B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

From a Bigger Picture Perspective.........

Do you ever wonder why you have all these updates on your computer when you boot up in the morning?  How about when you first buy a computer you have to spend hours to catch up on all the upgrades?  I remember when I started my career in IT back in 1997, Microsoft’s stock price was over $100 per share and then the bottom dropped out.  Microsoft had a great product but people only had to buy it once so they didn’t have a consistent revenue stream.  Then when the new release came out a couple of years later no one needed to buy it because the original version still worked fine.  I could see the marketing department at Microsoft sitting at conference table and pontificating on how they would get people to buy new versions of their products.  Then they announced that they were no longer going to support older versions and that forced companies to have to upgrade to newer versions.

Recently, Blog authors from Remedi have outlined the value of upgrading software to supported versions and some of the risks in not doing so...see the Blog from earlier this month Supporting Systems and Staying Current.  In addition to staying current and associated benefits, the article outlined version support for B2B Software from the likes of Cleo/EXTOL, TIE, and IBM.

One new and related announcement that occurred this week in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category was from IBM concerning Sterling Connect:Enterprise.

I hope you had a great New Year and are off to a busy start of 2015.  The holidays were a complete blur and 2015 is off to a crazy start here at REMEDI.  We finished 2014 at a hectic pace, and it seems that we are picking it right back up at the beginning of 2015.  If your organization is like ours, you have probably spent the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 by putting your plan for success in place for 2015.

As integration continues to evolve, it is imperative to keep the department working at peak efficiency.

If you are trying to save money by prolonging the life of an outdated system, you’re not only investing in false economies, but you’re missing out on technological advances.  Technology advancement can pay a sizable ROI derived from savings on downtime, improved system efficiencies, remote system capabilities, energy savings, increased safety or a combination of those benefits.

As we trudge through the final two weeks of the year, busy with holidays, family, and friends; I thought I would take a look at what the most interesting topics of 2014 have been for our readers.  Just in case you've missed one of our "popular" topics, take a look at what everyone else is following!