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Get ready for Oracle's 100 days of press releases aka innovation

It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed vs. Giants” Debate raises a donkey's year old discussion where he concludes: Call me cynical, but...

Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Bruce, Simon Wardley, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-25

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Salesforce's unspoken build and buy strategy

At this week's Cloudforce I was keen to understand what is happening on the Force.com platform. Narinder Singh,  Appirio's marketing strategist came on stage to talk about how they used the Force.com platform to set up MyStarbucksidea.com. This is an example of a situational application, built and designed for a...

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

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Welcome to MegaTom

Tom Raftery, analyst at Greenmonk and another Irregular pinged me this morning to let me know about a new community: MegaTom. Born out of an idea from Gavin Starks and Simon Wardley, MegaTom seeks to act as the hub around which people can discuss the many green issues facing our...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Tom, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Cloud definitions and economics

Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Might the SAP Mentors inherit the earth?

Rather than attending last week's SAP TechEd in Berlin as a 'pure' blogger, I was also wearing my SAP Mentor hat. Unlike SAPPHIRE, where the exec team gets down and dirty with the press, analyst and blogger contingent from the business perspective, TechEd is all about the 'make guys.'...

Tags: SAP AG, Hervé, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-20

The utility of Ubiquity

It's a bit of a stretch to pigeon hole something coming out of Mozilla labs as appropriate to the start-up genre that Alley espouses but Ubiquity is such a useful Firefox add-in that I believe it is well worth attention on these pages. There's plenty of debate...

Tags: Ubiquity, E-mail, Wiki, Collaboration, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-01