SAP: Past, Present and Future
Readers know my favorite vendor event format is the analyst summit. User conferences are fine, but I always feel we intrude there on customer time. In the past, SAP has done such summits in silos – focused on a products like Ariba or industries. So, I was glad it convened one across its wide portfolio […]
Oracle MCX: We’re not in Kansas anymore
I did not get much notice for the Oracle MCX event in Chicago this week, so could only spend a day there, but even in that short timeframe I got the vibe over and over that things are finally humming in the CRM marketplace, or as Oracle calls it the Modern Customer Experience space. We […]
SAPs new ERP pricing model: Quick analysis
SAP pre-briefed me on the new ERP pricing they announced this morning. It is meant to dampen the angst in the customer base about high-profile Indirect Access disputes which have become public in the last year. CEO Bill McDermott had announced an initiative to tackle the concerns at SapphireNow last May. Three items of note in the announcement: a) […]
For Satya Nadella, Business is Personal
David Pogue stole the title of this post in this CBS News story on Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. During the analyst summit in Redmond a couple of weeks ago (see my write up here), I picked up a copy of his book, Hit Refresh and after reading just a few pages, I had decided on that title. First, some […]
Microsoft PowerApps and Citizen Code
One of the most interesting sessions during the Microsoft Analyst Summit last week was one on PowerApps. The look and feel leverages the fonts and other features most of us are familiar with in MS Office. It’s in Microsoft lingo “True WYSIWYG”. They leverage a Common Data Service and come with hundreds of standard business […]
Event Report: Microsoft Biz Apps Analyst Day Highlights Strategic Transformation #MSBizApps
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Seeks End To End Coverage Of Business Apps On February 10th to 12th, 2018, industry analysts converged onto Building 92 at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA, for an update on the Microsoft Business Applications. The Business Applications Analyst Forum was hosted by key executives including: Source: © 2018 R Wang […]
Salesforce’s triangulation strategy
Announcements may be playing the role usually reserved for M&A activity in the CRM world right now. Generally a company purchases another when it wants to capture the benefits of another business’ R&D or established market base. But at the moment it appears that the desirable partners are too big to swallow and the result […]
Enterprise Software Platforms have underperformed
My first exposure to a software “platform” was back in 1983 when McCormack and Dodge introduced Millennium and started to migrate all its modules to have the same look and feel, extensibility, queries and other features. I was part of a team rolling out a wide range of functionality across refineries and other units at […]
SAP: When you come to a fork in the road, Take it!
“Who pays when the SAP data center goes on strike and the solution is down?” Data Center going on strike? That portion of a quote from Hermann-Josef Haag, spokesperson for the DSAG HR management working group made me stop in my tracks. In 20 years of covering cloud applications I have seen most clients protect themselves […]
Microsoft Business Applications Analyst Forum – a scorecard
By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 16, 2018
Readers know my favorite vendor event format is the analyst summit. I have written extensively about Workday, Salesforce, Oracle, Plex and other summits on this blog and at New Florence. Interestingly, while other vendors have been perfecting the art of the analyst summit (see here, here and here) Microsoft which used to run a very informative and enjoyable annual […]
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