Bohemian Bankruptcy
Hm.. must be Bohemian Week… see Jeff’s Happy Thanksgiving, and now this. P.S. Ah, that FTC disclosure.. I did some business with the Queen … a Century ago, in another Galaxy.
IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability
I attended IBM’s eighth annual Software Analyst Connect (#Connect09) last week in Connecticut. The theme of the event was “IBM Software for a Smarter Planet”.
You have to admire IBM for coming up with the Smart Planet branding strategy. Now anything Smart (Smart Cities, Smart Water even Smart Work) is automatically, subconsciously associated with IBM. [...]
Change Management: Mar-Lin Night’s Last Sail
Naomi at helm for Mar-Lin Night's last sail 2/2007
Even as we look forward to the delivery of our next boat, I lament the end of our sailing dreams. The reasons why we really had to move from sailboat to “stink pot” are distant memories: the inability of my increasingly arthritic joints to handle the [...]
How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Retail: Change The Font On Your Cash Register
Yesterday I got an update from an ERP company called Epicor that primarily serves the mid-market. While I am not an ERP specialist its always interesting, as a middleware guy, to get a view from the app side. Greenmonk for obvious reasons also takes a keener view than the RedMonk mothership in applications in areas [...]
The Future of Financial Force.com – How Salesforce.com Benefits, too
Wow – The Financial Force.com product line may have the rosiest future of all the products showcased at the recent Dreamforce.com show in SFO. Read why here.
Friday Rant: No Vendor (even an On-Demand One) is an Island
There seems to be a fallacy on the provider side of the Spend Management market that On-Demand or SaaS business models do not require the same level of expert third-party services and implementation support as installed solutions. More and more, I se…
