Year One Labs — The Perfect “Incubator”?
I abhor the term “incubator”. I remember in fifth grade when our teacher brought in a chicken incubator to show us how chickens are born. We waited and waited and waited a while longer still. All the little Chickens were dead, it turned out. We weren’t quite sure why but most of us thought that [...]
Red Hat the Master Packager: Open Source and the $1bn annual runrate company
A core research thesis for me is that the best packager in any tech wave wins, and wins big. The number one position in a market, with all the network dominance that implies, goes to the best packager, not the best inventor. Packaging is where you cross the chasm- where geek stuff goes mainstream. Tim [...]
More on Salesforce and Radian6
All the chatter about the Salesforce acquisition of Radian6 is quite interesting. A couple of postings from people I respect make good points. First Joe Payne, CEO of Eloqua: “Conspicuously absent from Salesforce’s network of role-specific “Clouds” is one that centers on the marketing function. Is the Radian6 acquisition the beginning of a Salesforce Marketing [...]
Consolidation in the Social Business Market Continues: Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6
Earlier today Salesforce.com announced its agreement to acquire socialytics software vendor Radian6 for a total of $326M in cash and stock. This acquisition continues the expansion of Salesforce.com’s goal of gaining share in the social business market. This acquisition comes…
News Analysis: Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6 For $316M
Salesforce.com Bets Big On Social Media Monitoring And Socialytics Radian6, a social media monitoring and customer engagement platform, provides tools for companies seeking to harness the power of social media and related social networks. Most customers utilize Radian6 for brand management and monitoring, sales and lead generation, Social CRM, customer service, competitive intelligence, trend analysis, [...]
IDC Directions 2011: The What, Why and How of Social Business
This year at the IDC Directions Conference I hosted a social business track that consisted of three session, 1. The What, Why and How of Social Business (I presented), 2. Cross Industry Panel on Social Business in Industry Verticals (excellent…
Salesforce Snaps up Radian6
Salesforce.com announced a short time ago that it acquired Radian6 for $326 million. The deal has terms and you can find them here. The big questions about the acquisition are why and what is the future likely to be. First the why. The easy answer is that it can. Salesforce is generating cash and it [...]
eXelate’s DMP
A few days ago eXelate (www.exelate.com), one of my portfolio companies, announced the latest release of its Data Management Platform (DMP). A DMP is software that centralizes the management of online audience data. It enables marketers to manage pixels, control data access and latency, package and segment data, gain insight into audience activity through the [...]
Salesforce to Acquire Radian6 – The Uber Moves continue
For the last several months, there has been a rumor, always denied that salesforce.com was going to acquire Radian6. In my direct conversations with various people, I was told it wasn’t the case. But today, it is now the case. And it is a blockbuster move on behalf of both parties. Needless to say with [...]
A Common Vocabulary
Writing the OneWorld Implementation book has helped me to remember so many instances of client interactions where we talked past each other that I thought the subject worthy of a blog post. Actually, understanding each other’s language is often as difficult for an American implementation professional and business person as it is for two people [...]
