Cloud-y Days Ahead
Good to be a Cloud Software Shareholder (but not a customer!) Any doubts anyone had about the legitimacy of cloud application software should have been laid to rest the last few weeks. When Oracle weighs in to buy RightNow as part of a larger acquisition strategy to acquire cloud software products, then the landscape of [...]
End of the On-Prem Paradigm
Uber analyst Dennis Howlett over at ZDNet wrote a piece ruminating on the Gartner Symposium and colleague Larry Dignan’s summary of the meeting, “Enterprise IT: Here comes that deer in the headlights look again” that is well worth reading. Together the articles wonder aloud how much time there is between now and the paradigm shift that will [...]
“From Empowered to Superempowered”
Thomas Friedman, notable author of The World is Flat, published a great op-ed in The New York Times yesterday describing the vast difference between Wall Street and Silicon Valley. “…to paraphrase the Columbia University economist Jagdish Bhagwati, Wall Street, which was originally designed to finance “creative destruction” (the creation of new industries and products to [...]
Innovation Management
I titled the post “Innovation Management”, but I intend to focus as much on the activity as on the underlying system. While innovation management is the name we use in our just released Social Business Taxonomy (IDC Doc #230541, currently subscription required, but shortly will be posted here). I’m a little wary of using “management” [...]
ERP’s Disruptive Moment
At Dreamforce Zuora, like many other emerging companies allied with Salesforce.com, decided to hold a user group meeting. As long as the customers jointly held by Salesforce and Zuora were in town the logic went, why not have them in for a day of education, listening and a pep talk form the boss. It was [...]
Robert Scoble (still) doesn’t understand enterprise software
Yet again, we open the thorny debate of enterprise vs. consumer software.
Attributes of a Socially Optimized Business
Once again, I had the great pleasure to work with my colleagues on an XPLANATiON with our Social Business Council members. We interviewed a core group of our members to identify the attributes that comprise the whole of the socially optimized business. I think you will agree, the results are fabulous. Where are you on [...]
