I addressed the 4thannual IP Summit on June 5, 2018, in Chicago on Avoiding an ERP Implementation Train Wreck. This is a subject that is all too familiar to me as an ERP software litigation attorney having represented a significant number of clients over the years in disputes and lawsuits with ERP software vendors and…
Like many businesses, vendors have been scrambling to adjust the software in their ERP system to be compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) which came into force in late May. Senior managers and executives have been so consumed with rewriting and testing code that many haven’t had the time – if…
In a new study of the counterfeit cosmetics industry released in early June 2018, Red Points Solutions S.I. revealed that more than 40-percent of the makeup offerings in Facebook ads and on so-called “company pages” were for fake products as were 30-percent of the cosmetics sites on eBay and 10-percent on Instagram. A scattering of…
Tesla Violates Open Source Agreements; Don’t Be Like Tesla Open source software can be a two-edged sword. On the one hand, for many companies or their vendors developing a specific application to make their business more efficient, it can save valuable time because programmers don’t have to “reinvent the wheel.” On the other hand, users…
Manufacturer’s were “early adopters” of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and ERP has been in widespread use by the industry for decades. It has increased productivity and profitability without creating a massive disruption to companies and their workers. But one of the problems my manufacturing clients often encounter that I see as their ERP contract…
Counterfeit products flooding the U.S. and world markets is a huge problem, and historically China has accounted for 86-percent of the illicit and illegal goods in circulation. But as the country struggles to gain legitimacy with trading partners and foreign investors, it has conducted a major crackdown on the manufacture and sale of everything from…
Learn How To Avoid An ERP Implementation Nightmare Like Longfellow’s little girl, when things go bad with an ERP implementation, typically they are horrid. So, on June 5, I will be presenting “Avoiding an ERP Implementation Train Wreck” at the 4th Annual IP Strategy Summit here in Chicago. The summit brings together IP professionals to…
In the absence of basic planning and exquisite attention to contractual obligations, companies embarking on ERP deployment can end up in a much darker place: the courtroom. Marcus Harris explains to Information Week how to avoid this happening.
You can hardly graduate from an American high school without reading Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird, which was turned into an Academy Award winning film starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. Before Ms. Lee died in 2016, she signed an agreement with Broadway producer Scott Rudin to mount a stage adaptation…
Although an “amicable settlement” was reached nearly a year ago, news of the agreement between Anheuser-Busch and SAP did not slip out until the brewer published its annual report in late May. At stake was some $600-million in damages SAP was seeking, claiming that the huge American brewer allegedly made unauthorized use of some applications…