Oracle IaaS opportunity is much bigger than Amazons
Three things were striking about Larry Ellison’s kickoff keynote at Oracle OpenWorld last night a) he was at his late night host best – I must have been a sight as I burst out in humor every few minutes b) he must have spent the week reading all the press releases Oracle issues during this […]
Oracle’s Latest “Deal”
Which one of these statements is true? If you play “Stairway to Heaven backwards it’s a prayer to Satan” Oracle buys Netsuite. If you swallow gum it takes 7 years to digest. You guessed it? Well, this morning the wires are a buzz with tales of the next big Oracle acquisition, Netsuite. This is an […]
Oracle buys NetSuite
You had to believe this day was inevitable. Oracle announced it was buying NetSuite a cloud ERP provider with over 30,000 customers worldwide for about $9.3 billion. Oracle founder, Larry Ellison also had a large part in founding NetSuite including being one of its top investors. I have always looked at it as Larry’s experiment […]
Is Gartner slicing the bologna too thin?
I burst out laughing when I saw Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for “Single-Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies.” Talk about a mouthful. When I was there in late 90s, we worried about segmenting markets too narrowly. Apparently. in the last 15 years, that worry has gone away. And even then that MQ does not include vendors […]
NetSuite’s Dent Repair for the IT world
An exec at a failed on-premise ERP project told me he was delighted the project crashed. I thought he was joking. No, his later SaaS project alerted him to the fact that even if his on-premise software had worked, he would have continued to pay premiums on on-going maintenance, hosting, upgrades, application management – it […]
End of year goodies
End of year brings out some interesting goodies from various workshops competing with Santa for big kids’ attention. Some of it is pretty good stuff. Here’s a sampling of the best end of year product announcements from the cloud community designed to put you in the post holiday, already-back-at-work spirit. Xactly Inspire Xactly, the sales […]
SaaS: We aint seen nothing yet
Every SaaS conference this year – Dreamforce, SuiteWorld, PowerPlex, Rising – has been brimming with confidence and mostly happy customers. Things are going swimmingly well. No surprise – for a decade now, my blogs and books have been celebrating SaaS executives and customers. And yet, when I recently wrote Chapter 4 of SAP Nation 2.0, […]
CRM Watchlist 2015 Winners: InsideView and Xactly – sales to the max – and then some
InsideView and Xactly both support sales enablement/optimization in entirely different ways – and do it really well. Check each of them out because they may help you think through how to make how you sell a better thing.
Sage Life: Sage and Salesforce Do the Expected
Sage and Salesforce put on a love fest on Tuesday to announce their partnership in which Sage has developed Sage Life, a product to enable small companies to connect their “customer, accounting, payroll and finance data into one system, accessible from any device, anywhere,” according to the press release. The wording leaves it unclear if […]
NetSuite and the Year of the Vertical Cloud
By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 23, 2016
I wrote in January I expect this to be the year of the vertical for cloud applications. There are too many horizonatal cloud apps in accounting, hr and crm, not enough in industry specific functionality. Every event I have gone to since, I have viewed from that lens. SuiteWorld last week was no different. CEO […]
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