By James Governor on March 17, 2010
IBM this week clarified its plans to handhold enterprises into the cloud, working with Red Hat to bypass VMware with the announcement of Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud.
I have been talking for a while about what I call The VMware Pattern, in posts such as Amazon Web Services: an instance of [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, mercury, PayPal, Red Hat, RightScale, VMware
By Sandy Kemsley on March 16, 2010
Today, IBM announced their cloud strategy and roadmap; I was at the analyst update last week and had a chance to hear about it first-hand from IBM execs, a customer and a partner.
Erich Clementi, who heads enterprise initiatives at IBM, started the briefing by showing their cloud evolution over the past year, and plans for [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, LotusLive, social software
By Phil Wainewright on March 15, 2010
Google last week brought the spotlight back onto on-demand application marketplaces with its launch of the Google Apps Marketplace. Until the search and online advertising giant waded in, the territory had been a quiet backwater, dominated for the past few years by Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. It’s hard now to credit just how much excitement surrounded the [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged AppExchange, collaboration, email, google, google apps, google apps marketplace, Identity, killer app, Platform as a service, salesforce.com
By Sandy Kemsley on March 15, 2010
A couple of months back, there was a private discussion amongst the Enterprise Irregulars about who Salesforce.com was going to buy next, and there was a thought in the back of my mind that it might be a BPM vendor. Since that time, two BPM vendors have been acquired, but not by Salesforce: instead, they [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged BPM, Cloud, Software design
By Jason Busch on March 15, 2010
Earlier today, Oracle announced the formal launch of its On Demand suite of procurement products. These solutions, which Oracle labels as Oracle Procurement On Demand should be no surprise to Spend Matters readers (check our recent coverage here and…
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged innovation, oracle, Oracle iProcurement, PeopleSoft, sap, supply risk
By Brad Feld on March 15, 2010
Not long after I posted about Dave Jilk’s experience with the Pogoplug, he started using the phrase “Pogoplug Simple” to describe one of the goals of Standing Cloud. The idea is that technology products should be so easy to set up and use that the experience is vaguely unsatisfying – you feel like you didn’t [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, Foundry Group, Open source, pogoplug, standing cloud
By R "Ray" Wang on March 15, 2010
Recent Conversations With Executives Confirm Demand For Social CRM
Good news! Organizations see an opportunity to tap into the proliferation of social networking channels for their CRM initiatives. Speaking with 23 business leaders over the past 10 days, it became obvious that Social CRM initiatives were top of mind for a few reasons:
Pressure from the boardroom. [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged advertising agencies, Apps Strategy, best practices, business process transformation, Change Management, customer relationship management (CRM), eCommer, ECommerce, enteprise apps, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, marketing agencies, Monday's Musings, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SCRM, Social CRM, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy
By Jason Busch on March 15, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I re-introduced Spend Matters readers to Supplierforce, a Dublin-based Spend Management software/SaaS suite provider and consultancy with particular strengths in the area of supplier information management. Today I’ll conclude …
Posted in Software | Tagged BravoSolution, Contract Management, performance management, spend analysis, Spend Management, SupplierForce, Visibility
By Sandy Kemsley on March 15, 2010
There has been much speculation in the BPM world about Software AG’s online BPM community, originally dubbed AlignSpace, or as it has been recently renamed, ARISalign. Originally launched in a private beta months ago, those of us on the outside have been anticipating a look at how they plan to “combine social networking tools with [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged BPM, Business process modeling, Cloud, process model, Social network, social software, Software release life cycle
