SAP Teched Las Vegas and Beyond – SAP at the Crossroads
For those outside SAP, TechEd has always been a bit impenetrable. Being first and foremost a community event, SAP TechEd is the highlight of the SAP conference circuit for those whose idea of a racy night in Vegas is watching fellow coders face off for glory at Demo Jam, even as the contest itself is [...]
SAP HANA Makes Progress and Threatens Oracle
SAP HANA has garnered a great deal of attention in recent weeks and months. For an overview of the technology and its potential, please check my recent blog on the subject, “The real (potential) impact of SAP HANA.” Since that blog was written, there has been a great deal of news in the SAP HANA [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2011, July and August
July and August Enterprise Software and Solutions news. Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the months of July and August: Apple became the world’s most valuable company, but Steve Jobs resigned due to health issues. Meanwhile, Google bought Motorola’s cell phone business. Salesforce.com promoted its message of Cloud, [...]
CRM Idol 2011: The Reviews Continue to Roll #4A
The first round of CRM Idol 2011 – The Americas is now officially over with the EMEA competition looming. We have completed the demos/reviews of 39 companies for the Americas (we lost one due to personal reasons at the last minute) and about 25 of the reviews are completed and published. You’ve seen 14 of [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Summaries, June 2011
June has been a busy month in the Enterprise Software and Solutions (http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23EnSW). Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the month of June: Lots o’ buzz about SAP HANA and how it can transform enterprise software … Lots o’ legal action around Oracle and frenemies, especially Google and [...]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business And Cloud Computing
Executive Profile Series Delivers The Inside View On Disruptive Technologies Starting this week, we’ll be kicking off an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing and Social Business. The interviews should provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. The transcript of the 30 minute [...]
Oracle: Embrace the Choice
Steve Miranda, SVP used those words in his keynote yesterday as Oracle rolled out its more evolved cloud messaging at its Collaborate User conference in Orlando. I expect Oracle marketing to emphasize the choice theme a lot more rather than its hostile “cloud is fashion du jour” or confusing “cloud in a box” messages of [...]
Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2011-03-15
Enterprise news and headlines, first half of March 2011 iPad 2. SAP BI 4. Lawson is up for sale. Larry gets richer. HP launches a new strategy. Potential #Lawson acquisition – How it could affect you Software companies come and go but software products last forever Chuck Phillips and #Infor Offer $1.84 Billion for #Lawson; [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-02
Enterprise news and headlines, February 2011 SAP and Oracle still haven’t settled the TomorrowNow lawsuit, SAP introduces ByDesign 2.6 including SDK, Gideon Gartner explains the development of the Gartner research process, Obama visits Silicon Valley, Nokia abandons its Symbian platform for Windows Phone, IT jobs recovery begins, OpenOffice gets forked, more evidence that Google Android [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-01-31
Enterprise news and headlines, second half of January 2011 Salesforce.com takes it to a new level with Super Bowl ads, SAP and Microsoft reposition themselves for the cloud – while juggling execs and responsibilities, Microsoft sues former employees and their new employers, Oracle raises the ire of the open source community, Microsoft and SAP deliver [...]
