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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 [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 16, 2012
Public Outrage Grows Over Lax Privacy Polices At Popular Social Networking Sites Recent actions by social networking leaders in the market place have brought new attention to a user’s privacy rights. Despite the fact that these sites provide a freemium service to users, abuse and arrogance of a user’s privacy rights combined with user ignorance [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2C, B2C E-commerce, best practices, Big Data, bill of rights, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Sales Officer, CHRO, CIO, collaboration software, Constellation Research, COO, customer bill of rights, Digital identity, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, early adopters, Electronic Privacy, Emerging Technologies, Engagement Apps, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, EU, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, future of work, google, GooglePlus, Identity management, linkedin, Matrix Commerce, Monday's Musings, Next Gen Customer, Privacy, Privacy Rights, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, social campaign tracking, social commerce, Social CRM, social customer insights, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, social event management, social marketing insights, Social Media, social media monitoring, social sales insights, social service, social support, social support insights, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, 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, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Success Factors, SuccessFactors, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on October 25, 2011
The Acquisition Machine Heads To The Public Cloud Users gathered at the Customer Summit 2011 at the Broadmoor Hotel woke up to the shocking announcement that Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced a $1.43B acquisition of leading SMB CRM vendor RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW) today. According to Thomas Kurian, “Oracle is moving aggressively to offer customers a [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Apps Strategy, Art Technology Group, ATG, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, CMO, Constellation Research, crm, customer engagement, Customer Experience, Customer Relationship Management, customer relationship management (CRM), customer service, customer service; -business, Customer Support, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, News Analysis, oracle, Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle Fusion Apps, Oracle Fusion Middleware, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, RightNow, RightNow Technologies, rwang0, social business, Social Business Software, Social CRM, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on July 3, 2011
Timing of Google+ Bodes Well For Enterprise Users And Google Lately, one could say Google’s been a bit absent from the social business party. The premature launch of Google Wave exposed a canvas looking for a masterpiece painting. Failing fast and learning from the Google Wave lesson, Google’s latest offering, Google+ shows promise in bringing [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, Apps Strategy, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, CoIT, collaboration, collaboration software, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise collaboration, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Facebook, Flickr, google, Google Apps Engine, Google Wave, GooglePlus, iPhone, linkedin, MySpace, News Analysis, next gen, next gen apps, next gen enterprise, next gen IT leaders, Next generation apps, Okrut, Ooovoo, PIcassa, Product Review, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, skype, slideshare, social business, Social Business Software, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, social technologies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy, Yahoo |
By R "Ray" Wang on June 13, 2011
Big Data Emerges As A Challenge In A World Of Unstructured Data Proliferation Data volumes continue to explode with a proliferation of devices, social media tools, video usage, and emerging forms of both structured and unstructured data. The rate of data explosion may be occurring faster than Moore’s Law. Organizations now face a significant challenge [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, hadoop, Informatica, information supply chain, integration, Map Reduce, master data management, mdm, middleware, middleware platforms, News Analysis, Product Review, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, social analytics, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, Social CRM, Social Media, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on May 29, 2011
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #daac11, boomi, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, Compellent, ConstellationRG, Dell, Ensw, enterprise applications, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, EqualLogic, event report, Exanet, integration, KACE Networks, Message One, Ocarina Networks, Perot Systems, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS Integration, SaaS strategies, SecureWorks, security, software as a service, Software Ecosystems, Software Insider, Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model™, SoftwareInsider, SSVE, Storage, Tech Ecosystem, The Networked Storage Company, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on April 19, 2011
Organizations Report Increase In Software Licensing Audits Across the board, the largest complaints about software vendors and their business practices have come from increasingly aggressive software auditing practices. Once thought to be a small possibility, the software vendors now wield this big stick to drive up sales and of course ensure compliance. Given the 32 [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Apps Strategy, best practices, CA, CIO, contract negotiations, contract strategy, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, Epicor, hp, ibm, Infor, Intuit, Lawson, license fees, license management, license policy, license returns, microsoft, oracle, procurement, QAD, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, Sage, sap, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software mainteance, software maintenance, software ownership, software ownership lifecycle, software pricing, SoftwareInsider, Sunguard, vendor management, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on March 14, 2011
Unsolicited Offer Marks Chuck Phillips’ First Acquisition Attempt At Infor On March 11th, St.Paul, MN, based Lawson announced that Infor and Golden Gate Capital made a $1.84B unsolicited offer. This comes after the March 8th news that Lawson retained Barclays Bank to evaluate options. An acquisition by Infor (the 3rd largest ERP vendor) and Lawson [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Carl Icahn, Charles Phillips, Chuck Phillips, enterprise applications, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, erp, George Soros, Harry Debes, Infor, Infor Global Solutions GmbH, Lawson, Lawson M3, Lawson S3, Lawson Software, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, Romesh Wadhwani, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy |
