Appirio tallies the technical debt in your Salesforce instance
Frequent customization of Salesforce can threaten the business agility of the platform. Appirio’s new tool helps you assess the damage.
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 [...]
Next-gen integrators automate how you buy IT
For a long while I thought that the old-school systems integrators led by Accenture, Deloitte, Cap Gemini and others would gradually give up market share to the up-and-coming cloud integrators and ultimately join forces with them through acquisitions and mergers. Yesterday’s news of the merger of Cloud Sherpas with GlobalOne is further evidence of the [...]
Appirio acquires Saaspoint for push into Europe
In its fourth acquisition of the past 12 months, cloud integrator Appirio has announced it is buying long-established European pureplay Salesforce.com integrator Saaspoint. The acquisition is Appirio’s first significant foray into the European theater, delivering on the international expansion promised after GGV Capital and Salesforce.com invested in the company in August. Saaspoint was founded in [...]
Salesforce.com and Model Metrics
One distinctive feature of Salesforce.com from other application vendors (on-premise and SaaS) has been it has smartly encouraged for years now a group of smaller, cloud savvy systems integrators – as different from large outsourcers, Indian firms or resellers. That includes Appirio (in which Salesforce has a minority investment), Astadia, Bluewolf, Model Metrics and others. [...]
Building Apps is Wrong!
Software developers, too many of them in fact, are still building apps. That could be a mistake. For decades, software developers have identified business functions and transactions that they could create applications around. The job of an application usually was to permit the recording of a business or accounting event, perform some computational magic upon [...]
Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2011: Some insights from The Greatest (Cloud Computing) Show on Earth!
Ringling Brothers bills itself as “The Greatest Show on Earth,” but Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2011 could easily claim the title of “The Greatest Cloud Computing Show on Earth.” With over 40,000 attendees, dozens of exhibitors, great concerts and parties, and presentations galore, the event was an unqualified success for Salesforce.com, but it also heralded a real [...]
Dreamforce 2011, what’s to like?
Posters went up around the Moscone conference center in sun-drenched San Francisco yesterday, celebrating social as the big theme of Dreamforce this year. The emphasis on social had been semaphored as early as June, when Marc Benioff began rehearsing Salesforce.com’s social enterprise messaging at its CloudForce event in DC. It has intensified in some of [...]
The Cloud’s for Grown-Ups: Appirio takes more Salesforce.com Investment
This morning, Robin Wauters at TechCrunch reports that cloud solution provider Appirio takes an additional investment from Salesforce.com and GGV Capital. The cash is presumably to fund global expansion into Europe and Asia. This is significant as its one more data point that supports two realities: That the Cloud is getting large scale traction, and even in [...]
ERP, Services, Telephony and Mobile
My cell phone is dying but I’m hoping my new device will connect with businesses in ways never before possible. Will software vendors see the new opportunity or will they continue to view cell phones as phones and not as business process change agents?
