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 […]
Roundup Of Analytics, Big Data & BI Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2016
Big Data & business analytics software worldwide revenues will grow from nearly $122B in 2015 to more than $187B in 2019, an increase of more than 50% over the five-year forecast period. The market for prescriptive analytics software is estimated to grow from approximately $415M in 2014 to $1.1B in 2019, attaining a 22% CAGR. […]
Reflections on Six Years of Content Marketing in a Bootstrapped Startup
I just put the finishing touches on one of my biggest content marketing efforts to date, an ambitious article called, “Beginner’s Step-By-Step Guide to Making CNC Parts.” All told, it took almost two months of part-time effort and was as much work and words as a small novella. I don’t expect to win any literary […]
Workday’s 8/24/2016 Earnings Call — Non-Financial Thoughts
There’s been some great coverage of their latest earnings call, to include from Dennis Howlett at Diginomica and Larry Dignan at ZDNet (and please do point me to other high quality coverage). Now I’m neither a financial or IT analyst, but I do think there are a few items from that earnings call which deserve a […]
The Four Levers of SaaS
There are a lot of SaaS posts out there with some pretty fancy math in them. I’m a math guy, so I like to geek on SaaS metrics myself. But, in the heat of battle running a SaaS company, sometimes you just need to keep it simple. Here’s the picture I keep on my wall to […]
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 […]
The Economics of VC Startups for Individuals
Should you take 1 eight-year startup job or 4 three-year jobs? Jason Lemkin asks and answers an interesting question for career seekers in VC Startups: Is software a great industry to job hop? His conclusion is, “No,” largely because he makes the case that you won’t make nearly as much money. His concerns are: You […]
Home Remodeling, Moving To SaaS, And Life Lessons
Familiar Vendor Is NO Excuse For Short-Cutting Due Diligence! In the last year, I’ve relearned a valuable lesson in vendor research, short-listing, evaluation, selection and management, and it’s been a very painful, expensive, and embarrassing lesson for someone who should have known better. Yes, there’s no fool like an old fool, especially when we let […]
Can HPE + CSC dominate the digital underbelly, or has that ship sailed?
Just stare at that digital underbelly… there’s a lot of work needed down there! When the news broke last month about the second largest IT services merger of all time (after the 2008 HP-EDS whopper), the reaction among the services cognoscenti was – and has continued to be – one of confusion. Big services mergers […]
2015 Gartner CRM Market Share Update
Worldwide customer relationship management (CRM) software totaled $26.3B in 2015, up 12.3% from $23.4B in 2014. SaaS revenue grew 27% yr-over-yr, more than double overall CRM market growth in 2015. Asia/Pacific grew the fastest of all regions globally, increasing 9% 2015, closely followed by greater China with 18.4% growth. These and many other insights into […]
