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The eBay Turnaround that Never Had to Be: Now Here’s the Rest of the Story

The eBay Turnaround that Never Had to Be: Now Here’s the Rest of the Story

By Bob Warfield on February 13, 2014

Read an interesting account of John Donahoe’s turnaround at eBay in Business Insider.  It’s a fascinating discussion that revolves around relatively few premises for how the turnaround was accomplished.  Here are the money quotes: He de-emphasized eBay’s auction business and started describing the company as a “technology partner” to retailers small and large. eBay added clients Home Depot, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, Business Insider, eBay, Meg Whitman, Sharper Image, strategy

Facebook and ebay’s data centers are now vastly more transparent

Facebook and ebay’s data centers are now vastly more transparent

By Tom Raftery on April 29, 2013

Facebook announced at the end of last week new way to report PUE and WUE for its datacenters. This comes hot on the heels of ebay’s announcement of its Digital Service Efficiency dashboard – a single-screen reporting the cost, performance and environmental impact of customer buy and sell transactions on ebay. These dashboards are a […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, CUE, datacenter, dse, eBay, Facebook, greenqloud, ibm, pue, sap, WUE

NetSuite's Commerce-as-a-Service

NetSuite’s Commerce-as-a-Service

By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 21, 2012

At SuiteWorld last week, there was plenty of excitement about NetSuite’s successes in two market segments – subs of large multi-nationals (“two-tier” implementations) and fast-growing/recently public companies like Groupon and Splunk. You can slice its momentum by verticals or geography, but to me, the major reason for NetSuite’s appeal to a wide range of customers […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged eBay, Groupon, netsuite, Splunk, SuiteWorld, Zach Nelson

Big Data = BI + ADD

Big Data = BI + ADD

By Bob Warfield on April 26, 2012

Big Data is Business Intelligence plus Attention Deficit Disorder?  That’s gotta be linkbait of an order I’ve not used since my NoSQL is a Premature Optimization post.  What’s up with that? I just got done attending Jeff Kaplan’s excellent Cloud BI Summit at the Computer History Museum.  It was a very enjoyable event and it […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADD, analytics, BI, BigData, business intelligence, Cloud, eBay, Insight, LucidEra, NoSQL | 4 Responses

Fool Me Once?

Fool Me Once?

By Denis Pombriant on September 21, 2011

Shades of George W. Bush and Victoria’s Secret all in one.  We got fooled again last week by our own ineptitude and inability to learn from history when Target stores website crashed under the weight of a highly successful marketing campaign.  The last time anything remotely similar happened was when Victoria’s Secret decided to do […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, CRM, eBay, elastic cloud, Jessica Alba, jessica Simpson, Missoni, social networking, Target

Research Report: How The Five Pillars Of Consumer Tech Influence Enterprise Innovation

Research Report: How The Five Pillars Of Consumer Tech Influence Enterprise Innovation

By R "Ray" Wang on October 4, 2010

Most Enterprise Software Vendors Fail To Deliver Innovation Despite hundreds of billions wasted on failed research and development projects, most market influencers would agree that enterprise software vendors have produced a dearth of innovation over the past decade.  Vendors often cite UI re-skins, major functionality additions, integration of acquisitions, technology re-platforms, and weak attempts at […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Amazon, analytics, Apps Strategy, Attensity, Baidu, Business Analytics, business intelligence, Cisco, citrix, Classmates.com, Consumer Tech, Craigstlist.org, eBay, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Facebook, Four S's of Enterprise Class Acceptance, google, IBM Smart Camp, idc, Information Week, Information Week 500, innovation, Intacct, Internet of Things, Jive, linkedin, lithium, Meebo, microsoft, mobile, Monday's Musings, netsuite, next gen, next gen apps, next gen cio, next gen CIO's, next gen CIO’s, next gen enterprise, next gen IT leaders, next generation, Next generation apps, NexTag, NextGen, Orkut, plexsystems, Priceline.com, Rackspace, Research Report, RightNow, rwang0, SAFE, salesforce.com, scalable, SCRM, secure, Shopping.com, Shopzilla, skype, social business, Social Business Software, Social CRM, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, Social Media, Streetline Networks, sustainable, Target.com, Twitter, Unified Communications, vendor strategy, Video, Walmart.com, workday, Yahoo, YouTube

Alibaba vs. Ariba?

Alibaba vs. Ariba?

By Jason Busch on September 8, 2010

I’ve always been surprised by how many advertising-driven supplier directory models continue to position themselves as sourcing tools for procurement organizations. The closest that a provider has come to pulling this off is MFG.c…

Posted in Business | Tagged Alibaba, Ariba, Ariba Discovery, China, eBay, MFG.com, procurement, supply chain

Crowdsourcing Our New Logo Design.  Time to Vote.

Crowdsourcing Our New Logo Design. Time to Vote.

By Zoli Erdos on September 1, 2010

We’re putting our money where our (digital) mouth is:  having talked so much about crowdsourcing, we took 99designs for a test drive, hoping to see a new CloudAve logo emerge. I was not too impressed with the initial submissions, but just as I suspected, 99design works pretty much like eBay does: the better contestants ignore […]

Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 99designs, contest, Crowdsourcing, design, eBay, logo design | 1 Response

Collector's Item: Accenture/Tiger Woods advertising

Collector’s Item: Accenture/Tiger Woods advertising

By Brian Sommer on January 17, 2010

The Tiger Woods/Accenture connection is starting to disappear. Better look fast as evidence of this marketing marriage is dissolving quickly.

Posted in Business | Tagged Accenture, advertising, Current Affairs, eBay, Professional Services, Selling Professional Services, Service Providers, Tiger Woods

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