Information silos and IT governance failure
“Governance” is a badass sounding phrase that simply means establishing policies to enable consistent management by exception. But many governance initiatives are doomed to fail.
When will the crowd turn against private cloud?
Private clouds will be discredited by year end, I predicted yesterday. I was promptly challenged to put my money where my mouth was. Here’s my considered response.
App Store Piracy – one developer’s take
One iPhone app developer’s experience with App Store piracy.
SAP Customers: I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows..
…but unlike in the movie Network, don’t open the window, don’t stick your head out and don’t yell “I am mad as hell.” Instead make a phone call…more about that it a minute. SAP today announced “that it will reinstate…
What’s Up at RealNetworks?
Lots of activity in $RNWK this morning as the share price is up ~16% at the time of this post – following yesterday’s announcement that founder and longtime CEO Rob Glaser is stepping down. Investors are clearly seeing this as a path to the sale of the company as Canaccord Adams upgrades them on buyout speculation and [...]
News Analysis: SAP Revives Two-Tier Maintenance Options
Standard Support Returns After Much Deliberation
SAP announced today that they would be reintroducing their standards support offering. Customers now gain choice with a 2-tier maintenance offering. Here are the details between standard support and enterprise support.
Standard Support Offering reintroduces at 18%. Customers seeking core bug fixes, support packages, risk mitigation, and related new functionality will [...]
Walmart Goes Direct and Doubles Down on Direct Savings
There’s been plenty of coverage describing Wal-Mart’s new
procurement strategy to avoid middlemen and cut $12 billion in spend in recent
weeks. Surely, savings is a significant motivation behind this recent
action, as it is with anything Wal…
Handicapping the SAP/Oracle Procurement Race
In sports, it’s common to handicap competitors. This allows observers
of the game — not to mention those actually participating in the
festivities — to better understand how they stack up to their peers.
Now, many factors can comprise a ha…
