Oracle Acquires Taleo (Resistance is Futile)
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, I am not sure, but this is what happens when I don’t have time to write:-) If you are in Enterprise Software, you know what’s coming at you … resistance is futile. Now, for the real news on Oracle’s acquisition of Taleo, I refer [...]
The cloud is forked
Enterprises are adopting two types of cloud. One is less risky but inherently flawed. The other offers greater rewards but very few so far have succeeded with it
A Look Back at Our 2011 Predictions
We’re putting the finishing touches on our 2012 predictions, so look for that post in the next week or so, but in the mean time, and in the spirit of accountability and openness, I decided to take a few minutes…
Emptoris, IBM, Smart Commerce and Beyond — Thawing Out the Dim Sum or Something Fresh?
Sometimes when markets move fast, you’ve got to take calls in uncomfortable spots — literally, physically and metaphorically. Such was the case with the analyst briefing following IBM’s announced acquisition plans for Emptoris. I happ…
The Next Generation Enterprise Platform
Now that I’ve had a a few weeks since Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference to think more about Salesforce’s new positioning around social enterprise I’m starting to put something together around enterprise platforms that hadn’t occurred to me. Taking some of the…
Momentum for Enterprise Mobile Apps – Workday, Salesforce.com and Box.net
Mobile is fast becoming one of the key ways that many employees choose to do work. Tablet computing devices are proving to be very flexible and functional for mobile workers and open up a much broader set of capabilities that could be accessed on the larger form factor. The limiting factor, at least from the [...]
Dell on the path to being more enterprise-y – Day One of the Dell Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era Analyst Event
Yesterday was the first day of the Dell Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era analyst event, nicely for me, in Austin. While there’s a well known consumer and server side to Dell, much of their future-looking life tied up on growing their “enterprise” credentials and offerings. Rather than just selling hardware, Dell wants to [...]
Sorting out “cloud security”
What people fear is The Fear of the New – The Unknown. They think something about cloud computing is wildly different – more than likely, it’s about exposing your technical debt in security, your current weaknesses, not introducing new problems.
Private cloud discredited, part 2
I wrote part 1 of this post last October, highlighting a Microsoft white paper that convincingly established the economic case for multi-tenant, public clouds over single-enterprise, private infrastructures. Part 2 would wait, I wrote then, for “the other shoe still waiting to drop … a complete rebuttal of all the arguments over security, reliability and [...]
Consolidation in the Social Business Market Continues: Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6
Earlier today Salesforce.com announced its agreement to acquire socialytics software vendor Radian6 for a total of $326M in cash and stock. This acquisition continues the expansion of Salesforce.com’s goal of gaining share in the social business market. This acquisition comes…
