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Enterprise Apps: Why Users Have Had Enough of Enterprise Software

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise apps have long had an image of being secure and more sophisticated than what was available for consumer use.  But this image has changed dramatically over the last five to ten years.  Enterprise users now yearn for business apps that…

Enterprise Software: What’s Wrong With Enterprise Software? Everything?

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises are spending $3.5 trillion dollars on business software every year, according to research by Gartner. If businesses can spend that much, why are employees griping?  The problem is that change is hard — both to afford and to actually…

Software Licensing and Security: Nearly 40 Percent of Business Software is Unlicensed

By Dick Weisinger

Today’s world runs on software, but a study by BSA finds that nearly 40 percent of software running on business servers in the US isn’t properly licensed.  In Vietnam the number is as high as 78 percent with many other…

Serverless Architecture: The Cloud is Killing Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Serverless architecture. It’s the promise of products like Amazon AWS Lambda.  The idea is that it’s not that there it doesn’t require servers and hardware, it’s a higher abstraction that thinks about computing resources as services rather than hardware, virtual…

ERP Failures: Failure is Inevitable When Businesses Attempt to Cobble ERP Systems From Components

By Dick Weisinger

25 years after the introduction of ERP, ERP systems remain a center of contention and a sinkhole for money. Gartner describes it saying that “The traditional ERP world no longer exists, it has been replaced by postmodern ERP. ” What is postmodern…