CRM Idol 2012: Let the Games Begin!
Each year, as many of you all know, we run CRM Idol. This is year 2 so we are still babes in the woods and learning but because we have an amazing braintrust in Brent Leary, Esteban Kolsky, Denis Pombriant, Jesus Hoyos, Laurence Buchanan, Mark Tamis and Silvana Buljan, (and me) we just make improvements [...]
The elephant in the IBM Cloud
Gery Menegaz’s bio says he is an “Executive IT Architect” for IBM. The small print says his columns for ZDNet including the recent one on clouds don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions. Except that they do. His first point says “Data center migrations are disruptive, costly, and complicated. Tightly coupled mission critical systems [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-01
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week. Cloud Computing: do you have a clue? Sadly, this is typical of the ill-informed conventional wisdom you’ll hear from the likes of IBM, HP, Oracle and most parts of Microsoft, Accenture, Deloitte and the rest when discussing cloud computing. To help redress the [...]
Friday Rant: Will Oracle Go Shopping? Post Ariba/SAP Acquisition Strategy… (Part 1)
Last weekend, I chatted with sharedserviceslink’s Susie West during her visit to Chicago. Her firm, a conference and community company focused on the shared services industry (especially accounts payable and P2P) held an event in Chica…
