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News Analysis: Inside The Rationale Behind @LinkedIn Turning Off Its CSV Connections Download Tool

News Analysis: Inside The Rationale Behind @LinkedIn Turning Off Its CSV Connections Download Tool

By R "Ray" Wang on July 26, 2015

  @LinkedIn Fighting Off Scrapers Inadvertently Angers Users Over the weekend, Michael Korcuska, VP of Product Management at LinkedIn, responded to customer complaints with a series of blog posts explaining their rationale (see Figure 1 and 2). Figure 1. Turning Our CSV Connections Download Tool Back On Figure 2. Access to Your Account Data The […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged customer bill of rights, Customer Experience, customer experience management, customer service, Customer Support, data quality, data retrieval, data rights, digital, Digital Business, Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, linkedin, News Analysis, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Social Media, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider | 2 Responses

News Analysis: How @LinkedIn Is Creating A Personal Data Hostage Crisis For Its Users

News Analysis: How @LinkedIn Is Creating A Personal Data Hostage Crisis For Its Users

By R "Ray" Wang on July 26, 2015

  Curtailment Of @LinkedIn Downloadable Contacts Breaks Sacred Rules Of Digital Business On July 23, 2015 11:46 AM, Emil Protalinski at Venture Beat broke the story that many users of LinkedIn had noted on social media outlets.  The easy to use, immediate download of one’s contacts in a number of flexible formats had been removed […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged customer bill of rights, Customer Experience, customer experience management, customer service, Customer Support, data quality, data retrieval, data rights, digital, Digital Business, Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, linkedin, News Analysis, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Social Media, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider

News Analysis: Rimini Street Vs Oracle Ruling Has No Negative Impact on Third Party Maintenance Rights

News Analysis: Rimini Street Vs Oracle Ruling Has No Negative Impact on Third Party Maintenance Rights

By R "Ray" Wang on February 18, 2014

Recent Oracle vs Rimini Street Ruling Is About Customer Software License Rights Not Third Party Maintenance On February 13th, 2014, the United States District Court , District of Nevada Judge Larry Hicks issued a partial summary judgment in the Oracle vs Rimini Street Case. Here’s the executive summary to key questions about the ruling*: Is […]

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Act Now To Leave The Door Open For SAP Third Party Maintenance Options

Act Now To Leave The Door Open For SAP Third Party Maintenance Options

By R "Ray" Wang on August 22, 2012

The Real Deadline To Consider Third Party SAP Maintenance Is September 30th In conversations with hundreds of SAP customers, many have not realized that they must act in the next 30 to 45 days if they want to move off of SAP customer specific maintenance from extended maintenance. Despite the support window ending in March […]

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News Analysis: UsedSoft Vs Oracle Ruling Opens Up Monopolistic Practices By Software Vendors

News Analysis: UsedSoft Vs Oracle Ruling Opens Up Monopolistic Practices By Software Vendors

By R "Ray" Wang on July 5, 2012

Used Software Pioneers Gain A Small Victory In A Shrinking On-Premises Software World The surprise July 3rd, 2012 judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union for UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp rules that “An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licenses allowing the use of his programs […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 3PM, 3rd party maintenance, Apps Strategy, Arrow, Avnet, best practices, bill of rights, CDW, Cloud, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, contract negotiations, contract strategy, Court of Justice For The European Union, customer bill of rights, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, EU, EU Anti Competition, EU Commisioner For Competition, European Union, Exhaustion Rule, Infor, Infor Global Solutions GmbH, Ingram Micro, license fees, license management, license parking, license policy, license resells, license returns, News Analysis, procurement, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, software bill of rights, Software Insider, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software ownership, software ownership lifecycle, software trends, Software Vendors, SoftwareInsider, user strategy, vendor strategy

Seven Basic Privacy Rights Users Should Demand For Social Business

Seven Basic Privacy Rights Users Should Demand For Social Business

By R "Ray" Wang on January 16, 2012

Public Outrage Grows Over Lax Privacy Polices At Popular Social Networking Sites Recent actions by social networking leaders in the market place have brought new attention to a user’s privacy rights.  Despite the fact that these sites provide a freemium service to users, abuse and arrogance of a user’s privacy rights combined with user ignorance […]

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Cloud computing (still) needs a bill of rights

Cloud computing (still) needs a bill of rights

By Phil Wainewright on February 1, 2011

Back in December, after Amazon summarily pulled the plug on WikiLeaks using its servers for alleged violations of terms and conditions, the CTO of Fujitsu Technology Solutions wrote that the action constituted a serious threat to the business of cloud computing: “If a provider can terminate its service that easily, then it is doing exactly […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, bill of rights, Cloud Computing, CloudAve, customer bill of rights, eurocloud, government, SaaS, service level, service provider, sla, Wikileaks

Tuesday’s Tip: Dealing With Vendor Threats For “All Or Nothing” Maintenance Agreements

Tuesday’s Tip: Dealing With Vendor Threats For “All Or Nothing” Maintenance Agreements

By R "Ray" Wang on July 20, 2010

Recent Client Interactions Hint At Increasingly Aggressive Vendor Behavior Conversations with 11 enterprise apps customers in the past two months indicate stricter enforcement of vendor “All or Nothing” maintenance policies.  “All or Nothing” maintenance policies often require customers to put all licenses on maintenance or receive no maintenance from the vendor.  These policies also prevent […]

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Research Report: How SaaS Adoption Trends Show New Shifts In Technology Purchasing Power

Research Report: How SaaS Adoption Trends Show New Shifts In Technology Purchasing Power

By R "Ray" Wang on June 21, 2010

SaaS Adoption Surveys Often Overlook Audience Composition
Over the past year, analyst firms, tech media, and even mainstream business media have happily showcased positive news about SaaS adoption.  The common theme remains clear – SaaS adoption moves beyond the tipping point in 2010.  Cloud adoption will reach a tipping point in the next 12 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, boomi, budgets, business technology, CastIron, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CRM, customer bill of rights, EMC, Epicor, EscrowTech, Google App Engine, HCM, HR, hybrid deployments, ibm, IBM Optim, Informatica, InnovaSafe, IronMountain, Microsoft Azure, NCC Group, netsuite, next gen cio, OpSource, PaaS, pbs, Pervasive Software, procurement, project based solutions, RainStor, Research Report, SaaS, SaaS escrows, SaaS Integration, SaaS strategies, salesforce.com, sap, SnapLogic, software as a service, technology budgets, vendor strategy, vmforce, VMware, workday, zoho | 3 Responses

News Analysis: Salesforce.com and VMware Up The Ante In The Cloud Wars With VMforce

News Analysis: Salesforce.com and VMware Up The Ante In The Cloud Wars With VMforce

By R "Ray" Wang on April 29, 2010

VMWare and Salesforce.com Battle For The Hearts And Minds Of Cloud-Oriented Java Developers On April 27th, 2010, Salesforce.com, [NYSE: CRM] and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) formed VMforce, a strategic alliance to create a deployment environment for Java based apps in the cloud.  The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering builds on Java, Spring, VMware vSphere, and Force.com.  Key […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Alliances, application development, Apps Strategy, Azure, BEA WebLogic, bill of rights, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Wars, CRM, customer bill of rights, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, Gigaspaces, google, Gridgain, ibm, IBM WebSphere, Imaginea, Java, Java PaaS, LongJump, microsoft, Microsoft.NET, oracle, Oracle Fusion Middleware, PaaS, Platform as a service, Rackspace Cloud Tools, SaaS, salesforce.com, SAP NetWeaver, Spring Source, vendor strategy, vmforce, VMW, VMware | 1 Response

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