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- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services
- DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Demand this from software vendors
- I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...
- Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- 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
- Open source and forced obsolescence
- You gutted your own articleFirst, no one forces you to update your software, period. There *are* companies that won't support antiques, and who can blame them? Support costs are very high, especially since one person or team can't be expected to be expert in a dozen different versions of the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), obsolescence, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- SAP and SME's: an update
- I've just returned from spending a day immersed in SAP at a London hotel with European and South African SME customers, channel partners and the Business ByDesign team. It's been fascinating. While the focus was on ByDesign, I met with All-In-One customers. It provided a useful...
- Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Customer, SAP AG, McDermott, Smb/Sme, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- 6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors
- GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...
- Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Prepping for an Earning Call â€" CFO/CEO must-do’s
- Several of the Enterprise Irregulars were floundering around last week trying to make sense of a SaaS vendor’s recent financial results. Several serious rounds of conversations transpired as to how these earnings numbers could be understood but I think we need to start with the process of how execs get...
- Tags: Revenue, Accounting, Booking, CFO, CEO, Accrual, Operational Accounting, Software As A Service (SaaS), Finance, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Where's the tipping point for on-demand ERP?
- NetSuite delivered a solid quarter, indicated it was gaining traction with its OneWorld ERP suite and took a few jabs at SAP's Business By Design. The larger question: Where's the tipping point for on-demand ERP? That question was raised by JMP Securities analyst Patrick Walravens. The tipping...
- Tags: Revenue, On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, ERP, Business, Design, McGeever, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Wedding Bells: NetSuite + OpenAir + QuickArrow
- When PSA and SaaS Got BIG! Today, NetSuite announced it is buying QuickArrow, an Austin, Texas based PSA professional services automation vendor. This $20 million deal will put QuickArrow with OpenAir, another PSA solution that NetSuite acquired a little over a year ago. Click here for the...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., ERP, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Categorizing the SaaS Vendors
- Can't tell the players without a program! I get a couple of vendor briefings a week from SaaS vendors or their wanna-be cousins. As I listen to the various spins and pitches, it occurs to me that we need a new lexicon for these firms. Here’s my...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- SAP & SaaS - some clarifications
- TechMarketView ran a piece today about SAP and its SaaS software as a service products/initiatives. When I read the article, I thought this couldn't be right. I was especially confused by this paragraph: SAP’s flagship mid-market SaaS offering, Business ByDesign, announced in September...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Severa â€" PSA/PPM discussion with Zaki Usman
- The battle for low-cost, SaaS-based PSA/PPM is heating up Severa, a PSA/PPM (professional services automation/project portfolio management) vendor, has recently launched their newest product line: Severa 3. This is a Web 2.0, SaaS software as a service solution targeted for many professional services firms. The...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Professional Services, QuickArrow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand (and other burning questions)
- Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand and other burning questionsit will go down with a 'Bang'If Ask.com is the model, a.k.a. spyware + worthless results, M$ should better save its money.MS decision engine, that will keep me awayway away!RE: Microsoft's Bing: Powerset's role, market share, brand (and other burning...
- Tags: SEARCH, brand, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft BING, search engine, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Powerset
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Some welcome competition in mid-market ERP
- Sage's X3 - Does it need big systems integrators as part of its market success? A few days ago, several members of the analyst and press community were given a briefing on Sage’s high-end ERP product, X3. X3 was acquired by Sage three years ago and...
- Tags: Accounting, Reseller, ERP, Channel Partner, Sage, X3, X3 Product Line, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Fax proves a lingering business process communications point in need of automation
- This guest post comes courtesy of David A. Kelly at Upside Research, where he’s principle analyst. You can reach him here. Sometimes, no matter how much some things change, others stay the same. Take the example of the fax machine. The first fax patent...
- Tags: Business Process, Fax Machine, Esker S.A., Automation, Esker DeliveryWare Solution, Fax, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- NetSuite shares plummet day after report of "impressive" growth
- Shares of NetSuite, which reported first quarter results yesterday, is taking a beating on Wall Street today, with shares plummeting nearly 20 percent in regular trading, despite the "impressive" growth that the CEO referenced in his earnings statement. First quarter revenue was up...
- Tags: Revenue, NetSuite Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Top student laptops; Facebook; Larry Page's commencement speech
- 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: How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7? Larry Page's fine commencement speech. Andrew...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, Larry Page, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- An ERP Product Line in 18 months? NetSuite and Rootstock did it
- Lessons any ERP provider should heed The Power of Platform-as-a-Service This week, NetSuite and Rootstock announced the availability of an all new ERP solution. The incredible aspect of it is that the solution was created in 18 months. ...
- Tags: PaaS, NetSuite Inc., ERP, Rootstock, Cloud Computing, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
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