Bring out the fact checkers
‘Tis the season for debates and fact checking statements by candidates. Not politicians, but technology vendors.
Like this one by SAP in a column titled Cloud Strategy that I saw courtesy of Jon Reed:
Workday interview: Insights from a deep enterprise cloudist
Great interview with Workday Co-CEO, Aneel Bhusri, who discusses cloud, ERP, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, NetSuite, investing, and other hot topics.
Is Salesforce Slowing Down?
I am not a financial analyst and I don’t even play one on TV. Of course, judging by the last five years’ performance of those in the financial sector I’d say there is a serious dearth of such talent. Of course, that doesn’t stop the sector from issuing reports and guidance about individual companies. Heck, [...]
Vendor Event: Workday Predict And Prepare 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 [...]
Enterprise software pivots to new stacks
Despite being unsexy in many people’s eyes, enterprise software has been getting a lot of VC loving of late — or at least, a certain type of enterprise software. Last month there was Workday’s mammoth $85 million round and the equally eye-popping $81 million raised by Box.net to pursue its enterprise market ambitions. Yesterday come [...]
ERP Redux
Yesterday’s post, “Beyond Legacy ERP” drew a lot of comments most of which went to my email rather than the comments section on the blog. As I wrote at the time, I am not an ERP expert, but I am learning. What’s interesting to me is that, beginning with the original post that I was [...]
Beyond Legacy ERP
There was a guest post on the Forbes Magazine blog last month that I can’t get out of my head: “For Enterprise IT, Time to Move Beyond SAP.” For the record, I am an ERP dilatant — I know about it but don’t follow it with the same passion that I follow CRM. And as far as SAP (NYSE: SAP) [...]
ERP’s Disruptive Moment
At Dreamforce Zuora, like many other emerging companies allied with Salesforce.com, decided to hold a user group meeting. As long as the customers jointly held by Salesforce and Zuora were in town the logic went, why not have them in for a day of education, listening and a pep talk form the boss. It was [...]
SAP Teched Las Vegas and Beyond – SAP at the Crossroads
For those outside SAP, TechEd has always been a bit impenetrable. Being first and foremost a community event, SAP TechEd is the highlight of the SAP conference circuit for those whose idea of a racy night in Vegas is watching fellow coders face off for glory at Demo Jam, even as the contest itself is [...]
News Analysis: Infor Launches New Era With Infor 10
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, [...]
