Decoding BI Market Share Numbers – Play Sudoku With Analysts
In a recent post I discussed Oracle’s market share in BI, based on a press-published chart taken from IDC data – showing Oracle coming in second. As often happens in such discussions, I got quite a few direct emails and twitter messages – some in no uncertain terms – about why the particular metric I [...]
SCRMish Thoughts – A Look Back at 1st Half of 2010
I’ve been doing some thinking about the 1st half of 2010 and have some observations, some of which deserve a probably longer treatment than I’m about to give them and some of them that only need a sentence or two. They are not entirely random but they are a series of slightly disconnected thoughts on [...]
Revisiting my Social Media Footprint
A couple of months ago I started to experience a phenomena that many of my social media peers have experienced, which is that I started losing track of tweets that contain links that I wanted to recall. In other words, I had tweeted so much stuff over the years (13k tweets) that I no longer [...]
The Socialconomy
“…successful companies will be more like Dale Carnegie and less like Mad Men, listen first then sell.” Conversation is everywhere and there are so many cliches about conversation and business that it would be difficult to catalog them, but the truth still remains that conversation is at the center of business whether you are Zappos [...]
Beyond Frictionless: SAP’s SaaS/Cloud Strategy Becomes Clearer
Even though it appears that there is no immediate effort planned to kill off the Frictionless E-Sourcing product (the rumors of its demise seem to start up every year or two), a recent announcement and article in Business Week suggests th…
Connecting the Dots Between the Cloud and Enterprise 2.0
Yesterday in Portland at OSCON’s Cloud Summit I spoke about major emerging trends in business, IT, and the Web. Specifically, I explored how Enterprise 2.0, Cloud Computing, and something known as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) have converged on top of the same “problem space” to become the essential fabric for how we solve the business problems [...]
For GoodData, SaaS Changes The Channel Model Too
Last time I mentioned GoodData, it was in passing, as I discussed YouCalc and other SaaS BI players. In the ensuing year, many other toes have been dipped into the water. I sat down with GoodData CEO and founder Roman Stanek and Marketing VP Sam Boonin this week to catch up on how it’s all [...]
Got Google (Ventures)?
Today we welcome Google Ventures to the Trada family. Can I just say for one second, “Woot!” For those of you who have not read the news today, we announced that Trada closed a $5.75M Series C round of financing lead by Google Ventures and participated in by our other existing (and awesome) friends at [...]
