Why Cloud Apps Must Co-Exist With On-Premise
Listen to the second part of my conversation with Bruce Richardson, chief strategy officer at enterprise application vendor Infor, and former head of research at analyst firm AMR. In part one, we discussed Why Enterprises Move ERP to the Cloud….
The Industry Speaks about Cloud, Part III: business and IT finally agree – IT must tool-up to enable cloud business services
Savvy CIOs are developing themselves into Cloud-enablers by honing their sourcing and service integration skills. Our Cloud Business Services study, conducted in conjunction with the Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics, contrasts many …
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 [...]
Global Sourcing Buyers: Tread Carefully Through Europe
Buyers care where their providers are because stability, talent pool, infrastructure and the business and legal environment, determine how successful the relationship is going to be. Central and Eastern Europe is a fragmented region where cost, quality…
Getting Value from Your Social Projects?
According to the latest IDC Social Business survey approximately 41% of businesses surveyed have already implemented an enterprise social software solution. In a market (social platforms) that is growing ~38% CAGR over the next 5 years, quite a few of…
O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees
Shylock: Most learned judge, a sentence! Come prepare! Portia: Tarry a little, there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood; The words expressly are “a pound of flesh.” (painting by Alexandre Canbanel. The Merchant of Venice) The jury has decided. SAP owes Oracle 1.3 Billion dollars. I’ll leave others [...]
