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My “Are ELNs doomed?” Presentation at IQPC

By Simon Coles | Published: September 30, 2009
Our marketing dept signed me up to do a presentation to the general session at IQPC in Brussels, with the rather provocative title “Are ELN projects Doomed?”. Um, thanks guys. No real guidance on what to say, but an expectation it will be provocative! I’ve become increasingly concerned that what’s said in public forums (e.g. [...]
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My workshop at IQPC Brussels yesterday

By Simon Coles | Published: September 29, 2009
Jo and I gave a workshop on “ELNs in Biology” which people seem to enjoy. My thanks to the attendees who not only listened to what we had to say but contributed their own expertise and experience too which greatly enriched the experience for all involved. We didn’t know what the attendees were going to [...]
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Good post on SaaS myths

By Simon Coles | Published: August 31, 2009
Good post on LIMS Finder debunking SaaS myths. SaaS isn’t for everyone but I can’t help but feel that any vendor without a true SaaS offering is going to have a really hard time – and there are a lot of ELN vendors who have backed themselves into a technology corner were providing a realistic [...]
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Bad Software Design Inhibits Use of Enterprise Apps

By Simon Coles | Published: August 16, 2009
It’s a well known but little admitted problem with Enterprise Software that the User Interface sucks, and that it matters – it’s kind of a weird “Don’t ask, don’t tell” thing. Sadly we’re all conditioned to this, accepting it as the norm – to the extent that users feel bad because they can’t immediately use [...]
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Chuck Norris syndrome

By Simon Coles | Published: June 11, 2009
The Project Failures blog has an interesting post on Chuck Norris syndrome. Chuck Norris can fix everything without changing anything And therein lies some of the problems people are hitting on ELN projects – they think that the old way of doing things will produce, if only they do it properly. I’d argue that the [...]
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