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Giving Subscriptions a Bad name

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Intuit sends us a Payroll subscription reminder. I check for same functionality on the Amazon site. Intuit wants to charge us twice as much for the privilege of being a captive customer. They are not alone. It is far cheaper.

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My Happy Place: New Florence

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Facebook had a different name then. The New Florence. New Renaissance innovation blog was born in March 2005. No one had heard of the iPhone. Honestly, I thought I would run out of material in a.

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The Analyst Cam: C5MI and Industry 4.0

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C5 in the company name comes. As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. This time it is Marty Groover, Partner, C5MI.

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Inforum: Mixed emotions

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The name Coleman. The buzz at Infor’s annual user conference (and a side analyst summit) was around Coleman, the AI platform Infor announced to use “powerful machine learning to improve processes such as inventory management, transportation routing, and predictive maintenance”.

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The worlds largest outsourcer you never heard of

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Quick, name the outsourcer which comes to market with A $ 140 billion services backlog. A relentless focus on guaranteed performance and improved outcomes for customers, not just standard SLAs or fixed price contracts Deep vertical knowledge in oil and.

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Tempting Fate?

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As part of their new UX project named after the tony NYC neighborhood, Infor hosted analysts at the Gramercy Park Hotel. Huge room (by NYC standards), access to the park nearby (one of the few private parks in the city), Industry analysts (Gartner, Forrester, AMR, others)'

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Serves me right

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…for having a last name like mine. Must be my nephews and kids for making the family name infamous). It has been butchered for decades. The tide seems to be turning, though. Most hotels, events, unfortunately even spammers are getting.

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