Time to ditch your Datawarehouse - and add you ERP content
For most of the life of enterprise software we have seen the classic separation between transactional and analytical applications. OLTP vs OLAP is as old as data warehouses have been around.A recent...
View ArticleWhy Oracle bought Nimbula
Oracle always seems to be able to pull off a surprise and today announced the acquisition of privately held Nimbula. Nimbula has $20M of investment from Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners and was an...
View ArticleWhy Google acquired Talaria - efficency matters
Late in the week we learnt that Google has acquired privately held Talaria, based in Palo Alto, a company with less than 20 employees. [Talaria, is Greek for sandal, a symbol for the Greek god Hermes -...
View ArticleWhy Oracle is buying Tekelec
This morning Oracleannounced, that it has entered into an agreement to acquireTekelec, a leading provider of network signaling, policy control, and subscriber data management solutions to...
View ArticleWhy 3rd party maintenance is key to SAP's and Oracle's success
The headline of this post may sound surprising at first, given the history of neither SAP nor Oracle really appreciating publicly, what the 3rd party maintenance providers are doing. But keep in mind,...
View ArticleHow Facebook Home matters to the enterprise and beyond
Last week saw the clarification of all the myths, hype and speculation of the Facebook phone... which turned out to be a software offering.. and a phone. The software offering is a application that can...
View ArticleAbout that HCM software company, that didn't want to be one...
When LinkedIn released their Q4 and 2012 results about 2 months ago, not too much was noted about the impressive increase of HCM related revenue. This marks the first full financial year in which...
View ArticleWorkday Update 19 - You need to slow down to hurry up
Last week was the time of the year again - the Workday spring Update was being made available on the companies servers. It's now the 19th time that Workday has made available an Update of their latest...
View ArticleInfor's bet on microverticals - the good, the bad, the ugly
I have been looking forward to Infor's user conference, that has started today in Orlando, for a while. The company has been talking and hinting at their microvertical strategy a lot - but never in a...
View ArticleInforum 2013 - Takeaways from Keynote - Day 2
When watching the Day 2 keynote of Inforum 2013 today, I could not help but thinking that it was somehow of a let down in comparison to yesterday's Day 1 keynote. That's often the case at user...
View ArticleAgility from the cloud - not a no-brainer
In a rapid quitter exchange with some esteemed influencers today, it struck me that agility was used as an argument for cloud applications in comparison to on premise enterprise applications. And...
View ArticleFrom the fences: Oracle AR Meeting Takeaways
For two days this week Oracle gathered key industry analysts and bloggers for their yearly analyst relation summit. A good chance to checkout what has changed since the launch of the Cloudworld...
View ArticleWhat I would like SAP to address this Sapphire...
SAP's Sapphire conference is coming up next week and while I realize the presentations are already done, the banners printed, the give aways ordered and the marketing message fine tuned - it's still...
View ArticleAnd suddenly .. Payroll matters again!
If you asked me a few quarters ago - I would not thought I may be writing a post on payroll soon... but the recent events of SAP acquiring SuccessFactors, Oracle buying Taleo, Workday and Ultimate both...
View ArticleHana Enterprise Cloud helps SAP discover the cloud (benefits)
In a world wide press conference - open to the public - the recording is here - SAP's Supervisory Board Chairman Hasso Plattner, it's CTO Vishal Sikka (blog here) and its CMO Jonathan Becher - unveiled...
View ArticleMendix - the other path to build software
Writing about enterprise software these days makes you easily forget how software is created - a developer typing lines of code into a programming environment, better following a good specification or...
View ArticleSAP's cloud plans get less cloudy
It's amazing to me how much information is coming out of SAP before Sapphire on the cloud side - I cannot remember any Sapphire conference of my 20+ or so editions, that this much information about...
View ArticleCan Hana Cloud be elastic? Tough.
While we learnt some things about Hana Enterprise Cloud (HEC) at its launch last week, and a little more this week at Sapphire - what dawned on me in the aftermath, is that elasticity is a fundamental...
View ArticleA tale of 2 keynotes and press releases - Sapphire & SuiteWorld Day 1
Thanks to the power of the internet, one could sit in the first row today following the keynotes of both SAP and Netsuite for their respective user conferences, Sapphire and SuiteWorld. With a combined...
View ArticleThe Middle Day - 2 keynotes and press releases - Sapphire & SuiteWorld Day 1
So today was day 2 of two key enterprises software conferences - SAP's Sapphire and Netsuite's Suiteworld. Happening across the north American continent it allows bloggers 'on the fences' like your...
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