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- Future ERP
- Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
- Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- TIBCO and SAP: place your bets
- Yesterday, Larry Dignan asked my opinion of persistent rumors that SAP is in the middle of taking a tilt at acquiring TIBCO. I rolled my digital eyeballs. How many times has this one gone around the block? As Brian Sommer yelled: ONCE A POTENTIAL ACQUISITION IS PASSED ON, IT...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, Brian, Public Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Bluetooth Research (Mobile)
- This guide to Bluetooth will introduce the reader to the key concepts, issues, and uses of this new wireless technology. Additionally, recommendations from the Gartner group are included to help make business decisions about implementation and the timing of a company's adoption of Bluetooth. Brian Rubarts is a Microsoft Certified...
- Tags: Mobile, Cisco Systems Inc., MH Publishing, Brian Rubarts, Brian, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- Software downloads 2009-07-11
- 'IT has no inherent value'
- Many IT projects are built on a house of cards, ready to come tumbling down in failure to deliver anything useful back to the organization. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Benefit, Brian, Benefits, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- The 'Social Media' Conundrum
- I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...
- Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Brian, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- IDF Opening Keynote: Are you listening, Washington?
- Intel chairman Craig Barrett, introduced as the company's chief ambassador, delivered the opening keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum this morning, highlighting technological innovation and its impact on the globe - just as you'd expect him to do. But Barrett - with a quick apology for briefly jumping into...
- Tags: Education, Washington, Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Intel Developer Forum, Brian, Telecom & Utilities, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Brian's Brain 1.0.7 (Mobile)
- Inspired from Brian's Brain by Brian Silverman.
- Tags: Brain, Mobile, Pierre-Yves Tavernier, Brian, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-03-25
- Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"
- Gizmodo's Brian Lam (no, not the C-SPAN guy, that'd be Brian Lamb) notes a snippet from Apple's SDK-coming-out-part press conference in which one Mr. Jobs noted that any third-party iPhone developer cooks up a VoIP program for iPhone, the utility will be allowed to work via...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Gizmodo, Brian, Mobile VoIP, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Why so few Skype WiMAX phones? Here's the answer
- Brian Dolan of Fierce Wireless notes that Skype's gm of mobile and hardware devices Gareth O'Loughlin, is wondering just where all the Skype-compatible WiMAX devices are at this year's Mobile World Congress closing out today in Barcelona. Brian makes the point that this lack of Skype...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Skype Technologies S.A., Brian, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Oracle's wall-to-wall software suite
- Oracle massive software suite, important components of which were assembled during the company's aggressive acquisition strategy (41 companies over the last 45 months), has yielded an impressive product road map. Oracle presented its grand vision to the 43,000 attendees of OpenWorld, its annual user conference which was held this past...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Product Suite, Brian, Strategy, Middleware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-17
- Desktop Zestimates 2 (Windows)
- How much is that home worth. Enter a U.S. address in Zillow.coms widget search box to get the following on a home like Zestimate home valuation, one-week value change, snapshot of homes market value for past year, link to home details page, link to homes graphs and data, and you...
- Tags: Desktop, Home, Brian, Microsoft Windows, Investment, Operating Systems, Software, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-06-18
- Software Selection Blues
- Brian Sommer has an excellent round-up of resources dedicated to helping ERP software buyers navigate the software selection process. Although the focus is on ERP, the issues are applicable to any major enterprise software purchase. From his article: Selections are a technical, functional, human and...
- Tags: Selection, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat Al Nas Map (Windows)
- This is a custom map for the Desert Combat mod. Included here are custom textures, sounds and more. This map can be played on day one or day two, each offering different styles of play. You can even ride a camel if you can find the right one.
- Tags: Map, Brian, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2004-04-19
Additional Resources
- Guerilla Marketing @ Dreamforce
- Leave the trade show booth behind and get creative. The guerilla marketing at technology shows can be entertaining, memorable and maybe even profitable. Done right, it makes a bigger impact than any brochure, newsletter or keychain giveaway. Look at what SugarCRM did at the Salesforce show! by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Dreamforce post#2: Chatter, Events, REA and the Future of Management
- Don't think of Salesforce's Chatter as bunch of social networking techologies for business people to use. If you do, you've missed the real potential for businesses to operate in real-time. by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Chatter: Amplified
- Last evening, fellow ZDNet'ers Mike Krigsman, Dion Hinchcliffe, Tom Foremski, Brian Sommer along with fellow Enterprise Advocate Vinnie Mirchandani and I sat down with Parker Harris, co-founder Salesforce.com to get a deep dive into the rationale behind Chatter, what it's really about and where it's going. ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- A Tale of Two Software Worlds: Old ERP vs. SaaS
- Dreamforce's attendance really puts a strong data point on how attractive SaaS is becoming. Other vendors this week have provided additional data points that point to a troubling time ahead for laggard ERP vendors. by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, ERP, Dreamforce, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Inappropriate Performance Review Phrases (We'd All Like to Use)
- The toughest performance reviews are the ones for the most troubling of employees. How do you capture their ineptitude, indifference or incompetence in a pithy, to-the-point phrase? Read on... by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Performance, Performance Review, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Before you do that BPO, Audit, Consulting or other services deal, check out these costs
- How service providers spend money on T&E is your business. You'll pay for it one way or another. Check out these numbers and the questions you should pose to your next service provider. by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Audit, BPO, Service Provider, Consulting, Business Services, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-15
- Cloud-to-Cloud Integration - Another Big ERP Challenge!
- OpenAir SRPBrian, Thank you for your perceptive analysis. OpenAir Connect is designed to support and advance one of the key elements of cloud-to-cloud computing, namely an open architecture that enables systems to integrate to each other without pre-condition. This capacity is key to realizing the potential of SRP...
- Tags: OpenAir Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
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