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- Leapfrogging Dell, Everdream and salesforce.com
- Fellow ZDNet blogger Josh Greenbaum is not a fan of salesforce.com. He believes the company is over-hyped, egomanical and expensive for partners. In contrast, Everdream, recently acquired by Dell, is a model SaaS company for partners, he said. In his recent blog post Josh wrote: .....I believe...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Dell Computer Corp., Partnership, Platform, Everdream Corp., Josh Greenbaum, Sales Force Management, Business Structures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Google's inconsistent service policies
- Josh Greenbaum asserts: Google is the new evil empire – but now I really am beginning to believe it. I know that user agreements are typically ignored by most users, but anyone in the corporate world who ignores this risks seeing their IP in a Google marketing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Service, Josh Greenbaum, Content, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Software as a Service Takes the Analytics Road: Business Objects Buys Nsite
- Just to confirm that good ideas always find their proponent, Business Objects acquisition of Nsite and resulting foray into analytics on demand is a nice and predictable follow-on to my earlier post about integration as a service. Well definitely have to wait and see what BO plans to deliver in...
- Tags: analytics, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- On-Demand Integration: Salesforce, Hubspan, and the Future of Heterogeneity
- Salesforce.com is nothing if not a font of great ideas whose time should have come a long time ago. Indeed, it almost seems as though Salesforce.coms top dog Marc Benioff is the only one in the kennel whos bark really matters: On demand CRM certainly was not invented by Salesforce.com,...
- Tags: on-demand, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- SOA What? Big vs. Little vs. Nothing at All
- Ive just spent the last week immersed in user conferences and briefings, and at every juncture the question of web services and service architectures came up. And every time the issue moved from theory to reality, this little nagging problem kept coming back to cloud the optimism in the room:...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Big SOA, Little SOA
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Microsoft's ERP "Live", Duffield's Workday, and the Future of Software as a Service
- At announcements two continents apart but spiritually joined at the hip, Microsoft unveiled its plans for SaaS versions of its Dynamics ERP suite on the same day that PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield threw his hat in the ring with the announcement of his new Workday SaaS company. Both events, not...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Undermining the Support and Maintenance Market: Red Hat Today, Everyone Else Tomorrow?
- Oracle's announcement that it will basically cut the legs out of Red Hat by offering a lower-cost support package sounded familar to anyone who's followed the likes of TomorrowNow, Rimini Street, and NetCustomer. All are companies that underprice Oracle's support costs for PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel, and have been...
- Tags: Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Oracle Chairman Henley at Open World: On Linux, Ecosystems, On-Demand, and the Post-Ellison Era
- I hadn’t met Jeff Henley, the chairman of Oracle, in person since we shared a podium during the dot-com heyday. The event was an in-house conference, and I was to present my view of the world as an industry analyst in a Q&A session with Henley, then CFO,as the moderator....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Jeff Henley
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Microsoft Dynamics' Growing Pains
- Just settling in at 35,000 feet after an exhausting two-day Microsoft Dynamics analyst conference, there’s more than a few highlights to try to distill in one lone blog. But the main theme is easy: Microsoft’s enterprise applications are challenging not just the top of the market – SAP and Oracle...
- Tags: Dynamics AX
- Blog posts 2006-10-20
- The Future Of Software is Software
- I just spent an hour catching up with IBMs latest briefing on the completion of its acquisition of MRO Software, and it reminded me how much the future of software is really more of the same. This sanity check comes at the end of a week that showcased two paradigm...
- Tags: MRO Software Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-13
- How Big is AppExchange? The Salesforce.com Guessing Game
- I ran back to my office from Salesforce.coms Dreamforce conference with a mission -- to translate Marc Benioffs pronouncements about the size of his AppExchange marketplace into reality. In my last post about SF.com, I challenged the company to come up with some real numbers about the scope of the...
- Tags: Salesforce.com AppExchange
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Oracle is Still Buying: Anyone Surprised?
- One of Oracles deal makers, Vishal Bhagwati, has confirmed what has been obvious for quite some time: Oracle is going to keep buying software companies. His comments should be taken for what they really are: an affirmation of a strategy that Oracle has been stating loud...
- Tags: Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Is Office 2007 the real Office 3.0?
- Theres been a lot of hype in recent months about the future of the Office -- written in caps I imagine to distinguish it from Microsoft Office, which of course also being in caps is no distinction at all. Nick Carr -- he who sees no innovation in IT and...
- Tags: Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- Did Dunn Overdo it? Ask Oracle's Ellison
- So Patricia Dunn has fallen on her sword, a victim of her obsession with plugging leaks and the rather ridiculous soap-opera that HP's board has become over the years. But if precedent means anything, it seems that perhaps the HP board over-reacted in letting Dunn step down (and settle for...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- See Ya Later Doug: Burgum Leaves Microsoft Much the Wiser
- When I saw Doug Burgum at the Microsoft World Partners Conference last summer, there was an air of the short-timer about him. Not the kind who mails it in every morning with his feet on his desk, but more the short-timer who's done all he can and is waiting to...
- Tags: Doug Burgum, Dynamics AX, Dynamics GP, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- IBM Software M&A: The Not-So-Hidden Agenda
- The full impact of IBM's recent acquisitions won't be felt for sometime, but there's a quick analysis worth making about Big Blue's appetite for acquiriing enterprise software companies. IBM is an interesting fourth force at the top of the enterprise software market, being the only one of the big Four...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
- A New Twist in the Infrastructure Wars: Microsoft Delivers An Infrastructure-Free Vision for Dynamics
- How do you succeed as a partner in the Microsoft Dynamics world? Skip the infrastructure wars and go right to the desktop. This is the message from Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, now in session in Boston, and it's an importantly simple one: focus on selling Vista, Sharepoint, and Office 2007,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-11
- Oracle Swift Boats SAP
- Oracle launched its latest spot attack ad this week in its ongoing war with SAP -- and hit a new low in the process. The obviously creativity-challenged Oracle’s ad has a simple message: "CA runs SAP." It’s a swift boat moment for a company whose marketing is so broken it...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- Looking for the Interface of the Future? Ask Nintendo
- It seems that if you're not sick and tired of your enterprise software interface, it's only because you're not using it enough. That's the subtext of endless investments in interface design, new software releases, and countless speeches by industry executives of late, the most recent being a lengthy discourse on...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, enterprise software
- Blog posts 2006-06-08
- SAP: On the Knife Edge, Exactly Where They Want To Be
- After two days at SAP's Sapphire user conference, I struggled with finding the big picture amidst a plethora of announcements, strategic and tactical, that have spanned the gamut from acquisition Frictionless, to ecosystem (a new $125 milliion venture fund), to a new interface Muse, to updated versions of their ERP,...
- Tags: SAP AG
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
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