A subdued SuccessConnect
Vegas has way of making people, how do you say it, exuberant. On one day there was the CHRO of SAP, Stefan Reis presenting to the press corps about moving his workforce systems to the cloud to manage the giant 90,000+ global employee base. The next day he is in god-awful trousers with planet Mars […]
What is the Difference Between an Application and a Platform and Why it Matters?
“Platform in King’s Cross train station under an arched glass roof” by Michał Parzuchowski Practically every SaaS vendor talks about their “platform”. Truth be told, most SaaS vendors are not platforms but merely providers of feature-rich applications. Why does this matter? Simply put, without an extensible, open platform, it will become increasingly difficult for application-only […]
What All Companies Can Learn from Pluralsight’s Massively Successful IPO
By nearly every measure — stock appreciation, brand awareness, business execution — Pluralsight’s IPO and subsequent first quarter results were nothing less than spectacular. Just look at the numbers…the stock is up 120% since going public on May 17, the company trades at over 20x revenues (nearly double the multiple of the mighty Workday), and […]
Global State Of Enterprise Analytics, 2018
71% of enterprises globally predict their investments in data and analytics will accelerate in the next three years and beyond. 57% of enterprises globally have a Chief Data Officer, a leadership role that is pivotal in helping to democratize data and analytics across any organization. 52% of enterprises are leveraging advanced and predictive analytics today […]
10 Ways To Improve Cloud ERP With AI And Machine Learning
Capitalizing on new digital business models and the growth opportunities they provide are forcing companies to re-evaluate ERP’s role. Made inflexible by years of customization, legacy ERP systems aren’t delivering what digital business models need today to scale and grow. Legacy ERP systems were purpose-built to excel at production consistency first at the expense of […]
The end of Cloud history?
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, then deputy director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff (he has since taught at Johns Hopkins and Stanford among other institutions) predicted the fall of Communism and the world beyond in an article titled “The end of history”. In 1992 he elaborated his thoughts in a book. His view was optimistic – […]
Oracle Soar: The Last (Application) Upgrade you will ever do
In 1991, I was assigned a team at PwC to build something called “2O to 3O”. Dun and Bradstreet Software, especially its McCormack and Dodge (M&D) unit, was an important practice area for PwC. M&D had released a new General Ledger 3.0, a product with a multi-dimensional code block and a number of other new […]
Workday continues its acquisition trajectory
Many companies make acquisitions to diversify into new markets. Others do it to acquire revenues and customer bases. Workday has been consistent in the last few years to acquire analytical capabilities and talent especially in its back office focus areas – finance and HR. So, its announcement today to acquire Adaptive Insights (and Rallyteam last week) does […]
How SAP is getting its SexyBack
During a break in his concert at SapphireNow, Justin Timberlake took a tray full of shot glasses to every one on stage. It took him a while to hand them out as he said – “we have as many of on stage as there are in the audience”. Those are his Tennessee Kids, a wide range […]
Tis the season for software lawsuits
By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 16, 2018
Oracle, SAP and Workday have all been hit with lawsuits in the last few weeks for very different reasons as I describe below. But first a preface – lawsuits draw a lot of attention but it’s usually wrong to extrapolate too much from them. Couple of perspectives on that: – A vendor once asked their […]
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