Burning Platform: Wall Street and Enterprise Software
Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series – see index here. For the next few episodes, I will be joined by guest analysts and industry observers. Rob Kugel, SVP & Research Director of Office of Finance…
The Analyst Cam: Zoho Workplace
As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Zoho launched Workplace last month – it is a suite of 9 applications to…
SAP’s Integration Urgency
Talking about the heady days in the late 90s, one of SAP’s best salespeople had reminisced: “It was a truly transformational time for the technology industry. We replaced thousands of departmental and mainframe systems. We put MSA, M&D, and many…
The Anti-SAP Conference?
I am presenting at the Sapience conference next week. I had heard someone call it “The Anti-SAP conference” before and didn’t not think much about it. But today the Enterprise Irregulars brought it up again and I thought I would…
Fusion Applications: My questions remain unanswered
In July, I wrote about Fusion Apps that were being shown to a select few customers and market analysts under NDA “But he does not say what functionality he tested. I mean after 5 years of development, there should be…
Larry Ellisons Fog Computing
I have never seen Larry so animated as he was mocking clouds during a Churchill Club interview Between what Google and Yahoo and Microsoft and salesforce and Amazon and NetSuite and Zoho and Intacct and appirio (and yes, even Sun…
Dont cry for me, Germany
I have been aware of the discussions for a while now, but word is leaking out that Siemens, one of SAP’s largest customers (and even more significantly a peer German company) is canceling maintenance and evaluating third party options. Here…
The best UI is no UI
James Governor kicks off a periodic debate about UIs – “ Portal reskinning is a growing business – both Deloitte and Accenture, for example, have built practices dedicated to using Adobe technology to make existing enterprise applications and their portal…
