Variations on Hype Quadrants.. no Magic Hype… no, Hype Cycle.. or is it Magic Quadrant?
Gartner introduced their Real (Magic) Quadrant: Not bad. But let’s not forget the customers’ prospective. Welcome to the Magik Kvadrant: But perhaps most revealing is Phil Fersht’s Painsharing Paradox: Enough of this quadrants, squres, cubes… let’s hype up some cycles. Superseding the Gartner version, here’s the Wailgum Hype Cycle: Not bad. Still a bit complex. [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 15-31 March 2011
Oracle has a phenomenal quarter. Paul Allen disses Bill Gates. Patent, trademark, and IP issues galore. Salesforce.com continues cash-based acquisition spree. HP continues rolling out its new strategy. HP and Oracle continue their war. Gosling joins Google. CIOs want to reduce the number of applications they maintain. IBM turns 100. World political turmoil and aftermath [...]
Inspiration to get "social media" things Done
Back at the end of February I was struggling to complete a post about Social Media Week London, and I put a plea out to Twitter for some motivation (or to be shamed in to finishing it). @iamcreative aka Helen Harrop used her art as an incentive and promised me one of her doodle’s if [...]
SAP Sales OnDemand – Addressing the Lingering Questions
On November 8, 2008, John Wookey left Oracle to lead SAP’s large enterprise “Line of Business” (LOB) team. Since Wookey joined SAP, we’ve seen internal clarifications of SAP’s LOB on-demand strategy, but not much new product. That changed on February 24, 2011, when SAP hosted a group of “influencers” at the Boston Museum of Science [...]
Painsharing exposed: HfS to reveal the worst performers in the outsourcing industry
Introducing the HfS Research Painsharing Paradox
Salesforce and Intuit in Partnership
Salesforce made its second major announcement of the week today when, along with Intuit, it announced a partnership between the two companies to deliver an integrated front and back office solution for small companies. Salesforce will integrate its SaaS based CRM technology with Intuit’s very popular QuickBooks. The price point for the integrated solution was [...]
Spend Matters Study: Forget Ariba, SAP and Oracle — World Class Procurement Organizations Use Excel
In conjunction with the Centre for Supply Management Business Research based in Leeds, UK and Société de Gestion des Opérations in Nice, France, Spend Matters is pleased to publish preliminary findings from an ongoing study exa…
Best deal I ever negotiated
In the $ 10+ billion of technology contracts I have negotiated for clients over my career, I have been known to do some creative terms and conditions. But I am really proud of what I just negotiated for myself this morning. I get between 15 to 25 PR emails a day. It’s my fault – [...]
