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 […]
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) […]
Mark meet Larry
Ok, this is kind of long. Go get a cup of coffee. Amid the anxiety and revelations of the Russia scandal including the Cambridge Analytica story that showed how easy it was to steal 50 million Facebook user profiles, it’s easy to mix up cause and effect. Importantly, Facebook wasn’t hacked or broken into but […]
Oracle is becoming a growth company again
Oracle is in a legitimate exponential growth phase and not for the first time in its long career. Like a startup it is growing much faster than the organic growth rate of the economy or its primary market because it has some new products that are highly desirable including cloud offerings and a unique fully […]
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 […]
Digital Transformation Digest: Mobile World Congress and 5G, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Google Assistant Gets A Boost
All Eyes On Mobile World Congress and 5G The annual Mobile World Congress #MWC18 kicked off Monday in Barcelona with the 5G standard front and center in all discussions. With the main 5G architectural standards agreed upon by 3GPP in December 2017, the industry gains a service based architecture, common core network, network slicing, […]
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 […]
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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