Conferences, comedy, clouds and contracts.
Continuing my attempts to bring Shakespeare into as many posts as I can…. Let specialties be therefore drawn between us, That covenants may be kept on either hand. (Taming of the Shrew II. i. 127-8) A couple of weeks ago, I presented at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, the topic being SaaS Contracts: how not to [...]
News Analysis: Deltek Offers To Buy Maconomy For $72.7M
Acquisition Consolidates Two Market Leaders In The Project Based Solutions Market
Deltek announced on June 3rd that they would acquire Maconomy for $72.7M ($3.39/share (DKK 20.50)). Maconomy is a leading project based solutions (PBS) software company (~35.6M 2009 revenues) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Deltek is a 265.8M (2009 revenues) PBS software vendor based in Herndon, VA. [...]
Archiving, Compliance, Goldman Sachs: Lets Discuss Live
I am currently working on a project for my client Lumigent- which provides software to manage compliance across multiple business applications, so customers don’t need to roll their own. Anyway – the project kicked off some thinking about compliance, and namely, how people are always the weakest link – not in terms of spotting compliance, [...]
Okay Here Goes CRM Forecast 2010 PART II
I’d go over to ZDNet for Part I of this forecast (released at the exact same time as this one) if you want to read the intro, the Latin American 2010 Forecast from Jesus Hoyos and the first five…
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Is the Future of SOA Open Source?
It’s a truism that you don’t have to buy software to deliver on SOA, which is primarily a style of technical architecture and business strategy and isn’t really something you can go out and purchase. But it’s also true that…
