My unabashed love for what I market...

As I have trotted the globe (from Auckland to Long Beach), visiting EMC OnDemand customers and prospects, I couldn’t help but get inspired by the poetic resonance that customers felt with the EMC OnDemand value proposition.  In one of those empty moments, after a nightcap on a lazy Saturday, I instinctively reached for my pen and it flowed thus….    

     

Easier, faster, better – An Ode to EMC OnDemand

IT is saddled with ECM shelf-ware

There are many reasons, and then some more

The tale begins now, so be aware

This will all but shake you to the core

‘tis not me but Forrester’s tone

Pray but why the users ignore

Implementations are unstable, users moan

Making application usage a hated chore

What you don’t know can’t hurt you, say the wise

Never was this more wrong than now

Expertise, my friend, is what IT needs, surprise surprise!

If you want your business to lead the Dow

Get the spring in your step, swagger and command

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If any of the following are true -

1.       You liked the sonnet

2.       You liked the attempt but think that you can help with the iambic pentameter

3.       You like many other are excited  by EMC OnDemand’s value proposition
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My thoughts on enterprise IT operations

As one of the bloggers asked to blog my experiences I have blogged my experience with application operations here

Strange Fedex pricing and opportunity

I had to ship a set of important documents to India. I opted to go with Fedex due to its brand. First thing that surprised me was how expensive it is still to ship a few pages of documentation to India from the US. I had to shell out close to 70 USD just to ship a few pages.

What as even more surprising is the quote that i got for 2 options. These are shown in the screenshot above. Did you notice ? The price for faster delivery is lower than the slower alternative.

It is hard to understand the rationale. One possibility is that fedex incurs inventory cost associated with all the packages in transit. I'd have to assume that if that is the logic the it should apply to larger packages which actually take up significant physical space.

Most likely it is a bug in the software.