Articles written by Ian Vincent

Putting the ‘Agile’ into AgilityWorks

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By Ian Vincent | 16th April, 2012 | Methodology

One of the most common questions that I am asked by people ‘in the trade’ is about our company name, and more specifically about whether the ‘Agility’ in ‘AgilityWorks’ means that we use Agile development methodology. This is normally followed up by “so what does an Agile approach give you?”…..

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Five things I learned at SAP TechED Madrid 2011

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By Ian Vincent | 14th November, 2011 | Business Technology & Composites

Having never attended a TechED or a Sapphire Now conference previously I thought I’d share a few thoughts on the conference. I’ve tried to stay away from some of the ‘keynote’ messages and focus on the things that I am taking away personally, so in no particular order here we go…

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Is SAP MDM mature enough for your business?

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By Ian Vincent | 20th April, 2011 | Data Management

In a recent article on searchdatamanagement.com it is suggested that “SAP’s lack of reference customers with live implementations could reflect a desire among some customers to wait until NetWeaver MDM grows more mature”. This leads to the question of whether SAP MDM is mature enough to support Data Management solutions across SAP’s customer base?

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Seeing your way through the cloud; the impact of cloud on integration

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By Ian Vincent | 30th March, 2011 | Business Technology & Composites

Increasingly our clients are looking to the cloud and SaaS to bring lower TCO and greater flexibility to their organisations, however this can lead to integration challenges when trying to implement business processes across systems hosted internally and those in the cloud.

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