Wednesday, April 03, 2002

A great section on WiFi in BusinessWeek.  It works.  How people can make use of it in really creative ways will take a bit longer to sort out.  [gtb] 1:49:14 PM

news.com: CRM implementations are failing at rates north of 50%.  The numbers are similar or worse for ERP implementations.  Someone (I forget who, but is was someone who implemented a raft of ERP systems in the manufacturing sector) pointed out the common theme of successful implementations to me.  The businesses who worked to change their processes to suit the software, succeeded.  The ones who tried to change the software to suit their own processes, failed.  Customizing these packages, despite vendor claims to the contrary is simply too complex, risky and costly. [gtb] 1:34:40 PM

Had a quick look at the Globe article about the e-commerce stats, "In 2001, 71 per cent of Canadian businesses used the Internet".  What the heck are the other 29% doing? [gtb] 1:20:50 PM

StatsCan report on electronic commerce released.   As the Globe and Mail points out, consumer e-commerce accounts for less than one quarter of the overall $10.4B activity over the Internet.  Business-to-business activity has the lion's share of e-commerce in Canada. [cf] 1:17:28 PM

Sun does do web services, S&P turns Java beans into Web Services. In fact, Brian Whitehead of S&P makes web services with Sun sound simple: "The only thing we have to do to make [a component] a Web service is wrap it in [Simple Object Access Protocol] and advertise it in the unique UDDI [Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration] directory." [BS] 1:07:16 PM

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