Oracle OpenWorld Takes the Stage
All right! Recess is over! If you went to Dreamforce last week you can be forgiven for taking a kind of victory lap in your head today because it was a truly great experience, besides if you are like me you are still tired. One reason I think so many people like Dreamforce is its [...]
Salesforce.com, Enterprise Platforms, and the End of the End of Software
Do all companies build refrigerators when their product sets get too complex? That was the question I was asking myself as I sat in the audience during the partner keynote at Dreamforce last week, as a slide showing off the different parts of the company’s SaaS platform hove into view. Memories of SAP’s NetWeaver danced in my [...]
Unified TIBCO BPM Strategy
Jay Lillie and Rachel Brennan, product managers for Nimbus Control and AMX BPM respectively, presented in the final session at TUCON 2012, discussing a unified BPM strategy that covers both methodologies and technologies. While AMX BPM is about the enterprise-strength (and mostly structured) business process automation technology, Nimbus Control is about documenting processes and procedures. [...]
Ten Strategic CIO priorities for 2013
The best list I have seen on issues facing innovative CIOs for the coming year.
There’s a Revolution in Desktop Manufacturing Underway
My day job involves running a company that makes Manufacturing Software called CNCCookbook. It’s a bootstrapped company that I built from scratch–software, marketing, content–the whole ball of wax. It’s been great fun and is starting to pay the bills as well. I’ll be telling the full story of what I’ve learned over time, but right [...]
Google Still Doesn’t Get How to Beat Microsoft Office
I just saw the announcement that Google is backing away from support older Microsoft Office file formats. In many ways, this is a non-event. It only affects people that use both pre-2003 Microsoft Office and Google Apps. On the other hand, it is symptomatic of why Google doesn’t take a lot more share away from [...]
Is innovation moving back from consumer to enterprise tech?
David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect” posed the question to a panel at the Tibco Tucon conference. I repeated the question one on one to Vivek Ranadive. CEO of Tibco and he said he is seeing it in three dimensions – younger recruits are showing more interest in enterprise tech than 3-5 years ago, [...]
Apple, Peak and Cockroaches
You probably think I am out of my mind – well … hm… no comment. But yes I agree it’s close to madness to discuss Apple’s decline right on the heels of a record-breaking iPhone 5 launch and a stock price that despite some correction is still a rocketship. But bear with me for a [...]
Feeds and Mullets #socbiz #ensw
Brilliant New York Times UX designer and author Alex Wright, someone I’ve had the privilege to work closely with, said to me a decade ago that “Tags are the new Mullet”. Back in the mid 2000′s, those garish word-clouds made popular by Delicious showed up everywhere and only those of us geekily-inclined really employed them in [...]
Apres Dreamforce
It’s over, Dreamforce that is, and I have gotten some needed sleep on the flight back to Boston. As I contemplate Dreamforce 2012 and its meaning I have three observations. First, it was what I expected it to be. If you refer back to my post just before the show opened my expectations were more [...]
