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By R "Ray" Wang on February 9, 2012
Catch my colleague Yvette Cameron’s point of view here when published. She covers Future of Work for Constellation Research, Inc. Oracle Plays Catch Up With Public Cloud Ambitions On February 9th, Oracle announced its intention to acquire Dublin, CA based Taleo for $1.9B. Taleo is a cloud based talent management software provider with 5000 customers [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, American Airlines, Apps Strategy, Bersin & Associates, best of breed, Blue Cross blue Shield, business performance management, business technology, Chief HR Officer, Chief People Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, CoIT, Conde'Nast, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, contract negotiations, contract strategy, Dell, deployment options, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, erp, future of work, hp, Hyatt, JP Morgan Chase, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, next gen, next gen apps, next generation, Next generation apps, NextGen, oracle, Oracle Fusion Apps, Oracle Public Cloud, PaaS, PeopleSoft, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, saas bigots, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, software as a service, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Starbucks, Starwood, Sutter Health, Taleo, Tesora, United, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 16, 2012
Public Outrage Grows Over Lax Privacy Polices At Popular Social Networking Sites Recent actions by social networking leaders in the market place have brought new attention to a user’s privacy rights. Despite the fact that these sites provide a freemium service to users, abuse and arrogance of a user’s privacy rights combined with user ignorance [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2C, B2C E-commerce, best practices, Big Data, bill of rights, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Sales Officer, CHRO, CIO, collaboration software, Constellation Research, COO, customer bill of rights, Digital identity, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, early adopters, Electronic Privacy, Emerging Technologies, Engagement Apps, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, EU, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, future of work, google, GooglePlus, Identity management, linkedin, Matrix Commerce, Monday's Musings, Next Gen Customer, Privacy, Privacy Rights, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, social campaign tracking, social commerce, Social CRM, social customer insights, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, social event management, social marketing insights, Social Media, social media monitoring, social sales insights, social service, social support, social support insights, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 10, 2012
Business Leaders Often Poorly Prepared For Cloud/SaaS Contract Negotiations Business leaders often take great care in building their Cloud and SaaS strategy, only to have many of the benefits of flexibility and agility hampered by overlooking details in their cloud contracts. In conversations with over 200 cloud customers in 2011, key reasons include: A [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, best practices, bill of rights, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, CMO, Constellation Research, Consumer Tech, Consumerization of IT, contract negotiations, contract strategy, CTO, deployment options, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Irregular, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, R "Ray" Wang;, software as a service, software bill of rights, software contract reviews, Software Insider, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software maintenance, software ownership, software pricing, software revenue recognition rules, software trends, SoftwareInsider, Tuesday's Tip |
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 3, 2011
SuccessFactors Acquisition Puts SAP In Direct Competition With Workday And Taleo SAP (NYSE:SAP) announced its $3.4B acquisition of SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF) as it seeks to bolster its position in the Cloud and more importantly in the rapidly growing strategic HCM market. Based in San Mateo, CA, USA, SuccessFactors brings over 15 million subscription users [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, bill mcdermott, business performance management, Business suite 7, business technology, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, CubeTree, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise class, enterprise software, future of work, HCM, HR, HR Tech, Human Capital Management, Human resources, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, NYSE: SFSF, NYSE:SAP, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, sap, SAP Business By Design, SAP OnDemand Large Enterprise, SAPSFSF, social business, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Success Factors, SuccessFactors, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2011
Title: Workday Predict And Prepare 2011 Start Date: 2011-12-07 11:00 am PST End Date: 2011-12-07 12:00 pm PST Location: Webinar Link For the fourth year in a row, join the country’s top IT, HR and Talent Management analysts and consultants for their predictions of next year’s critical trends, plus their advice on how you [...]
Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, best practices, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise class, enterprise software, erp, HR, HR Tech, Human Capital Management, Human resources, next generation, Next generation apps, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS strategies, software as a service, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor events, Webinar |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2011
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Rick Nucci – Co-Founder & CTO, Dell Boomi Biography Rick is the founder and CTO of [...]
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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 [...]
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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 R "Ray" Wang on August 29, 2011
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Parker Harris, Co-Founder and Executive VP of Technology Biography Parker Harris founded salesforce.com along with [...]
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