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- Is the enterprise market tipping towards SaaS?
- Ray Wang's informative scorecard for SaaS vendor revenues versus the on-premise vendors is worth deeper study. Even the so-called specialist minnows in the SaaS space are doing well in comparison to more established names in the broader ERP space. by Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Siemens cans SAP support
- Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Siemens plans to ditch SAP for its ERP support. The story goes that Siemens had become fatigued with the situation. A recent heavy hint should have come from Siemens signing off a massive deal with SuccessFactors. A report in...
- Blog posts 2009-09-12
- Jeremiah Owyang quits Forrester
- Some will parse this as an exodus but following on from Ray Wang's departure from Forrester, we now learn Jeremiah Owyang is on his way to pastures new. From the Interactive Marketing Professionals Forrester blog: Nearly two years ago, I heard that an influential blogger was interested in an...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
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- Epicor's implementation cost drive: what does it really mean?
- Epicor's announcement Monday that it has created a shared benefits program for implementations looks like a step in the right direction for those of us that want to see lowered implementation costs. On the face of it, the offer is compelling. According to the press release:...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Epicor Perspectives: the analyst view
- A thousand customers and 1,500 total attendees may be 20% down on past years but represents a good effort by Epicor to get the faithful out to hear the latest and greatest when compared with other vendor led events where attendance has been down 30-40%. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- SAP and Siemens: kiss and make up?
- The other week news broke that Siemens planned to can its estimated €40 million plus annual maintenance agreement with SAP. What a difference a few weeks makes. According to a press release issued by SAP: SAP...today announced that Siemens AG, a global leader in electronics and electrical engineering, has...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value
- While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Enterprise Advocates launches; Targets IT buyers
- A band of analysts and industry experts have formed Enterprise Advocates, an advisory group geared to the buy side of the information technology equation. The group, which includes ZDNet's Dennis Howlett and Oliver Marks, is a timely addition to the tech buying equation. In addition to Howlett...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Pay to play: The vendor / analyst mating dance
- Analyst Liability?Could you imagine if a customer held an analyst liable if their review/recommendation was markedly different than the customer's experience? I know your Devil's Triangle theory would make it near impossible to "pin" it on the analyst review, but it is an intriguing idea given the "mating dance" you...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- McKinsey's 'Business and Web 2.0' Report and the new Consulting Landscape
- McKinsey, the venerable management consulting company, has produced their second piece of 'Web 2.0 in business' research this year. This is arguably a sign of the rapid maturation of the 2.0 technology and associated (and I'd argue more important) change management sector: the pricey consulting company...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Mid-range European ERP portending the future?
- On my personal blog, I skimmed over recently published results for Agresso and COA Solutions. Agresso is emerging in the US as a small if solid player in public sector as well as for those businesses that need a more agile approach to business configuration than you'd likely get from...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Friday rant: Software maintenance; it's all Manny's fault
- I love it when a CPA comes out batting for the buy side. In Business Week, Gene Marks CPA points the finger of blame for software maintenance firmly in the direction of Meir M. "Manny" Lehman: It all began in the 1960s, when Lehman predicted that changes in software...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- News to know: Twitter DOS attack; Cisco and IBM, Clunkers, Win 7 chart; Murdoch; CTO
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Twitter knocked offline by DDoS attack; Koobface returns with a twist Larry Dignan: Cisco CEO Chambers: IBM...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Ray Wang departing Forrester
- Ray Wang departing ForresterThanksI appreciate your kind words and your insight. Look forward to working with you more closely in future roles and keeping the vendors honest and the end users more educated.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- Ray Wang departing Forrester
- When the CEO of a well known company leaves it's often big news. In my world, Ray Wang leaving Forrester is humungous. I heard about it on the web - where else? He smiles a lot â€" every meeting with him leaves you energized though not sure if vendors...
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM
- The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
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