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By Phil Wainewright on March 4, 2010
Socialtext, one of the earliest and most established pureplay Enterprise 2.0 vendors, released the latest version of its flagship suite this week, and it set me thinking. Is there a future for standalone Enterprise 2.0 software suites, now that the functionality they offer is increasingly being offered within established enterprise application software suites?
The independent survival [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged adobe, Business process, chatter, collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, social computing, socialtext
By Naomi Bloom on March 1, 2010
In Part I of our journey down the yellow brick road to great HRM and HRM delivery systems, I set the stage in terms of the environment in which our organizations must operate and what they must do to be successful. By now you should have decided for your own organization – or will do this [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business process, Follow The Yellow Brick Road, HR Tech, HRM, HRM BPO, HRM Software, HRMDS, Human resources, Metrics/Analytics, Strategic HRMDS Planning, Strategic planning, Yellow Brick Road
By Phil Wainewright on February 15, 2010
It’s been a tumultuous couple of weeks in the world of collaboration software, with major initiatives from two leading vendors at opposite ends of the market spectrum. At the heavyweight end of the enterprise market, SAP released into beta its 12sprints collaborative decision-making tool. From the high-volume end of the individual consumer market, Google unveiled [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged 12sprints, Business process, collaboration, Decision making, Enterprise 2.0, google, google apps, Google Buzz, Google Buzzz, salesforce.com, sap, social computing
By Phil Wainewright on February 8, 2010
Listen to my conversation with Eric Berridge, CEO of Bluewolf, one of the pioneers of a new generation of professional services companies that specialize in software-as-a-service and cloud computing.
In this podcast, learn what attracts large enterprises to SaaS, and find out why adopting SaaS can help change the culture of an organization and effect business [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Bluewolf, Business process, Cloud Computing, Development, SaaS, salesforce.com, software as a service
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on February 1, 2010
This is the fourth in a four part series on the Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Model. Part I covered the strategize and prioritize phase, Part II covered the plan and execute phase
, and Part III covered the monitor and analyze phase. In the model and optimize phase of the Performance Management Lifecycle, we strive [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business process, Management, perfomance management lifecycle, performance management, Risk management, Sensitivity analysis, Strategic management, Strategic planning
By Sandy Kemsley on January 26, 2010
That was fast! Proving my predictions to be ever so inaccurate when I said that it could be months before this closed, the IBM acquisition of Lombardi has closed less than six weeks after it was announced. Good news for IBM, Lombardi, and Lombardi customers.
Not surprisingly, IBM has toned down the “departmental” rhetoric that they [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged BPM, Business process, ibm, Lombardi, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions
By R "Ray" Wang on January 18, 2010
The Era Of CIO Dictatorships Ends With 2009
Less than 5 years ago, the mighty CIO controlled his or her organization’s destiny by shepherding multi-million dollar projects and ruling with a fist. Business leaders had to pay homage to the IT team and they hated it. The economic crisis, advent of the cloud and SaaS, and [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2010, application development, Architecture, business drivers, Business Models, Business process, change, CIO, Cloud Computing, disruptive, disruptive technologies, enteprise architecture, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, future of business, information management, Infrastructure, macro conditions, next gen cio, pace of technology adoption, procurement, project management, R "Ray" Wang;, SaaS, security, skill shifts, software as a service, Sourcing, user strategy, vendor management, workplace dynamics
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on January 18, 2010
In the first installment of this series, we laid out the performance management lifecycle and its four phases. We also explored in detail the first phase of the PM lifecycle, strategize and prioritize, where we develop and set the strategy, plan risks and set KRIs, plan compliance and set controls, and put together strategic action plans and [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business process, Management, perfomance management lifecycle, performance management, Risk management, Strategic management, Strategic planning
By R "Ray" Wang on January 14, 2010
Standard Support Returns After Much Deliberation
SAP announced today that they would be reintroducing their standards support offering. Customers now gain choice with a 2-tier maintenance offering. Here are the details between standard support and enterprise support.
Standard Support Offering reintroduces at 18%. Customers seeking core bug fixes, support packages, risk mitigation, and related new functionality will [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Business process, enterprise software, erp, R "Ray" Wang;, sap, software maintenance
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on January 11, 2010
In the previous installment of this series, we laid out the performance management lifecycle and its four phases. We also explored in detail the first phase of the PM lifecycle, strategize and prioritize, where we develop and set the strategy, plan risks and set KRIs, plan compliance and set controls, and put together strategic action plans and [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged budget, business intelligence, Business process, Management, perfomance management lifecycle, performance management, Risk management, Strategic management, Strategic planning, strategy
