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Why Microservices Will Become a Core Business Strategy for Most Organizations

Why Microservices Will Become a Core Business Strategy for Most Organizations

By Dion Hinchcliffe on September 14, 2018

As an industry, we have collectively returned to that eternal debate about what constitutes a largely technical evolution versus when an important digital idea becomes a full-blown business trend. This has happened before with Web sites, e-commerce, mobile applications, social media, and other well-known advances. It can be hard to remember that at first these […]

Posted in Featured Posts | Tagged APIs, business strategy, CDO, CIO, ecosystem, Enterprise architecture, microservices, platform

When Will We See an Open Platform to Connect People & Work?

When Will We See an Open Platform to Connect People & Work?

By Jason Corsello on September 4, 2018

I recently wrote about the difference between an application and a platform. As I wrote, “…most SaaS vendors are not platforms but merely providers of feature-rich applications”. I’ve noticed first hand two of the biggest challenges most enterprise SaaS vendors face today: 1) making it easy to integrate with and to third party applications and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged HR, Human capital, platform, SaaS, salesforce

Not all Platforms are created equal :-)

Platform logic

By Denis Pombriant on May 7, 2018

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged CRM, financial force, netsuite, oracle, platform, salesforce

Let the platform wars begin

Let the platform wars begin

By Denis Pombriant on January 18, 2018

The software platform is likely to be the new battleground in enterprise software. This is not to say that analytics and security are not important but they are being handled in different ways. Security is being handled in ways that address both hardware and software vulnerabilities but these things aren’t what customers or consumers spend […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged CRM, enterprise software, oracle, platform, salesforce

Dreamforce 2016 Post Two: The Recap

Dreamforce 2016 Post Two: The Recap

By Michael Fauscette on October 17, 2016

Dreamforce 2016 was as action packed as expected. To close this one out, I’ll recap the announcements and dig deeper into a few subjects that I mentioned in my 1st post. Salesforce Einstein was the big topic of course, but there were several other interesting announcements and even a few surprises. Before getting into the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #df16, analytics, applications, Artificial intelligence, Cloud, collaboration, Community, CRM, Customer, CX, data, decision systems, marketing, mobile, PaaS, platform, SaaS, salesforce.com, software channels, technology, Technology / Software

Not all Platforms are created equal :-)

Platform as a Platform (PaaP)

By Denis Pombriant on August 18, 2016

The platform land rush is definitely on. You can’t swing a dead cat, as the saying goes, without finding an announcement about some new platform or some established vendor’s attempt to enhance its existing platform. Some sorting out seems to be in order. What’s not a platform these days? Well, if you can easily substitute […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged CRM, microsoft, oracle, PaaP, platform, salesforce

Waiting for change

Waiting for change

By Denis Pombriant on July 19, 2016

A couple of weeks ago Allison Arieff wrote a piece in the New York Times titled “Solving All the Wrong Problems” that gets to the heart of the technical times we live in and its focus is not what you might think. She includes a long list of things we can buy or subscribe to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CRM, kondratiev, microsoft, oracle, paradigm, platform, salesforce, sap

Integrating the Commerce Experience: Salesforce to Acquire Demandware

Integrating the Commerce Experience: Salesforce to Acquire Demandware

By Michael Fauscette on June 7, 2016

  There’s a lot of good analysis coming out on Salesforce’s announcement last week  on the intent to acquire Demandware and move into the commerce platform business. If you’re looking for some good reads, try this post by Paul Greenberg or this post from Ray Wang. I don’t intend to rehash what my colleagues have […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, Analysis, commerce, Demandware, digital commerce, ECommerce, oracle, platform, salesforce, salesforce.com, sap, technology, Technology / Software

Commoditizing software

Commoditizing software

By Denis Pombriant on March 25, 2016

For over 50 years, the IT industry has followed a well-known script associated with emerging and evolving paradigms. First a product or category is introduced, then it gains wide market acceptance (or dies on the vine) followed by a long period when vendors and customers seek out ever more efficient ways to produce the thing. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Anaplan, Metavine, platform, servicenow, software commons, technology

Comparing Software using Peer Reviews

Comparing Software using Peer Reviews

By Michael Fauscette on March 16, 2016

The goal for a business software peer review site is to provide assistance to a buyer in researching and selecting an appropriate software solution (or at least it should be). There are many other uses for the review data once collected, and those uses may be a part of the way the site is funded, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, business modernization, business networks, buying, Cloud, collaboration, Community, CX, decision systems, google, market, networked business, Peer, platform, presence, purchasing, Reviews, SaaS, software channels, tco, technology, Technology / Software, vendor | 2 Responses

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