Lessons From Crowdfunding In The UK With @Crowdcube
Toronto is a hotbed of tech startups – ranked 4th best in the world (not sure what “best” really means in this context) – and innovative startups need innovative investment methods. Today’s half-day Technicity conference, sponsored by IT World Canada, is focused on the topic of innovating investment with crowdfunding, specifically looking at legalizing equity [...]
YamJam12
I spent the last couple of days attending Yammer’s first ever user conference in San Francisco along with an engaged set of Yammer customers and partners. The event had a lot of energy and particularly for a "1st" version, was…
Projects made Social: Kona by Deltek
I spent the better part of last week in Nashville attending Deltek Insight, its annual user conference (more on Insight in a follow on post). I had a chance to catch up on a new product development project that I’ve…
Twitter is Broken?
Awhile back some folks from the SAP community decided it was a good idea to have a conversation around the topic of Twitter, and whether it was “broke”. Now due to a slight snafu with time zones and scheduling I … Read More →
A Racap of Oracle OpenWorld 2012
It was in several ways a very different Oracle message at OpenWorld last week, as the company has rapidly moved over the past year to build out a series of offerings that address what IDC calls the four pillars; social,…
TIBCO Corporate and Technology Analyst Briefing at TUCON2012
Murray Rode, COO of TIBCO, started the analyst briefings with an overview of technology trends (as we heard this morning, mobile, cloud, social, events) and business trends (loyalty and cross-selling, cost reduction and efficiency gains, risk management and compliance, metrics and analytics) to create the four themes that they’re discussing at this conference: digital customer [...]
Why the social enterprise matters… Yarmis brings his thoughts back from Dreamforce
We can’t understate the importance of social media on the enterprise. Hey – we bet our whole business model on it! And that’s why we hired one of the best thinkers in the social sphere to help us understand how social will impact business processes and how enterprises will operate in this new social world [...]
Can SAP Really Get Social This Time?
Before digging into the analysis of where Salesforce is and where it is going, and how the message at DreamForce was — what’s the word I am looking for… no, I won’t give it away yet (got a good analogy to introduce you to it, trust me). Anyways, before doing that – I want to [...]
Applications that are Social
I’m spending the week at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference (more on that in a post coming shortly) and at the partner keynote on Tuesday I watched a product demo that got me thinking about this concept that I wrote about a…
Sense and Respond and the New Way of Selling
Okay, I started this out with a lie, this isn’t a new way to sell at all. The sense and respond approach to selling is as old as business itself. Think about an old fashion "mom and pop" business, it…
