Platform logic
For some time now, it’s been my impression of the CRM market that all, or at least most, of the good ideas have been taken. It’s been a long time since we saw a new systemic solution that approaches front office business. It’s even been a long time since we saw a major innovation at […]
NetSuite under Oracle: More, Better, Forever?
Jim McGeever, former President of NetSuite, now EVP of that global business unit at Oracle joked things had changed significantly after it invested over $ 9 billion to acquire NetSuite. “SuiteWorld has moved to Las Vegas, our safe harbor statement is much shorter…”. Actually, the message at this week’s SuiteWorld event was things will remain […]
Getting silly: Oracle, NetSuite deal
According to this story, the fly in the ointment for getting the Oracle acquisition of NetSuite completed is a large institutional shareholder, T. Rowe Price. While I know some people at NetSuite we haven’t been talking and I have not been following the situation very closely. But as an outsider looking in, it seems like […]
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 […]
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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