SAHP? Stranger things have happened
With Leo Apotheker taking the helm at HP, all sorts of questions arise as to why they hired a software guy, who wasn’t exactly a wild success when he was top dog at SAP. Leo is the man you’d want if you are planning to acquire SAP. He knows the compa…
News Analysis: New HP Leadership Indicates Interest In Enterprise Software
Two Seasoned Software Veterans Join Hewlett-Packard On September 30th, 2010, Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced two significant changes in its leadership structure. Former SAP CEO Léo Apotheker was named as CEO; and Kleiner Perkins partner and former Oracle COO, Ray Lane was named as non-executive Chairman. These two appointments signal a seriousness to shake things up for [...]
HP Joins the Enterprise Software Market: Léo Apotheker Becomes CEO
It looks like HP really wants to be a player in the enterprise software market after all, and avoid the fate of Sun and others before it. The appointment of Léo Apotheker to the top spot fills a desperate void in HP’s strategy that may really signal the turn-around of a once great company into [...]
CEO Musical Chairs
<quick rant, not qualified analysis, don’t read much into it> So Leo Apotheker got HP. Or did HP get Leo? Either way, the former SAP CEO has just been named as the future savior of HP. Great pick. HP’s troops have never been more demoralized, and Leo has a lot of experience with demoralized troops. [...]
The New Polymaths Leo and Ray at HP
Couple of years I would have been shocked at the announcements of today, today it merely deserved a tweet of a “wow” but little additional surprise. You see I already profiled Ray Lane in my book for having made the transition from infotech at Oracle to cleantech at Kleiner Perkins “The discovery process has made [...]
News Analysis: Deltek Pays $60M For INPUT, Solidifies GovCon Ecosystem
Deltek Expands Core Vertical While Diversifying Profit Streams Project Based Solutions (PBS) vendor Deltek plans to close its $60 million acquisition of INPUT, a government contracting market research and business development firm, on October 1st, 2010. The transaction will add $26.2M in annual revenue, 160 employees, and a rich government contracting ecosystem. Analysis of the [...]
Deltek to Acquire INPUT, Extends Its Reach in the Government Contracting Value Chain
Today Deltek announced its intent to acquire market research firm INPUT. INPUT, originally founded in 1974 as an IT market research firm has, since 2000, focused on delivering market and opportunity intelligence to IT public sector contractors and agencies. The deal is expected to close Oct 1, 2010. INPUT offers government contractors (GovCon) sales and [...]
Department of Defense IT: Years late and billions over-budget
A new GAO report highlights $6.9 billion in over-budget IT projects at the Department of Defense. The report also provides excellent advice that private-sector business leaders can apply immediately.
Ariba Supplier Network Alternatives: Basware (Background — Part 2)
In the first post in this series, we provided a number of background details on Basware’s Connectivity service offering. Continuing with the second installment, we’ll probe on Basware’s capabilities as an alternative to Ariba’s supplier network. Today, Basware Connectivity service offers automated format conversion for approximately 50 different e-invoicing formats (Spend Matters analysis suggests this [...]
The Social side of the Internet of Things
With so much talk about social networks, E2.0, collaboration etc, it was a nice reminder from Kim Nash about the Internet of Things – sensors , robots, RFID tags etc. As many episodes from my book extracted below show, they are helping us with an amazing range of activities and they are chattering with each [...]
