Myths of the Headless Company
In the past year or so, two of our competitors have abruptly transitioned their CEOs and both have perpetuated a lot of mythology about what happens and/or will happen in such transitions. As someone who’s run two startups as CEO for more than a combined ten years, been the “new guy” CEO twice after such transitions, sat […]
Commoditizing software
For over 50 years, the IT industry has followed a well-known script associated with emerging and evolving paradigms. First a product or category is introduced, then it gains wide market acceptance (or dies on the vine) followed by a long period when vendors and customers seek out ever more efficient ways to produce the thing. […]
Improving Corporate Planning through Insight Generation
I want to take a quick breather from writing about corporate innovation and return to another topic of this blog: big data and insight as a service. Host Analytics, one of my portfolio companies, recently completed a $25M financing round. Host Analytics offers a cloud-based Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Suite that streamlines a corporation’s planning, […]
The Week of May 12th, 2014 Is One Of The Busiest In Enterprise Software Conferences
Ten Enterprise Software Events To Check Out And Follow The Week of May 12th, 2014 The Monday after Mother’s day was traditionally the week of the America’s SAP User Group and SAP’s big show, SAPPHIRENOW. However, this year the 20,000 plus attendee and over 250 partner sponsored show moved to June 2nd in order to […]
Bye-Bye Spreadsheets – Hello In-Memory Cloud Financial Tools
Intervention program for spreadsheet addicts: The key points Businesses are rebounding but Finance/Accounting groups getting no new headcount post-2008 Big changes in financial/managerial reporting tools are here New technology leaders well on the way Yet, the crack cocaine of accountants, spreadsheets, still has a strong appeal Challenge to businesses will be to accept all new […]
