Marketing Budget Less than IT Budget?
Listened to Bruce Richardson from AMR Research speak today about cloud computing and he made a comment about the number of companies he talks to where the IT budget is more than the Marketing budget. “That’s just crazy,” he said, and I agree. Several years ago I ran into a Business Owner who had a [...]
Duet Lives! SAP and Microsoft’s Office Interface Still Alive and Kicking
I spent a lot of analyst capital over the last two years crowing about what I thought, and still think, was a brilliant idea: marrying the Office user experience, primarily Excel and Outlook, to the enterprise software back office. The catalyst for my interest was the myriad conversations with users about how much they hated [...]
Who Should Taleo Acquire Next?
After reading speculation this week that Taleo is preparing for another acquisition, it got me thinking…“Who should they buy?”
The prospective acquisition options are all over the map. They could acquired another talent acquisition vendor to really expand their market share and leadership position. They could acquire another talent management suite provider. They could enter [...]
