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Joshua Greenbaum has over 20 years of experience in the industry as a computer programmer, systems analyst, author, and consultant. In addition to his work from various bases in Silicon Valley, he spent three years in Europe tracking the enterprise software market as an analyst and correspondent for...- more about Joshua Greenbaum »
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- SaaS Goes IPO (again): SuccessFactors Files, and Now the Questions Begin
- SuccessFactors, the latest poster-child for SaaS, is now headed for the IPO market, following NetSuite, and everyone's archetype SaaS IPO (if you're an investor), Salesforce.com. SuccessFactors' S-1 filing was first pointed out to me by fellow Enterprise Irregular Jason Corsello, who has blogged on this IPO and Successfactors in general...
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- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- SAP beats Oracle? Oracle surrounding SAP? Microsoft raking in new customers?
- Who's winning what and does anyone really care?SAP just turned in a great quarter, one that, according to my favorite financial analyst, Charlie di Bona, cemented his contention that "SAP continues to compete aggressively against ORCL in the applications market." It also proves, di Bona, that SAP is growing twice...
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- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Microsoft CRM to Salesforce.com: It's Lunchtime
- Microsoft unveiled pricing at its Worldwide Partner Conference today for its on-demand CRM offering, and in the process sent an absolutely clear message that, from now on, basic on-demand CRM is all about price. With a range of offerings priced from $44 per user per month to $59 per user...
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- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- The Season of Disruption: Oracle vs. SAP, NetSuite's IPO, and the Future of Enterprise Software
- A response from SAP in the Oracle vs. SAP lawsuit and NetSuite files for an IPO. Two seemingly disconnected events trickled down through the technosphere during 4th of July week, and, having been blissfully disconnected myself for much of the week, I came back with a mission to try to...
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- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- A Little Transparency Could Go a Long Way: Oracle's Opacity Crisis
- Oracle's quarterly earnings look good, and their execs are crowing about how well their "surround SAP" strategy is working. And so it goes, another great quarter, another boastful conference call. What's wrong with this picture quarter after quarter is that we mere mortals -- and I include some pretty smart...
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- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- The Salesforce/Google Killer App: Not Coming Any Time Soon
- I've been sitting on the sidelines watching the hype-fest around the Salesforce.com/Google "alliance", trying to stifle a yawn at what I keep thinking will have to be a massively underwhelming deal once the truth is out. And I fully intended to to just sit tight and let others speculate ad...
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- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Fusion Apps Are Coming, Fusion Apps Are Coming…..
- Want to know where the entire enterprise software industry will be looking in mid-Nov.? It's easy: Oracle's OpenWorld user conference. Why? That's easy too: Oracle is going to be showing off the first of its Fusion Applications at its annual show, and I assure you, the whole enterprise software world...
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- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Salesforce.com/Siebel 2.0: Criticism and a Refutation
- Some same imitation is the highest form of flattery, but that's only for those who forget that a good rebuttal – or attempted rebuttal – is quite flattering as well. Jason Wood, a fellow Enterprise Irregular and blogger, has done me the courtesy of a well-written blog that attempts to...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.com
- It's finally time to call a spade a spade, or in this case, a soon-to-be has-been a has-been. Of course, doing so after the fact sounds too spiteful, so I'm going to do it well ahead of the curve. While these kind of predictions are hard to get right, I...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Hell Freezes Over: Oracle Buying Shares in SAP?
- The rumor du jour hit the Reuters wire early this morning, and it's a doozie: SAP's shares are up in recent trading because Oracle has bought some eight percent of the company. Considering April Fool's Day is come and gone, one has to assume that this was reported not for...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Oracle buying Agile – Is it Time to Rethink PLM?
- Here's the skinny on Oracle's acquisition of Agile: PLM is a three-letter acronym that has never lived up to its reputation as hot number either across the enterprise or in the eyes of the investment community. That hasn't stopped companies like Siemens from recently paying a pretty euro to buy...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Racing Towards the Future, Stuck in the Past: Microsoft BI Moves… Not Far Enough
- Attending Microsoft’s first Business Intelligence Conference has been an illuminating experience, mostly for how Microsoft’s major strengths in BI are becoming its major weaknesses. The issue is one that I’ve ranted about in the past, and it’s an industry-wide problem, not just Microsoft’s. After a day sitting through the pre-conference...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- SAP Does CPM: Et Tu, Oracle
- SAP has fired back at Oracle, in rather short order, with the acquisition of OutlookSoft, a corporate performance management vendor based in Stamford, Conn. It looks like short order of course, as Oracle announced its Hyperion acquisition a scant two months ago. But SAP, having passed a while ago on...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Fusion Is Coming, Sooner Than You Might Think
- The eternal quest to come up with a definitive timeline, much less a definition, for Oracles Fusion Applications may have just gotten a little easier. Step one was Oracles release of its Application Integration Architecture, formerly known as Project X, which provides the glueware that can link different processes in...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Bipolar Oracle
- Outside the SAP user conference in Atlanta, the cameras were rolling. Looking for sound bites were Oracle operatives, trying to get SAP customers to say – on camera and with SAPPHIRE logos as a backdrop – that SAP’s software was expensive, hard to deploy, and helped make the world safe...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- The Post-Shai Era II
- On the plane home from SAP’s Sapphire conference, reflecting on the overall impact of the announcements and the gestalt of the conference, it’s easy to conclude that SAP will survive Shai Agassi’s abrupt departure. It may be hard on the press – who seemed to be craving the acerbic sound...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Is NetWeaver Finally Hitting Its Stride?
- SAP has bet a lot on NetWeaver, its platform-cum-SOA strategy, and has endured the slings and arrows of competitors belittling the fact that it didn’t reach universal adoption in the two-plus years since it was first announced. But it seems like data from ASUG, the US-based SAP user group,...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Marc Benioff, John McCain, and Talking Straight
- Now that Salesforce.com has injected itself into the current presidential campaign, initially by supporting the Mitt Romney campaigns fundraising efforts, I think a comparison between Marc Benioff and John McCain is in order. I used to think of Benioff as a maverick, an entertaining one at that, and his pioneering...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Leapfrog on the Desktop
- No good idea goes unchallenged, and today’s announcement at the Microsoft Dynamics Convergence conference that Office has become the new client for its enterprise applications suite follows on the extraordinary success that the Office gang has already registered in the SAP market. That success , aka Duet, has been one...
- Tags: desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Dynamics, Duet, SAP AG, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Anne Nicole Smith and Oracle
- I promise no girlie pictures, and definitely no weeping judges, but if you want to know why I think Oracle is now the market leader in sensational, sound-bite news -- big and sexy and easy to put on page one -- please read on. This is of course about the...
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- Blog posts 2007-03-05
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