Blog Entries: IT/e-business

What’s the big deal about Big Data?

Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 0 Comments

Last week I attended The Cloud Analytics Summit in Mountain View, CA, taking with me a number of new insights on the increasingly buzz-worthy topic of Big Data. The discussions were exciting not so much because of the technologies or case studies presented, but because of the way Big Data was framed as a concept. More »
CIOs: Get a grip…on the cloud!

Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 0 Comments

A year ago, I attended a conference during which it was estimated that 60 percent of active IT projects were being implemented without engaging IT. How is this possible? Cloud services have allowed business users to go around IT when deploying new systems, and this trend continues to accelerate. More »
Supply chain is now a top 10 priority for CIOs. It’s about time.

Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Friday, February 17, 2012 - 0 Comments

The Japanese tsunami and the flooding in Thailand last year were wake-up calls for many companies, forcing them to see the need for serious investments in better collaborative execution tools. More »
Outsourcing: Are we ever going to stop?

Rich Becks, General Manager, High Technology, E2open - Friday, August 26, 2011 - 0 Comments

Last week I came across a fascinating column in the Economist that asked the very same question—can the outsourcing boom go on indefinitely? The article concluded that the business logic behind outsourcing remains compelling and that outsourcing will continue to grow. All around us we continue to see evidence of it, companies outsourcing more and more of their operations to specialized third parties: IT, Human Resources, clinical trials, accounting, training, promotions, manufacturing, distribution, warehousing…the list goes on. More »
The changing role of IT—services, not servers

Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 0 Comments

The role of “IT” within an organization has changed dramatically over the last decade or so—and continues to evolve. At the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit in Orlando this past Monday, Gartner Research VP David Cappuccio described the role of IT in this way: “to provide a service to a customer, not a server.” Well put. More »
Isn’t B2B integration only for big companies?

Rob Schoenthaler, Senior Vice President, Deployment, E2open - Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 0 Comments

In my conversations with small and mid-sized organizations, one issue consistently comes up, “Isn’t B2B integration only for big companies? Isn’t the reason they need it because they have to manage connections with trading partners across multiple products and customer segments? Since we have significantly less operational complexity, why do we need it?” More »
Do I really need to connect to my SMBs? In a word, yes.

Rob Schoenthaler, Senior Vice President, Deployment, E2open - Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 0 Comments

So it may not be the most scintillating of topics, but B2B seems to be top of mind at just about every customer site I visit, so here goes. After all, there are few processes more critical to supply chain success than B2B integration. And as companies are quickly learning, it’s no longer good enough to connect merely to your top one or two suppliers. More »
Implementing VMI: The final checklist

Richard McCluney, General Manager, Telecommunications, E2open - Tuesday, January 04, 2011 - 0 Comments

I wish I could cap off my VMI tirade with something exceedingly cool and exciting, but I’m afraid I’ve left the least sexy part for last...internal system requirements. Sigh. Well, it has to be done. After all, VMI is pretty much useless if you don’t have the right software and systems in place to support it. So here goes. More »
The state of B2B integration in Asia: AsiaB2B Plenary in Hong Kong

Edward Toung, Vice President, Asia Pacific, E2open - Wednesday, December 01, 2010 - 0 Comments

The AsiaB2B Plenary just finished up in Hong Kong, and as usual, it was a don’t-miss event. AsiaB2B is a user-driven organization formed by leading organizations interested in furthering the adoption of B2B integration in the Asia Pacific region. For those of you familiar with EDIFICE in Europe, this is its Asian sibling. AsiaB2B hosts two plenary conferences each year, and I’ve made a point of attending them all (yes, they’re that good). More »
EDIFICE in Amsterdam: B2B readiness in SME markets

Matthew Walker, Vice President, EMEA, E2open - Friday, November 05, 2010 - 0 Comments

Just back from the 112th EDIFICE Plenary in stormy Amsterdam, and I must say that the Netherlands have never felt so ominous. I’m talking about the weather of course, not the conference, which attracted nearly 80 attendees from countries around the world... including a broad source of users, vendors, and standards organizations. More »