Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-30
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Microsoft gets kudos for tablets and mobile strategy. RIM does not. Microsoft does not get kudos for price paid for Yammer. Google holds I/O conference, reveals next version of Android, gives away goodies. Great tech companies to work for include Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-24
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past two weeks. Oracle America sales head leaves after trashtalking Mark Hurd and HP online. Larry buys Lanai. Oracle wins nothing in lawsuit vs Google. Oracle’s results fail to impress. BTW, @larryellison still has just one tweet … Enterprise 2.0 Gets Down to Business (SAP) “I [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-01
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week. Cloud Computing: do you have a clue? Sadly, this is typical of the ill-informed conventional wisdom you’ll hear from the likes of IBM, HP, Oracle and most parts of Microsoft, Accenture, Deloitte and the rest when discussing cloud computing. To help redress the [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-05-25
Here are some of the best stories from the Enterprise Software and Solutions world from the past week … SAP’s Platform Play: Why BI Pros Should Be Bullish Is HANA for everybody yet? Probably not—but from SAP’s messaging and during one-on-one conversations I had at the event, things are now quite clear. Sure [...]
HP’s imminent shrinkage: Meg prepares for commodity competitiveness
So for the first time since the ’08-09 crash, we’re finally starting to see the impact of a commodotizing services market, as HP makes plans to shed 30K jobs this week. HP may have had some war wounds inflicted on itself with the standardized services models of today, but there is still the opportunity [...]
Hewlett Packard and the Many Curious Paradoxes of Micro-Management
I just finished reading Fortune’s massive write up on the ills at Hewlett Packard. What an amazing story, and as I was going through it, I kept seeing the same thing repeated over and over again: Micro-management trumping Leadership and creating a disaster in its wake. Instinctively, we all know Micro-management is something bad, but [...]
Use open source platforms to find cloud computing’s energy and emissions footprint
Regular GreenMonk readers will be very aware that I am deeply skeptical about claims that Cloud Computing is Green (or even energy efficient). And that I talk about the significant carbon, water and biodiversity effects cloud computing can have. One of the biggest issues with any claims of Cloud Computing being energy efficient, or [...]
Supply Risk: HP and Hardware — Yet Another Reason to Focus on Sub-Tier Suppliers
Most of our attention around supply risk in the past few years has been diverted to deploying preemptive strategies and programs to identify, manage and mitigate supplier financial risk and to minimize the fallout from Black Swan event…
Can BPO really function in the Cloud? Join us for a Webcast on March 14
Business Platforms are supposed to represent the “fusion of the benefits provided by standard business processes, Cloud computing and SaaS in a singular managed service delivery model”. Well… you’ve heard all the hype about “Business Platforms”, now it’s time for the real talk, so please join us for our webcast on March 14th at 10:00 AM ET,
News Analysis: The Implications Of Oracle’s Acquisition Of Taleo
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 [...]
