By R "Ray" Wang on May 10, 2019
PSA, Subscription Billing Power Customer Centric ERP Almost 600 customers, partners, and influencers joined the FinancialForce team in Las Vegas. May 7th to 9th, to experience the latest in professional services automation (PSA) and customer-centric ERP. CEO and President, Tod Nielsen, kicked off its user conference at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 8, 2019
Rimini Street recently conducted a survey of Oracle customers. Oracle and Rimini have long been in litigation, so I would read the results with a nuanced viewpoint, but it does not paint the picture of a very happy Oracle Nation. As an analyst, I am particularly interested in products and competitive positioning. One of the more […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 4, 2019
Organizations Move Beyond The Post-Digital Era I am consciously scaring you into existence. The disruption ahead is not a fantasy. When I founded Constellation Research and then wrote the best-selling book, Disrupting Digital Business, we stood at the dawn of a major shift in business models and disruptive technologies that powered what we coined digital […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 1, 2019
kept thinking of Southwest Airlines while I was at the Workday Innovation Summit in CA last week. I had read this tribute to the legendary founder, Herb Kelleher on the flight over and it reminded me how revered he was – like Dave Duffield of Workday is in HCM circles. Then, a walk down memory lane took […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on April 15, 2019
Ray Lane, a top-notch tech executive and investor over decades, said this about my new book “Don’t be fooled by the title—the book is not just about SAP. It’s about drama in enterprise computing.” I then used “drama” in the title of my recent ZDNet guest column. Drama? That’s what you get in Augusta in April. Isn’t […]
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By Louis Columbus on March 29, 2019
Sysdig, Fivetran, Nuxeo, Cloudian, Mendix, StreamSets, Zscaler, Zoho, SAP, OutSystems, Kony, and Netskope are the most likely to be recommended by their employees to friends looking for a cloud computing company to work for in 2019. Cloud platform and development companies dominate the highest rated cloud businesses when indexed by the percent of employees who would recommend their company to a friend. Taken together, the 12 CEOs […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 25, 2019
Services Revenue Mix Could Reach 20% By 2020 Photo: @rwang0 On March 25, 2019, Apple held its special event on services at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, CA to launch and/or revamp 4 key services including: Apple News+. New service adds 300 magazines, the Wall Street Journal and more publications to 875 million iPhone […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 13, 2019
Congrats to Marc Benioff and team for twenty glorious years. $1 billion in annual revenues by end of first decade, $ 16 billion forecast bt the end of the second – what a rocket ship! He is also one heck of a generous, big hug kind of leader. I have enjoyed cataloging him and the […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 27, 2019
In interviewing SAP customers for the upcoming book, I ended up classifying them broadly into four groups. I termed the first three: a) Risk-takers who are trying out new Leonardo ML or IoT projects, developing new functionality with its Cloud Platform, moving to S/4HANA in the cloud; b) Modernizers who are moving to S/4 on […]
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By Denis Pombriant on February 25, 2019
NetSuite announced a study at the National Retail Federation show in New York that it sponsored into technology adoption in a retail setting. The study suggests that merchants are either not doing what customers would want and that they have a misguided perception of the situation. Confusion abounds. Some of the findings indicate that merchants […]
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