future of direct selling (1) James wrote:Ross,I have followed your work fo.[ more ] Six ways technology is transforming small business (1) Greytip Online wrote:When we talk about productivity and.[

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