Spreading the money around
January 13th 2008 05:53
Sometimes sites use Acronyms and don’t explain what they mean. For instance, the Prophix site talks about bpm, but I couldn’t see where it explained the words behind those initials. I presume it means ‘business performance management’ since that was a phrase that seemed to match, but I wasn’t sure.
So what, you say? Well, it just means to me that the company has assumed I’ll know something because I’m visiting their site. In fact, I think they should regard most visitors as possible ignoramuses, and work from that base.
Anyway, Prophix is one of these spreadsheet-type pieces of online software. It claims to be more efficient than using Excel, where mistakes can be made in terms of formulae and so on. Prophix locks its formulae in and only the administrator can change them.
It’s a curious name, Prophix. I guess the idea behind it is fixing your profits, although the ph in the middle is a bit confusing. I used to use an accounting package at the shop I ran called Prophet. It always seemed to me to be an odd name, and the only logic I could see for using that spelling was that presumably it could forecast – if you had the right modules – what your business was going to be up to in the future. That, aligned with the homonym (profit), meant you had both features in mind. Maybe they thought Profit was a bit too obvious, and Prophet was more subtle. I have no idea!
So what, you say? Well, it just means to me that the company has assumed I’ll know something because I’m visiting their site. In fact, I think they should regard most visitors as possible ignoramuses, and work from that base.
Anyway, Prophix is one of these spreadsheet-type pieces of online software. It claims to be more efficient than using Excel, where mistakes can be made in terms of formulae and so on. Prophix locks its formulae in and only the administrator can change them.
It’s a curious name, Prophix. I guess the idea behind it is fixing your profits, although the ph in the middle is a bit confusing. I used to use an accounting package at the shop I ran called Prophet. It always seemed to me to be an odd name, and the only logic I could see for using that spelling was that presumably it could forecast – if you had the right modules – what your business was going to be up to in the future. That, aligned with the homonym (profit), meant you had both features in mind. Maybe they thought Profit was a bit too obvious, and Prophet was more subtle. I have no idea!
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As for ignorami, I think both plurals are acceptable. And ignoramuses is a much nicer word.