10 Ways Cloud Computing Is Revolutionizing Manufacturing
The best manufacturers I’ve visited this year all share a common attribute: they are obsessed with making themselves as easy as possible to work with from a supply chain, distribution and services standpoint. Many are evaluating cloud-based manufacturing applications including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and several have adopted cloud-based applications across their companies. With so much interest, [...]
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 [...]
Facebook Home is not these 5 Things from the Past
Facebook Home is going to change the way we live our lives on our mobile phones, perhaps. May be. May be not. I am reminded of so many attempts to: Turn eyeballs into action on PCs. Turn blank web browser homes into ad units, home pages, pre-loaded apps. Ability to read email/messages etc without starting [...]
The companies I should have paid more
Building a startup is hard and managing ops is really hard. Devops are hard and expensive. Luckily these days there are some amazing companies making it way easier to build the startup of your dreams. Frankly, I don’t think they are getting paid nearly enough while some are getting paid way too much. What apps [...]
The Internet of Things
In a world of smartphones, mifi mobile hot spots, wifi hot spots and broadband home Internet most of us live an always connected life. Smartphones are extending this connectivity around the world and into place where it would have taken…
Doing More Business with Mobile Devices
People of a certain age may not comprehend this but it’s hard to conceptualize the feeling of liberation you felt when you made your first business call from a mobile device. Suddenly there was no more returning to the office or ducking into a phone booth (remember them?) to make a call. Just whipping out [...]
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, [...]
The end of vaporware
It was a striking sight. It was end of day in last week’s Technology Summit after Workday had showed us countless demos of new functionality, when under non-disclosure they announced plans to develop a Recruiting module. It would be next-gen, not just applicant tracking, but would allow for candidate identification through traditional and social channels, [...]
Does anybody have leverage with Apple?
responds Dan Hesse of Sprint to Charlie Rose in this interview
Wow, I never thought I would hear a telecom CEO say that about any device maker. It is the new reality as I wrote in my recent book:
Prior to Apple introducing the iPhone, carriers pai…
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 [...]
