The Southwest Airlines excerpts
I saw Jan Marshall, CIO of Southwest Airlines present this morning at the Tibco TUCON conference about sophisticated events-based functionality in baggage tracking and customer communications. On the flight back, I saw a column in the in-flight Spirit magazine by its CEO, Gary Kelly which was titled “Technology is our friend”. That is quite a [...]
The 2 second advantage…the 2 culture disadvantage?
I had a chance to spend a couple of days at the Tibco TUCON event. In a world full of light social-this and mobile-that, this was as close to enterprise porn as you can get. Large, complex organizations from the Interpol to Deutsche Bank to Southwest Airlines described complex applications handling billions of events at [...]
SAP acquires Sybase: Mobility and database options
SAP announced today the acquisition of software maker, Sybase, for approximately $6 billion. The deal positions SAP to become a significant player in the mobile enterprise software market, offer additional flexibility to customers, and eventually move the company toward database independence from Oracle. During the analyst conference call announcing the acquisition, SAP’s co-CEO, Bill McDermott, [...]
SAP Buys Sybase, and History is Re-Written
The acquisition of Sybase by SAP has some elements of delicious irony for Sybase watchers. For this is the company that not only shunned SAP and thereby forced itself out of the running as a top enterprise database, but it also the company that helped place Oracle at the number one spot in the SAP [...]
News Analysis: SAP Bets On Innovation With $5.8B Sybase Acquisition
Move Signal Seriousness To Acquire Key Innovation Driven Technologies SAP announces a $5.8B acquisition of Emeryville, CA, based Sybase. The acquired entity will remain a stand alone company. At first customers, prospects, and casual observers will wonder why SAP has agreed to acquire what is perceived as an aging, legacy database company. However, industry watchers [...]
SAP-Sybase: First Take
Image via Wikipedia First of all, I wish SAP had not done this. They have enough on their plate without adding another layer of complexity and chaos to distract management. But having said that, Sybase is a nice move, if it can give its customers a choice beyond Oracle, and help Dr. Plattner with more [...]
@spendmatters — Putting Our Twitter Game Face (back) On
For those who followed Spend Matters’ (@spendmatters) Twitter account for the past few months, I know it’s been a quiet time from an update/tweet perspective. A few recent conversations with folks ten years my junior, however, convinced me to once again consider the advantages of this new medium from a business perspective. Both of the [...]
“Gartner is not serious about social media”. Ya Think?
In a recent post analyst watcher Carter Lusher claims: “Gartner is not serious about social media” I see things a little differently and as co-founder of the firm that has arguably done more to innovate industry analyst business and research models than anybody (paving the way for some outstanding new entrants into the field such [...]
IBM Impact 2010: Happy Partners and Cloud Certifications
Last week I was at IBM’s Impact 2010 – which used to be the company’s show for WebSphere customers but is now being rebranded as the “premier conference for business and IT leaders”. The business track was not my cup of Lapsong Souchong, but RedMonk is more about geeks than suits. But did the event [...]
