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Surviving and thriving: or why MISO has it (mostly) wrong

Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle collectively make up what Irregulars call MISO. Harsher critics might think they are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Whichever your chosen position I am coming to the view that the way they are going to market is wrong for the conditions in which we...

Tags: CIO, Oracle Corp., Social Computing, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO, Vendor Response, David Dobrin, Vertica, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-21

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Oracle Fusion - a damp squib

Earlier in the week I speculated that Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle would make a monster announcement about Fusion apps. I was wrong. According to Sam Diaz, it's worse: Ellison spent some time talking about new Fusion applications coming down the pipeline. But first, Ellison said he recognized that companies...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, Jim, Revenue Recognition, Team Management, Public Relations, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Financial Services, Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Prepping for an Earning Call ??? CFO/CEO must-do???s

Seriously...Brian, you're the best when it comes to nailing this kind of thing. Bravo. But let me add a couple of serious points.First of all, it is basically almost impossible under current accounting rules to assess the sales growth of established SaaS companies. You can't do it...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Operational accounting, Financial services, cloud computing, accounting rule, SaaS company, accounting, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

TIBCO and SAP: place your bets

TIBCO Governance?TIBCO has certainly made an investment in Cloud with Silver.But to say that they understand Governance and can lead that is an overstatement... They OEM their Governance technologies from Amberpoint and Systinet and hardly have much to say on the topic themselves.Full disclosure, I work at Software AG and...

Tags: Middleware, Web services, Enterprise software, TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Book Review: Why New Systems Fail

Phil Simon has a new book out called “why new systems fail â€" theory and practice collide”. I read through it quickly this weekend. Here’s my review: I’ve pored over systems failures much of professional IT career. In fact, I was...

Tags: Project, Phil Simon, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Leadership, Blogging, Professional Development, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Internet, Career, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-05