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- Congratulations Marc… The next $billion will be harder
- In 10 years, salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff has turned CRM-as-a-service into a $1B business with 55,400 customers.Ă‚Â Both numbers are impressive.Ă‚Â It took SAP more than 35 years and an acquisition of Business Objects to cross the 50,000 customer mark (BOBJ pushed them over 80,000).Ă‚Â ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Siebel Systems Inc., SAP AG, CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Bruce Richardson
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- When Citi shares cost less than a newspaper
- This is a bit off topic, but I was in an elevator when the small screen flashed with the news that shares of Citigroup had sunk below the $1 mark to 97 cents. That’s down 14.2% from yesterday. As of 12:43 p.m. ET the price has risen to $1.035, giving the...
- Tags: Citigroup Inc., Bruce Richardson
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- AMR: SOA will kill ERP
- Bruce Richardson of AMR Research predicts the unthinkable: that "rapid adoption of SOA will lead to the end of the ERP market as we know it." "Here’s the doomsday scenario, circa 2010: SAP and Oracle customers have stopped buying applications from their ERP vendors. Instead, they contract with low-cost Indian...
- Tags: SOA, ERP
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Software 2006: SOA, the land grab
- During a break at Software 2006, I caught up with Bruce Richardson [below], chief research officer at AMR Research. He cuts through the noise when it comes to enterprise software. He comments on SOA, Oracle, SAP and the vendor/user relationship.Ray Lane talked about how the software industry needs a big...
- Tags: SAP AG, Bruce Richardson, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- Apple's predatory supply chain
- AMR Research’s Bruce Richardson writes about what he calls "predatory supply chains," situations where manufacturers through exclusive contracts monopolize key inputs leaving competitors high and dry, especially in new growth markets. Richardson introduces the idea with Apple's iPod. He points out the recent wave of reports about Samsung's local competitors...
- Tags: Bruce Richardson, Apple Computer Inc., predatory supply chain
- Blog posts 2005-10-24
- SOA 2010: Looking backward
- Ever wondered what we might learn about SOA if we looked back from the future? Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR Research, has. He flew his time machine to the year 2010 and offered a report back. His wisdom and warning for us: "SOA is a journey, not a...
- Tags: Bruce Richardson, SOA
- Blog posts 2005-10-14
- AMR Research Alert: Rethinking Core Competencies
- In this thought-provoking article from AMR Research, author Bruce Richardson discusses recent trends in the Research and Development (R&D) arena and explains why "everyday low prices," which are great for consumers, make it hard for manufacturers and vendors to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Richardson goes on to outline the...
- Tags: Core Competency, R&D, AMR Research, Bruce Richardson, Research & Development, Outsourcing, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- White papers 2005-03-17
Additional Resources
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Get ready for Oracle's 100 days of press releases aka innovation
- It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed vs. Giants” Debate raises a donkey's year old discussion where he concludes: Call me cynical, but...
- Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Bruce, Simon Wardley, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Outsourcing links for February
- Will China's Internet purges inhibit their knowledge services industry? : Interesting commentary on the fact that the Chinese government is working extremely hard to increase its level of censorship and keep the Chinese Internet-world sectioned off from the rest of the world. Human Resources Outsourcing: Where’s the Value? : ...
- Tags: Human Resources, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Top 10 SOA posts for 2007 -- part 1
- SOA efforts became a part of the IT activities of many organizations this year. However, as many are learning, SOA is more than another project to be developed and rolled out. Rather, it can be a huge game-changer -- both in terms of the way the organization looks at information...
- Tags: AMR Research, Information Technology, SOA, #9, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Business ByDesign: an Irregular verdict
- After a long day and intense series of discussions with SAP executives, the Enterprise Irregulars parsed immediate impressions of Business ByDesign. The general mood was one of quiet approval for a product set that is, as the company claims, a complete on-demand offering. Our generally positive...
- Tags: SAP AG, Downside, BBD, SAP Business ByDesign, Sales Force Management, Games, Channel Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Anne Nicole Smith and Oracle
- I promise no girlie pictures, and definitely no weeping judges, but if you want to know why I think Oracle is now the market leader in sensational, sound-bite news -- big and sexy and easy to put on page one -- please read on. This is of course about the...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- SAP promises to deliver 'Big SOA' -- then what?
- ZDNet blogging colleague Dan Farber recently spoke with Shai Agassi, president of SAPs product and technology group, about SAPs emerging SOA strategy, who promised that SAP would be leading the enterprise SOA market by the end of 2007. SAP will be able to move thousands of customers to...
- Tags: SOA, SAP AG, Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007
- SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007SAP is crashing in the chasmIn Geoffrey Moore's work, the ERP product space was characterized as moving from Main Street to the laggard market. SAP crossed that chasm years ago. SAP, Oracle and Microsoft are attempting to own the software platform with...
- Tags: Development tools, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- SAP crossing the chasm by the end of 2007
- Following SAP CEO Henning Kagermann’s presentation at SAPs fourth annual analyst summit, Shai Agassi, president of the Product & Technology Group, laid out the companys technical vision. He believes that SAP is in position to lead the chasm-crossing from the client-server model to enterprise SOA, and become the dominant...
- Tags: Dan Farber, General, IT Management, SAP AG, Shai Agassi, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- SAP bets on enterprise SOA, but are customers ready?
- "It’s not necessary to buy companies to get growth,” said SAP CEO Henning Kagermann, speaking at the company’s fourth annual analyst summit. He was referring to rival Oracle’s approach to growth, spending more than $20 billion on acquisitions, and pointed to SAP’s 11 consecutive quarters of growth and market share...
- Tags: SOA, SAP AG, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Apex signals a shift in the software landscape
- The software landscape is changing. PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield is heading up Workday, which is a pure on demand, Web services enterprise software play, following salesforce.coms lead, due for official launch on November 6. He was in attendance at Salesforce.coms roll out yesterday of its latest edition and Apex programming...
- Tags: Apex, Salesforce.com Inc., Workday
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Inside the Salesforce Apex language
- Salesforce.coms Apex programming language has been hailed by some as a significant milestone in short history of Web on demand applications. But at this point it is still of form of vaporware that hasnt yet been unleashed on the 20,000 AppExchange developers. My colleague Steve Gillmor and I talked to...
- Tags: Apex, Parker Harris
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Can SOA pick up where ERP leaves off?
- Last month, I ran a piece that generated a lot of discussion, quoting Bruce Richardson's prediction that SOA would usurp many of the functions that now sit at the application level in ERP systems. Sometimes, ERP may seem like too much, but other times, believe it or not, it's not...
- Tags: SOA, ERP system, ERP
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
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