Bringing the Hack into HRMS
I’ve not blogged or written for a while, but I figured it was time to start again. No promises on the regularity of posting appearance. I’m not a comet. Deliberate, consistent customer engagement drives most product enhancements. There is a profound skill in listening to a specific customer need, and turning it into a design […]
Why more market analysis is moving in-house
It’s good to see my friends Dennis Howlett launch Diginomica, David Vallente at Wikibon, Ray Wang at Constellation, Phil Fersht at Horses for Sources and others expand their firms, Michael Cote join 451 Research. These alums of Forrester, Aberdeen, ZDNet, Redmonk and their new homes show a fluid analyst marketplace. Fresh models, fresh thinking. And […]
On The Importance of Design at IBM: Love and Margins.
At the end of last year my founding partner dropped a quite outstanding post – The Importance of Software at IBM. In it Stephen analysed IBM’s 2011 financial results through the lens he has been using for most of the year (the end of the age of Software-only business models). It should surprise nobody that Software is […]
Dreamforce 12 – Crazy Big, with Lower Barriers
Tweet Dreamforce is a big event. Crazy big. Nearly 90,000 people came to San Francisco this week for the annual celebration of all things salesforce.com. The city shut down Howard Street between the north and south sides of the Moscone Center so that the company could pack in even more people. Salesforce did a slick […]
Its The Data, Stupid. New Relic Goes After Insight-based Business Advantage
Tweet We like New Relic for a number of reasons at RedMonk. Firstly, developers tell us it just works, providing application performance monitoring across cloud apps. Just tick a box from your PaaS provider, and consider your app instrumented. Secondly, New Relic is a data partner for our analytics business; if you haven’t seen the […]
New Era At RedMonk: Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Donnie!
So today is Donnie Berkholz‘ first day as a RedMonk employee. When we started on the search to hire an analyst with deep analytics skills a few months back I had no idea we’d find somebody so good. We had plenty of outstanding candidates throw their hats in the ring, but Donnie has the skillset […]
SAP Mentors: The New Kingmakers. On Developer Relations, Community Management and Co-Innovation
Its always nice to see others building on your ideas, so it was cool to see some folks from the SAP Mentor community take up the gauntlet. At RedMonk we like to say developers are the new kingmakers, because of the increasing influence they wield on business innovation, from the bottom up. Of course some […]
Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce Forces its Way Onto The Top Table, Gets Big to Win Ugly
“Apps companies get acquired, and platform companies get acquired. To be a strategic supplier, with off the shelf solutions, and custom apps, you need to offer both.” So said Byron Sebastian, general manager at Heroku and Salesforce.com SVP of Platform at Dreamforce last week. Many of my peers have already posted about the event, so […]
RedMonk is Hiring: Data Scientists/Griots Please Apply
RedMonk is hiring. RedMonk 1.0 was all about voice, and we certainly owned that, operating at a scale far exceeding our notional size. but with Coté leaving its a chance to recalibrate – RedMonk 2.0 will be about making the voice richer and more authoritative with data. Doing our day jobs has meant than Stephen and I have probably […]
Leaving RedMonk
As Stephen posted earlier this afternoon, I’ll be leaving RedMonk at the end of next week. Working with RedMonk has been easily the best job I’ve had: the trust and mentoring James and Stephen have given me over the years has been more than I could have imagined, and the actual work has been great. […]
