Software Sirens

InfoWorld Nederland has a fascinating and surprisingly deep article on the implementation of a fairly customized ERP system at Maruti Udyog, one of In…

Who needs a weekend on the couch watching cars go around in circles on ESPN when we can read about the ongoing battle of the false gods?! SAP and Orac…

We've ranted time and time again about how simple visual methods can often be more efficient and effective than complex software. Thanks to our fr…

We enjoy telling your about the problems with MRP systems, particularly some of the big software providers. Our friend Mark Edmondson of Lean Affiliat…

Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, TomorrowNow, Agile... it's hard to keep the relationship between all of these ERP players straight. Especially since they…

I know, I know... I just wrote about SAP and complexity. Just yesterday. But leave it to SAP, purveyor of the most complex software solution for the s…

I always thought that top executives are usually the most hard core evangelists for a company, sometimes to a fault.  But not Hasso Plattner, co-found…

Regular readers know that we have a pretty low opinion of MRP/ERP software and in general prefer the simple excellence of manual visual systems for sh…