Understanding General-Purpose, Cloud-Based Data Marketplaces
Last October I wrote about emerging data analytic services that could be offered under the term Insight as a Service. More recently Mark Suster wrote about the need for data as a service, and Gordon Ritter in his post added his thoughts on Insight as a Service. In my post I had proposed three types [...]
Who’s the top innovator: SAP or Oracle? A customer’s query from SAP’s Sapphire User Conference
Coming down from the dais after a panel discussion on mobility, I was approached by an attendee with the following story. He was on the IT staff at a Fortune 500 company that was a wall-to-wall Oracle shop, and his boss, the CIO, had sent him to Sapphire with the following mission: make sure that [...]
Chatting Cars and Enterprise Software
Today’s big news is Salesforce Teaming up with Toyota to create a private social network where you can befriend your car and it will “tweet” you when it’s thirsty, need a checkup etc..etc..etc – see the details from @Krishnan’s post. The opportunities are really endless – more on that later. I have to get something [...]
Founders: The Bubble Clock is Ticking
The incredible valuation of the LinkedIn IPO can only be interpreted as one signal: the Bubble Clock has started ticking. So long as it continues to run, we will live in a reality distortion where valuations are insanely high, capital is cheap, and smart businesses can leverage that to hyper growth. When it stops, we’re [...]
Enterprise app stores arrive; IT departments nonplussed
App stores have thrived beyond all expectation in the consumer space over the last several years (as a primary example, Apple shipped its ten billionth app earlier this year through its market-leading, though proprietary, App Store.) A current rush to adapt this successful new distribution model for software to the enterprise has met a decidedly muted [...]
The Googlebot Wants Everything – #io2011 Trip Report
At the recent Google I/O 2011, the search giant unleashed itself into almost every nook and cranny of IT, consumer and “enterprise.” This positions them against pretty much every vendor out there, and with their billions in money from advertising, they’re like a wealthy but aloof giant that seems to have unlimited resources, just waiting [...]
Sourcing to Latin America: Everything you ever needed to know in 60 minutes
Join us for a Webinar on June 2 at 11:00 am ET If you follow us closely, you’ve probably already read our research study on the Latin American global sourcing industry, The Latin America Sourcing Landscape in 2011: How Latin America Powers Global Services Delivery. After that taste of the study, we’re sure you’ll want more. [...]
Are enterprises still going à la carte? The governator samples the Accenture set menu
When I learned that I could attend Accenture’s annual industry analyst event with my fellow HfS Research colleagues, I was intrigued.
Changing Expectations
I was flying across the US last week and was really annoyed to find that my flight didn’t have Wifi. I mean really, 6 hours without an Internet connection, how would I get anything done? Of course when I have…
SAP vs. Workday – In-Core/Memory Resident DB Usage
I got a couple of feedback items and an a couple of emails re:the prior post on SAP and Workday. One of the questions was on the relative differences in approach that SAP and Workday are using with regard to in-core/memory resident technology. I had a lengthy conversation of this technology with SAP founder Dr. [...]
