Are multi-vendor e-commerce platform strategies in the cards for organizations?
I came across an article “Multi-vendor ERP strategy fixes $2 billion problem” which outlined a few interesting insights around how Land O’ Lakes Inc. had the following challenge(s) on its hands: properly handling a central ERP system with numerous subsidiary and/or partner business units who were on an alternative ERP system. Some interesting quotes from the [...]
Agile in the Enterprise: Scaled Agile Framework
For those of you working in an enterprise and trying to implement Agile software development methodologies, you may be wondering how it’s possible to implement Agile best practices for your organization. In an enterprise, with legacy systems, system teams, complexity, and sheer size of an organization, sometimes the Agile manifesto sounds good on paper but [...]
The Case for Marketing Technologists
Scott Brinker over at the Chief Marketing Technologist blog recently interviewed me about my experience going into Marketing, then IT, and back to Marketing again as a part of a series in which he is covering “Marketing Technologists” across various organizations. (Thanks, Scott!) On a related note, in an article on February 7th from VentureBeat about Microsoft [...]
Talend Secures $12 Million in Funding
I was happy to read that Talend secured $12 Million in funding. We’ve long been a proponent of Talend, beginning in early 2008 completely gutting home-grown ETL and Middleware applications and processes by leveraging the open source tool. With quotes on ETL software from the big boys coming in north of $200K, the open source [...]
A lesson in client servicing an application development project
We recently completed our first integration with an external customer website and our e-commerce website. (By “integration,” I mean an API in which we pass configured product data from our site to a 3rd party shopping cart.) What ensued was an interesting learning experience for myself and our group of developers on the project. Everybody has their own development [...]
