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		<title>BPR, BPM and ERP</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/bpr-bpm-cmmi-erp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a customer ask me about the relationship between BPM and ERP.  Does ERP implement BPM or do you need to have BPM before ERP?  Is an ERP implementation a BPR project?  Who’s on first?  As the ERP industry evolves it has become evident that additional disciplines like Business Process Management (BPM) and Business [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=1079&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business to IT Alignment – A Practical Discussion</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/bus-it-alignment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 02:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ERP Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business IT Alignment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Business to IT alignment is an objective that most technology and business leaders would agree as essential for agility.  However, ask for a definition of Business to IT alignment or how to implement an alignment strategy and the likely results are conflicting information and vague guidance.  In the following blog I will try to add [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=1054&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PeopleSoft Knowledge Map</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/peoplesoft-knowledge-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ERP Maintenance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power! Knowledge is also the key enabler for customers to get the most out of their Oracle ERP investment.  I can understand the economic pressures to do more with less. Allow me to share with you the following list of available PeopleSoft information/training resources on the internet. Available Resources: http://www.learnpeoplesoft.info (like a cliff [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=1044&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ERP Requirements Mgmt 101: What + Why = How</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/erp-requirements-what-why-how/</link>
		<comments>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/erp-requirements-what-why-how/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Requirements Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business solution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Failures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Implementations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gathering ERP Requirements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons why I am a consultant is that I enjoy solving business problems with technology. ERP provides a technical foundation that I can utilize to solve problems.  However, during my career I came to the realization that simply throwing technology at a business need is not in the best interest of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=1004&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud ERP Strategy:  Goodbye IaaS, Hello IaaS</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/cloud-erp-strategy-iaas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud ERP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud ERP Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Socialization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IaaS vs PaaS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PeopleSoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rackspace]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/?p=987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first deployment models for cloud computing was Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).  Currently, there is a price war between the major IaaS providers like AWS and Rackspace to provide the cheapest infrastructure. However, enterprise customers looking to move their ERP solutions to the cloud should focus more on Integration as a Service [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=987&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Business-Aware Cloud Solution</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/business-aware-cloud-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud ERP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business in the Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Pains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/?p=924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent study conducted by Forrester Consulting “Enterprise Cloud: Lessons Learned From Early Adopters” a key conclusion made is “A complete, application-centric, business-aware cloud solution is needed.”  Let’s say that your C-level executive stops by your office and asks you to lead a project to develop a business-aware cloud solution.  To be successful it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=924&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ERP Cloud:  Finding the Right Provider</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/find-right-erp-cloud-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud ERP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Advantages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended Oracle’s OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco this October.  There was a huge volume of information on the Cloud.  As I walked through the Exhibitor’s halls at the Moscone Center, I observed that every SI partner had ERP in the Cloud or could get customers to the Cloud seamlessly.  What I did not [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=871&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Evolution of ERP: Adaptive ERP</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/adaptive-erp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ERP Strategy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business agility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Empowering Business Users]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ERP Pains]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[master data management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the initial release of ERP, one of the key “game changers” was the ability of business users to access data and generates reports without direct IT involvement. This empowerment of the business user had a significant impact on business agility. Today, we continue to see ERP vendors focus on providing business-friendly tools for reporting [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=770&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Adaptive ERP</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Logical Development</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Predictive Analysis</media:title>
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		<title>IT Should Move Up the ERP Value Chain</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/it-erp-value-chain/</link>
		<comments>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/it-erp-value-chain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ERP Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A key challenge in my role as an IT ERP Director was to maximize business value with a shrinking budget.  It was quite an education for a person with the majority of his experience in Tier I ERP Consulting.  There are many options competing against IT organizations in providing ERP services (SaaS, Cloud, Off-shore and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=748&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">gbeaubouef</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">ERP Tier Support</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">ERP Maturity Trends</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://gbeaubouef.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/erp-service-value-chain.jpg" medium="image">
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		<title>Building a Better ERP Estimate</title>
		<link>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/building-erp-estimates/</link>
		<comments>http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/building-erp-estimates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Beaubouef</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ERP Maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP estimations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Failures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Implementation Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERP Implementations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gbeaubouef.wordpress.com/?p=735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several documented examples of ERP implementations that went over budget or did not hit the original go-live date.  There are also many explanations out there to explain why these ERP implementations did not meet budget or timeline.  Instead of repeating common information out in the ERP blogosphere, I would like to speak to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gbeaubouef.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13346107&#038;post=735&#038;subd=gbeaubouef&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Information Driven ERP Estimates</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Levels of Understanding for Generating ERP Implementation Estimates</media:title>
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