Insight as a Service (Part 2)
Over a year ago, I introduced the concept of Insight as a Service and described some of the issues that will need to be addressed for such services to be possible. Insight as a Service refers to action-oriented, analytic-driven solutions that operate on data generated by SaaS applications, proprietary corporate data, as well as syndicated [...]
News Analysis: Tidemark Gains $24M in Series C Funding, Redpoint Ventures Leads Round
Big Data, Cloud Based Performance Apps, Drive Interest In Additional Investment Redwood City, California based Tidemark announced that it raised $24 M in Series C funding from Redpoint Ventures, Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and Dave Duffield. Key points include: Redpoint Ventures leads the round and Geoff Yang joins the board. To date Tidemark has raised [...]
Freemium Mechanics
I read an interesting blog post by Ruben Gamez titled Why Free Plans Don’t Work. If you are interested in freemium business models or any of the variations on the theme, this is well worth reading however I take issue with a couple of points. First and foremost, Gamez uses a statistics breakdown (in %) [...]
SAP HANA – the strategic context
This is part one of a three part series on SAP HANA. Many years ago, SAP’s founders had the dream of implementing accounting and finances in real-time. They believed this could revolutionize business, making it possible for enterprises to have a clear picture of their financial positions at all time, enabling companies to make better [...]
Spend and Supply Chain Analysis on Steroids: Opera Solutions Takes in $84 Million in Funding
Opera Solutions has quietly built a strong and often vertically focused analytics practice within procurement and supply chain (among other areas), deploying a combination of technology (including BIQ) and applying a deep expertise to …
Cloud 9 User Meeting
Forecasting and pipeline management don’t get nearly the attention they deserve and that doesn’t make sense. Of all the parts of CRM, the forecast is one of the few things many companies still leave to manual systems, i.e. spreadsheets. Even sales compensation has a higher place in heaven as companies like Xactly have blazed a [...]
Dreamforce 11: Live Blogging the Benioff Keynote
I’m here at Dreamforce 11 right now in Moscone Center in San Francisco. Salesforce made major announcements last night about Chatter, their social business platform, that is now more Internet facing. I once called Chatter an enterprise social operating system and these announcements make it even more true now. Expect that this will significantly improve [...]
Human Analytics
Someone (you know who you are) recently commented on my post about curation. In part the comment read, “Do you mean that it is the end result of the analytics phase, where relevant information on a specific topic is collected and acted upon?” The answer is yes and no and I thought it would make [...]
Event Report: SAUG Summit 2011 Days 1 & 2 Show A Shift From SAP Centricity
Summit Brings A Cadre Of Thought Leaders To User Group Attendees The SAP Australian User’s Group held their annual summit once again at the Sydney Convention Centre in Darling Harbour from August 2 to August 4th. With a record 650 attendees, the keynotes covered many of the hot topics about SAP ownership, road maps, and [...]
IBM Fills Out Netezza Lineup With High Capacity Appliance
In the months since IBM closed its Netezza acquisition, the data warehouse appliance pioneer has been busy, if the announcements at this week’s Enzee are any indication. An enthusiastic crowd – 1000 strong – heard CEO Jim Baum deliver the news: new hardware, software and partnerships.The biggest news was The Appliance Formerly Known As Cruiser, [...]
