Act III - The cloud changes everything - Oracle and NetSuite with a Touche of...
Continuing the spree of expected announcements, it was the unveiling of the Oracle and NetSuite partnership today. True to the leak from the Q4 earnings call last week Thursday, this week we saw Oracle...
View ArticleMicrosoft makes the Cloud a platform play - Or: Azure and her 7 friends
I was invited by Microsoft to their Build 2013 event in San Francisco this week - and it was an interesting experience, contrasted to the modest events I used to attend in Europe with Microsoft - last...
View ArticleOracle 12c makes the database elastic
With the general availability of the Oracle Database version 12c imminent upon us - it's time to look at what - for now - before more information at the launch webcast tomorrow and real client adoption...
View ArticleSAP wants to be a technology company, really
I had the pleasure of being hosted by SAP for a fully loaded day of HANA briefings - and it was a information rich and very interesting day. Needless to state, that I learnt a lot - and need to review...
View ArticleCall for Applications - SuperNova Awards for Innovators in Disruptive Technology
This is a re-post from Constellation's website to raise awareness for the SuperNova awards: Call for Applications: SuperNova Awards for innovators in disruptive technologyAnalyst: Courtney Sato on July...
View ArticleOracle integrates products to create its Foundation for Cloud Applications
Today Oracle announced the availability of Cloud Application Foundation (CAF), and never shy, declared it the #1 Application Foundation across conventional and cloud environments. This is a key step...
View ArticleCeridian transforming itself and with that the game
It's been a long time I have looked at Ceridian - and being part of the vendor's yearly user conference Insights in Orlando was a great opportunity to take a fresh look.Transformation in ProgressI...
View ArticleNGA executes - but what's the ultimate positioning?
NGA (NorthgateArinso) had their analyst on July 16th and it was well attended and provided an update where the company is standing and where it plans to go in the coming years.Corporate and Executive...
View ArticleReading between the lines... SAP Q2 Earnings - cloudy with potential...
On July 18th SAP released their 2nd quarter 2013 results - you can see the results here and listen to the recording here.Cloud and HANA saved SAP's Q2 - almostFor the first time in a long time, SAP did...
View ArticleSAP streamlines organization further - the Danes are leaving
Over the weekend we learnt that SAP is making more changes at the top - with Hagemann-Snabe giving up the co-CEO role in May 2014 and likely moving to the supervisory board then. With that the other...
View ArticleQuo vadis OpenStack?
This post was overdue by now - but today's (July 24th 2013) events triggered it into existence, as I wanted to write a post on the OpenStack dynamics as we see them unfolding in the coming quarters...
View ArticleAnd 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...
View ArticleSummer Post - Why all the attention to recruiting?
I wanted to write this post since a while - and as summer vacations are coming up for me and family as well as fellow readers - I wanted to start a summer series... keeping it with Mark Twain's famous...
View ArticleMicrosoft does not need one new CEO - but six
After a very long 12 years it looks like Steve Ballmer is calling its quits at the helm of Microsoft. Actually it will be 13 or years when he retires. No need to add to the speculation on possible...
View ArticleVMware defies conventional destiny - SDDC to the rescue
Attending VMWare's VMWorld conference this week in San Francisco was an interesting experience - we got to witness a lively ecosystem, a company with a strategy and really passionate - if not even...
View ArticleMicrosoft gets even more serious about devices - acquires Nokia smartphone...
After a long weekend due to labor day, Microsoft and Nokia hit the press with the intention to acquire Nokia's smartphone business and licenses by Microsoft. Which was a rumor many times in the past -...
View ArticleSpeed-Briefings at VMWorld inside and outside the VMware ecosystem
I had the pleasure to attend the VMWorld user conference last week - if you have missed my takeaways you can find it here. VMworld is a come together of all professionals and companies involved in...
View ArticleSorry you are down, wait we are down, too! (Or: The sad state of HA)
This week I learnt about an outage that happened at a provider of Microsoft Office applications. Which reminded me about the sad state of high availability across the industry.More on the providerThe...
View ArticleWhat I would like Workday to address this Workday Rising ...
The yearly Workday Rising conference is coming upon us - a key event for Workday, customers and the overall HCM market... All eyes in the HCM world will be on Moscone Center from September 9th to 12th,...
View ArticleWhy SAP acquired KXEN? Getting serious on Analytics
With this mornings announcement of SAP announcing it's intention to acquire San Francisco based analytics vendor KXEN, we may witness the beginning of the fall season for acquisitions by the usual...
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