Revolutionary, Legendary, Incredible
Congratulations to Lars Dalgaard and his team at SuccessFactors as SAP makes a bid at a significant premium for $ 3.4 billion. His excitement is palpable as he uses plenty of big words in the press release. Let’s do a reality check here. SAP’s journey to the cloud has been rocky with names like Agassi, [...]
Salesforce & the Social Marketing Cloud: Round 1 Goes to…
Don’t get me wrong. I love Radian6. I truly do. Now that it it is an extended platform with its incorporation of the superbly conceived and executed “Insights” addition (kudos to Ryan Strynatka), it is easily the social media platform to beat (not the community platform). There is no better and, to my mind, this [...]
News Analysis: SAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4B Signals SAP’s Commitment To Cloud, HCM, and Social
SuccessFactors Acquisition Puts SAP In Direct Competition With Workday And Taleo SAP (NYSE:SAP) announced its $3.4B acquisition of SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF) as it seeks to bolster its position in the Cloud and more importantly in the rapidly growing strategic HCM market. Based in San Mateo, CA, USA, SuccessFactors brings over 15 million subscription users [...]
Vendor Event: Workday Predict And Prepare 2011
Title: Workday Predict And Prepare 2011 Start Date: 2011-12-07 11:00 am PST End Date: 2011-12-07 12:00 pm PST Location: Webinar Link For the fourth year in a row, join the country’s top IT, HR and Talent Management analysts and consultants for their predictions of next year’s critical trends, plus their advice on how you [...]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Cloud Computing – Rick Nucci, Dell Boomi
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Rick Nucci – Co-Founder & CTO, Dell Boomi Biography Rick is the founder and CTO of [...]
Cloudforce New York and the Rise of the Social Enterprise
I was sitting in the “blogpound” at Cloudforce New York, the seating area where Salesforce.com considerately places press, analysts and bloggers along with tables, power and Wi-Fi, when it dawned on me. Despite all the articles, blogs and books (and Paul Greenberg’s ceaseless public speaking) dedicated to the social media phenomenon in CRM, we may [...]
