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Sunday, May 01, 2005

About the Enterprise System Spectator

With so many new visitors lately, perhaps it's a good time to recap what this blog is all about.

First, briefly, about me. I am co-founder and Managing Partner of Strativa, a management consulting firm based in Southern California that focuses on business strategy, process improvement, and information technology. I am also the President of Computer Economics, an IT research and advisory firm. You can learn more about Computer Economics from this post I wrote shortly after my partner, Dan Husiak, and I acquired Computer Economics on April 1, 2005. You can read my bio on Strativa's management page.

I launched this weblog, The Enterprise System Spectator, in March 2002 to provide a forum for my observations on enterprise systems, the vendors that provide them, and the experiences of companies that implement them. What is an enterprise system? I define it broadly as a software application or suite of applications that are implemented across multiple business functions. Enterprise systems include applications that go by names such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management, customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence, product lifecycle management, asset management, as well as many other emerging applications. Essentially, an enterprise system is a business application that serves users across multiple groups, departments, or business units.

I am particularly interested in how companies achieve benefits from information technology. Over the past decade, companies have made enormous investments in IT, often with limited results. What are the lessons learned, and what can executives do to improve their chances of success? Here are a few examples of posts on this subject:I've written on various trends in IT management, such as software on-demand, offshore outsourcing, and open source:

And, of course, there are many posts on news and events related to specific software vendors, such as:

Because I've done quite a bit of work in the life sciences industries, I've also written a number of posts on FDA regulatory compliance related to software. For example:
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If you have thoughts or contrary opinions that you would like to share, feel free to comment on any recent post. Or, if you have news, insights, or gossip that you think I'd be interested in, please drop me an e-mail. My address is in the right hand column.

Thanks for visiting!

by Frank Scavo, 5/01/2005 06:16:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!

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