Notes from the 2010 Pacific Crest Technology Conference (Part 2)
Last week I provided my notes on the SaaS workshop that was organized as part of the recent Pacific Crest technology conference in Vail. Today I’ll talk about online advertising which was another major theme at the conference. Online advertising continues to grow in spurts. Ad budgets remain volatile even though the presenters at the [...]
Workday takes the Gloves Off?
Starting a little over five years ago, workday quietly went about the business of redefining ERP software. After spending a day with the team at its first ever analyst technology summit yesterday I have to say that they are not being quiet anymore and with good reason. The management team reads like a who’s who [...]
Developer relations in your pocket
The telco ecosystem is finally waking up to Microsoft’s great epiphany of the 80′s and 90′s: it’s all about developers.
What an exhilarating Workday!
We run into each other at various industry conferences – a group of industry analysts, consultants and bloggers focused on enterprise software. Rarely though 20 of us are we in a room for a whole day – many of us have competitive business models, others honestly cannot stand each other. So, it is even more [...]
Well-spent Workday @ Workday–Here’s the Firehose
Yesterday I was privileged to sit in a group of 20 or so analysts (many of them fellow Enterprise Irregulars) invited to Workday’s first ever Technology Summit. For short background, Workday’s original call to fame came from it’s Founder, Dave Duffield, an Enterprise Software Legend, who built PeopleSoft from nothing to a position of challenging [...]
Wrapping Up TDWI – Agile? You Bet. And You Should.
I’ve posted twice about TDWI’s San Diego event, and I still haven’t exhausted the thoughts I wanted to share. That’s a measure of just how important and successful I think the show was. Three things jumped out at me: The audience is back, and it’s ready to spend. The event was buzzing; I was told [...]
Part Two – Workday Technology Summit
More on the Workday Technology Summit including information re: an iPad analytics application, Workday Labs interest areas and the role of social media in Workday applications.
Event Report — Workday Technology Summit 8-23-2010 — Humongous Post
Workday held a briefing yesterday for twenty of enterprise software’s toughest and most knowledgeable analysts. Workday had much more to say about their technology and business strategy, about their underlying architecture and object model, and about what’s cooking in the Lab than they’ve revealed thus far to this type of audience. Even a few surprises [...]
How T-Mobile nixed my summer roaming
This blog post could so easily have been a paean in praise of T-Mobile. The mobile network launched a new set of pay-as-you-go data roaming boosters in the UK this spring that slash the cost of cellular Internet access when traveling in Europe. With a two-week vacation in prospect, I was keen to avoid the [...]
Facebook: All Your Eyeballs Are Belong To Us!
Remember how we told you it was time to stop building microsites, think like a broadcaster and build channel? Well, big brands have been doing that very successfully. In fact, according to this article in AdAge, in many cases branded sites are being completely eclipsed by “owned” social media: “Coca-Cola, with its 10.7 million Facebook [...]
