SAP and SuccessFactors- buying the past or the future, the corporation or the human?
When news first rolled in, back in December, that SAP was going to acquire SuccessFactors my first reaction was – makes sense, that brings them some much-needed scale, with 15k customers and the potential for volume economics. And of course an aggressive sales force that lives and breathes cloud deals. But then a week or [...]
Robert Scoble ko gussa kyon aata hai
With due apologies to my non-Hindi speaking readers. A Bollywood film with a similar title just fit so nicely. It means “Why is Robert Scoble so angry?” And boy is he angry. A couple of days back, Robert Scoble, who hopefully needs no introduction to readers of this blog, posted a rant on the usability [...]
Robert Scoble (still) doesn’t understand enterprise software
Yet again, we open the thorny debate of enterprise vs. consumer software.
Towards Effective Corporate Communications: Let Your Engineers do the Talking
One of the common urban myths about software developers and engineers is that they are poor communicators. While there are of course Aspergers types in tech, and some developers that just like to keep their heads down, just as there are in the broader population… spend ten minutes on the web and you can see [...]
