Feature Packs – What’s new in FP2?
With the recent release of HCM 9.1 Feature Pack 2, many of BTRG’s customers are interested in what is available to them. I am currently in the process of leading one of our customers through a detailed assessment/fit-gap of these new features in preparation for their HCM upgrade from 8.9 to [...]
Highlights from the Oracle keynote at the Southern New England User Group (SNUG)
Many who live in New England cite autumn as their favorite season. The changing fall foliage is truly exquisite. On the other hand, the major storm that whipped through the region on October 29th causing widespread damage and power outages was, shall we say, unexpected. What wasn’t unexpected was that [...]

Optimizing Supply Management in Your Organization
In today’s extremely competitive environment effective supply management has surfaced as a competitive advantage allowing your organization to separate itself from the competition. The first step in building a world class supply management organization is reviewing and analyzing your procurement processes. Do those processes align with the business’ overall strategy? [...]
Reverse Auctions with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing Module
Reverse auctions have been enabled in recent years with the advent of the internet and web enabled procurement applications. Reverse Auctions are auctions in which the buyer posts requirements online and invites suppliers to compete for their business. This has the effect of driving down the price. These types of [...]

Predictive Governance
I recently attended the Information Governance Council’s Predictive Governance Forum in New York City. Topics included: * Data Quality Simulation * Internet Jurisdiction * Global Regulatory Relief * Semantic Consistency in SDLC * Business Glossaries and Data * Information Archiving Policy We had an excellent two day meeting focusing on [...]
4 Great Reasons Why We Should See YOU at Collaborate 2012
BTRG will be exhibiting (booth #862) and presenting 4 sessions as part of the Collaborate 2012 conference this year. If you are attending “COLLABORATE 12: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community” be sure to add these sessions to your must-see list while at the conference: 101460 – Budgeting [...]
BTRG’s Solutions Focus
For the first time this week I introduced BTRG as both a consulting and solutions firm. Increasingly over the last two years, BTRG has been focused on developing more solutions from our InFlight product which links ERP packaged directly with SharePoint, to its companion UpFront and our TrueNorth Performance Management [...]
Perfect Time for Your Annual Data Management Check-up
Today I got my car serviced for its yearly maintenance check-up. Why am I mentioning this random and useless fact to you? Well, it got me thinking that every year, each company should do a Data Management check-up. If you are an IBM InfoSphere Optim customer, some of the annual questions to ask [...]

The New Bottom Line
I can’t say it better. Click on the “Play Video” link. What is your new Bottom Line? http://www.peoplearethenewbottomline.com/
And talk we did
Last month I blogged about all the places we would be talking about Workday in October and how BTRG’s “real experts” are assisting Workday in changing the landscape for enterprise [...]
Let’s talk Workday
I am excited to announce that the BTRG Workday Practice will be on the road for two key events in October. First, we are Sponsoring the HR Technology Conference in [...]