Zach Nelson: A Decade in the Clouds
Zach Nelson is a really interesting tech executive. He has a wide rolodex (over 20 pages in my last book, The New Polymath came from interviews with Zach and several others he introduced me to), diverse interests (numerous relationships with the Oakland Athletics baseball team, part owner of the Omaha Nighthawks football team, golfer), and [...]
Bring out the fact checkers
‘Tis the season for debates and fact checking statements by candidates. Not politicians, but technology vendors.
Like this one by SAP in a column titled Cloud Strategy that I saw courtesy of Jon Reed:
NetSuite OneWorld Implementation Released!
The NetSuite Implementation Book is Published Nearly 400 pages of NetSuite, from basic questions of what you need to know about NetSuite’s place in the ERP/CRM market, to how to get started with the account setup, and details about how to setup specific business models work in OneWorld; I packed a lot into these 400 [...]
What a Large Enterprise CIO Would Think of the SAP Cloud Position
I’m well into the second day of the SAP Analyst Summit. SAP executives have been pounding the following talking points: - We’ve caught up on the cloud! - We have a lot of on-demand apps! - We can’t wait to cross-sell these to our client base! - We will continue to build more on-demand apps [...]
ERP Redux
Yesterday’s post, “Beyond Legacy ERP” drew a lot of comments most of which went to my email rather than the comments section on the blog. As I wrote at the time, I am not an ERP expert, but I am learning. What’s interesting to me is that, beginning with the original post that I was [...]
Cloud-y Days Ahead
Good to be a Cloud Software Shareholder (but not a customer!) Any doubts anyone had about the legitimacy of cloud application software should have been laid to rest the last few weeks. When Oracle weighs in to buy RightNow as part of a larger acquisition strategy to acquire cloud software products, then the landscape of [...]
Robert Scoble (still) doesn’t understand enterprise software
Yet again, we open the thorny debate of enterprise vs. consumer software.
RightNow buy opens Oracle’s SaaS gambit
When Oracle announced its new Public Cloud earlier this month, it promised a “complete suite” of applications ranging across financials, human capital, supply chain, procurement, CRM and much more. At the time it seemed the applications would be from Oracle’s existing portfolio, but today a new strategy became clear. With the acquisition of early SaaS [...]
Enterprise software: The Dalai Lama / Desmond Tutu connection
Enterprise software is changing for the better and it’s about time!
Moneyball and NetSuite
Moneyball is a good movie and I recommend it. The tie in with the software industry is NetSuite whose logo is all over the dugout and prominent in several scenes. The central character of the drama is Okland A’s general manager Billy Bean and most of us know his story about actually using statistics [...]
