The Changing Software Partner Ecosystem
Resellers of SMB ERP products and other application software partners are experiencing a changing solutions world. Presenters at the Progress Software Global Partner Conference gave some great insights into these changes.
Oracles remedial classes
Larry Ellison is a brilliant man. For many reasons, but particularly for knowing the limits of his company. Tomorrow, he is going to talk about synergies between software, hardware and services as he discusses the Sun acquisition. Except that he…
Social CRM: The inner meaning
Enterprise software is rapidly evolving to reflect the growing importance of social software. Nowhere is this change more obvious than in customer relationship management (CRM).
Using the Intuit Partner Platform, Alterity’s story – RIA Weekly #69
One company’s story of using Intuit’s Partner Platform to deliver new, cloud-based RIAs.
Kicking off the 5Ws of e20: Who, What, When, Why, and How?
Enterprise 2.0 is maturing, but most practitioners (even veteran players whom we could classify as “innovators”) agree that the opportunity for Enterprise 2.0 is still in its infancy. I saw affirmation of that today on member Laurie Buscek’s post this morning, “Enterprise 2.0 Candy Store.” The good news is there are many, many more Enterprises moving [...]
Newsday’s Paywall… the Numbers are in
In October of last year I wrote that Newsday’s paywall would fail to attract new revenue and as a defensive pricing strategy it does little or merit. In the final analysis, this is exactly why it will fail. By creating a pricing plan that defends rather than attacks a market the company is conceding defeat [...]
US and UK governments prioritising Green technologies in patent applications
I was talking to Paul Craane of Chicago law firm Marshall, Gerstein & Borun today. Paul is a patent attorney an interest in Green technologies. Paul got in touch because he wanted to highlight the fact that the US Green Technology Pilot Program, a special program announced by the US Patent and Trademark office at [...]
Electric Vehicles Revisited
Over the weekend @Devahaz asked me for my thoughts on current status re a post I wrote over 2 years ago lamenting the optimistic projections of newly minted electric vehicle companies.
I realize that I may be guilty of “not getting with the program” on this whole electric car business, but does anyone else [...]
Playing Dirty: Procurement Lessons From Slap Shot
A certain vendor product-type (who I know would prefer to go
unnamed in this context) recently reached out to me. This was not to give me the skinny on a new solution release; no, his questioning and probing was on
a far more important subject:…
