SAP Private Cloud Work and Big Data – Press Pass
My discussions with the tech press about SAP’s recent Big Data and private cloud announcements.
Ladder Apps
The other day, my 2nd grader told me how to get to the moon. Take a ladder and lean it up against the house. Climb up the ladder with a second ladder and put the two together. Then iterate. I was reminded of this the other day when I read yet another press release from [...]
The Rules For Process
I’ve been pretty busy here at the Building Business Capability conference the past two days with little time for blogging, and with two presentations to do today, I don’t have much time, but wanted to attend Roger Burlton’s “The Rules For Process” keynote, which he refers to as his business process manifesto. After some terms [...]
Does Paper.li Break Twitter?
I love Paper.li, it’s one of the most innovative and useful services I have seen in a long time. I actually look forward to people I follow coming out with their “The xyz Daily is Out” tweets because they are great information discovery tools. In addition to Techmeme and Feedly various Paper.li editions have become [...]
PaaS Strategy: Sell the Condiments, Not the Sandwiches
This is part two of a two-part series I’ve wanted to do about strategy for PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) vendors. The overall theme is that Platforms as a Service require too much commitment from customers. They are Boil the Ocean answers to every problem under the sun. That’s great, but it requires tremendous trust and commitment for customers to …
Completing the Loop
Bob Warfield does a great job of summarizing “The Eight Flavors of Social” in his post from October 19 . While I don’t disagree with Bob on these eight popular forms of social media, I might wish to offer an alternative to it or perhaps something that builds on this foundation. To me social media [...]
End users explode cloud myths at #ODE10
With refreshing frankness, end user executives have ‘fessed up’ that cloud ERP is more reliable, more secure and less risky than the on-premise alternatives, speaking in a user panel at OnDemand Europe 2010 in London today.
The Subscription Economy
I get a lot of email. It’s not all because of my job or because I publish my work frequently. Some of it is like that, but it seems like my email address is on a lot of lists and I am one of the people who get spammed whenever there’s a webinar to fill. [...]
