Those Special Customers Developers Love (Well They Should Love Them!)
Do you have any special customers that your developers hate? These are the customers that can mysteriously break your products over and over again, even though perhaps thousands of others report no problems. How does this work? First, understand the psychology of bugs. Developers don’t consciously create bugs, they come about as errors of omission, [...]
SAP CRM Sales On-demand Heads to Market
More proof that SAP is serious about making a break from its on-premise past and in the process challenge on-demand titan Salesforce.com came last week in the form of a preview look at SAP Sales On-demand. The preview, granted to a group of industry analysts in Boston, proved that SAP isn’t afraid to be innovative [...]
Demand Media pivots into User-Generated Content
Gotta hand it to Demand Media ($DMD), despite the beating they have taken for being a ‘content farm’ they have repositioned themselves very nicely away from the firestorm. First they not only escaped but apparently benefitted from Google’s algorithm shift, aimed directly at the content farms that they supposedly were. Now they’ve made a move [...]
The apple didn’t fall far from the tree
In this case it was the Apple IPad 2. Yesterday’s refresh of the iconic, category making iPad looked more like a bug fix release than a new iteration. Sure it’s lighter, supports two cellular networks and WiFi and it has the AppStore behind it but it only leaves me saying, “So?” Here’s a news flash [...]
Product Review: Inside SAP’s Line-of-Business OnDemand Strategy
SAP’s Sales OnDemand Strategy Reveals A Longer Term Product And Cloud Strategy In an exclusive briefing on February 24th with SAP’s Executive Vice President of Line Of Business Applications, John Wookey, he provided fresh insight into the new product design and Cloud philosophy at SAP. This pre-CeBit announcement coincided with the SAP Analyst Day in [...]
