A Quick Look at Ariba’s Results — Notes From the Earnings Call
I’m in the process of listening to Ariba’s earnings call (always a good gauge of the overall market) and plan to report on a number of the specifics early next week, along with the recent quarterly — and yearly — performance of Ariba competitors in…
EuroCloud UK members making sense of Cloud standards and security
The newly formed EuroCloud UK group held their first member meeting a week ago at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel – a panel led group discussion on Cloud standards and security. Chaired by Phil Wainewright, the panel experts were Dr. Guy Bunker, independent consultant and blogger, formerly Symantec’s chief scientist and co-author of ENISA‘s cloud [...]
Digital Medical Records, A Modest Proposal
For years and years (and years) there has been talk about the digitalization of medical records to enable portability. There are three primary problems that obstruct this vision, the first being a somewhat murky legal and regulatory environment with regard to what are the implications of the many laws dealing with privacy, data, and medical [...]
Middle America’s Manufacturers Adopt SaaS ERP
Listen to my conversation with Mark Symonds, CEO of Plex Systems, which delivers ERP software-as-a-service to mid-market manufacturing companies. In this podcast, learn why middle America’s manufacturing companies are turning to SaaS to operate their business systems, and find out what sort of business is most likely to adopt a SaaS solution as the logical [...]
2010 Trends: What Do Commodity Prices and H1N1 Vaccines Have in Common?
As I was driving my kids to school this morning in Chicago, I passed a local Walgreens bearing a large digital sign that proudly flashed a message
something like: “Get your H1N1 vaccine — available today.” Two months
ago, there was a mad rush …
Can Apple make Home Energy Management sexy?
Will Apple move into home energy management, and if they do, can they make it sexy and front-of-mind for everyone?
I made this point in a reply to a post earlier on the IBM Global Eco Jam and I thought it could well do with being fleshed out to a full post here to see what [...]
The iPad is Steve Jobs’ Waterloo
Jobs has put together a remarkable track record at Apple over the years, not only releasing a string of hit products (overshadowing the few duds… like Apple TV) and making the company solidly profitable with a plurality of analysts rating it a solid buy even with a P/E of 20:1.
Having said all that, Jobs is [...]
What is a Fair Value for the RMB — and What Does it Mean for China Sourcing?
Supply Chain Digest recently ran a feature highlighting
an academic paper that suggests China should let the RMB appreciate
10% relative to the dollar. The story suggests that “if such a move
were to happen, it would effectively increase the…
e-Bills and Paper trails
My wife has been on me to shred a bunch of old financial paperwork. Instead of scanning many of the statements I thought I would see what archives are available from various financial, utility and other companies which have moved…
IBM Eco Jam – 1 day in!
Well, the IBM Global Eco Jam has been underway nearly 24 hours at this point – how is it going?
It has been incredibly active, I have to say. You can see from the screenshot I took earlier this morning that the number of posts was 987 at that point – I just checked now and [...]
