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By R "Ray" Wang on January 5, 2012
New Funding Shows Strength In Social Business Market And Lithium’s Business Model Emeryville, California based Lithum Technologies announced today that it raised $53.4M in financing. The lead round is from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Other investors include SAP Ventures. NEA leads the round with Peter Sonsini joining the board. Peter‘s been active with ecommerce play [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 7, 2011
Purpose and Intent Much hype surrounds the topic of gamification. Often seen as a technique to add engagement to existing tasks, projects, marketing campaigns, and initiatives, the term gamification unfortunately lacks the seriousness it deserves. This report seeks to change the point of view and demonstrate where gamification plays a role in the enterprise. More [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Badgeville, Big Door, BunchBall, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Constellation Research, Constellation Research Inc., ConstellationRG, Consumerization of IT, crm, CrowdTwist, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, Customer Relationship Management, customer relationship management (CRM), Design thinking, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, early adopters, Engage, engagement, Engagement Apps, Enterprise Gamification, gamification, iActionable, NextGenCXP, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, Research Report, Research Summary, rwang0, SaaS, social business, Social Business Software, social commerce, Social CRM, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, Social Media, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider |
By Michael Fauscette on October 30, 2011
We just completed another re-forecasting exercise at IDC, as uncertainty increases over the health of the global economy. This time in particular, I was pressured to lower the enterprise applications forecast for next year and adjust the 5 years forward…
Posted in Business | Tagged crm, Customer Experience, digital commerce, growth, innovation, Productivity, SCRM, socbiz, technology, Technology / Software |
By R "Ray" Wang on October 25, 2011
The Acquisition Machine Heads To The Public Cloud Users gathered at the Customer Summit 2011 at the Broadmoor Hotel woke up to the shocking announcement that Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced a $1.43B acquisition of leading SMB CRM vendor RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW) today. According to Thomas Kurian, “Oracle is moving aggressively to offer customers a [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Apps Strategy, Art Technology Group, ATG, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, CMO, Constellation Research, crm, customer engagement, Customer Experience, Customer Relationship Management, customer relationship management (CRM), customer service, customer service; -business, Customer Support, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, oracle, Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle Fusion Apps, Oracle Fusion Middleware, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, RightNow, RightNow Technologies, rwang0, social business, Social Business Software, Social CRM, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on September 26, 2011
After 11 months of behind the scenes work, CEO Charles Phillips and the Infor management team unveiled the launch of Infor 10 in New York City on September 13, 2011, to customers, industry analysts, media, and investment analysts. The new Infor has kept busy with key management team hires, the $1.84 B acquisition of Lawson, [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analyst event, Apps Strategy, Charles Phillips, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, crm, Customer Experience, Customer Relationship Management, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, erp, HR, HR Tech, Human Capital Management, Infor, Infor 10, Infor ION, Lawson, Lawson M3, Lawson S3, Lawson Software, nalyst event, News Analysis, Public Sector, purpose built, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, supply chain, suppy chain management |
By Steve Mann on August 31, 2011
The pace of change in the online world is causing organizations to struggle to keep up with their online interactions with their customers. More and more of these interactions happen nowadays via the Interweb. While these digital interfaces serve consumers everywhere, the user experience these consumers have shapes how they view the brands in their lives. [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Customer Experience, design, iPad, marketing, TouchPad, User Experience |
By R "Ray" Wang on August 28, 2011
The Social Business (Social Enterprise) Moves Beyond The 18 Use Cases Of Social CRM As social media adoption continues to move from mainstream to pervasive ubiquity, enterprises will begin to benefit from these advancements in the consumerization of IT (CoIT). Just 18 months ago, early use cases identified 18 Use Cases for Social CRM (SCRM). [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 24, 2011
Two New Products Improve Entry Points for Gamification Adoption Bunchball, a leading gamification vendor in the Silicon Valley, is best known for its Nitro gamification platform which organizations use to implement game mechanics across social networks, mobile applications, and websites. Today the solution reaches more than 70 million unique users and creates 2.3 billion actions [...]
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By Esteban Kolsky on June 28, 2011
Apparently my prose lost a lot in the last few months of scant writing in this journal, as I saw this tweet earlier from the esteemed Stowie Boyd (in reference to my earlier post): In deference to his, gentle yet firm, request for screenshots – find below the screenshots that TIBCO gave me to share, [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Customer Experience, tibbr, Tibco |
By Esteban Kolsky on June 28, 2011
First, the disclaimers: TIBCO is not a present or past client (well, I cannot disclose whether they were a Gartner client, so I am talking about my bitnez now), nor did I get anything for posting this. Since I was somewhat critical of their early foray into Social X, they decided to reach out to [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged activity stream, Customer Experience, ibm, tibbr, Tibco |
