Enterprise Applications

Social Media Resistance: Sustain or Surrender in 2011?

Microsoft and Tablets: A Failure to Launch Could Hurt Core Business

If Microsoft is too slow developing Windows-based tablets, its bread-and-butter enterprise business could soon pay the price, according to industry analysts.

The Long and Windy Road to Oracle’s Fusion Applications

Oracle has laid out the Fusion Apps roadmap for its customers. But how each customer actually gets to the Fusion Apps destination is another question altogether.

Like It or Not, Here Comes the Facebook-ization of ERP

It may sound like vintage vendor hype, but there's business value in linking ERP apps and Enterprise 2.0 tools.

iPad in the Workplace: What Are the Hottest Apps?

Collaboration, training and mobile BI lead the pack of iPad apps enterprises are putting to work now.

An IT Industry Festivus Celebration: My Airing of Grievances

How tech vendors, CIOs, analysts and other assorted IT types have let me down during 2010.

Do You Need a Cloud CRM Platform, or Cloud CRM Product?

The best CRM applications are really toolkits in disguise. When do you need to be focusing on buying "just an app," and when do you need to focus on the toolkit and platform?

GM Continues IT Outsourcing

The automaker is, yet again, renewing IT outsourcing contracts worth millions of dollars.

Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media Coming to ERP

The time has come to stop fighting the tide towards social media and instead harness its power within the enterprise. ERP is the natural place for social media tools to enter. Building social media-type enterprise 2.0 functionality into ERP will elim

Accidental Exposure: Lots to Like in Facebook’s New Prototypes

Facebook briefly went live with several prototypes yesterday. Was this a sneak peek into what we can expect from Facebook soon?