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- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- SAP: Enterprise software market 'difficult'; Emerging markets weak
- SAP's third quarter was a mixed bag. Earnings were a touch better than expectations, but revenue and the outlook disappointed investors. Meanwhile, SAP said the software market showed "signs of stabilization," but remained difficult. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Emerging Market, SAP AG, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- SAP Q3: sales down, profit up
- SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...
- Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- The maintenance renewal landscape
- A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...
- Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Maintenance Fee, Maintenance Revenue, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- SaaS: Shelfware as a service?
- Think the conclusions are a bit flawedI think we can all agree that SaaS saves operational expenses, increases agility and improves the user experience. I don't think the fact that Salesforce.com has been successful can be held against the category.The shelfware point is a bit more subtle. The...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, shelfware
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...
- Tags: Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Art of the software deal can get messy
- Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Gartner Inc., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Software Audit, Software-as-a-service Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- News to know: Droid, Moffat, Android, Amazon, 3D HDTV, Net Neutrality
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Verizon unveils 30-second ad for Droid Android phone; slams iPhone Jason Perlow:DROID aims to make Apple...
- Tags: Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Sam Diaz, Matthew Miller, Net Neutrality, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years
- Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Ross MacMillan, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- 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
- 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
- News to know: Windows 7; IBM; Sony; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Measuring Windows 7 performance Dancho Danchev: Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google ...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Sony Vaio, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Eaton, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wireless, Wireless Coverage Data, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Wireless And Mobility, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Mobile Applications, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Missing what open source cannot afford
- FOSS needs some town hallsto get free air time on the news and to educate the users on the perils of closed source.I have to disagree ...I'm not sure how isolated you are, but my experience with open source through OpenNMS has been quite different.Sure, companies like mine that are...
- Tags: open source, OpenNMS
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Revisiting RIM: Are the enterprise storm clouds brewing?
- In the context of the scenario...it could very well come down to iPhone v. RIM. If, as posited, businesses adopt a BYOP model. That kind of thing doesn't matter what wireless network your using, if they'll open exchange up for you to hook your iPhone to. Which may - and...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, data plan, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., BIS, RIM BlackBerry, Verizon Communications Inc., Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Red Hat gains operating system share at Sun's expense
- Red Hat's fiscal second quarter results were solid across the board as the company continues to poach operating system market share even though server sales are weak. Simply put, you can't extrapolate Red Hat's results to other enterprise software vendors. Red Hat's continued growth is at the...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Dell and Perot: What this means
- Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...
- Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Washington finally embraces tech; the benefits will be here soon
- It's fitting that Washington's top IT administrator, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, would come out to Silicon Valley to announce one of the federal government's largest technology initiatives - a cloud computing marketplace for government agencies that's designed to reduce red-tape and allow faster deployment of money-saving, energy-efficient cloud-based software. ...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Washington, Benefit, Sergey Brin, Tech Industry, Government, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Federal Government, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
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