Taking Confluence for a wiki testdrive

My boss must have just comeback from an IT conference, he calls me into his office starts off by saying “having effective knowledge management can increase the net worth of a consultancy by at least 100%”. He was preaching to the converted, I walk out of his office with the assignment of evaluating Confluence as a knowledge management solution for our company globally.

‘‘If HP Knew what HP Knows we would be three times more profitable.’’ Lew Platt, former CEO of Hewlett Packard

I love Wiki’s after google, Wikipedia has to be my second most used site. I have used Confluence many times on many sites including SAP SDN, IBM dveloperWorks to name a few. I was looking forward to giving this product a test drive. Plus Atlassan are aussie as.

SAP Certification gets a makeover

Move over big 5, training needs a makeover

IN a radical move, German enterprise software giant SAP has finally loosened the grip on its tightly held training and certification program as the shortage of skilled consultants worsens.

SAP certification gets total makeover | Australian IT

The comments make for interesting reading.

In the news i hear about this perceived shortage of labor. In the same bulletin you hear big bank has outsourced entire IT operations, large employer investigated for underpaying workers on 457 visas.

Shortage of skilled consultants – Isn’t this just propaganda and the real shortage is cheap experienced labor?

HP to consume EDS – bring it on

“More companies die of indigestion than starvation.”
(“The HP Way,” Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard, page 142)

Back in 2002 HP got heartburn from a Compaq takeover. EDS has over 135,000 staff – I hope they bought some Tums cause its a big fish to swallow.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and SAP

I read everywhere that you need an ESB to truly implement SOA.

Having read many articles about what an ESB is, I am still unsure whether it is a product or a pattern.

If it is a product does SAP have one ?

Poetry runs as hard as SAP

In the book Moby Dick captain Ahab time and again foresakes all commercial endeavors and risks his ship and crew in attempts to capture the big white whale.

SAP’s nemesis isn’t Oracle its the SMB market, they have had numerous attempts at conquering the beast – A1, Business One, plus numerous pre configured and hosted solutions. SAP is not alone Microsoft and Oracle and others are desperately trying to fill their whitespaces.

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