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SaaS and the global virtual stack

SaaS and the global virtual stackMore ComplexityPhil,Let's stop talking about how complex IT can be. In reality, people want customisable on-demand applications sitting on a dedicated server, with a web presentation tier connecting to the business logic and database tiers. Trying to abstract the layers creates an un-manageable and exponential...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, NetSuite IPO, software-as-a-service, SaaS Juggernaut, information technology, business logic, on-demand, user experience, virtual stack, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-02-28

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Fourth type of cloud computing

Close, but no cigarThere is no requirement that a cloud be publicly accessible. In many cases, corporations use cloud products to supplement existing production. In that case, the public access is via the existing security scheme and the cloud assets are never directly accessible via public IP.Also, there...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Open web

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Cisco Live! - CEO Chambers on Collaboration Business Value

The above video clips from my handheld Flip are from John Chambers Cisco Live! keynote address today and are specifically two edits about Cisco's strategic perspective on collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. In the second edit Chambers talks about Cisco's business architectural re-engineering...

Tags: Web, Collaboration, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Siemen's Global SuccessFactors Cloud

The new Siemens talent managing environment being deployed by SuccessFactors is more like the entire troposphere than a cloud solution; 420k users across 80 countries in 20 languages will be linked and unified in one giant environment. Replacing existing multiple HR talent systems...

Tags: Strategy, Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., Siemens AG, Siemen, Talent Management Systems, Employee Central, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Cloud wars: Microsoft-Google scrum isn't zero sum

Microsoft Online Services' GlaxoSmithKline win is a nice victory for the software giant, but it may be a bit premature for too much chest thumping over Google Apps. On the other side of the equation, Google is likely to have a helluva a battle on its hands.  ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Online Services, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Intuit's chief on economy: Welcome to the 'new normal'

Intuit delivered second quarter results that illustrate that it is recession resistant, but a lot of the game plan revolves around cost cutting and innovating in a downturn. The rub: Intuit CEO Brad Smith doesn't consider the economic landscape a downturn per se, but a "new normal." ...

Tags: Revenue, Intuit Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Is the Salesforce.com juggernaut faltering?

Is the Salesforce.com juggernaut faltering?Salesforece.com and the $1B barrier...The $1B barrier appears to be not only a problem for software companies, it also created a hiccup for many mail order companies as well (Insight, Multiple Zones, PC Mall, etc). The one thing these companies all have in common with...

Tags: Sales force management, Sales channel, SFdC, Salesforce.com Inc., SaaS Model

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Is the Salesforce.com juggernaut faltering?

  Scanning through Larry Dignan's write up of Salesforce.com's Q2 results I couldn't help but observe the company is signaling a sharp slowdown in sales growth compared with fiscal 2007-8. I wasn't the only one to notice. According to Associated Press, investors were far from impressed by...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Time to blow up the software industry

Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Groupware, social Software, incumbent, software, Sig Rinde, Social Software

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world

About 10 years ago, we used to ask Jim Barksdale, then head of Netscape, a stock question during news conferences. Did you bag any "default browser" deals lately? Inevitably Jim would demur and say they were still trying. Those were the days when the light was swiftly...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Channel Management, Internet, Web Browsers, Authentication/Encryption, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-04

Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML

Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXMLbased on what?can you give more information?Burton is right, in a vacummmmmm.I think Burton may be right.Did you read about it being more complex?Did you read about the new MS Office havingproblems with the older office formats? What great advances do people...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), information technology, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, IT planner, Independent Study, Burton, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

Technology's natural state: Duopoly (or close to it)

The merger of Activision and Vivendi to create a video game juggernaut on par with Electronic Arts was the big news over the weekend, but from a high level it's more of the same: Another tech sector and another duopoly in training. The Activision-Vivendi deal, announced Sunday, is being...

Tags: Security, Google Inc., Duopoly, VMware Inc., Western Digital Corp., Microsoft Corp., Technology, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-03

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'

When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...

Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Is there anyone not targeting Microsoft Office?

IBM is reportedly going to offer free software to compete with Microsoft Office, Google launched its PowerPoint wannabe and Yahoo acquires Zimbra in a really nice move that could be a precursor to Yahoo Office. In between those announcements there's OpenOffice 2.3. On any given day there are...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., DigOffice, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Microsoft naysayer bandwagon gets crowded

The guest list for Microsofts alleged funeral is long. Over the weekend, blogger Paul Graham stirred up a Techmeme hornet nest when he declared Microsoft dead. Today, Goldman Sachs removed Microsoft from its "conviction list," the equivalent of a super-duper...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Microsoft, General, Vista, Google

Blog posts 2007-04-10