Zuora and NetSuite in Best-of-Breed Alliance
Yesterday Zuora, the billing and payment solution company for subscription businesses did a smart thing, at least I think so. At NetSuite’s user meeting, SuiteWorld, Zuora chief Tien Tzuo announced that his trademark product is now pre-integrated with NetSuite’s financials. But that wasn’t what’s smart, only the thing that enabled the thing that is smart. [...]
Day One Of NetSuite Suiteworld 2011
Some of the most interesting things I heard from Suiteworld day 1: “Let’s face it, no one wants to do accounting in the cloud, they want to do business processes.” From Zach Nelson’s morning Keynote yesterday. He’s right. Selling accounting in the cloud is silly. Selling a business process that includes vendors, customers, partners [...]
NetSuite the new Applications Unlimited
I was struck by a small gesture by Mark Hurd of Oracle as he presented at the SuiteWorld event. He got off the stage and came to the level of the audience and talked about NetSuite’s importance to Oracle and Exadata. It came across humble whether intentional or not. Later in the evening Larry Ellison [...]
E-Invoicing — Is the 80% Solution Enough?
There’s another thought provoking post over on Purchasing Insight that suggests we may need to settle for the 80% electronic invoicing model rather than what many of us no doubt would aspire to. The piece argues that “Adopting a h…
Progress Analyst Day: Industry and Product View
TweetRick Reidy, Progress CEO, opened their one-day analyst event in New York by talking about operational responsiveness: how your enterprise needs to be able to respond to events that happen that are outside your control. You can’t control crises, but you can control your organization’s response to those crises. Supporting operational responsiveness are four technology [...]