By R "Ray" Wang on April 17, 2013
Constellation Certifies Vendors On How Well They Perform To The Cloud Bill Of Rights The Enterprise Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights provides a tool for clients and vendors to change the tenor of contract negotiations from user subservience to an equal and collaborative long-term partnership. This Constellation CosmosCertification for the Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights: [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 3, 2013
The Inside Story On Oracle Fusion Apps At The End of 2012 Constellation sat down with Steve Miranda, Oracle’sExecutive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product Development to discuss the state of Oracle Fusion Apps in a no-holds barred honest conversation about what’s working, what’s not, and what to look forward to in 2013. R “Ray” [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on October 8, 2012
Ignition Partners Injects $20M in Series C For Hot Cloud Integration Market On September 19th,2012, SnapLogic closed its Series C funding round. The latest funding round: Strengthens product offerings. SnapLogic offers an integration platform, integration server, integration design tool, and integration market place designed for the cloud world. With almost 100 Snaps in its appstore [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 25, 2012
Acquisition Brings A Proven Multi-Channel Cloud Based Service Offering To The Growing Mid-market Sunnyvale, CA based KANA announced on April 24, 2012 it’s acquisition of Netherlands based Trinicom, a multichannel, customer contact software provider serving over 200 companies in the BeNeLux market. Trinicom’s flagship T5 all-in solutions addresses multichannel customer service through email response management, [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on February 9, 2012
Catch my colleague Yvette Cameron’s point of view here when published. She covers Future of Work for Constellation Research, Inc. Oracle Plays Catch Up With Public Cloud Ambitions On February 9th, Oracle announced its intention to acquire Dublin, CA based Taleo for $1.9B. Taleo is a cloud based talent management software provider with 5000 customers [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, American Airlines, Apps Strategy, Bersin & Associates, best of breed, Blue Cross blue Shield, business performance management, business technology, Chief HR Officer, Chief People Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, CoIT, Conde'Nast, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, contract negotiations, contract strategy, Dell, deployment options, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, erp, future of work, hp, Hyatt, JP Morgan Chase, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, next gen, next gen apps, next generation, Next generation apps, NextGen, oracle, Oracle Fusion Apps, Oracle Public Cloud, PaaS, PeopleSoft, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, saas bigots, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, software as a service, Starbucks, Starwood, Sutter Health, Taleo, Tesora, United, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2011
SuccessFactors Acquisition Puts SAP In Direct Competition With Workday And Taleo SAP (NYSE:SAP) announced its $3.4B acquisition of SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF) as it seeks to bolster its position in the Cloud and more importantly in the rapidly growing strategic HCM market. Based in San Mateo, CA, USA, SuccessFactors brings over 15 million subscription users [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, bill mcdermott, business performance management, Business suite 7, business technology, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, CubeTree, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise class, enterprise software, future of work, HCM, HR, HR Tech, Human Capital Management, Human resources, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, NYSE: SFSF, NYSE:SAP, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, sap, SAP Business By Design, SAP OnDemand Large Enterprise, SAPSFSF, social business, Success Factors, SuccessFactors, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2011
Title: Workday Predict And Prepare 2011 Start Date: 2011-12-07 11:00 am PST End Date: 2011-12-07 12:00 pm PST Location: Webinar Link For the fourth year in a row, join the country’s top IT, HR and Talent Management analysts and consultants for their predictions of next year’s critical trends, plus their advice on how you [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 5, 2011
Annual Analyst Conference Highlights The New Dell Strategy Dell held their annual analyst conference at The W Austin from May 3rd to May 4th, 2011. The event featured multiple sessions including: Services and Solutions For The Vitual Era Data Center and Information Management – Trends & Business Issues – moderated by Brad Anderson Senior Vice [...]
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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 [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 3, 2011
SAP’s Sales OnDemand Strategy Reveals A Longer Term Product And Cloud Strategy In an exclusive briefing on February 24th with SAP’s Executive Vice President of Line Of Business Applications, John Wookey, he provided fresh insight into the new product design and Cloud philosophy at SAP. This pre-CeBit announcement coincided with the SAP Analyst Day in [...]
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