By Louis Columbus on May 13, 2013
During 2012 the worldwide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) market experienced sluggish growth of just 2.2%, yet Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), financial management and Human Capital Management (HCM) applications showed potential for breakout growth. Through the challenging times of the previous year however, SAP still retained worldwide market share leadership. These and other insights were recently published in […]
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By Louis Columbus on April 28, 2013
Last year, four out of every ten CRM systems sold were SaaS-based, and the trend is accelerating. In the recent Gartner report Market Share Analysis: Customer Relationship Management Software, Worldwide, 2012 published April 18, 2013 the authors provide insights into why the worldwide CRM market experienced 12% growth in 2012, three times the average of […]
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By Louis Columbus on April 15, 2013
Every year Gartner receives an average 100,000 inquiries from their valued end-user clients on a wide variety of IT topics. Their most recently released series of statistics is included in Inquiry Analytics Statistics: Topic and Vendor Mind Share for Software, 4Q12 published March 13th of this year. Ten geographic regions and eight industries are also tracked, […]
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By Louis Columbus on March 29, 2013
Earlier this month The Ethisphere Institute announced their seventh annual list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. Jacquelyn Smith wrote an excellent analysis titled The World’s Most Ethical Companies where she provides an overview of the methodology and selection process. You can review the methodology and see a full list of the winning companies here. […]
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By Louis Columbus on March 20, 2013
Kirill Tatarinov’s keynote at Microsoft’s Convergence 2013 marks a subtle, yet very significant shift in how this technology leader is marketing itself to partners and the outside world. They are humanizing their marketing, messaging and products. Gone is the Spock-like precision of presentations packed with roadmaps, mind-numbing metrics and intricate feature analysis. The Nick Brophy […]
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By Louis Columbus on February 21, 2013
Cutting through the hype of cloud vendors starts by evaluating how ready their Cloud Services, enabling technologies and Professional Services are to serve customers today. That’s one of the key take-aways from a recent webinar I attended titled How Cloud Computing Changes the Vendor Landscape by David Mitchell Smith, VP and Fellow last week. The […]
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By Louis Columbus on December 18, 2012
2013 will be one of the most pivotal years for cloud computing because trust in these technologies is on the line. Expectations are high regarding these technologies’ ability to deliver business value while reducing operating costs. Enterprises’ experiences have at times met these high expectations, yet too often are getting mixed results. Managing cloud expectations […]
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By Louis Columbus on December 5, 2012
Showing signs of growth through 2013 and beyond, the latest round of CRM forecasts illustrate how quickly behavioral and predictive analytics, greater usability, integration with social media and mobility are transforming this market. Even with the most usable, easily learned CRM systems, enterprises at times struggle with adoption rates however. That problem has venture capitalists […]
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By Louis Columbus on November 9, 2012
The latest round of cloud computing and enterprise software forecasts reflect the growing influence of analytics, legacy systems integration, mobility and security on IT buyer’s decisions. Bain & Company and Gartner have moved beyond aggregate forecasts, and are beginning to forecast by cloud and SaaS adoption stage. SAP is using the Bain adoption model in […]
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By Louis Columbus on October 16, 2012
By combining search analytics and the latest forecast on big data published last week, it’s possible to get a glimpse into this areas’ highest growth industry sectors. Big data is consistently a leading search term on .com, which is the basis of the twelve months of data used for the analysis. In addition, data from […]
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