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2012: The Year in Enterprise Software

2012: The Year in Enterprise Software

By Michael Fauscette on January 4, 2013

As we move into 2013 it’s time to take a look back and see what major events shaped and changed enterprise software in 2012. It was an active year, particularly from the standpoint of continued consolidation in the enterprise software…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, Business Models, CIO, CX, enterprise, Enterprise 2.0, ESN, innovation, IT, microsoft, mobile, networked business, oracle, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, socbiz, Social, social business, Social CRM, Social Enterprise, social web, technology, Technology / Software, Web/Tech | 1 Response

Is Freemium Compatible with Enterprise Software?

Is Freemium Compatible with Enterprise Software?

By Jeff Nolan on August 28, 2012

Is the freemium model compatible with traditional enterprise software? Yes but it requires a significant shift in the way you go to business as well as design and build the customer experience.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Models, customer acquisition, enterprise software, freemium, marketing | 2 Responses

The End of the Successful Tech Startup?

The End of the Successful Tech Startup?

By Michael Fauscette on August 21, 2012

Last weekend an interesting conversation (or maybe that’s debate) started about start ups, innovation and the state of tech in general. It started with a Facebook page post by Yammer CEO David Sacks stating that "I think that Silicon Valley…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Big Data, Business Models, Cloud, internet, mobile, socbiz, Social, technology, yammer | Leave a response

Business Model Disruption and Dealing with Change

Business Model Disruption and Dealing with Change

By Michael Fauscette on January 29, 2012

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…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Big Data, Business Models, change, Cloud, disruption, internet, mobile, RIM, socbiz, Social | Leave a response

Freemium Mechanics

Freemium Mechanics

By Jeff Nolan on December 15, 2011

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 %) [...]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analytics, Business Model, Business Models, Churn rate, freemium, Get Satisfaction, marketing, SaaS | 2 Responses

Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility

Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility

By Dion Hinchcliffe on July 26, 2011

How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with [...]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged android, applications, Architecture, Blog Post, Business Models, CEO, CIO, CMO, collaboration, communication, Community, CRM, Crowdsourcing, digital, Digital Strategy, Enablement, Facebook, internet, iOS, marketing, mobility, planning, sales, social business, Social CRM, strategy, Supply Chains, technology, Web | 9 Responses

AWS Outage & Customer Readiness

AWS Outage & Customer Readiness

By Sadagopan on May 1, 2011

Reddit, Foursquare, EngineYard and Quora were among the many sites that went down recently due to a rather prolonged outage of Amazon’s cloud services. On Thursday April 21, When Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) went offline, it took many of its Web and database servers depending on that storage down. With Amazon working aggressively to [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged AWS Outage, Business Models, Cloud Computing | Leave a response

The Evolution of US Securities and Exchange Commission Rules

The Evolution of US Securities and Exchange Commission Rules

By Michael Fauscette on April 10, 2011

This week there was quite a bit of debate and discussion instigated by a letter from SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro to Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that was a reply to a…

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged Business Models, social business, social web, technology, Web/Tech | Leave a response

Connectivity Disrupting Traditional Models: Online Peer to Peer Commerce

Connectivity Disrupting Traditional Models: Online Peer to Peer Commerce

By Michael Fauscette on February 21, 2011

As the world became more connected through the Internet in the 1990′s, many disruptive uses of this connectivity were tried and in some cases have grown into wildly successful businesses. One aspect of connectivity is the way it opens up…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Models, commerce, disruption, p2p, PayPal, Peer to Peer, rental, supply chain | Leave a response

The Cloud & Enterprises

The Cloud & Enterprises

By Sadagopan on December 29, 2010

This is in continuation of the previous note:Thomas Friedman makes the case that Value creation is becoming so complex that no single firm can master it without closely collaborating with a wide set of partners. John Hagel brings this up :” We are s…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Business Models, Cloud Computing, IT Business Value | 1 Response

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