Advoco, an Infor Alliance Partner, providing EAM services, has had, for several years, a user group meeting called Connect. Connect 2020 was unique in two ways; first, due to COVID-19, it went virtual, and second, Infor became an official sponsor of the event and was a significant partner throughout. This Infor investment reflects some of…
After many years of dithering the Fed is seriously investigating creating digital money – a “digital dollar”. Not bitcoin, but digital dollars backed by the United States government. Why? What does this mean to me?
A Blockchain-based add-on can increase the value of Coronavirus contact-tracing apps and other smartphone software. It may concern you.
One thing large-business executives could do in the face of the coronavirus crisis and the ensuing “economic catastrophe” is to learn from the military and temporarily import one of their classic practices.
The Department of Defense (DOD) awarded underdog Microsoft a massive cloud computing contract on October 25, 2019. This announcement was an enormous surprise to IT analysts and the cloud industry. This award was stripped down from the original Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) $10B cloud plan to a $1million guarantee for Microsoft work. It leaves…
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I’ve seen increasing discussion over the past week-plus about the effects of COVID-19 as a “shock” to business, rather than an interruption of the type around which most firms build disaster response and recovery (DRR) plans. I think that “shock” is a perfect term. And I think that business management software (e.g., ERP) and managed…
COVID-19 pandemic reveals how globalization can both spread a virus and cripple supply chains People have been trading goods across vast distances for millennia. The Silk Road and Timbuktu’s trans-Saharan caravan are two examples. Now globalization describes capability, opportunity, scale and speed for production and distribution of goods. That are specialized, manufactured and delivered just-in-time.…
As someone who has been working from home with globally distributed teams for a long time I thought I would put down some tips to help those new to the wonderful world of being remote: When on a teleconference or video call, always mute yourself when not talking. Add a few minutes to calls for…
You can call me Alda. I’m 22 years old and I was born in 2010. I’m “comming“ you from 2032 thanks to the scalable inverse timeline feature on ZagZig, the largest social network since Facebook, TikTok, and most other legacy players were dismantled in 2027 due to global regulatory restrictions, privacy violations, and trust issues.…
