Oracle And Symantec Advance On 2013 Barron’s 500 List Of Strongest Companies
Every year Barron’s and HOLT, a unit of Credit Suisse collaborate to create a ranking of the 500 largest publically-traded companies who are headquartered in the U.S. and Canada. This year’s list was published yesterday and is available to Barron’s subscribers at the link Barron’s 500 list. If you don’t have a subscription try Googling [...]
Much ado about Competitive nothings
Nmachi Jidenma writes about the undue focus we put on the competition. This is written with individuals in mind but I think it matters to emerging software categories as well. My favorite lines: “It only makes sense that competing with others distracts from the distinctiveness that makes our art special. By comparing ourselves with others, we [...]
21 Most Admired Companies Making IT A Competitive Advantage
All enterprises, regardless of what they produce or the services they deliver, are really information businesses. The accuracy, speed and precision of IT systems means the difference between winning or losing customers, keeping supply chains profitable, and solidly translating new concepts into revenue-producing products and services. The world’s best-run services businesses have customer-driven IT as [...]
AppExchange Seven Years On
The AppExchange is undoubtedly a significant portion of what makes salesforce.com unique. Pre-integrated solutions dramatically reduce the cost to the customer to extend the capabilities of Salesforce and the fact that it has already gone through growing pains means it will take other providers years to mimic its capability and impact. ~Narinder Singh, co-founder and CSO, Appirio [...]
2013 Roundup of Smartphone and Tablet Forecasts & Market Estimates
For many companies, getting their mobility strategies off the ground and successful is the highest priority project they have in 2013. The urgency to get their sales and consulting teams equipped with smart phone and tablet-based applications is accelerating. Pilot projects have shown mobility applications can shorten sales cycles and serve as a better sales training and management platform. Serving [...]
On The Importance of Design at IBM: Love and Margins.
At the end of last year my founding partner dropped a quite outstanding post - The Importance of Software at IBM. In it Stephen analysed IBM’s 2011 financial results through the lens he has been using for most of the year (the end of the age of Software-only business models). It should surprise nobody that Software is [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its IPO. It’s doing well, with a market cap just over $8.5 billion and a constrant stream of innovation. Lots of IT failures recently, [...]
The big disruption opportunity in book publishing
Apple says it has written $ 6.5 billion in royalty checks to iOS apps developers in the last few years. While my book had a section which shows the distribution of those checks is uneven, and this NY Times article in its series on the iEconomy confirms “A quarter of the respondents said they had made less [...]
Windows 8 for a Mac User
I recently purchased an Asus Zenbook Touch laptop to replace my trusty Macbook Air. I was impressed by the hardware design being exhibited by the top tier ultrabook manufacturers, they embody sleek design elements and a fantastic build quality but more importantly Windows 8 has created a once in a generation opportunity to redefine what [...]
Reading News on an iPad is Astonishly Bad UX
Hi, my name is Bob Warfield, and I am a news junkey. I subscribe to about 200 blogs in my feed reader. I alternate between my Gmail, Google Reader, and Google News when I have a spare moment of leisure, looking for something new and exciting to discover. I do this almost entirely on my [...]
