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Quips: Oracle Open World 2014 – Day 1 The Larry Keynote #OOW14
By R "Ray" Wang on September 29, 2014
Oracle Intends To Dominate Cloud From Silicon To Software Amidst a packed standing room only crowd at Moscone North, Founder, Executive Chairman, and CTO, Larry Ellison took to the stage to clarify Oracle’s company and cloud strategy. Key points from his keynote include how Oracle is: Committing to full upward compatibility of all its database, […]
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Event Report: Oracle Open World 2014 – Day 1 #OOW14
By R "Ray" Wang on September 28, 2014
Oracle Doubles Down On Cloud Messaging Amidst A World Shifting To Digital Transformation Over 60,000 physical attendees from 145 countries gather in San Francisco for the 2014 Oracle Open World. In addition, Oracle expects 2.1 million online attendees to join the live stream of one of the largest events in enterprise software. Amidst the […]
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Monday’s Musings: A Working Vendor Landscape For Social Business
By R "Ray" Wang on August 15, 2011
Confusion Persists In The Social Business Market As with any new disruptive technology, the social business solution landscape faces a dynamic, confusing, and converging market. As vendors seek to grab mind share and market share, customers and prospects remain confused as to what are the right business problems to address with social business. However, rampant […]
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Product Review: Informatica Addresses The Impending Big Data Challenge With Release 9.1
By R "Ray" Wang on June 13, 2011
Big Data Emerges As A Challenge In A World Of Unstructured Data Proliferation Data volumes continue to explode with a proliferation of devices, social media tools, video usage, and emerging forms of both structured and unstructured data. The rate of data explosion may be occurring faster than Moore’s Law. Organizations now face a significant challenge […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, hadoop, Informatica, information supply chain, integration, Map Reduce, master data management, mdm, middleware, middleware platforms, News Analysis, Product Review, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social analytics, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, Social CRM, Social Media, vendor strategy | 1 Response

Tuesday’s Tip: Customers Seek Turnkey Applications From Their Technology Provider
By R "Ray" Wang on September 15, 2010
Customers Expect Their Software Solutions To Be Turnkey The recent Q2 2010 update to the Software Insider Vendor Selection Survey highlights some changing expectations of 401 respondents in the vendor selection process. Business technologists were asked to rate their top 5 selection criteria. Key findings demonstrate how functionality, ownership experience, and ecosystem feedback categories dominate […]
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Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Tech Budget (Part 2) – Cloud Computing
By R "Ray" Wang on August 9, 2010
Welcome to a part 2 of a multi-part series on The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model. Subsequent posts will apply the model to these leading vendors:
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Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Technology Budget (Part 1)
By R "Ray" Wang on July 27, 2010
Is your technology provider a hardware vendor or a software vendor? Does your System Integrator now provide solutions in the cloud? These questions will continue as models converge. Hardware, software, and system integration vendors must reinvent new models of revenue. The economic recession has forced business model shifts at the major technology companies.
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Tibco Silver Spotfire – Social BI? Why Not?
By Merv Adrian on July 14, 2010
Tibco, fresh from a Q2 with license revenue up 23% over last year’s, continuing a two year run of beating consensus earnings estimates, has stepped up and out ahead to pursue the long-coveted mid-market customers who don’t use BI but find that spreadsheets don’t do enough. Tibco believes, like Microsoft, that many are social technology […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Access, business intelligence, Cloud, data visualization, Event Processing, gartner, guided analytics, Informatica, microsoft, middleware, predictive analytics, S, Spreadsheet, statistical analysis, Tibco, visualization, XML

Event Report: Top 10 Questions To Ask At The Microsoft TechEd/STB Analyst Summit
By R "Ray" Wang on June 6, 2010
Clients Now See Microsoft As The Neutral Vendor, Hence All The Questions
Just less than 3 years ago, Microsoft was still perceived as part of the “evil” empire. Business leaders worried about the complicated and expensive licensing and pricing structures. IT leaders bemoaned the lock-in and proprietary and often buggy software. But in a reversal […]
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News Analysis: IBM Buys Sterling Commerce From AT&T
By R "Ray" Wang on May 24, 2010
Merger Ties B2B Integration Tools With Selling And Fulfillment On May 24th, IBM surprised the market with its $1.4B, all-cash, definitive agreement to buy Dublin, Ohio based Sterling Commerce from AT&T. Sterling Commerce was purchased by SBC Communications in 2000 for its strengths in B2B integration. As an AT&T company in 2005, they acquired […]
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