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- Google: Firms can get rid of Office in a year
- In other words, Google Appsare still at that 1 to 2 percent mark.Good Riddance!It won't be missed.Man, so true, MS Office is a big hairball of baroque features to format for8.5x11. MS Office will be on a downward slide from here on out.In terms of what is need for the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- SaaS Customer Bill of Rights: right thing, right time
- AG Customer Bill of Rights - SaaS - Live I'm not pimping this because Ray Wang and I happen to be collaborators or that I got a credit in the Altimeter Group report but because Ray and Jeremiah Owyang's SaaS Customer Bill of Rights is the right thing at...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- SAP to bounce?
- Larry Dignan pinged me to say the financial analysts are showing renewed interest in SAP with several positive comments on the likely outcome to its Q2 results, due for release on July, 29th: That take is a mixed bag in the things are less worse camp. The biggest argument...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Management, Finance, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest?
- A number of recent conversations with the financial analyst community about the ongoing tussle between Oracle and SAP have proved extremely interesting. There is speculation whether SAP will hit the numbers it has internally set itself for Q2 although nothing I hear or see suggests the company has been blown...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, SoftwareAG, OpenText, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be Free
- Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be FreeMS can't do it, they are a monopolyMonopolies are not allowed to release products for free. Intuit would have them in front of an EC judge within seconds and 3 years later, MS would be fined billions of euros for this move.It's not a...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Money Just Wants, Be Free, Intuit Inc., Jason
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Forrester survey: Enterprises taking aim at legacy apps
- Large enterprises plan on replacing their old applications this year, holding their software budgets steady and aiming to improve integration to save money, according to a report from Forrester Research. In a survey of 2,200 IT executives in North America, Forrester found the following: ...
- Tags: Software, Legacy Application, Information Technology, Survey, Enterprise, Forrester Research Inc., Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...
- Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Oracle Beehive Activity Starts Buzzing
- Oracle Beehive Activity Starts BuzzingOne wonders......how much overlap there is between this and Sun Java System Communications Suite. Was setting SJSCS up for a PoC around the time news of the acquisition broke, and from what I've seen so far it's friggin' great. The Sun Convergence web client is gorgeous....
- Tags: Java development tools, Enterprise software, Collaboration, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Oracle Corp., Oracle Beehive Activity, Oracle Beehive
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- How Multi-Nationals Should Use ERP
- One Size Fits All? I'm Not So Sure... Years ago, I did an evaluation of back office software packages that served small businesses but had robust international capabilities. I did so because clients were always asking about solutions they could deploy to small offices or subsidiaries...
- Tags: Solution, NetSuite Inc., ERP, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- NetSuite aims to connect to Salesforce.com's cloud
- NetSuite on Thursday announced a set of connectors from third party developers that will hook up its enterprise planning software suite with Salesforce.com's CRM apps. The idea: Allow Salesforce.com customers to integrate NetSuite applications into their arsenal of software as a service applications. The effort is dubbed SuiteCloud...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Collaboration Return-On-Investment
- "Competition has its place in the marketplace or against last year's performance -- perhaps even against another office or individual where there is no particular interdependence, no need to cooperate. But cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Environment, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Moodle meets Google Apps
- I know I said last week that I was done with Google articles for a while, but this one is worth reporting. Moodle is an open source learning management system that is gaining widespread popularity. It's functions are nicely summarized on the Moodle website: The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Moodle, Cloud Computing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- NetSuite looking bright for the future
- In the last year, NetSuite has gone from the company that was beset with issues to one where executing well and attention to resolving channel issues has paid off. "For the first time in our history, we were...profitable," [on a non-GAAP basis] said Zach Nelson, NetSuite's CEO...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, OneWorld, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, GAAP, Finance, Financial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- 'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst says
- 'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst saysSOA marketingWell, to a lot of people, there is a good deal of skepticism about SOA. We've seen a lot of sales pitches, but most of those seem to be centered around selling a Consultant as opposed to any other product. SOA could...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Companies, SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-01-06
- Debunking myths about the SaaS partner channel
- Debunking myths about the SaaS partner channelSaaS business solutions have to be sold face-to-faceHow a particular solution is sold Saas or on premise has to do a lot with many factors not just whether it is Saas or On-Premise. I refer to these two modes of selling as low...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, Saas, SaaS partnerships benefit, low touch
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture
- Cloud computing isn't going to dominate the tech landscape, but will raise a ruckus for software vendors. Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. And there's a race to deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Google Apps, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jeffrey Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Microsoft: cloud tomorrow, jam next year
- Microsoft: cloud tomorrow, jam next yearIt's evident on the other end of the product lifecycle also.In addition to longer than necessary lead-times into product launches, another bad taste to leave in the SaaS/on-demand world is on the other end of the product lifecycle. This is evident in Microsoft's recent discontinuation...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Azure, Phil, office light
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
- Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Integration migrates to the cloud
- Integration migrates to the cloudRe: Integration migrates to the cloudHello PhilIndeed integration is moving to the cloud! I'm happy you mention this "PaaS option", which you missed some time ago ;-) (http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11406-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=45258&messageID=835989&start=-9985) As the CEO of RunMyProcess (http://www.runmyprocess.com), a pure SaaS BPM+integration platform, I may not be the most...
- Tags: integration, cloud integration platform, SaaS BPM+integration, integration platform
- Discussion threads 2008-10-17
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