Many MANY years ago when I graduated, my first love was embedded electronics. Making little gadgets out of micro-controllers and a few components. The thought of making the devices talk to each other to make life easier/cooler in some way was always a fascination. I suspect that is the case with most people involved in […]
A client recently asked us to integrate scanned documents with information in their ERP (Sage X3). The requirement was to read documents similar to the ones below, parse information out of them, arbitrate through a user if we can’t read something automatically, run some business rules on it and integrate it with the ERP and […]
The IT consulting space (and in professional services in general) companies rely heavily on the consultants that represent them with a particular client. You are only as good as your consultant is on that given day. One key requirement in that is having the consultant take ownership of work. This means owning the client’s problems […]
CIOs or organizations and owners of small consulting firms are usually people of the same age group (education, interests etc.). Yet a comparison between them reveals some interesting patterns which in turn explain some of the conflicts that arise between them. In a corporate culture that extensively promotes outsourcing of IT to consulting firms both […]
Most people in the IT Services Sales industry are not intimately aware of the value of their work to their consulting firms. Its no surprise then that most are under-compensated or sell themselves short. Here are a few things that they won’t normally tell you (or things they do tell that aren’t entirely true) 1. […]
Large consultancy firms are incubating new business models. Their aim is to compete for smaller projects at acceptable profits. It sounds alarming for the smaller consultancy firms. It in fact is. McKinsey Solutions, a smaller consultancy arm of McKinsey & Co. is selling its services to SMEs, essentially the target market of S&M consultancy firms. […]
Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX) is an industry standard that regulates the exchange of information between suppliers and customers in the petroleum industry. These include standards to regulate Purchase Orders, Invoices, Shipments and Catalogs among other things. Many companies in the O&G industry are also now choosing to get on e-commerce gateways like OilDex, ADP […]
A template for BizTalk Mapping and analysis provided by Allied Consultants Mapper from Allied Consultants
As the number of systems in organizations grow, keeping a consistent and integrated view of the entire organization is becoming increasingly challenging. The problem seems set to last as the number of vendors and product options grows and these become more and more specialized. If you aren’t sure if you need an integration solution, here are […]
Systems come into play that all generates lots of data which needs to be compiled to turn it into information. Here are a few signs that indicate that a business intelligence solution can be helpful