By Bob Warfield on February 25, 2013
My CNCCookbook blog is experiencing it’s second outage so far this month. That’s a cause for visitor unhappiness and potentially lost business. I use Page.ly, because I believe in SaaS services. CNCCookbook is bootstrapped, and I try not to spend any of my time at all doing something that I can easily have done for [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon.com, Cloud, Firehost, Page.ly, wordpress, WPEngine |
By Bob Warfield on February 15, 2013
The unfolding story of how the New York Times’ negative review of the Tesla Model S may have actually been faked is a cautionary tale for software vendors. Basically, there is enough instrumentation and feedback built into the Tesla S that Elon Musk was able to “shred” the review, as Dan Frommer writes. The graphical [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, customer service, Software development, strategy, user interface |
By R "Ray" Wang on February 12, 2013
Behance Empowers The Creative Cloud To Make Ideas Happen On December 20th, 2012, Silicon Valley based Adobe Systems announced the $150M USD acquisition of Behance, a digital portfolio and community site for creative professionals. Founded in 2006, the SoHo, New York based company raised 6.5M in May 2012 from Union Square Ventures prior to the [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, adobe, Behance, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, CMO, Constellation Research, creative class, Customer Experience, customer experience management, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, innovation, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social business, Social Business Software, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy |
By Bob Warfield on February 4, 2013
Big Data is all the rage, and seem to be one of the prime targets for new entrepreneurial ventures since VC-dom started to move from Consumer Internet to Enterprise recently. Yet, I remain skeptical about Big Data for a variety of reasons. As I’ve noted before, it seems to be a premature optimization for most companies. That post [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, Cloud, data center, enterprise software, multicore, NoSQL, Object database, platforms, SaaS, service, Suburban Data |
By Sandy Kemsley on January 28, 2013
A couple of weeks ago, IBM had two analyst calls about the announcements this week at IBM Connect 2013; since I’m not at the conference, I wrote most of this at that time but only published today due to embargo restrictions. It’s the 20th anniversary of Lotusphere, although the conference is no longer branded as [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, BPM, Business process management, Cloud, conferences, ECM, IBMConnect, modeling, Social |
By Dennis Moore on January 4, 2013
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, [...]
Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, analytics, android, apple, BI, Big Data, business intelligence, Cassandra, Cloud, Database, Dell, Dennis Moore, Ensw, Facebook, google, hadoop, HANA, Hewlett-Packard, hp, iaas, ibm, Infor, Informatica, iPad, iPhone, IPO, IT, IT Failure, Java, jobs, Linux, microsoft, mobile, netsuite, NoSQL, Open source, oracle, PaaS, Patent, patent troll, RIM, SaaS, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, SAP AG, Sybase, tablet, Tibco, Twitter, vc, VMware, workday, Yahoo |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 3, 2013
The Inside Story On Oracle Fusion Apps At The End of 2012 Constellation sat down with Steve Miranda, Oracle’sExecutive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development to discuss the state of Oracle Fusion Apps in a no-holds barred honest conversation about what’s working, what’s not, and what to look forward to in 2013. R “Ray” [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, Architecture, Business Outcomes, business platforms, business solutions, business technology, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Service Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, CMO, collaboration, collaboration software, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, COO, Corporate Vision, Corporate Vision And Strategy, CTO, Customer Experience, customer relationship management, customer relationship management (CRM), customer service, Data to Decisions, Data2Decisions, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, erp, IT Strategy, Market Maker 1:1, Next generation apps, Oracle Apps Unlimited, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Apps, Oracle Public Cloud, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, saas bigots, SaaS strategies, salesforce.com, sap, Software Insider, Software Vendors, SoftwareInsider, Steve Miranda, vendor strategy |
By Michael Fauscette on December 22, 2012
Oracle announced its intent to acquire marketing automation vendor Eloqua for $871M USD, which is about a 30% premium on Eloqua’s closing price Wednesday and quite the multiple on a revenue run rate of just under $100M. Oracle has been…
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud, CRM, CX, Eloqua, experience, ibm, marketing, Marketing Automation, Marketo, microsoft, oracle, salesforce, salesforce.com, sap |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2012
Pace of Innovation Exceeds Ability To Consume Rapid innovation, flexible deployment options, and easy consumption models create favorable conditions for the proliferation of disruptive technology. In fact, convergence in the five pillars of enterprise disruption (i.e. social, mobile, cloud, big data, and unified communications), has led to new innovations and opportunities to apply disruptive technologies [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged #techoptimization, adoption, analytics, Apps Strategy, best practices, Big Data, BigData, Business Analytics, Business Outcomes, business strategy, change, Change Management, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CoIT, CoIT and the New CSuite, Constellation Research, Constellation SuperNova Awards, Consumer Tech, Consumerization of IT, Corporate Digital Divide, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Vision, Corporate Vision And Strategy, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, Data to Decisions, Data2Decisions, Digital Divide, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, disruptive, Disruptive Tech Life Cycle, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise class, enterprise software, future, future of business, future of work, innovation, innovation insights, innovation labs, management strategy, Monday's Musings, next gen cio, next gen CIO's, Next Gen Customer, Next Gen Customer Experience, Next Gen CXP, next gen enterprise, next gen IT leaders, next generation, Next generation apps, organizational strategy, outcome focused, People to People, public cloud, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, socbiz, social business, Social Enterprise, Social Media, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, technology adoption, technology budgets, Technology Optimization, User Experience, ux |
By Phil Fersht on November 27, 2012
A subtle, but decisive, shift took place in the sourcing advisory landscape today, with Alsbridge’s announcing the acquisition of leading telecoms/networking sourcing advisor, Telwares, to firmly place Alsbridge as the main contender to ISG at the helm of the independent boutique advisor market.
Posted in Business | Tagged Alsbridge, ben trowbridge, BPO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, IaaS and BPaaS, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, ITO, Networking, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, SaaS, Tag, telecoms, telwares, The Future of Outsourcing |
