Fusion Apps Launch Announced
What’s the key difference between SaaS VS On Premise. According to Larry Ellison, with SaaS – everything is designed around the plan that everything related to software needs to be managed by business whereas in an on-premise model, technical …
Burning Question: Is there a truly balanced IT scorecard?
A relatively new CIO asked me what top metricsI would recommend he measure his IT organization against. I remembered what Maynard Webb, recounting his experience as CIO of eBay had written when he reviewed my book “ “CIOs have to be masters of many disciplines—they are technology strategists, business partners, project managers, operations gurus and [...]
The Day Hp Got Killed. Publicly. By HP.
Recently I wrote up a positive example how Twitter, and generally public participation can enliven a conference. Today we’ve witnessed the opposite. Twitter KO’d HP at Oracle OpenWorld. No, let me correct that. HP KO’d HP. This keynote will be a case study for years to come. No more comments… just a few selected tweets, [...]
Oracle OpenWorld Paints San Francisco Red – Follow the Tweet Stream Here
This is the week when San Franciscans regret living in this beautiful city: street closures, traffic nightmares, 70k attendees. Oracle never fits into Moscone – tent City takes over. Most of my fellow Enterprise Irregulars are at the conference, which has barely started but it already has a buzzing Tweet stream (hash tag #oow10). Follow [...]
Oracle, Cloud & Enterprise
I read with interest that observers of Oracle Open World 2010 brought out while reviewing the agenda : Oracle executive vice president Thomas Kurian’s keynote was originally scheduled to showcase Fusion apps, but will now be all about “Oracle and Cloud…
The Marathon Man
SAP is introducing an Innovation Weekend around its annual TechEd event in Berlin and Las Vegas next month. It gives participants a chance to “Gain hands-on experience with some of SAP’s coolest and newest innovative technologies, taking an idea from concept to prototype.” Given my book’s focus on innovation, Craig Cmehil, one of the event’s [...]
