We Need a New Generation of eCommerce Analytics
In 1996, while I was running IBM’s BI solutions organization, one of my groups developed the Surfaid web analytics solution. Surfaid, one of the first such solutions, was later acquired by Coremetrics (that was in turn recently acquired by IBM and made part of its marketing automation solution). Later on Omniture dominated the high-end web [...]
Raising the Bar
The dynamics of community are changing expectations. Exposure to higher community standards has always tended to raise individual standards, offline or on. Today though, with the widespread use of social networks and proliferation of social media outlets the collective voice…
Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)
Over the past two years, Cloudera has demonstrated the power of surrounding emerging open source software with support services, expertise and its own IP. The firm has racked up over 30 customers since its founding in late 2008, and emerged as the leading source of Apache Hadoop. Cloudera’s recent C round of financing brought its [...]
JP Rangaswami and the future of Salesforce.com
Image by Lars Plougmann via Flickr The appointment of JP Rangaswami as Salesforce.com’s first chief scientist is an interesting move. Rangaswami is highly regarded as something of a visionary among CIOs and will be a huge asset in taking the company’s message out into the European market, where I understand he’ll be spending most of [...]
Test Match Sofa. This is what the Internet is for.
Regular readers will know that I’m a cricket fan. Being a cricket fan in Germany is awkward, as unless you con the beeb into thinking your computer isn’t in Germany, you can’t get decent audio or video coverage. This post will not be about the dumbness of DRM, but if the BeeB is reading, I [...]
