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SAP Makes A Dramatic Move: Ex-Oracle Exec John Wookey To Head up SAP’s New On-demand Market Effort

SAP Makes A Dramatic Move: Ex-Oracle Exec John Wookey To Head up SAP’s New On-demand Market EffortNot going to be easyIt is not easy, and many companies have already failed trying, to rearchitect a legacy software company and its technology for on demand. He will need to overcome organizational issues,...

Tags: Sales force management, Sales strategy, cloud computing, on-demand, Dramatic Move, Ex-Oracle, Head Up, John Wookey, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

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RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700It's been about a year since the original RIM BlackBerry Bold made its debut, and while it remains a very solid device, it's about time that a flashier, faster model took over the reigns. And that device would be the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700. Not only...

Tags: Handhelds, BlackBerry Bold 9700, RIM BlackBerry, RIM BlackBerry Bold, RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700, Research In Motion Ltd., T-Mobile, Bold 9700

Product reviews 2009-11-05

Ricoh Canada Streamlines IT Administration With Help of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008

Throughout its history Ricoh Company has prided itself on being the first to market with innovative solutions. In 2009 Ricoh Company acquired one of the world's largest document management technology distributors, IKON, which had an immediate and dramatic effect on the Canadian business unit, Ricoh Canada Inc., a move that...

Tags: Ricoh Corp., IT Administration, Microsoft Windows Server, Information Technology, Ricoh Canada, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Case studies 2009-11-04

Brickbats over bricks

Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....

Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-21

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Are you a mobile broadband hog? Should that be your problem?

Well, if I am a light user, I DO NOT want to pay for the hogs that drive upcosts for the carriers. I want a dirt cheap plan, that will immediately throttle me if I start hogging, or, possibly give me the option to pay more if I want to...

Tags: Smart phones, Wireless and Mobility, Network technology, Apple iPhone, mobile broadband, AT&T Corp., broadband, mobile, UNLIMITED

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

IBM targets Google Apps for business, undercuts pricing and touts reliability

IBM is going after Google Apps Premier hard and has the pricing to show it's serious. Big Blue is announcing the general availability of LotusLive iNotes, a cloud email, calendar and contact management service, for $36 a year per user. Google Apps Premier runs $50 per user a year. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Pricing Strategy, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Manufacturing, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-02

Doing the VMware Dance Day 3

VMware Day 1 Summary The first official day of VMworld found me running from meeting to meeting. I did find a short time to walk the show area. This offered the opportunity to speak with several users of virtualized environments and various vendors who are part of the...

Tags: VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Hollywood studios offer 'download to own' DivX movies online; Film Fresh the new iTunes?

For the first time ever, movie titles from Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros. will be available for download online in the DivX format. DivX, Inc. and movie site Film Fresh on Wednesday announced that Film Fresh will offer titles such as The...

Tags: Hollywood Studios, DivXNetworks, Movie, Apple iTunes, RB, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Enterprises seek better ways to discover, manage and master their information explosion headaches

Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript. Download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Join a free HP Solutions Virtual Event on July 28 on four main IT themes. Learn more. Register. ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Podcasts, Strategy, Data Centers, Internet, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-21

The grand Google plan against the whole Microsoft stack

The grand Google plan against the whole Microsoft stackThe problem with this is vendor lock-inYea, sure you get vendor lock-in anyway with Microsoft, Oracle, whatever...right? But this is alot more vertical. With Google, everything is in the cloud, which they host. Your custom applications will have be...

Tags: VPNs, Network security, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., likelyhood, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...

Tags: Customer, Business, Tool, CRM, Social CRM, SCRM Business Strategy, Co-creation, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Journalism ... and other inappropriate relationships

If you end up being bitten by journalism it is similar to being smitten. It's like falling in love with someone -- but in this case, you know it's the wrong person. - You know that there is no way the relationship can work out (because currently...

Tags: Journalism, Story, News Story, Keyboards, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Peripherals, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

A Superior Hardware Platform for Server Virtualization: Improving Data Center Flexibility, Performance and TCO With Intel Virtualization Technology

Server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data center productivity in fundamental ways. It lets one consolidate multiple operating systems and applications per physical server and deploy new applications in minutes. It also lets move running applications from one server to another without downtime for flexible workload management, high availability...

Tags: Data Center, Performance, TCO, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-06-01

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?

In a dramatic, unprecedented proposal, the current White House is looking at an absolute fuel efficiency minimum for all new cars and light trucks in America. Shocked, I tell you, shocked. If Detroit weren't already numbed by bankruptcy, it would be shocked. But ocwed by their...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-18

SAP keynote: Leo Apotheker's appeal for clarity

Leo Apotheker, co-CEO at SAP has just concluded his keynote speech with a call for 'clarity' in enterprises of all sizes. "The past 10 months have indeed been a turning point for all of us...it is time for clarity...time to be clear...We all face a new reality and it's not...

Tags: Software, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-12