Oracle’s stretch goal for its applications?
Mark Hurd tells Bloomberg “In fact, the highest application percentage of any company in any segment is sort of mid-20s. This generation will see a leader that’s much more material than that, and I volunteer us to do it.” I would love to see that. Listening to Mark Hurd at Oracle OpenWorld I wrote “After two decades of […]
A brief history of the 21st century: The Enterprise Tech chapter
People in our industry like to call themselves futurists. My glasses don’t allow me to look that far out. My books have, however, forced me to become a pretty fair historian. In The New Polymath I looked at Renaissance Men and Women like Leonardo da Vinci over the centuries. In Silicon Collar, I looked at automation and impact on jobs […]
Trends: Constellation 2018 Enterprise Awards
Awards Recognize Mostly The Pinnacle and A Tinge Of Nadir For Enterprise Tech In 2018, enterprise tech remained fast-paced, innovative, and action-packed. The Constellation Research team attended over 250 enterprise tech events, handled 1000’s of inquiries and briefings, dealt with 1000’s of media inquiries, and reached 100’s of millions in the social sphere. With that […]
CPQ Needs To Scale And Support Smarter, More Connected Products
For smart, connected product strategies to succeed they require a product lifecycle view of configurations, best attained by integrating PLM, CAD, CRM, and ERP systems. Capgemini estimates that the size of the connected products market will be $519B to $685B by 2020. In 2018, $985B will be spent on IoT-enabled smart consumer devices, soaring to […]
SAP and Qualtrics: Experiences matter, but how much?
My daughter, Rita is about to embark on what she calls a Gap Quarter. I don’t want to steal her thunder as she plans to blog about it but it is a play on a Gap Year and what us old fogies call sabbaticals, even though few of us have experienced that concept either. It fits […]
SAP buys Qualtrics – Some quick thoughts
I saw the news on twitter yesterday night that SAP is buying Qualtrics for $8B cash – most of it financed . I am writing this blog post strictly in my personal capacity and it doesn’t represent my employer’s opinions . I have no prior knowledge of this deal. I have worked in the SAP […]
Inforum – peeling an onion
I wrote last week that I was looking forward to getting an update on Infor’s verticals – hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, retail and others. At Inforum in Washington this week, I only got a detailed briefing about the Retail vertical. So, in the couple of days I spent at Inforum this week I kept thinking this is […]
Oracles streak of missed opportunities
No, this does not have much to do with Oracle’s recent quarter. Nor is it about intrigue and gossip so many analysts use to compare Oracle to the Trumpian White House. It has more to do with two decades of enterprise tech I have researched as I write SAP Nation 3.0. It is striking how […]
Implementation Groundhog Day
I was recently introduced to Bonnie Tinder, founder of Raven Intel. Her startup is on a mission to “quantify the quality” of HCM implementation projects, especially the role of the SI partner. As her site says “We’re amplifying the voice of the pastcustomer so the future customer can find the perfect partner.” It is a noble mission and she […]
Nothing permanent about Oracle-Rimini
I cannot believe I am writing about another legal matter this week. I wrote earlier this week about litigation cases involving Oracle, SAP and Workday. Judge Larry Hicks of the US District Court in the District of Nevada has had a distinguished career after his appointment there by President Bush in 2001. He has been on senior status […]
