The Brief - April 2016 - ChainLink Research

Best practices, technology, and new takes on critical business topics from ChainLink Research

Thursday, April 21, 2016 – Published once each month.

Highlights from Descartes Evolution 2016

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Thought leadership and a notable abscence of hype are hallmarks of Descartes’ annual conference. Here we discuss highlights from the event. [ Read: Highlights from Descartes Evolution 2016 ]

The World of Integration — Part Two: Market Segments

By Ann Grackin

Thursday, April 21, 2016

In The World of Integration—Part Two we revise and define the integration market with an orientation towards supply chain applications. Business processes are becoming more click and connected between trading partners with a world of applications and data to share…. [ Read: The World of Integration — Part Two: Market Segments ]

Infor Alchemizing Legacy Solutions

By Bill McBeath

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Infor provides a great example of ongoing reinvention of a software firm: taking a collection of decades old applications, leveraging the deep and rich functionality developed and lessons learned over generations of actual on-the-ground use, and migrating all that IP and knowledge into modern cloud/network-based architectures that can compete well against ‘shiny new’ best-of-breed applications. [ Read: Infor Alchemizing Legacy Solutions ]