Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-30
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Microsoft gets kudos for tablets and mobile strategy. RIM does not. Microsoft does not get kudos for price paid for Yammer. Google holds I/O conference, reveals next version of Android, gives away goodies. Great tech companies to work for include Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, [...]
Sense and Respond, Operating a Social Business
Over the past several years I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at the impact of several change factors, including the application of social web driven ideas into business, the impact of mobile, cloud, and socialytics and a few…
Key questions on the massive RBS / NatWest IT failure
Despite it’s massive IT failure, RBS has not released sufficient detail and many questions remain.
“We” vs. “I”
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame [...]
The Conflicted Cloud
Is it just me or is it the season for all large vendors to start praising the cloud? From Verizon’s Uppernet commercials to John Chambers at Cisco Live, it is a mandatory sound bite for every industry marketing event. Every time I hear a legacy (ok, established) vendor talk cloud, I am reminded of a [...]
Microsoft Bamboozled by Yammer in $1.2 Billion Purchase
Well, after that title — what else is there to say? Lots, hear me out – I’d like to tell you why I am going against all the optimists out there (although I do consider myself an optimist) and why I liken this deal to AOL acquiring Time Warner (and we all know how well [...]
The Age of Inflection Points
Microsoft buys Yammer is either the worst kept secret in the Valley in some time or the slowest simmering headline waiting for life to come out of tech. Rumors of the deal as well as escalating estimates of its cost have been rampant for weeks so I am glad to put this one to bed. [...]
Governance gap pushes enterprise to private cloud
Providers and enterprises alike have to evolve their governance strategies for the cloud, argues a report that proposes a new framework for cloud governance.
On recent IBM, SAP and Adobe Conferences. Developers Developers Developers… Marketers?
Tweet Just as it is every year May was insanely busy in the tech business. With the Spring Conference season there are plenty of major shows such as IBM Impact, SAP Sapphire and the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit. I was involved in all three of these conferences – either on a speaking, or consulting basis. [...]
ORCL Launches CEM
Oracle launched its customer experience push this week with an announcement by co-president Mark Hurd. The new direction begins to pull together the results of Oracle’s latest buying spree in which it purchased ATG for e-commerce, RightNow Technologies for customer service and other technologies for analytics in cyberspace. While Oracle will always draw skeptics the [...]
