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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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged application development, Apps Strategy, B2B Integration, Big Data, boomi, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, CoIT, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, data integration, Dell, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, Emerging Technologies, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, Executive Profiles, Forbes, integration, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider |
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 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). [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #DF11, #socialenterprise, Apps Strategy, CIO, CMO, Customer Experience, customer experience management, Customer Relationship Management, customer relationship management (CRM), customer service, Customer Support, e20, e2conf, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise class, enterprise collaboration, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, HCM, HR, HR Tech, Human Capital Management, Human resources, innovation, marketing, Marketing Automation, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, PLM, product lifecycle, project based solutions, projects, Public relations, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, sales, sales force automation, service, socbiz, social analytics, social business, Social Business Software, 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 |
By R "Ray" Wang on August 3, 2011
Summit Brings A Cadre Of Thought Leaders To User Group Attendees The SAP Australian User’s Group held their annual summit once again at the Sydney Convention Centre in Darling Harbour from August 2 to August 4th. With a record 650 attendees, the keynotes covered many of the hot topics about SAP ownership, road maps, and [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analytics, Apps Strategy, ASUG, australia, Australian SAP User Group, BI, Bridgette Chambers, Business Analytics, Business Objects, ByD, Christian Thompson, CIO, CITIC Pacific Mining, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, erp, event report, Fonterra, Graham Robinson, ibm, Jeff Word, John Kelvie, John Moy, Keith Murray, Malcolm Humphires, Paul Hawking, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, sap, SAP Australian User Group, SAP Hana, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Tony de Thomasi, user conference, user event, user group event, user group events, user groups |
By R "Ray" Wang on July 3, 2011
Timing of Google+ Bodes Well For Enterprise Users And Google Lately, one could say Google’s been a bit absent from the social business party. The premature launch of Google Wave exposed a canvas looking for a masterpiece painting. Failing fast and learning from the Google Wave lesson, Google’s latest offering, Google+ shows promise in bringing [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, Apps Strategy, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, CoIT, collaboration, collaboration software, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise collaboration, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Facebook, Flickr, google, Google Apps Engine, Google Wave, GooglePlus, iPhone, linkedin, MySpace, News Analysis, next gen, next gen apps, next gen enterprise, next gen IT leaders, Next generation apps, Okrut, Ooovoo, PIcassa, Product Review, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, skype, slideshare, social business, Social Business Software, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy, Yahoo |
By R "Ray" Wang on June 20, 2011
Different Flavors Of Real-Time Result In Significant Implications. Many pundits, research insight folks, bloggers, and hand wavers keep talking about the need for real time in social business, analytics, mobile, and other disruptive technologies. Given the volume of data, bandwidth constraints, and magnitude of business processes to be supported, is the notion of real time [...]
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