Lots of new functionality/little elapsed time: Workday and Adaptive Planning updates
Workday and Adaptive Planning Updates For those of you defending cloud application solutions (against the on-premises fan-boys), here’s another bullet for your ammo belt: Speed. When a multi-tenant cloud vendor only has to support and regression test one version of the software, rolling out new releases is expedited. When the products are built on a [...]
2013 Roundup of Smartphone and Tablet Forecasts & Market Estimates
For many companies, getting their mobility strategies off the ground and successful is the highest priority project they have in 2013. The urgency to get their sales and consulting teams equipped with smart phone and tablet-based applications is accelerating. Pilot projects have shown mobility applications can shorten sales cycles and serve as a better sales training and management platform. Serving [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its IPO. It’s doing well, with a market cap just over $8.5 billion and a constrant stream of innovation. Lots of IT failures recently, [...]
Reading News on an iPad is Astonishly Bad UX
Hi, my name is Bob Warfield, and I am a news junkey. I subscribe to about 200 blogs in my feed reader. I alternate between my Gmail, Google Reader, and Google News when I have a spare moment of leisure, looking for something new and exciting to discover. I do this almost entirely on my [...]
iPads and Gasoline, What Line Are You Waiting In?
5 days after Hurricane Sandy New Yorkers have gone from waiting in line for the newest iPad to waiting in line for a few gallons of gasoline. A few days ago I wrote about our societal reliance on technology and the risks it imposes in the event of incapacitation. Now I see this is even [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-21
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past week: Lots of activity in the mobility world – Apple seems to have set the date for the iPad mini (this Tuesday, 23 October), Google promoting the Chromebook, rumors of new Google Nexus devices, Microsoft Windows 8 Surface tablet details announced and pre-orders [...]
MSFT loss, Changing the Rules of Engagement
What’s the world coming to? Microsoft lost money in the software business last quarter, the first loss in a decades long string of positive earnings from the world’s biggest software company. Sheesh! Yes, there were extenuating circumstances that you can read about here, but the loss signals the breadth and depth of the impact that [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-15
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: SAP posts strong results in a preview of Q2, but warn employees to cut spending so that profitability will stop rising slower than revenues. Microsoft announces Bing Fund to invest in start-ups, while cutting many jobs in their on-line business driven by Bing. Oracle’s [...]
Shifting IT delivery to tablets: The strategic issues
Tablets are likely to become the primary computing experience for workers over the next few years. What will it take to successfully shift IT delivery to these devices given the security worries, legacy IT landscape, BYOD, and other issues?
Rules and Rituals
Matt Richtel investigates the mystery of why laptops and not iPads need to be pulled out of bags for the X-Ray machine at airport security. From the New York Times What’s the distinction between the devices? Similar shapes, many similar functions, the tablet is thinner but not by much. Is the iPad a lower security [...]
