Adobe has problems
What does Adobe do after being shut-out of iPhone app development by Section 3.3.1?
Can We Make A Sustainability-BPM Connection?
Peter Graf, SAP’s Chief Sustainabilty Officer, and Scott Bolick, VP Sustainability, spoke to a group of bloggers and analysts at a sustainability roundtable today. Graf started with SAP’s definition of sustainability: increase short and long-term profitability by holistically managing economic, social and environmental risks and opportunities. Sustainability changes business processes drastically, especially those processes that [...]
Moving beyond befuddlement into cloud comforting – CA World
If you want to see how difficult it is merging legacy IT into the cloud, check out the discussion at CA World 2010.
Cloud Appliance Comes to the Enterprise
Software Appliances were initially created for high performance network and security infrastructure with lower administration costs. Over time the Appliance model moved up the stack from email appliances to a diverse set of business applications. This trend has continued in parallel to the rise of SaaS and Cloud Computing. SaaS Appliances provide pre-configured, self-contained applications [...]
Diverse Mediocrity? Supplier Diversity Programs Fail to Deliver, Showing Disappointing Homogeneity
Even though I’ve been won over to supplier diversity as a tool to promote private sector revenue growth and customer intimacy — don’t get me started on the absurdity and wastefulness of supplier diversity in public sector procurement — it appears as if few organizations are actually making supplier diversity programs deliver on promised returns. [...]
Amazon Stealing the Cloud
I saw a spate of recent articles that had some pretty amazing statistics and news bits on Amazon Web Services and competitors. In no particular order: - A survey of 600 developers by Mashery reported that 69% of respondents said Amazon, Google, and Twitter were the most popular API’s they were using. - Even the [...]
SAP: Most Extensive Use of Social Media by a Corporation
A whitepaper released recently by the Aspen Institute, titled Leveraging the Talent-Driven Organization, written based on a discussion that took place at the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Talent Development, presents a very interesting thesis,
The new talent-driven firm is one that provides conditions for talent to learn, collaborate, and make decisions utilizing social networks and other [...]
M&A Watch: Ariba and an Updated Shopping List for SAP in Procurement (Part 1)
The rumors have been heating up again these past few weeks that SAP is going to buy Ariba. These rumors come and go every few quarters, so I wouldn’t put that much more stock in them this time — at least not any more stock than in the past. But if they do prove to [...]
