Welcoming the Youngest Enterprise Irregular
Little @monkchips is no longer our youngest member. We’re happy to welcome to this world Ella Reese Corsello, born 4 days ago: I don’t have her Twitter id yet (or perhaps she is not following me?), so congrat’s to her Dad, our own Jason Corsello.
The Multi-tenancy SaaS Argument – It’s a Vendor, Not a Customer Issue
I am sitting in Workday’s 2010 Technology Summit hearing the pitch about the supremacy of multi-tenancy, and despite their best efforts, Workday’s rationales about this key piece of SaaS orthodoxy are coming down solidly on the vendor side of the equation, not the user side. While the benefits that multi-tenancy can provide are manifold for [...]
Get Ready for Chaos at Work, Warns Gartner
The world of work is going to become increasingly chaotic during the coming decade and organizations are going to have to plan for “radically different technology governance models,” warns industry analyst Gartner this month. The firm recently published a list of ten changes the world of work will witness during the next ten years, and [...]
Workday Technology Briefing – part 1
Workday is opening up to a tough crowd of industry analysts. Here are the morning’s highlights from this briefing.
The Myth of Freemium and Related Pricing Topics
Seth Levine recently wrote a great post on pricing topics for software as a service companies; I agree with what he writes and can relate given a project I have been immersed with that goes to this very topic. Web startups reflexively over complicate their pricing strategy and/or undervalue what they are offering by making [...]
Workday Technology Summit
Enterprise Software as a Service provider Workday is holding an all-day Technology Summit (their first one) to the analyst community. I’m lucky enough that Workday is based in Pleasanton, so for the first time I don’t have to get on a plane for such a meeting. Also, this could very well be the highest concentration [...]
Content Trumps SEO and Links
For marketing, content trumps SEO and links back to your site. That’s not to say there is no value in SEO or links, just that if you have to choose or prioritize, content is at the top of the heap. If you’re a big company, you can probably choose to invest in all with far [...]
Will Ariba Acquire to Fill Gaps or Accelerate Penetration in Key Sectors? (Part 2)
In this second post looking at potential Ariba acquisition targets (see the first post here), I’ll start with a few additional areas that make logical solution depth/extensions sense. The first is supplier management, which Ariba currently has a solution in today, but is not gaining the level of traction that RollStream and others in the [...]
