Curve Jumping and Oracle
I spent the better part of last week either traveling to or participating in Oracle Analyst World, an annual meeting of analysts and influencers that the company briefs twice annually en mass (Oracle OpenWorld is the other opportunity). Throughout the year, Oracle, and most other vendors, provides spot briefings on announcements and the like. This [...]
2013 CRM Market Share Update: 40% Of CRM Systems Sold Are SaaS-Based
Last year, four out of every ten CRM systems sold were SaaS-based, and the trend is accelerating. In the recent Gartner report Market Share Analysis: Customer Relationship Management Software, Worldwide, 2012 published April 18, 2013 the authors provide insights into why the worldwide CRM market experienced 12% growth in 2012, three times the average of [...]
Why Cloud Computing is Accelerating in the Enterprise
Translating time into dollars matters far more to many CEOs I’ve spoken with versus what platform their applications are running on. What matters most is getting all they can out of every hour their business is operating. They are all focused on getting beyond the constraints that held their growth back in the past – [...]
Research Summary: Constellation Cosmos – Cloud Bill of Rights for SaaS Apps, Actian and Netsuite Achieve Epic Status
Constellation Certifies Vendors On How Well They Perform To The Cloud Bill Of Rights The Enterprise Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights provides a tool for clients and vendors to change the tenor of contract negotiations from user subservience to an equal and collaborative long-term partnership. This Constellation CosmosCertification for the Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights: [...]
Lots of new functionality/little elapsed time: Workday and Adaptive Planning updates
Workday and Adaptive Planning Updates For those of you defending cloud application solutions (against the on-premises fan-boys), here’s another bullet for your ammo belt: Speed. When a multi-tenant cloud vendor only has to support and regression test one version of the software, rolling out new releases is expedited. When the products are built on a [...]
Microsoft and Salesforce are over 60% of all Gartner CRM Inquiries
Every year Gartner receives an average 100,000 inquiries from their valued end-user clients on a wide variety of IT topics. Their most recently released series of statistics is included in Inquiry Analytics Statistics: Topic and Vendor Mind Share for Software, 4Q12 published March 13th of this year. Ten geographic regions and eight industries are also tracked, [...]
Making Cloud Computing Pay
Relying on cloud computing strategies to free up dollars and time that can quickly be re-invested in product and service innovation emerged as the highest priority for respondents in a recent Rackspace survey. While cost reductions were significant, the greatest contributions were seen in investments in innovation (48%), new product & service development (45%), [...]
Personas Are The Future of Enterprise Apps: Lessons Learned From Scribe Software
In any technology-centric company, product managers, engineers and developers who have their finger on the pulse of customers have the highest credibility and respect. Over time they also have the most success in their careers. This happens because their innate understanding of the customer is the most valuable currency there is to a development team. [...]
Event Report: Customers Very Happy At Ultimate Connections 2013 (#ulticonnect)
Partnership Announcements Enhance Ultimate Software’s Offerings Amidst a crowd of 1500 customers, partners, and attendees, Ultimate Software held their annual gathering from March 12th to March 15th, 2013 in Las Vegas. Geared towards the medium sized to enterprise markets, Ultimate Software has steadily taken market share from ADP for payroll and expanded out into operational [...]
Cloud to Enterprise: Resistance is Futile
At the end of its Journey to the Cloud, will an enterprise still be running its own data center? Perhaps, but if it does, it will be much, much smaller. It will be the Private Cloud part of a Hybrid Cloud that will run only a small portion of enterprise workloads. On the other hand, [...]
