AisleBuyer: At the Intersection of Consumer and Enterprise Technology
Tweet Where Many Goliaths Have Failed, A David Comes Forward Thinking about it now, the David and Goliath metaphor may not work perfectly, but it does quickly focus this post. The enterprise world has spent untold billions of treasure on customer relationship management over the past two decades, and you have to ask to what [...]
Does Social Add Complexity or Replace It?
Listening last week to salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote address at DreamForce 2011, I started to see social and enterprise apps come together in a more meaningful integration than I had seen before. Suffice it to say that a lot of enterprise software analsysts have been very cool to the idea of the social enterprise. This is unfortunate because it [...]
Google Adwords and SEO: Beware of the Fraudsters
Most of you probably already know this, but I thought it worth mentioning here that SEO fraud appears to be increasing rapidly, along with Google Adwords fraud. Businesses across the spectrum are anxious, to say the least, to increase business. This might be one reason that the amount of daily calls, emails and other detritus [...]
Software Atomization
The first best of breed software that we helped to replace was Cullinet’s A/P system. It was 15 years ago, a number hard to believe even as I type it. The company was a Fortune 500 goliath with an enormous IT department. Their goal was to eliminate a slew of legacy applications in favor of [...]
SuiteWorld: Day 2
Let’s start with the best and work our way down: The Google Apps integration was very cool. It reminded me of a demo I saw last year of Appirio’s integration with sf.com. Both use Google gadgets, but Celigo’s integration between google and NetSuite goes much further; it’s a two way integration. You can see [...]
Day One Of NetSuite Suiteworld 2011
Some of the most interesting things I heard from Suiteworld day 1: “Let’s face it, no one wants to do accounting in the cloud, they want to do business processes.” From Zach Nelson’s morning Keynote yesterday. He’s right. Selling accounting in the cloud is silly. Selling a business process that includes vendors, customers, partners [...]
Thank You, Henry Taub
We came across several news articles this week announcing the passing of Henry Taub. Mr Taub was the founder of ADP or Automatic Data Processing, one of the world’s largest information services companies. You might not have heard of Henry Taub, and likewise you might not comprehend his impact on the information services industry. He [...]
A Common Vocabulary
Writing the OneWorld Implementation book has helped me to remember so many instances of client interactions where we talked past each other that I thought the subject worthy of a blog post. Actually, understanding each other’s language is often as difficult for an American implementation professional and business person as it is for two people [...]
My Brother-in-law in IT
I had to laugh out loud today as I caught up with an old business acquaintance, now CEO of a good sized firm, and heard the story of how the founder’s son is running the IT department. I have heard this story so many times that I asked, without really thinking about, “Why do so many [...]
FinancialForce Validates NetSuite
There, done. It had to be said and now it has been said. I no more liked saying it than you liked hearing it, but the truth will out, and now it’s done. Take a deep breath.
By not only having a financial software company write a new version of their software on the force.com platform [...]
