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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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- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- 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...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Into the SMB Breach -- This Time with Feeling
- It seems that everyone in the enterprise software market is after the great untapped riches that are allegedly there for the taking in the so-called mid-market. SAP, trying to put some luster on a bad quarter, announced its new A1S mid-market program just recently, with some fabulous goals in mind,...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Oracle Unlimited and Fusion Futures
- Tomorrow, Jan. 31, Oracle will host a major shindig in New York intended to further define its product plans for the core products -- PeopleSoft, Oracle E-business Suite, JD Edwards, and Siebel -- that it is maintaining and upgrading as part of its Applications Unlimited program. Its easy to say...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Oracle Losing the Transparency War. Microsoft Trying Too.
- Yesterdays release of Oracles most recent financials continued to push Oracle into a race for last place in the world of corporate transparency. Its disclosures were full of all sorts of information, except the information needed to really assess how well the companys acquisition strategy is doing. Charlie Di Bona...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracles, transparency
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
Additional Resources
- WSO2 eases enterprise data availability for SOA access, consumption
- In its initial release, the application supports access to data stored in relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL and IBM DB2, as well as the comma-separated values CSV file format, and Excel spreadsheets. It allows users to authenticate, encrypt and sign services using the WS-Security and HTTP security standards. In...
- Tags: Data Service, Web, Database Administrator, Enterprise Data, Web Service, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing
- SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computing
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computingSun already HAS a DW ApplianceDana,Actually, Sun already has a data warehousing appliance: the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, as it's named, based on Greenplum and Sun's Thumper. It's been quite successful, with several large commercial deployments and some...
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Sun Microsystems Inc., BriefingsDirect Insights, Exadata, cloud computing, virtualization, business intelligence, Oracle Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Blood in the water and open source on the tracks
- Blood in the water and open source on the tracksConsolidationYou've noticed, then, that the number of banks has been decreasing. And that the survivors are able to make substantial profits.True of the software industry as well, as you imply. Smaller companies of value are likely to be bought...
- Tags: open source, Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Salesforce.com: Worries emerge
- Salesforce.com on Friday was downgraded from a buy to a sell by UBS analyst Heather Bellini because software as a service companies are likely to face the same headwinds as larger applications vendors. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com is targeting larger enterprises and that means it faces a slower buying cycle. ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all
- Does Apple need to cook up an enterprise strategy pronto? Despite enterprise interest in the Mac platform and more importantly the iPhone Apple hasn't been going out of its way to target corporate users. That move may be a miscalculation given the economy and a struggling consumer. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Handhelds, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computing
- I think that Oracle is going to have a cloud offering, IBM is going to have a cloud offering, Sun is going to have a cloud offering, and it's going to be the big talk in the big industry over the next two or three years. I think they are...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
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