The Old Farts of Enterprise Software
Good friend MR Rangaswami writes a thoughtful piece about the "youth drain" in enterprise software.
I worry less about the age of the customer-facing side of the industry. The
average salesperson and consultant is in the 30s and 40s and mirrors the age of
IT and business buying centers. If anything, when I take clients to
I do worry about the age of the software itself. We are in release 6, 8, 12 of products which have been tweaked along for 15, 25 years. I worry about the industry trend of buying mature companies, rather than investing in new R&D. There is so much innovation going on with web 2.0, mobility, telemetry that I write about on my New Florence blog, and very little of that is making its way, quickly enough into enterprise software.
Vinnie - You would have pleasantly surprised at HR Technology Conference. Lawson actually showed how they can integrate with Facebook to post job opportunities. I know, not boiling the ocean but a credit to them to start thinking differently. - Jason
Posted by: Jason Corsello | October 13, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Jason, good to hear...sorry I missed it...
I have contributed a chapter to the IHRIM book Karen Beaman is editing on how HR execs should not wait for package vendors to implement various innovations - they should consider doing it themselves and get short term benefits
Posted by: vinnie mirchandani | October 13, 2007 at 01:48 PM