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Why midmarket customers love Workday
Since its early days, I have heard Workday executives talk about having a highly scalable cloud so large companies would feel comfortable moving off their on-premise finance and human resources applications. So, it is not surprising that multinational customers like United Technologies can consolidate over 100 payroll systems across 80 countries on Workday, and many […]
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Why have so many sourcing advisors failed with automation?
Remember when sourcing advisors has become the “new analysts” and dominated so many outsourcing discussions? Remember when it was the norm for clients to bring in the sourcing specialists whenever they needed a deal done, not only to get a good price, but also to make sure they selected the right partner and had a […]
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Promise Phelon, CEO @ TapInfluence: Venture Backed CEO: Lessons Learned Inside and Outside of Silicon Valley (Video + Transcript)
In the future, we’re going to be seeing a lot more Silicon Valley companies employ people that live outside of the Valley. Promise Phelon, CEO of TapInfluence, is living this reality running the company from Colorado…a challenge she was more than happy to take on. So what’s it like to run a SaaS startup in […]
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Kubernetes for On Prem Simplicity – Download and Go
I recently attended an IBM update on its analytics business. One of the core themes was simplicity. As we all know enterprise products generally, and IBM products specifically, are not known for their ease of use. So when I heard that IBM middleware had a new approach – dubbed Download and Go – so […]
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One Simple Rule on When to Build a “Custom” Feature
“Custom” features … I feel this is perhaps the point founders get the worst advice of all. Especially from VCs, B2C folks, and folks that have never sold bigger deals and into the enterprise. One-off customization per se is bad. This is SaaS, not a services business. But Being paid a lot to build something […]
Blueprint for Growing Traffic Each Stage of a Website’s Life
Every website owner wants to know the best way to grow their website’s traffic. But here’s the thing–every website is different. Not all of the differences matter, but one difference makes a huge impact. That’s the lifecycle stage your website is in. Depending on the stage, your goals, strategy, and steps to grow are different. […]
How GitLab abandoned the Unix Philosophy
(i) Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features. (ii) Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don’t clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. […]
So about OpenWhisk progress. What’s up with serverless frameworks
It’s way too early to say whether OpenWhisk, IBM’s open source serverless implementation, will be a breakthrough success. But the project has a few new proof points in place that it didn’t just a couple of months ago that are worth noting. One of the key issues with any open source project seeking commercial […]
A third of enterprises are making significant investments in RPA
Tired of the RPA hyperbole? Well, you’d better get used to it continuing, as key industries have already made significant short-medium term commitments: Our 2017 State of Operations and Outsourcing study with KPMG, covering 454 major enterprises, shows the hi-tech and financial services industries leading the way with, respectively, 53% and 44% already making significant […]
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How Quora Launched My Website Traffic [It’s a Good Source!]
How Quora Launched My Website Traffic [It’s a Good Source!] 3.5 (70%) 2 votes Is Quora a good source of traffic for a new website? Heck yeah! Woohoo! Can’t say enough good things! Folks, it’s the #1 traffic source for my new web site I have discovered so far by a wide margin. I wrote […]
The Strategy Compiler: How To Avoid the “Great” Strategy You Couldn’t Execute
Few phrases bother me more than this one: “I know it didn’t work, but it was a great strategy. We just didn’t have the resources to execute it.” Huh. Wait minute. If you didn’t have the resources to execute it, then it wasn’t a great strategy. Maybe it was a great strategy for some other […]
Oracle: Does good luck also come in threes?
1. Oracle does very well in the premier version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises”. Only Oracle’s ERP cloud and Workday are in the Leader’s quadrant, and Oracle’s NetSuite subsidiary just barely missed getting there. 2. Oracle had a very impressive cloud performance in […]
Maybe this will spur SAP?
I honestly cannot remember the last time SAP showed in the lower left quadrant – for niche players – in a Gartner MQ. But in the latest MQ for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises” , it does. That has to be a concern because SAP has been positioning S/4HANA, […]
Episode 29 – The Internet of Things and customer use cases and success stories
SAP’s Nils Herzberg and I were on an ASUG webinar earler this year where he outlined some great use cases SAP’s customers have for the internet of Things. Nils had some great examples, but the webcast was limited to ASUG members only, so I asked him to come on the IoT Heroes show to share the […]
European Founders: A Fundraising Primer with Front, Automile, and Algolia (Video + Transcript)
Being an American founder in the Valley is difficult enough, but as a European founder, what unique concerns do you have to think about while running a company and trying to scale it? Teddie Wardi, Partner at Atomico, leads this session with Mathilde Collin, CEO of Front App; Jens Nylander, CEO of Automile.com; and Nicolas […]
What is GraphQL and why should you care? The future of APIs
“We’re going GraphQL, we’re replacing everything with GraphQL” Sid Sijbrandij, GitLab founder and CEO GraphQL is an open source technology created by Facebook that is getting a fair bit of attention of late. It is set to make a major impact on how APIs are designed. As is so often the case with these […]
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Featured Posts
- Don’t confuse chatbots with artificial intelligence
- IBM’s cognitive, AI and ML with @bigdata_paulz at BigDataTO
- How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Enterprise Software In 2017
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- Minimum Viable Architecture – good enough is good enough in an enterprise
- Artificial intelligence and privacy engineering: Why it matters NOW
Startup Lessons
- How To Use Evergreen Traffic Drivers So Your Blog Grows While You Sleep
- Blocking the End Run: Eleven Words to Reduce Politics in Your Organization
- The 10-Year (And Longer) Customer
- SaaStr Podcast #126: Jeetu Patel, SVP of Platform & Chief Strategy Officer @ Box On Why You Must Only Monetize To 30% of Your Value
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Technology / Software
- Episode 28 – The Internet of Things, SAP Leonardo, and Sapphirenow reviewed by Diginomica’s Jon Reed (aka @jonerp)
- The race to own the pipeline. Atlassian ain’t playin–introducing DevOps Marketplace
- Augmented reality: Field service proof points in the enterprise
- On process tool and people shelfware. How are we going to achieve escape velocity for modern software development?
- The Robotic Process Automation market will reach $443 million this year
- “Serverless and the the death of devops”. Can you not?
