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The four horsemen of SaaS

Taleo's acquisition of Vurv, announced today, is a clear play by the SaaS vendor for breakout leadership of the people management sector — one of the hottest segments of the enterprise SaaS landscape, populated by fast-growing startups such as recent Nasdaq entrant SuccessFactors along with privately held Authoria, Cornerstone OnDemand,...

Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., Vurv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Taleo beefs up with performance management

Taleo beefs up with performance managementTaleo and employer controlInsightful take on Taleo's career tracking tool. Possession and control of the system by your employer is a weighty concern though. Do you really want to invest in a system and divulge all of your career intentions into an app...

Tags: Professional development, Business intelligence, Taleo Corp., performance management, performance

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

Taleo beefs up with performance management

When people talk about leading SaaS vendors, they rarely cite Taleo, but that's an oversight. Its reported revenues make it the third-largest SaaS pureplay, beaten only by Salesforce.com and Concur. This is a recent jump from fifth place, helped by Cisco's taking WebEx out of the pureplay ranks and RightNow...

Tags: Taleo Corp., Performance, Career, Performance Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Taleo Utilizes Adaptive Enterprise Strategy, HP Financing, to Further Leverage Shareholder Investment and Enable Rapid Growth

Taleo, a leading provider of enterprise talent management solutions and services to large, complex organizations, links IT management directly to its business thanks in part to standardization on HP's hardware and OpenView system management software. By financing its HP solution through HP Financial Services, the company goes one step further...

Tags: Shareholder, Hewlett-Packard Co., Taleo Corp., Information Technology, Investment, Financing, HP OpenView, Workforce Management, Utility Computing, It Management, Strategy, Human Resources, It service Management, Management

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Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Workday lands big Flextronics deal

Flextronics will install Workday's on-demand human capital management software for 200,000 employees. According to InformationWeek, Workday beat out SAP and Oracle for Flextronics business in what Mary Hayes Weier described as tipping point deal for SaaS. Workday also won a 26,000 employee deal with Chiquita. ...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today

Thought I'd explore some of these bugs a bit more... first, Tipping Point released one of the vulnerabilities that Larry reported earlier, listed as a stack overflow issue in Microsoft Office Jet Database Engine.  The stack overflow isn't what's interesting, what's interesting is the attack vector itself.  To be fair to...

Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Database Engine, iDefense, Flaw, Exploitation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, CSS, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft to raise Windows Small Business Server price 80 percent

When Microsoft starts shipping its Windows Small Business Server 2008 product later this year, its price will be substantially higher -- as much as 80 percent -- than the current version of Small Business Server. Surprisingly, some testers and at least one market researcher don't seem fazed...

Tags: U.S., Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Product, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, CAL, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Does Larry Ellison have the best SaaS strategy?

Software as a service sounds deceptively simple: Host an application, charge folks monthly and customers come running because they don't have to implement software. The reality: SaaS is rocket science and few do it truly well. This perception vs. reality SaaS gap bonked me over the head...

Tags: Strategy, Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., Larry Ellison, SaaS Trajectory, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-13

HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies

HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....

Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., No. 2

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges

Today's Press of Atlantic City had a tiny sidebar on a troubling trend of bandwith caps and surcharges coming down the proverbial pipe from Comcast: Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, is considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can download per...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Broadband Reports, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Tcp/Ip, Business Services, Internet, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Data Portability: The Microsoft angle

MySpace unveiled on May 8 yet another industry initiative to allow users and developers to share their social-networking data -- a goal Microsoft also has in its sights. The first partners announcing their participation in MySpace's Data Portability initiative include Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-08

How much are your friends worth?

News Corp. revealed yesterday that its new media subsidiary Fox Interactive Media FIM has missed this year's revenue target of $1bn by 10 per cent. FIM's portfolio is dominated by MySpace which accounts for the majority of its revenue, bringing into question once again the ability to monetize the huge...

Tags: Advertisement, Google AdWords, News Corp., MySpace, Advertiser, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless

News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...

Tags: Social Media, MySpace, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-08

News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux

Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Microsoft going it alone? Not exactly

Microsoft going it alone? Not exactlyI'm with you....Facebook - why on earth would MS do it? It just doesn't make any sense - hell look for new business models, don't just play dumb catch up!More over here - http://diversity.net.nz/ms-considering-a-facebook-purchase/2008/05/08/It's called flounderingWhen they can't go forward, they can't go back, and...

Tags: Operational accounting, Microsoft Corp., revenue, VCSY, Vertical Computer Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

About that Microsoft-Yahoo deal (2)

About that Microsoft-Yahoo deal (2)Consumers are the winnersalong with free markets, competition and innovation.People should stop looking at it from the perspective of the greedy pigs that push their snouts into as many troughs as they can find, otherwise tomorrow's knowledge economy is going to be a real struggle whilst...

Tags: Financial accounting, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., shareholder

Discussion threads 2008-05-04

Will computing save health care?

Carey James Kriz is nothing if not an optimist. Dr. Kriz, who heads the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine in Orlando, is convinced that technology is the answer to the train wreck called the health care financing system. Predictive Health, knowing what your...

Tags: Dr., Health Care, Computing, Carey James Kriz, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Ballmer still claims Microsoft might walk away from Yahoo

Ballmer still claims Microsoft might walk away from YahooTo quote the old westerns......"if you're going to shoot, shoot". I agree that Ballmer's most recent comments are mere posturing. If he wanted to walk away which he should do, he would have done it already.Hard to say really...If MS...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., BALLMER STILL, stock

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Top 10 Web companies in March 2008

Parent Audience, 000 Time Per Person 1. Google 128,026 1:43:21 2. Microsoft 123,911 2:21:42 3. Yahoo! 115,508 3:12:30 4. Time Warner 108,269 3:44:09 5. News Corp. Online 78,961 2:02:36 6. eBay 67,517 1:53:26 ...

Tags: Web, Internet, Channel Management, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-05-01