The idiot guide to multi book accounting
Is SuccessFactors operating multi book accounting across its parallel NetSuite and ByDesign instances? Or is it just pantomime?
NetSuite Welcomes SAP as Customer, even while SAP Swaps it for ByD
NetSuite History, Wayne’s World style NetSuite is no stranger to aggressive marketing, and SAP has clearly been their #1 target for a while starting from pranks like the SAP for the Rest of Us Party during SAPPHIRE 2006 to staging a shootout at the anti-SAP Conference or releasing edgy videos a’la Mac vs Windows and […]
SuccessFactors swaps NetSuite for ByDesign
There was a great piece of theatre on stage at SuiteWorld in San Francisco this morning when NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson revealed that the company had signed an important new customer from the computing world: its archrival SAP. The software behemoth’s newly acquired subsidiary, SuccessFactors, remains a NetSuite customer, Nelson revealed: “They just renewed their […]
Advantage: Microsoft and Oracle
In his annual letter to shareholders in 2009, GE CEO Jeff Immelt wrote: “ I believe that a popular, thirty – year notion that the U.S. can evolve from being a technology and manufacturing leader to a service leader is just wrong. ” GE is investing heavily in manufacturing next-gen locomotives, aircraft engines, wind turbines, […]
Zach Nelson: A Decade in the Clouds
Zach Nelson is a really interesting tech executive. He has a wide rolodex (over 20 pages in my last book, The New Polymath came from interviews with Zach and several others he introduced me to), diverse interests (numerous relationships with the Oakland Athletics baseball team, part owner of the Omaha Nighthawks football team, golfer), and […]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Cloud Computing – Zach Nelson, NetSuite
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Zach Nelson – President and CEO, NetSuite Biography Zach Nelson has more than 20 years of […]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business And Cloud Computing
Executive Profile Series Delivers The Inside View On Disruptive Technologies Starting this week, we’ll be kicking off an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing and Social Business. The interviews should provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. The transcript of the 30 minute […]
NetSuite User Group Meeting Impresses
A company’s first user group meeting is a kind of coming out party. It validates the faith its customers showed early on in going with a startup and marks an important statement in the company’s maturation process moving it from kid to adult, removing the training wheels and such. So I was eager to see […]
NetSuite the new Applications Unlimited
I was struck by a small gesture by Mark Hurd of Oracle as he presented at the SuiteWorld event. He got off the stage and came to the level of the audience and talked about NetSuite’s importance to Oracle and Exadata. It came across humble whether intentional or not. Later in the evening Larry Ellison […]
