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Dennis puts up a good post on the intersection of web 2.0 and the enterprise. O’Reilly actually talked about this in his keynote, that the enterprise is one of the 3 big themes he is focusing on, but I have to say that this segment will be a rude awakening for the 99.9% of companies [...]
My friend Jim Fisher pretty much sums it up insofar as traditional enterprise software sales is concerned. I have often said, and written here, that customers have gotten better at buying software than we have at selling them software, but at the same time question what it is that we replace this system with then [...]
14Mar
Posted by Jeff as Companies, Enterprise Software
Congratulations to Tom and the crew, this has been a long time coming. Rapt has been around for the better part of a decade and has it’s roots in enterprise supply chain management (Sun was their first customer), so it’s a great case study about how a management team can repurpose one solution to another [...]
Enterprise software research firm Aberdeen went under the microscope of WSJ columnist Lee Gomes. What follows is a pretty nasty dissection of their business and the indictment that the firm is no longer a research firm, instead being just marketing under a different name. The WSJ article is reg required so I’m not linking to [...]
This piece in InformationWeek makes it sound like Wal-Mart sprung this on their suppliers. This technology initiative has been underway for several years past the pilot phase and every WM supplier knew this was coming. The thing that is surprising, if anything at all, is that WM kept cutting the suppliers a break with regard [...]
“Ditto with bloggers who claim to be A-Listers and those who strive to be on A-Lists. Marketing consultants who promise to help you understand the psyche of buyers and buying decisions. And every influencer out there convincing people how influential they are. Or those who ask to see resumes of influence. All this talk of [...]
Heh, I was really surprised by HP CEO Mark Hurd. He’s engaging, displays intellectual integrity (he’s consistent) and is clearly very insightful. What a nice departure from his predecessor. Dan covers his keynote here and here. OOW2007, HP, Mark Hurd
Today was a milestone day for me in my professional life. After nearly a decade of SAP, culminating in my stint with the “attack Oracle” team, I ended up at Oracle OpenWorld as their guest sitting across the table from co-president Charles Phillips. BTW, OOW is frickin huge… I thought the Sapphire events were impressive [...]
Am I the only person that missed the announcement a few weeks ago that Microsoft is moving SharePoint to a claims-based authentication model, which means Active Directory is no longer a prerequisite? The goal is to have SharePoint incorporate an authentication model that works with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory, LDAPv3-based directories, application-specific [...]
22Oct
Posted by Jeff as Companies, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Crispynews is a great “create your own Digg” service that I tried to use for the Irregulars a while back. I gave it up because I just didn’t get enough traffic to make it work like I wanted (you need *a lot* of visitors and contributors to make these things work) but I still love [...]