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Act III & FInal Day - A tale of 2 conferences - Sapphire & SuiteWorld13
So Thursday was the final day for both user conferences, that I have been tracking and blogging about this week. If you missed the first day and middle day updates - you can find them here and here....
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Taking stock - what SAP answered and what it didn't at this Sapphire
A massive Sapphire conference is over, with a lot of excitement, energy and announcements. If you want to re-live any of the days, have a look at my posts about Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 - or for a quick...
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SAP discovers elasticity for HANA - kind of
During last week's Sapphire conference, Hasso Plattner took the opportunity to address a number of myths about HANA - but also clarified the data load of HANA to the audience. How does data get into...
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SAP gets serious about the cloud - organizationally
This morning saw the confirmation of the departure of Lars Dalgaard from SAP. There have been rumors and excuses about his absence (death in family, other family health issues) - now it's official....
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Enterprise Software Takeaways from Meeker's 2013 Internet Report
One of the presentations I look most forward to on a yearly level are KPCB's Mary Meeker's 'State of the Internet' presentations. These days she releases them as the 1st speaker of the AllThingsD...
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Could the paycheck re-invent HCM? Yes it can!
My recent post on how payroll matters again both for vendors and practitioners got a lot of uptake and even discussion - which was much more than I expected on this supposedly boring subject of...
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And now... something completely different
After spending more than 25 years building enterprise applications, and realizing that I will have probably another 25 years to work, I took some time to reflect, on how I want to spend the rest of my...
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Why IBM acquired SoftLayer
Why IBM bought SoftLayerOn the morning of June 4th 2013 we learned that IBM announced its intent to acquire SoftLayer– a strategic acquisition for IBM in their questto reach 7B of cloud revenue in...
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Why SAP acquired hybris Software
This is a busy week of acquisitions - with IBM's Softlayer (my take here) and salesforce's Exact Target already happened, SAP didn't stay on the sidelines with announcing the hybris software...
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How hard is it to install Office365? Or: The harsh reality of customer support
The other day I went through a rather mundane challenge... I was running Office365 on one machine - but didn't like that machine, returned it and got another one, a new one. Well all I needed to do was...
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Cornerstone re-imagines Talent Management -- and itself
Cornerstone had their yearly user conference Convergence in San Diego from June 6th-8th. The conference was well attended with over 1000 customers, partner and employees coming from all over the...
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Java grows up to the enterprise
Today Oracle announced the availability of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) Version 7. This marks the first Java EE release under complete Oracle stewardship and is an important milestone to assess...
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To HAVEn and have not - Or: HP bundles away
At this weeks HPDiscover conference in Las Vegas, HP announced a number of interesting new offerings, the one that caught my attention was the nicely crafted acronym of HAVEn, so let's understand what...
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The Cloud is growing up - three Signs from the News
Every technology market goes through different growth phases and at this point I think we are witnessing the beginning of the second phase for the cloud market, in which the number of players increase,...
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How hard is multi channel CRM in 2013?
I have previously shared my not so optimal experience installing Office365 from Microsoft, and raised my concerns on the status of customer service in this post. But the OfficeSaga Part 1 kept giving...
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Is Oracle 12c the end of multi-tenancy as we knew it?
Oracle release it's Q4 numbers and in the earnings call there were the usual strong but entertaining statements on achievements and the competition. Andrew Nusca over at ZDNet has done a great job to...
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How the Cloud can make the unlikeliest bed Fellows
When revisiting the Oracle earnings call of this week, it is pretty obvious that Oracle is trying to position Oracle 12c pretty much everywhere as the cloud database of choice. And not only position...
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Why Intuit acuired Elastic Intelligence
This is a joint post with my colleague Alan Lepovskywho looks at IaaS/PaaS and Future of Work technologies for Constellation Research. You can find this here, too. Late last week the news came out,...
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Act I - Oracle and Microsoft are partnering for the cloud
This is a joint post with my colleague Ray Wangof Constellation Research.At a press conference on June 24th, 2013 with Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, Oracle’s President Mark Hurd announced a cloud...
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Act II: The Cloud changes everything - Oracle and salesforce.com
This morning, as expected, the next partnership announcement of Oracle came out, after Monday's partnership announcement with Microsoft (our analysis here and here), it was Salesforce.com's turn today....
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