Business Model Disruption and Dealing with Change
A couple of recent events and some commentary around them got me thinking about the current state of business, the pressure to change and how companies respond to the need to change. Change impacts people and organizations in many different…
Big Data Predictions for 2012
Over the last several years, the desire to understand the surging rivers of digital data forming all around us has led inexorably towards something more meaningful than simple analysis. The rise of consumer analytics, and by that I mean analytics tools that literally anybody could and would use, could be arguably said to have begun
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 [...]
Seven Basic Privacy Rights Users Should Demand For Social Business
Public Outrage Grows Over Lax Privacy Polices At Popular Social Networking Sites Recent actions by social networking leaders in the market place have brought new attention to a user’s privacy rights. Despite the fact that these sites provide a freemium service to users, abuse and arrogance of a user’s privacy rights combined with user ignorance [...]
One More Post for 2011
2011 is almost history, but before we start to focus on what will happen in enterprise tech in 2012, let’s take a short look back at some of the events that make it a very big / important year in…
Monday’s Musings: 10 Mega Business Trends To Watch For In 2012
The Shift From Transaction To Engagement Ushers A New Era For Businesses. As organizations enter the evolution from transactional systems to engagement systems, a shift is happening in business (see Figure 1). Engagement requires a different design point and business model for success. Engagement must account for sense and response, massive social scale, conversation, new [...]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Cloud Computing – Rick Nucci, Dell Boomi
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Rick Nucci – Co-Founder & CTO, Dell Boomi Biography Rick is the founder and CTO of [...]
The Sabermetrics of Social: A Weapon of Mass Disruption
Jonah Hill is not a sexy guy. He was perfectly cast, however, juxtaposed against Brad Pitt in this year’s academy award contender, Moneyball. If you’ve not read the book or seen the film, the plot premise centers on the true story of how an under-financed ball team, The Oakland As, leveraged the black art of [...]
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 …
I, For One, Welcome our New Social Data Overlords
Historically, the trouble I’ve always had with social media was the precision deficit surrounding the interpretation of its influence. It always seemed to me that if you could get, say, Chris Brogan to talk about anything, you were successful with social media. Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, and social media has really never been my [...]
