RightNow promises an end to SaaS shelfware
I’m at the top of London’s totemic Gherkin landmark tower listening to SaaS CRM vendor RightNow’s announcement of what it calls the ‘Cloud Services Agreement’. CEO Greg Gianforte is challenging SaaS and software vendors to emulate a proposition that, to me, always should have been on the table from every reputable SaaS vendor. Essentially, RightNow is promising [...]
The CIA Meets High-Tech Supplier Management: Safeguarding Apple’s Supply Chain
If you think Apple’s development and production initiatives follow a secretive approach inside the company’s four walls only, guess again. Apple takes as much interest in how its supply chain partners guard information as it does in how its own emplo…
Can Enterprise 2.0 Apps Stand Alone?
Socialtext, one of the earliest and most established pureplay Enterprise 2.0 vendors, released the latest version of its flagship suite this week, and it set me thinking. Is there a future for standalone Enterprise 2.0 software suites, now that the functionality they offer is increasingly being offered within established enterprise application software suites? The independent [...]
Why I Quit Reddit – Actually, Reddit Quit Me
Three years ago I was quite active on Reddit – at least for a while, until I realized just how manipulated it became. I’m not really holding it against reddit, the same happens on Digg and probably on all similar sites – nothing new here, you’ve probably read all this a thousand times, so I [...]
Rolling out a Supplier Performance Management Program — Key Process Steps (Part 1)
The other week, I had the chance to catch up with an old friend and colleague, Paul Martyn, who runs marketing in North America for BravoSolution. According to feedback I’ve heard from several parties who’ve looked at their tool recently, BravoSoluti…
Steve Jobs: Make room
By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 4, 2010
Something remarkable happened in the Valley last week. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Larry Page of Google, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins (KP), and executives from Walmart, Coca-Cola, FedEx and elsewhere attended a launch party. All kinds of media descended. And it had nothing to do with an Apple product. In [...]
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