By R "Ray" Wang on March 20, 2013
Customer Success, Acquisition, And New Features Drive Day 1 Headlines Almost 12,000 Microsoft faithful converged in New Orleans for the flagship Dynamics event. Wayne Morris (@WayneMorrisOz), CVP kicked off the event reiterating the theme of “A World Ahead”. Meanwhile, Kirill Tatarinov (@KirillTatarinov), President of Microsoft Business Solutions Division, led the session with a series of [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Apps Strategy, Chobani, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Constellation Research, CRM, Customer Experience, customer relationship management, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, erp, event report, Great Plains, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics Convergence, MIcrosoft Dynamics CRM, MIcrosoft Dynamics ERP, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics SL, mobile, mobile enterprise, R "Ray" Wang;, ShockDoctor, social analytics, socialytics, SpaceX, user conference, user event, User Experience, vendor events, vendor strategy, Weight Watchers, WeightWatchers |
By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 4, 2012
I have waited for over a decade to see an enterprise vendor – IBM, HP, SunGard, EMC etc – detail how they would deliver to their promises of on-demand, utility, cloud computing. But they continue to persist with data centers designed during the Cold War in locations which often violate more recent tax, latency and [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, ibm, iCloud, Microsoft Azure, netsuite, OOW, oow12, oracle |
By R "Ray" Wang on July 12, 2012
Microsoft Provides The Passion And Products For Partners To Compete In A Post PC Era Microsoft kicked off its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada amidst 16,000 partners (See Figure 1). Attendees caught the latest news and product announcements while sharing new business models and products for a post PC era. Key announcements for Day [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 2012, Constellation Research, event report, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Licensing, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Partners, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft STB, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Perceptive Pixel, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Ecosystems, Software Insider, software trends, Software Vendors, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy, Windows 8, wpc12 |
By R "Ray" Wang on April 25, 2011
Amazon’s Cloud Outage Catches Most Clients Offguard The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the confidence of some executives on public cloud computing. Most notably, FourSquare, HootSuite, Reddit, and Quora publicly suffered visible performance issues. [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, Apps Strategy, backup, bill of rights, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, disaster recovery, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, Foursquare, high availability, hootsuite, IBM Blue Cloud, license management, license policy, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Private Cloud, Private Clouds, public cloud, Quora, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, Reddit, rwang0, Vendor Selection |
By Dennis Moore on April 15, 2011
Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting their money this way? And after wasting so much money with an ill-advised ERP project?!? Larry Page takes over CEO role at Google, shakes [...]
Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon.com, apple, C3, Cisco, Cloud, Dell, Epicor, google, hadoop, hp, ibm, Infor, Larry Ellison, Lawson, Marc Benioff, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, mySQL, news, NoSQL, oracle, Patent, PeopleSoft, salesforce.com, sap, Steve Ballmer, VMware, workday |
By R "Ray" Wang on April 10, 2011
Refresh Cycle Reflects Bullish Outlook By Partners and Customers Microsoft Convergence kicked off over the weekend in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia World Congress Center. With an anticipated increase in attendance, many new product announcements, and a technology refresh cycle in play, attendees seemed upbeat. The event kicked off in true tradition including the must [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, CRM, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, erp, event report, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BPOS, Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics Convergence, MIcrosoft Dynamics CRM, MIcrosoft Dynamics ERP, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Partners, Microsoft Windows Phone 7, next gen apps, next gen CIO's, next gen CIO’s, Next generation apps, partner ecosystems, partners, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS strategies, user conference, user event, User Experience, vendor events |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 2, 2011
Themes In 2010 Reflected The Buy Side Demand For Both Optimization and Innovation Technology buyers in 2010 focused most of their priorities on finding cost savings through legacy optimization, navigating a flurry of disruptive technologies, and designing/experimenting with new business model innovations. Consequently, the top 25 posts for 2010 reflected these 3 major themes: Legacy [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged activity streams, analytics, Apps Strategy, Business Analytics, business intelligence, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, Consumer Tech, contract negotiations, contract strategy, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, Epicor, Epicor 9, Legacy Optimization, license credits to new products, license fees, license management, license parking, license policy, master data management, mdm, Mergers And Acquisitions, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics, MIcrosoft Dynamics ERP, Microsoft Dynamics GP, next gen, next gen apps, next gen cio, next gen enterprise, procurement, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, Research Summary, rwang0, SaaS, salesforce.com, Scout Labs, SCRM, social business, Social Business Software, Social CRM, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, Social Media, social technologies, software as a service, software bill of rights, software contract reviews, Software Ecosystems, software escrow, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software maintenance, software pricing, thanks, Third Party Maintenance, two-tier ERP, upgrades, user strategy, Vendor Selection, vendor strategy, VMware, Web 2.0, workday |
By R "Ray" Wang on October 28, 2010
Microsoft Bolsters Developer Tools To Inspire Innovation At the October 28th, 2010 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, CEO Steve Ballmer presided over 3 key announcements that affirm the software giant’s ambitions to retain and grow the mind share and market share of worldwide developers. In fact the 3 main announcements foreshadow Microsoft’s convergence in the five [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged application development, Cloud, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, event report, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows Phone 7, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, software trends, vendor events, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on July 18, 2010
Microsoft Continues To Embrace The Cloud And Hopes Its Partners Jump In
Microsoft kicked off arguably one of the best WPC’s in history at the Washington, DC, Convention Center. From tremendous networking opportunities to keynotes from Bill Clinton, the time was well spent despite the scorching summer heat. As expected, the key theme was Cloud, [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, event report, Flickr Feed, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, partner ecosystems, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on July 17, 2010
On July 12th, 2010, Infor announced its Infor24 initiative at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). Infor24 represents the Alpharetta, GA software titan’s foray to deliver its solution offerings in the cloud and a continued bet on Microsoft for key technologies. Here’s the first take on the news and from exclusive conversations with Soma Somasundaram, [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, Infor, Infor EAM, Infor Flex, Infor Global Solutions GmbH, Infor ION, Infor Syteline, Infor XM, Infor24, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft AzurePlatform: AppFabric, Microsoft SQLAzure, News Analysis, Next generation apps, SaaS, SaaS offensive, software as a service, vendor strategy |
