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Do you Twitter in the bathroom, catch up on your blog posts using Google Reader, type a couple of quick emails?
Don’t be caught by co-workers and significant others when they hear the click, click, click of the keys on your mobile device. Please do us all a favor and use a mobile device with a touchscreen.
Trust me, we don’t need to know what you are doing in there.
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Having participated on many HCM and Talent Management upgrade projects in various roles such as Developer, Business Analyst, Architect and Project Manager I am dismayed at the amount of time, resources and money the traditional upgrades consume.
Prior to the Oracle acquisition, PeopleSoft correctly determined that ERP upgrades were consuming the budgets of their customers when those dollars could be used to purchase additional modules instead. They started working on a new methodology to make PeopleSoft upgrades go much faster (and thus cheaper) than the traditional upgrade . Unfortunately for both Oracle and the PeopleSoft customers that new methodology was never actually implemented.
I think it is time for the ERP vendors to go back to the drawing board and re-think the upgrade process. There is some amazing technology out there from vendors such as Oracle for virtualization. Oracle Enterprise Manager will let you create a new virtual server and deploy an application with just a few keystrokes (or at least that is what they show in a demo). How about taking that virtualization paradigm to figure out how to create an upgrade process that takes hours and not days, weeks and months to upgrade a system.
As companies start looking at the enormous costs associated with upgrades, I suspect many of them will take a left turn and evaluate the cost benefit of in-house ERP upgrades versus the costs associated with converting to SaaS. On the HR application side, many of the traditional ERP systems are starting to show their age. HR SaaS vendors have created much more user friendly systems and they tend to implement additional functionality on quarterly basis versus the year to two year cycle of a traditional ERP.
So, come on ERP vendors…streamline my upgrade please!
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