Is Collaboration About Content, Process or Goals?
With its acquisition announced last week of enterprise social networking vendor CubeTree, Successfactors provides a new answer to the question I posed here a couple of months back: Can Enterprise 2.0 Apps Stand Alone?. At the time, I wrote there was an “unresolved question whether collaboration gets subsumed into content management or process management.” Successfactors [...]
TIBCO’s Recent Acquisitions: DataSynapse, Foresight, Netrics and Spotfire
No rest for the wicked: at the analyst lunch, we had sessions on four of TIBCO’s recent acquisitions while we were eating: DataSynapse This is a significant part of TIBCO’s cloud and grid strategy, with a stack of four key products: Grid Server, which allows multiple servers to be pooled and used as a single [...]
Great Read for Small Businesses and Startups: The Referral Engine
I loved John Jantsch’s book, “The Referral Engine“. Like the book jacket says, it’s about teaching your business to market itself. It’s funny, but I expected the book to be about something else from the title. I guess I had visions of multi-level marketing when I heard the word “referral”. While the strategies and tactics the [...]
TIBCO’s Enterprise 3.0 Vision
Murray Rode, TIBCO’s COO, started the TIBCO analyst day with their vision and strategy. The vision: Enterprise 3.0. Srsly. They seem to have co-opted the Enterprise 1.0/2.0 terms to mean what they want it to mean rather than the more accepted views: they define Enterprise 2.0, for example, as everything from the 80’s to 2009, [...]
RWW Mobile Summit
I went to the RWW Mobile Summit last Friday where in the true unconference style the attendees defined the agenda and developed the conference content at the day transpired. While moderate in size, it was evident in the session proposals that the people attending were mobile insiders with intimate knowledge of the challenges and opportunities [...]
Charlene Li’s Book : Open Leadership
Charlene Li and Forrester’s Josh Bernoff earlier gave the pioneering book, “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies”, which provided business a leg up to understand social technologies and consumer behaviors. (For the record : Charlene was amongst the well known Forrester Star who quit to start her own venture Altimeter Group with [...]
It is surprisingly easy to leave yourself open to claims of Greenwashing!
Companies need to take a lot of care when making Green claims. The whole Green energy space is massively complex and it is surprisingly easy to leave yourself open to claims of Greenwashing. What do I mean? Well, take the Irish energy sector, for example. Anyone who generates electricity in Ireland, which is to be [...]
A Good Sign: Ariba’s Earnings Suggest That Deals are Getting Done (Part 4)
In wrapping Spend Matters observations on Ariba’s latest quarter, there are a few points from the earnings report and conference call still worth exploring in more detail. The first is centered on Ariba’s “land and expand” revenue growth strategy, especially in the downstream (i.e., P2P) area. On the call, Bob Calderoni remarked that “we continue [...]
