AisleBuyer: At the Intersection of Consumer and Enterprise Technology
Tweet Where Many Goliaths Have Failed, A David Comes Forward Thinking about it now, the David and Goliath metaphor may not work perfectly, but it does quickly focus this post. The enterprise world has spent untold billions of treasure on customer relationship management over the past two decades, and you have to ask to what [...]
Google Adwords and SEO: Beware of the Fraudsters
Most of you probably already know this, but I thought it worth mentioning here that SEO fraud appears to be increasing rapidly, along with Google Adwords fraud. Businesses across the spectrum are anxious, to say the least, to increase business. This might be one reason that the amount of daily calls, emails and other detritus [...]
SuiteWorld: Day 2
Let’s start with the best and work our way down: The Google Apps integration was very cool. It reminded me of a demo I saw last year of Appirio’s integration with sf.com. Both use Google gadgets, but Celigo’s integration between google and NetSuite goes much further; it’s a two way integration. You can see [...]
Day One Of NetSuite Suiteworld 2011
Some of the most interesting things I heard from Suiteworld day 1: “Let’s face it, no one wants to do accounting in the cloud, they want to do business processes.” From Zach Nelson’s morning Keynote yesterday. He’s right. Selling accounting in the cloud is silly. Selling a business process that includes vendors, customers, partners [...]
A Common Vocabulary
Writing the OneWorld Implementation book has helped me to remember so many instances of client interactions where we talked past each other that I thought the subject worthy of a blog post. Actually, understanding each other’s language is often as difficult for an American implementation professional and business person as it is for two people [...]
Chicken Around the World
Every once in a while I write a post that’s crazier than most. These normally happen late at night when my internal defenses have given way to a glass of wine. This post is along those lines. The basic question that I’ll try to answer is “Will the Cloud and SaaS save the current roster of Enterprise [...]
FinancialForce Validates NetSuite
There, done. It had to be said and now it has been said. I no more liked saying it than you liked hearing it, but the truth will out, and now it’s done. Take a deep breath.
By not only having a financial software company write a new version of their software on the force.com platform [...]
Integration as a Service and the SaaS Network Effect
Brian Sommer at Software and Services Safari has an excellent article today which I have summed up in the title. My takeaway is simply that as cloud based software services open integrations to other clouds and manage those integrations, they multiply the power of their individual clouds and create a computing environment that the on-premise [...]
No Good Turn Goes Unnoticed
Image via Wikipedia Recently one of our NetSuite clients called with a big problem. They are continuing operations in the UK, but the US operations are being put on hold as they wait out this ugly recession. The US ops run on NetSuite and they needed to trim costs as much as possible while keeping [...]
Ok, Who cut my brake cable?
Like one of those old TV police shows where the preferred method of killing your enemy was to cut the brake cable on their car, I awoke yesterday to a snapped Emergency brake cable on my vehicle. Could not therefore release the emergency brake and had to have the car towed over to my mechanic at [...]
