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Corporate Finance Management With mysap financials Centralizes Cash Management for Greater Efficiency and Lower Costs: Mediaset is one of Italy's largest media operators. The Mediaset Finance Division manages incoming and outgoing financial flows for all subsidiary companies: cash, borrowing, banking relationships, risk management, and financial strategy. One of the biggest problems of this model is the management of payments on behalf of, and among, the...; Tags: Mediaset, mySAP, Financial, mySAP Financials, Mediaset Finance Division, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance; Case studies
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Workday: a tipping point?: Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...; Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Putting Workday on SAP's radar: Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Workday lands big Flextronics deal: Flextronics will install Workday's on-demand human capital management software for 200,000 employees. According to InformationWeek, Workday beat out SAP and Oracle for Flextronics business in what Mary Hayes Weier described as tipping point deal for SaaS. Workday also won a 26,000 employee deal with Chiquita. ...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14

CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS: I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn: Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...; Tags: Financial, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe: Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-07
SAP's SaaS pull-out will help rivals in Europe: The news that SAP has pushed back the roll-out of Business ByDesign by twelve to eighteen months should be music to the ears of its SaaS competitors, especially on SAP's home turf in Europe. By announcing its own SaaS product for the midmarket late last year, SAP put its stamp...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Questioning IT: Questioning ITThick vs Thin.The essence of what you're saying here is that thin client is better than thick client. You don't exactly use those terms and you throw in a bit of anti-Microsoft rhetoric, but focusing on the underlying principals as you correctly recommend, this is a thick vs thin...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Thin clients, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, thin client, security; Discussion threads 2008-05-02
Sun plans layoffs following weak quarter; Blames U.S. economy: Sun Microsystems' third quarter results were hurt by "significant challenges" related to the slowing U.S. economy. Sun also plans to cut 1,500 and 2,500 jobs. The company on Thursday reported a third quarter net loss of $34 million, or 4 cents a share, on revenue of $3.26...; Tags: Layoff, Sun Microsystems Inc., Operational Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Tomorrow: TomorrowWe are sure that Portal is the platform to do Enterprise 2.0I totally agree that the mashup & community concepts will continuously develop and with Generation 2.0 there will internet users just expect all to be delivered on their own MyPage. Financials / Insurance, Media, Travel etc. will all eventually...; Tags: Portals, Web technology, portal; Discussion threads 2008-04-28
Reminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials today: Reminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials todayReminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials todayWhat happened that made them down 4.73 percent at closing?Here's a previewIf this reporting period is anything like several previous ones, heres's how it will go: The anal-ists crank up their earnings estimates to a ridiculously...; Tags: Apple Inc., Q2 2008 financial, Q2 2008, Reminder, financials, Apple iPhone; Discussion threads 2008-04-23
Reminder: Apple to announce Q2 2008 financials today: Just a reminder that Apple will announce their Q2 2008 financial results in a conference call today (23 April 2008) at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET.Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog has a little preview: So there are two things to watch for on Wednesday: 1) Apple's sales figures...; Tags: Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Cleantech money, there's more, but there's also less: A report on venture capital investment shows cleantech is doing better now than it was a year ago. However, the sector is suffering due to the current economic woes of Wall Street and big financials that went skinny-dipping with the subprime sharks. The upside is very...; Tags: Clean Technology, Upside, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-19
EIC podcast: Gaga for Google; Tech earnings; Psystar; Microsoft's Albany: In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google, its quarter and how it threw Comscore under the bus a bit and delivered an impressive one-day stock gain. Meanwhile, Google's stellar financials may have Microsoft yearning for Yahoo even more. It was a busy week...; Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Albany, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Business systems for a faster, flatter world: One of the biggest problems facing enterprises today is that the world is communicating faster than their IT systems can keep up with. This is particularly obvious in businesses that operate multinationally. Their managers collaborate and communicate daily across timezones and geographies by phone, email and Web conference, but their...; Tags: On-demand, NetSuite Inc., OneWorld Option, Sales Strategy, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-04-17
eBay: Did listings change make a difference?: eBay: Did listings change make a difference?Ebay - protect the seller, screw the customerI am one of the folks that got ripped off, $800, too bad. PayPal Protection? It's for the seller stupid. Every try to have PayPal use a credit card and STILL have it take money from your...; Tags: Financial services, eBay Inc., PayPal; Discussion threads 2008-04-16
SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables: There's nothing like a conversation to bring out insights and new ideas. Tony Baer and I were chatting on this very pearl of productivity last week, that an open roundtable analyst call always allowed us to move the needle forward in terms of thought leadership in ways that solo writing...; Tags: Permission, Data, SOA, Cloud, Cloud Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Could Apple sell 45 million iPhones a year?: Could Apple sell 45 million iPhones a year?Fun Facts$45M? That is unlikely.Putting things into perspective with some fun facts found [url=http://www.symbian.com/about/fastfacts/fastfacts.html]here[/url]:[b]Significant Symbian Facts & FiguresMarket leaderAs of 31 December 2007: * 22.4 million Symbian smartphones shipped by licensees in Q4 2007 up 53% from Q4 2006 ...; Tags: Smart phones, Engineering, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Symbian Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, battery, Symbian Smartphone, phone; Discussion threads 2008-03-31