By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 20, 2013
For the first time in a while I missed SapphireNow this year, and yet through some unplanned scheduling got to be around a bunch of SAP alums, ex-partners and ex-customers. I was invited to present to SAP alum at the AtelierSAP event which preceded SapphireNow in Orlando. A lunch conversation with Paul Wahl, former US [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Henning Kagermann, Jon Reed, netsuite, sap, SAP NetWeaver, Zach Nelson |
By Jason M. Lemkin on May 20, 2013
I’ve had a chance to semi-objectively watch a number of folks go through the M&A process over the past 18 months, and compare and contrast their experiences with mine. Some acquisitions thrive. YouTube, PayPal, Android. Others of course die. GeoCities, Broadcast.com. Perhaps most actually meander in the middle. Flickr. Take a look at this interesting [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Entrepreneurship, SaaS, SaaStr, startups |
By Susan Scrupski on May 20, 2013
My daughter is graduating college next week, and I’ve been thinking about all the advice this next generation will get from relatives and friends. In the 60s, Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate) received well-intentioned advice from Mr. McGuire, a family friend, to pursue the plastics industry. Plastics and U.S. manufacturing conjure up an image [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Austin IT Symposium, Elastic Enterprise, Hadyn Shaughnessey, Next Generation Enterprise, Nick Vitalari, SIM Austin, Uncategorized |
By Maggie Fox on May 17, 2013
Success in real-time marketing is as much operations as creativity Ever since Oreo suggested that you could “still dunk in the dark” during the 2013 Super Bowl blackout, real-time marketing (RTM) has become the new black. Never mind that the phrase was first coined in 1995 by Apple marketing guru Regis McKenna; this winter, breathless [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged marketing, Oreo |
By Phil Fersht on May 16, 2013
“It’s not all about social media, it’s about everything we do being very integrated”. Jason Corsello is VP, Strategy at Cornerstone OnDemand About a decade ago, when I was chugging along in the old-school analyst business, I hired a kid from the West Coast to learn the ropes. I think he was just looking for [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Cloud Computing, Cornerstone OnDemand, CRM and Marketing, Enterprise Irregulars, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, jason corsello, PaaS, SaaS, social networking |
By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 16, 2013
Silver’s the new green …sang the Taco Bell TV commercial “It’s all about the Roosevelts” as it celebrated dimes to promote its sub $ 1 menu. At SuiteWorld this week I wanted to break out in that rhyme at the celebration of all kinds of enterprise apps. Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, set the tone [...]
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By Sandy Kemsley on May 15, 2013
This morning, our opening keynote was from SAP’s other co-CEO, Jim Snabe. He started with a bit about competitive advantage and adaptation to changing conditions, illustrated with the fact that Sumatran tigers have evolved webbed feet so that they can chase their prey into water: evolution and even extinction in business is not much different [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, BPM, Business process management, modeling, sapphirenow |
By Louis Columbus on May 14, 2013
Evangelizing development on any cloud computing or enterprise platform is challenging, costly and takes a unique skill set that can educate, persuade, sell and serve developers at the same time. The companies who excel at this exude technical prowess and as a result earn and keep trust. For Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, byline=Louis Columbus, Cloud Computing, Data Driven, Dell, enterprise software, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, Louis Columbus' blog, Magic Quadrant, Rackspace, software as a service, Tech, ticker=NASDAQ:AMZN |
By Jason M. Lemkin on May 14, 2013
There’s an endless amount written on the ‘net about hiring Rockstars. Finding them, not settling, and all that. That you need to spend 20%+ of time recruiting (I said that myself here). That the #1 most important thing you can do is put together a great team. Which is absolutely true. But the #2 most [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged compensation, Entrepreneurship, hiring, SaaS, SaaStr, startups |
By Phil Fersht on May 14, 2013
Cranking it up to Eleven (left to right)… Anoop, Henric and John You firm has incredible talent that performs miracles of heightened performance with your outsourcing relationships. Your provider serves up boundless dollops of innovations that never cease to delight. Then don’t bother to tune in this coming Thursday to debate the State of Outsourcing [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Accenture, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cigna, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, Global Business Services, HR, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, microsoft, Sourcing Change Management, talent, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing |
By Denis Pombriant on May 14, 2013
In “IT’s Ethical Dilemma” I wrote about the challenge of having a new product and selling the old one. If the new product offers benefits of better, faster, and cheaper — and what new product doesn’t? — then how is it ethical to sell the older, less performant, and probably more expensive one? Well, the answer [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, ethical dilemma, salesforce, software as a service |
By Paul Greenberg on May 14, 2013
SugarCRM has been one of the nicest success stories in the CRM industry, often taking what were seemingly difficult steps and turning it into gold. There are at a nodal point and have a couple of things that they have to do to cross over to the next l…
Posted in Business | Tagged Social Enterprise, SugarCon, sugarcrm, Tech Industry |