The iPad: Nice Piece of Glass! Here comes HTML5
Tweet If you have followed RedMonk for any time you’ll know that we are strong advocates for open source and open standards. Open ecosystems create more economic and innovation opportunities than closed systems. So far, so Adam Smith. Well over the last couple of years two companies in particular have challenged some of our basic [...]
Software is Roadkill
The fastest way to become roadkill to venture capitalists is to become a software company. Software may not be inherently evil (it has created wealth for many people that is in proportion to the pain it has provided to many customers). Software and specifically on-premise enterprise software, however, is clearly…
"Business" is nothing but "Social Networks"
We have a plethora of hugely successful cloud based social networks, but why only fulfil banal social needs? Those way up in the Maslow pyramid kind of needs. Why stop there? [This was inspired By @dahowlett's post the other day so a thankful nod his way!] Let’s step back: What happens when people mingle, in [...]
Cloud Q&A: Putting Financial Data in the Cloud?
Should anyone put their financial applications in the cloud? This is another cloud-based question I get with some frequency. Lots of financial applications exist in the on-premise world and the numbers of solutions for the SaaS, multi-tenant, cloud world are growing quickly. Four vendors Iâve spent a lot of time with include: FinancialForce, Workday, NetSuite [...]
What Does blueKiwi Think of Social Business?
Following the series of asking vendors with Social Business credentials their thoughts on Social Business – Lithium is next. Want to read the previous ones? Oracle, Attensity, Fuze Digital, Moxie Software, SAP, GetSatisfaction, RightNow Technologies, and Lithium are already posted. Where is the social world going in 12 months? With mainstream adoption of social media in the consumer space, the use [...]
Oracle v. SAP
Oracle won its lawsuit against SAP in federal court. Oracle had complained that a now defunct subsidiary of SAP had unlawfully used its intellectual property to provide third party support to Oracle customers and the jury agreed. There are so many levels in this situation that I can’t get to all of them but one [...]
IBM Case Manager In Depth
I had a chance to see IBM’s new Case Manager product at IOD last month, and last week Jake Levirne, the product manager, gave me a more complete demo. If you haven’t read my earlier product overview from IOD as well as the pre-IOD briefing on Case Manager and related products, the business analyst view, [...]
Ariba Supplier Network Alternatives: SciQuest (Part 1)
This post is part of a fall 2010 series looking at Ariba Supplier Network alternatives, beginning with each provider’s basic background in the area. We will then examine their solution approach and Ariba/third party systems integr…
Anticipating Dreamforce
Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual user meeting and thought leadership confab, is two weeks away and the anticipation for this event is palpable. In a tough economy people are looking for the company to do some magic and lift our spirits. The company did a smart thing by turning on its new collaboration product, Chatter, for any [...]
Why Enterprises Move ERP to the Cloud
Listen to my conversation with Bruce Richardson, chief strategy officer at enterprise application vendor Infor, and a highly respected industry analyst in his former role as head of research at AMR. This is part one of a two-part interview. In…
