Workday and Hoover Dam: Valuing Cloud Companies
Groupon at $6 billion, for what, coupons? Twitter at who knows how much more, for what, stray pulses of thought? CornerStone OnDemand at 10 times revenues? How much of that is for the words “OnDemand” cleverly tacked onto the name? Are we in the middle of a cloud boom? And if so, can we learn [...]
Fred Wilson is Still Wrong About Streaming Music and Amazon’s Locker Will Rock
Fred and I have tangled before over the issue of owning your music versus streaming it. Fred continues undaunted in his latest post, a reaction to Amazon’s Music Locker announcements: I don’t get the idea of music locker services like the one Amazon just announced. If I’m going to stream music from the cloud, why should [...]
Redesigning the Enterprise from the People Up
Top-down business process design is getting a bit of a bad rap at the moment, and deservedly so, say some. There’s a new meme in town called social business that says we should design enterprise systems around the people that…
Dachis Business Summit – you know, the Social one!
Now look. I have a real problem with the term “Social Business” as it’s being used by Dachis and IBM and others. However, let me put that to one side for another post later this week, but it’s a thread that starts here and runs through my thoughts on the London edition of the Dachis [...]
Integration Made Easier: Workday Announces A Cloud Integration Platform
Yesterday Workday announced that it is opening up its integration platform for customer and partner use. The platform, built off of technology that Workday acquired when it bought Cape Clear, provides a set of cloud based tools to build, deploy, run and manage custom integrations. Integration between applications has traditionally been a complex and expensive [...]
Mobile and Social Innovations
I woke up this morning to see significant developments. MOSOLOCO – Mobile, Social, Local, Commerce, a term getting popularized by Jason Maynard is really brimming with lot of activities now. We are now seeing that four proximate but distinctive trends are converging to change the way consumers interact, explore, transact and putting pressure on businesses [...]
The mature cloud
I had a chance to catch up with the Workday team about their integration cloud. What impressed me the most was they could have been hyping the middleware technology they acquired with Cape Clear 3 years ago, but waited for sufficient customer and partner adoption to announce it . I caught up with a vertical [...]
