Oracle: Time to push the pedal on cloud apps
Larry Ellison joked at Oracle OpenWorld he was told Fusion applications would be developed in 4 years. They have taken over a decade. Snicker all you want. The flip side of that is Oracle started developing cloud apps years before most others. While IaaS and Amazon got a lot of attention during OOW, the winner […]
Oracle AI: Adaptive Intelligence
As Steve Miranda previewed last week, one of the more interesting announcements this week at Oracle OpenWorld is around its Adaptive Intelligent Applications. Steve had said “Basically, what we’re doing is leveraging our data cloud, which I know you’re familiar with (having profiled BlueKai), together with machine-learning algorithms and incorporating that into our transactional applications […]
Global Internet of Things Evangelist for SAP
My SAP phone on my SAP laptop I have been recruited into SAP in the role of Global Internet of Things Evangelist starting this month. When I left RedMonk earlier this year, I mentioned that I was talking to a couple of people, but that there was still a window of opportunity for other companies […]
The SAP Sisyphus
These days , far removed from the origins of Greek mythology, it is easy to feel sorry for Sisyphus as he pushes a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down. He is cursed to repeat this action over and over again. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment. But read the […]
Thank You, SAP
I resigned from SAP this week. They say that the luckiest people are those who work the hardest. Whilst I can absolutely attest to that, there is no denying that I’ve been tremendously fortunate. At SAP, I was given the opportunity to build a business at a stellar software company that exemplifies how to excel by […]
Waiting for change
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 […]
SAP finally has a marketing hit
SAP Marketing has had a rough patch. There was the obnoxious “spokesperson”, Phil that SAP had to hastily take down. There was the balloon imagery around SAP’s cloud. Someone forgot to think about the hot air connotations. There’s all the New Age “does your business have a soul?” ads that had people scratching their heads. […]
Integrating the Commerce Experience: Salesforce to Acquire Demandware
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 […]
SapphireNow: Too Little, Too Late?
I was in California last week relishing NetSuite’s SuiteWorld – and its two decades of cloud maturity and growing industry functionality as I summarized here. I happened to see a 8 page color SAP insert in the Wall Street Journal and I shook my head at drivel like “When you Run Live, you Run Simple. […]
The art of the analyst mini-summit
By Vinnie Mirchandani on April 11, 2016
I have written before about well done analyst summits here and here. Last week I had the opportunity to be part of a very well done mini-summit – a little over 4 hours – just before the start of Oracle HCM World. Walking in, I was cynical much could be accomplished in that compressed time […]
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