Atlassian: Fully Funded. By Customer Revenue. Oh, and the $60M T-shirt
It was 2006, the first Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and I just met Jeffrey Walker, President of Atlassian. I had followed the company for a while (OK, I admit, had been a fan), met Mike, but this was the first time with Jeffrey, so we took our box lunch to a cozy little [...]
SAP & CA Tag Team for GRC
SAP and CA connect their products for the GRC space. Companies with big IT or R&D shops should take note. Are project portfolio management solutions getting more tightly connected with ERP products?
Oracle’s High BI Bar: Managed, Multifaceted and Actionable
Oracle’s newest BI release is massive, spans multiple product categories, and raises the bar for competitors in dramatic fashion. In my prior post I focused on its rollout and competitive posture. The market has waited a long time as the reconciliation of many moving parts was accomplished – most notably the convergence of the Hyperion [...]
Blame the Customer?
Who is to blame for IT project failures? My colleague, Michael Krigsman, argues that when IT projects wander into the “IT Devils Triangle,” all three participants–the vendor, the integrator, and the customer–are to blame. Michael is very insistent about this; in a recent post on Marin County v. Deloitte, he says, “In my view, it [...]
An Attitudinal Segmentation Primer
Did you know that you can segment your market based on the attitudes your customers have toward buying your products and services? And that if you do this you will be able to separate out high return from low return…
Coolness AND Content – SCRM Goes Global in the Same Room
Last night or yesterday or really early in the morning, depending on your location, SCRM’s chief salon empresario, Tatyana Kanzaveli and a remarkable group of CRM/SCRM thought leaders, practitioners and others who break molds regularly “met” via video, and Cisco Telepresence in 16 cities around the world in the first telepresence driven meetup at least [...]
Sustainability and CSR Reporting: There’s An App For That. A Letter to SAP and the future.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” – Alan Kay Back in 2007 or so I had an epiphany about corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Until then I had been skeptical about CSR – which I felt was the proverbial lipstick on the pig. The guy that did most to persuade [...]
Tibco Silver Spotfire – Social BI? Why Not?
Tibco, fresh from a Q2 with license revenue up 23% over last year’s, continuing a two year run of beating consensus earnings estimates, has stepped up and out ahead to pursue the long-coveted mid-market customers who don’t use BI but find that spreadsheets don’t do enough. Tibco believes, like Microsoft, that many are social technology [...]
Gartner releases cloud computing ‘rights and responsibilities’
Analyst firm, Gartner, published a set of guidelines intended to ease relationships between cloud vendors and users.
TIBCO Silver Spotfire: BI/Analytics in the Cloud
TIBCO announces their cloud-based BI/analytics today: TIBCO Silver Spotfire, and you can even sign up for a free one-year trial. This shouldn’t be a huge surprise to those watching TIBCO announcements to date: at their conference in May, “Silver Analytics” was mentioned in the general session as an upcoming product release, and they’ve made much [...]
