Innovation? Try Relevance

posted by  mvrok (14)  10 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Darren Laybourn and I are giving a TechEd Strategic Briefing in a couple of hours on Innovation.

It's interesting, if you listen to what most ERP vendors are saying about innovation in terms of things like SAP's BPP and Oracle's Fusion, you'd think the most important thing in the world is to add a new layer of middleware to an already complex software product.

But if you talk to most ERP users about middleware, they couldn't care less. Because middleware