Big data ascends the learning curve
With several big data-themed events coming up this month — among them the global multi-city Big Data Week series — the level of social media chatter around this topic is likely to surge. One vendor that’s well placed to track that buzz is DataSift, whose stock-in-trade is analyzing Twitter data to identify trends. In preparation [...]
CRM Watchlist 2013 Winners: Variety is the spice of business
We’re heading into the homestretch. Let’s see what this year’s highest scorer Blackbaud, NexJ, Coveo and Thunderhead.com have to say when it comes to impact.
CRM Watchlist 2013 Winners: Social is as Social Does the Mainstream, Part 2
Last Thursday, I reviewed Attensity, Gigya and Jive. This week we complete the circle with the final three social mavens – Get Satisfaction, Lithium, Nimble. Again, I’m a bit tough but I do think a lot of these companies and they have been impact playe…
There Are No Stars On A Failed Project!
There was quite a lot of discussion on Twitter and in the blogosphere earlier this week about a major payroll project disaster plaguing the State of California government. That discussion broadened to include tales of more failed payroll as well as ERP and various other large-scale systems projects. If you want to immerse yourself in tales of such disasters, [...]
CRM Watchlist 2013: Sweetest Suites Part 2 of 3
We are in the midst of a roll. Today we look at award winners Oracle and SAP, two powerful and vexing companies who could own the world or be schooled by it. 2013, I’m betting on ownership.
SAP cloudwashes its image
Watching the playoffs this weekend, I chuckled when I saw SAP is the NFL’s Official Cloud Software Solutions provider. Not sure how much it cost SAP but they are clearly eager to be considered “cloudy”. Since the revenues show a tiny cloud profile (prelim 2012 results show cloud revenues at EU 270 m in IFRS, [...]
SAP and HANA: 5 Points of advice for CIOs
SAP’s future is a combination of hardware and software, called HANA (high performance analytical appliance), which can process large volumes of data orders of magnitude faster than anything else the company offers. The potential applications of HANA are numerous and include examples such as: Real-time adjustments of airline ticket prices based on moment-by-moment shifts [...]
ERP Prediction for 2013: The Customer Takes Control
From the obvious to the outrageous, enterprise software predictions often span a wide spectrum at the beginning of every year. In enterprise software in general and ERP specifically, there are many safe harbors to dock predictions in, from broad industry consolidation to Oracle buying more companies. Or the inexorable advances of cloud computing and SaaS [...]
ERP, RIP? Cloud financials and revenue management in 2013
What’s the future for ERP in the cloud, if it has one at all? I heard a disarming admission last summer from the CEO of a company that aggressively markets itself as “the #1 cloud ERP software suite.” NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson told a gathering of industry analysts at the company’s SuiteWorld 2012 conference that [...]
Enterprise Software the secular trends
This time of the year, many folks like to look at the year back or the year forward. This old fart has been in and around enterprise software for three decades so I like to take a somewhat longer look into the past and the future. Here are five of the many trend lines I [...]
