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A conversation with Charles Phillips, president Oracle: This morning I participated in a round table conversation with Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, discussing his take on Enterprise 2.0 technologies and how they apply to Oracle's view of the enterprise applications space. While there was nothing earth shatteringly new in what he said, some nuggets emerged. ...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict: I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...; Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Diggnation for enterprise?: The cool kids in Silicon Valley think they have all the fun? Check this out: Diggnation for Enterprise featuring SAP's Bill McDermott, Henning Kagermann and Leo Apotheker at SAPPHIRE08 in Orlando. In contrast to Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, this is an altogether...; Tags: Leo Apotheker, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-06
SAP BPM - business fail?: On Sunday I sat through a day of SAP sponsored discussions around business process management as part of the company's ramp up to Sapphire08. In and among the presentations, Ginger Gatling, SAP NetWeaver BPM product manager introduced the packed room to Galaxy - aka SAP's NetWeaver Business Process Management environment....; Tags: BPM, SAP AG, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-06
The changing SAP culture: As Henning Kagermann, SAP's co-CEO prepares for what will probably be his swansong keynote speech at SAPPHIRE 2008 and Leo Apotheker, CEO-in-waiting prepares for the transfer in power, still a year away, a group of the Enterprise Irregulars were able to contrast the different styles of these two industry leaders....; Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Leadership, Biotechnology, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-05

Instrumenting social responsibility: As I'm sitting in an Orlando hotel idly flicking through RSS, I come across this guest post by Stacey Monk on Go Big Always. To cut a long story short: After all, I'm the perhaps crazy person who, after a trip to Africa last year, left a really successful...; Tags: SAP AG, Stacey Monk, EpicChange, Web 2.0, Corporate Social Responsibility, Internet, Leadership, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Spigit mashes up social software to reveal innovation: Take the idea of community, sprinkle liberally with process, add a dash of prediction market thinking and a soupcon of reputation analysis, stir gently without too much mashing and you have InnovationSpigit. I really like this idea because it solves one of the...; Tags: Innovation, Idea, Spigit, InnovationSpigit, Research & Development, LDAP, Leadership, Games, Strategy, Business Operations, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Intelligent search with Attivio: As much as people talk about information relevance in search, it's not much good unless tied to an activity. Attivio is seeking to solve this problem with its Active Intelligence Engine. Rather than restricting itself to one or a small number of data types, Attivio is...; Tags: Data, Attivio, Content Management, Real Estate, Search, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Business Operations, Data Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents: It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren't taking social software seriously. They can't. Not even if they...; Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Value Chain, Vendor, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Sam, Austin Ventures, Dan, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Will Egnyte set you alight?: When I first heard about Egnyte I was underwhelmed. How many more file storage systems do we need? That was a gross under estimation of what Egnyte can deliver for the smaller business. Described by Vineet Jain, the company's CEO as 'information infrastructure', the company sees storage as one of...; Tags: Service, Egnyte, Jain, Storage, Hardware, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-29
EXCLUSIVE: CODA2go on force.com: Today in an exclusive preview, I saw CODA2go's first iteration. CODA2go is accounting software developer CODA's first foray at an on-demand accounting application service built on the force.com platform. CODA claims it is the largest development of its type on force.com. According to...; Tags: Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-29
SAP Business By Design likely to be delayed: Sketchy reports coming out of Germany are saying that SAP's Business By Design is likely to be delayed. According to Handelsblatt: An SAP developer speaking to Handelsblatt claimed (in German) that ByDesign was suffering from performance issues and bugs that would delay general availability until perhaps the end of...; Tags: SAP AG, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Zoho's pivot and macro capabilities: tipping point?: Today's addition of VB Macro and pivot table support to Zoho Sheets is possibly the most important step forward for the Zoho suite of business applications. These two capabilities are top of list for keeping Microsoft Office customers loyal. Pivot tables are extensively...; Tags: Business Application, Microsoft Visual Basic, Zoho, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Microsoft Office, Financial Accounting, Office Suites, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Are we headed for a nuclear winter?: Caroline McCarthy's post on News.com describing the juxtaposition between the party atmosphere underpinning Web 2.0 and the views of certain veterans poses awkward questions: Amid the drunken revelry and pulsing electronic music, one prominent tech-industry veteran at the party was asked exactly what Chi.mp is. "I'll tell you what...; Tags: Bank, Information Technology, Investment, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, Social Networking, Strategy, Financial Services, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Zoho's Chinese bet: Zoho today announced it has entered a white label distribution deal with Baihui for distribution of its applications in China. Today, the deal includes Writer, Sheet, Show and CRM under Baihui's branding. Assuming the deal works well, then it is understood the arrangement will be extended to include other applications....; Tags: China, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Branding, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Twitter turmoil: when does it end?: The news that Twitter's lead architect Blaine Cook and Lee Mighdoll, VP engineering have left should be no surprise. Let's be blunt. Despite the neutral language used in various posts, they were fired. One has to wonder whether Jack Dorsey is next, especially as he doesn't seem to understand the...; Tags: Twitter, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Twitter outages and Forrester predictions: In my last post about Forrester's predictions, I suggested that Enterprise 2.0 won't pan out the way they suggest. On one prediction, I think they're spot on but for different reasons: Consumer services like Blogger, Facebook, Netvibes, and Twitter are aimed squarely at consumers, and they typically offer free...; Tags: Outage, Twitter, Forrester Research Inc., Manufacturing, Web 2.0, Internet, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-21
SalesView from InsideView: feature or product?: I've had several conversations with InsideView in an effort to understand how its recently released SalesView product fits into the scheme of enterprise applications. Described as leveraging the convergence between social media and enterprise applications, SalesView is designed to provide sales people with fine grained information...; Tags: CRM, SalesView, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-21
The problem with Forrester's $4.6 billion prediction: Forrester has released a report indicating that Enterprise 2.0 spending will reach $4.6 billion by 2013. ( I would offer a link but the one I have is broken.) I'm uncomfortable with the report though it hints at some interesting developments. Any prediction is based upon the...; Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Interesting social media profile data: Dale Vile of boutique analyst house Freeform Dynamics has released raw data from a social media survey his firm conducted in September, 2007. Given the data is six months old, the patterns may have changed. However, some of the inter-relationships are worth noting. The following graphic indicates the different patterns...; Tags: Data, Blog, Social Media, Dale, Wiki, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-18