So What’s Up with Oracle Cloud?
I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the sky tumbling down, a’tumbling down I caught up with the Oracle Cloud team recently at the Electricity Showrooms in London. It was interesting to see what’s up. […]
Trailhead Matrix
Salesforce finished up the second quarter with a strong showing at its developer conference in San Francisco, TrailheaDX roughly quadrupling last year’s attendance and flooding its developers with new technology. Over the last few years the company has built out a multi-dimensional matrix of product offerings that include CRM components like SFA and customer service, […]
On data value, open source telemetry, Kite, Microsoft and .NET Core
It’s now pretty widely accepted that Microsoft has open source religion. The company has embraced open source as a better way of working. But on the data side, it’s actually going further than most open source communities expect or demand. Check out this statement What we’ve learned from .NET Core SDK Telemetry. “As an […]
Reasoning in CRM
It gives some measure of how seriously we take AI today that I went to two conferences last week and sat through two panel sessions on the subject. At CRM Evolution, I was part of the discussion in a breakfast session Paul Greenberg organizes each year, then I flew to Las Vegas for the Oracle […]
Why now why microservices why not SOA?
My Stephen colleague published an interesting post The Difference Between SOA and Microservices Isn’t Size. In it he argues that developer led adoption of technology – the new kingmaker thesis – is why microservices are different from SOA. Apart from being made to feel old – we now live in a world where SOA can […]
New accounting rules change subscriptions
CFOs have a new 800-pound gorilla sitting in the corner, as if they needed another one. Actually, the really lucky ones who oversee operations in Europe and the U.S. will have two. ASC 606 and IFRS 15 are new accounting rules that describe in great detail how subscription vendors should recognize beginning in December 2018 […]
SAP Smooth and Relaxed?
Let me start off by saying I am really pleased I went to SapphireNow this year. I saw what I called the “dawn of intelligent applications” with Leonardo. I liked CEO Bill McDermott promising to do more for customers about toxic contract terms. I liked that the partner booths appeared much smaller than few Sapphires ago – […]
Ecosystem two dot oh
Salesforce announced significant enhancements to its AppExchange Partner Program earlier in May including a $100 million Salesforce Platform Fund to encourage developers of AI-driven solutions as well as changes to its partner business model. Salesforce was arguably the first kid on the block with a partner program of this kind in which buyers could access […]
On Pervasive Encryption and GDPR
How much of your personal data is encrypted? Is your hard drive encrypted? Do you know? Only if you caught WannaCry, am I right? How about your corporate data? Is that encrypted? Do you know? How would you go about finding out? Should you care? We spend so much time on the Internet these […]
The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops
“All this fuss over nothing. All this searching for something, all this reinventing the wheel, all this searching for something, that’s not real” The Wheel, SOHN 2017 I’ve had a riff for a while about Developer Time To Suck, the half life of a product or project before developers decide it is time to […]
