Setting the Record Straight: the After-life of an Article. Oracle, HP, SAP, Journalism, Conflict of Interest–You Name it.
This is just a quick Editorial note to draw attention to the very significant piece Josh Greenbaum published last Saturday. You may have missed it – who reads blogs on a weekend? But the post had significant after-life, including an Editorial correction appended to the original New York Time article that started it all. Worth [...]
The Malthusian Oracle
"The idea of cloud in a box, private clouds and public clouds is completely contrary and it devalues cloud computing to the point of nothing." – Denis Pombriant While Oracle OpenWorld was weeks ago, it’s still on everyone’s mind and there is nothing like a message from our CEO that…
Can Marketo Give Marketers Some Cred?
Some of the EI’s took a briefing today from Jon Miller, Co-founder and VP of Marketing for Marketo. Jon briefed us on their new product – Revenue Cycle Explorer, which purports to be able to accurately analyze ROMI – your…
PaaS Strategy: Data not Code
This is part one of a two-part series I’ve wanted to do about strategy for PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) vendors… The PaaS market is a fascinating one. Building SaaS and Cloud apps that really take advantage of the Cloud is non-trivial. And, as I’m fond of saying, at least 70% of the software you build winds up adding [...]
Social and Organic are Not Oxymorons – CIOs Get Ready!
CloudBlog caught up with Mike Fauscette at the annual IDC GRAC – the firm’s Global Research Advisory Council in San Francisco. Fauscette leads IDC’s research team on enterprise cloud computing, software, social and collaboration, partners and more. Fauscette’s take is that social computing has begun to take off in the…
Who Says Enterprise Software Isn’t Sexy? Ok, Just Cool…
Or at least customers using SAP are making cool things…
Aravo: The Last of the Independent Supplier Information Management Mohicans?
There’s a good chance that two of the key players in the supplier information management/supply base management market will be snapped up this quarter, given the current M&A buzz in the market. Plus, at least one more provider I’m…